CCS publications update: 29 April - 5 May 2017

2017 Nandurkar research group. Prof Harshal Nandurkar has
recently published a letter in Thrombosis on the influence of
age, race and gender in measures for thrombosis risk

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRmed), Diabetes, Immunology and Pathology, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC), Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc).
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CBD

Alorro MG, Pierce TP, Eissmann MF, Dijkstra C, Dickins RA, Ernst M, Buchert M, Masson F. Generation of an inducible mouse model to reversibly silence Stat3. Genesis. 2017 Apr;55(4). doi: 10.1002/dvg.23023. Epub 2017 Feb 23.

Draxler DF, Madondo MT, Hanafi G, Plebanski M, Medcalf RL.  A flowcytometric analysis to efficiently quantify multiple innate immune cells and T Cell subsets in human blood. Cytometry A. 2017 Apr;91(4):336-350. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.23080. Epub 2017 Mar 6.

Ho P, Ng C, Rigano J, Tacey M, Smith C, Donnan G, Nandurkar H. Significant age, race and gender differences in global coagulation assays parameters in the normal population. Thromb Res. 2017 Apr 12;154:80-83. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2017.04.009. [Epub ahead of print]

Ta HT, Li Z, Hagemeyer CE, Cowin G, Zhang S, Palasubramaniam J, Alt K, Wang X, Peter K, Whittaker AK. Molecular imaging of activated platelets via antibody-targeted ultra-small iron oxide nanoparticles displaying unique dual MRI contrast. Biomaterials. 2017 Apr 22;134:31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.04.037. [Epub ahead of print]


AIRmed

Joosten SA, Khoo JK, Edwards BA, Landry SA, Naughton MT, Dixon JB, Hamilton GS. Improvement in Obstructive Sleep Apnea With Weight Loss is Dependent on Body Position During Sleep. Sleep. 2017 Apr 21. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsx047. [Epub ahead of print]


Diabetes

Keating ST, Plutzky J, El-Osta A. Epigenetic Changes in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk. Circ Res. 2016 May 27;118(11):1706-22. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.306819.


Immunology & Pathology

Jansen MAE, van den Heuvel D, Jaddoe VWV, van Zelm MC, Moll HA. Abnormalities in CD57+ cytotoxic T cells and Vδ1+ γδT cells in subclinical celiac disease in childhood are affected by cytomegalovirus. The Generation R Study. Clin Immunol. 2017 Apr 26. pii: S1521-6616(17)30278-4. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2017.04.008. [Epub ahead of print]

Nguyen TH, Tan AC, Xiang SD, Goubier A, Harland KL, Clemens EB, Plebanski M, Kedzierska K. Understanding CD8+ T-cell responses toward the native and alternate HLA-A*02:01-restricted WT1 epitope. Clin Transl Immunology. 2017 Mar 17;6(3):e134. doi: 10.1038/cti.2017.4. eCollection 2017.


Infectious Diseases

Berquist VL, Hearps AC, Ford P, Jaworowski A, Leishman SJ, Hoy JF, Trevillyan JM. Porphyromonas gingivalis antibody levels and diagnosis of coronary artery disease in HIV-positive individuals. J Periodontal Res. 2017 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/jre.12460. [Epub ahead of print]


MAPrc

Hashemirad F, Zoghi M, Fitzgerald PB, Jaberzadeh S. Reliability of Motor Evoked Potentials Induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: The Effects of Initial Motor Evoked Potentials Removal. Basic Clin Neurosci. 2017 Jan;8(1):43-50. doi: 10.15412/J.BCN.03080106.


MSHC

Zou H, Tabrizi SN, Grulich AE, Hocking JS, Garland SM, Bradshaw CS, Cornall AM, Fairley CK, Chen MY. Antibody responses following incident anal and penile infection with human papillomavirus in teenage men who have sex with men. Int J Cancer. 2016 Aug 1;139(3):639-46. doi: 10.1002/ijc.30093. Epub 2016 Apr 4.