Recent CCS publications: 8-15 June 2018

A/Prof Nigel Jones's research group, Nigel on left. Nigel has co-
authored a paper investigating the adverse synergy of SSRI
antidepressants with acquired epilepsy. Link

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.  

Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRmed)

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)

Diabetes

Gastroenterology

Immunology and Pathology

Infectious Diseases

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc)

Neuroscience

Surgery (including CORE)

AIRmed

Thien F, et al. The Melbourne epidemic thunderstorm asthma event 2016: a multidisciplinary investigation of environmental triggers, health service impact and patient risk factors.  The Lancet Planetary Health; Volume 2, No. 6, e255–e263, June 2018   DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30120-7. See our feature story.


ACBD

French SL, Thalmann C, Bray PF, Macdonald LE, Murphy AJ, Sleeman MW, Hamilton JR. A function-blocking PAR4 antibody is markedly antithrombotic in the face of a hyperreactive PAR4 variant. Blood Adv. 2018 Jun 12;2(11):1283-1293. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2017015552.

Paisitkriangkrai S, Quek K, Nievergall E, Jabbour A, Zannettino A, Kok CH. Co-fuse: a new class discovery analysis tool to identify and prioritize recurrent fusion genes from RNA-sequencing data. Mol Genet Genomics. 2018 Jun 7. doi: 10.1007/s00438-018-1454-1. [Epub ahead of print]


Diabetes

Kaspi A, Khurana I, Ziemann M, Connor T, Spolding B, Zimmet P, Walder K, El-Osta A. Diet During Pregnancy is Implicated in the Regulation of Hypothalamic RNA Methylation and Risk of Obesity in Offspring. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2018 Jun 7:e1800134. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201800134. [Epub ahead of print]

McAuley SA et al, Bach LA, Kumareswaran K, O'Neal DN. Effect of 6 months of hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery in adults with type 1 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ Open. 2018 Jun 9;8(6):e020274. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020274.

Shi Z, Nicholls SJ, Taylor AW, Magliano DJ, Appleton S, Zimmet P. Early life exposure to Chinese famine modifies the association between hypertension and cardiovascular disease. J Hypertens. 2018 Jan;36(1):54-60. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001496.


Gastroenterology

Gibson PR, Lundin KEA, Guandalini S. Is Non-Celiac Rice-Starch Sensitivity as Common in Children as Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity? Am J Gastroenterol. 2018 Jun 8. doi: 10.1038/s41395-018-0079-7. [Epub ahead of print]

Hewawasam SP, Iacovou M, Muir JG, Gibson PR. Dietary practices and FODMAPs in South Asia: Applicability of the low FODMAP diet to patients with irritable bowel syndrome. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Feb;33(2):365-374. doi: 10.1111/jgh.13885.

Williamson T, Cheung W, Roberts SK, Chauhan S. Ultrasound-based liver tracking utilizing a hybrid template/optical flow approach. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg. 2018 Jun 5. doi: 10.1007/s11548-018-1780-0. [Epub ahead of print]


Immunology

Slade CA et al, Bosco JJ, Stirling RG, Cameron PU, Hore-Lacy F,  Barnes SL, O'Hehir RE, van Zelm MC. Delayed Diagnosis and Complications of Predominantly Antibody Deficiencies in a Cohort of Australian Adults. Front Immunol. 2018 May 14;9:694. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00694. eCollection 2018.


Infectious Diseases

Cheng AC et al, Kotsimbos T, Kelly P. Influenza epidemiology in patients admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2016: the Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN). Commun Dis Intell Q Rep. 2017 Dec 1;41(4):E337-E347.

Sohail A, McGuinness SL, Lightowler R, Leder K, Jomon B, Bain CA, Peleg AY. Spectrum of illness among returned Australian travellers from Bali, Indonesia: a 5-year retrospective observational study. Intern Med J. 2018 Jun 5. doi: 10.1111/imj.13993. [Epub ahead of print]


Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc)

Grace SA, Rossell SL, Heinrichs M, Kordsachia C, Labuschagne I. Oxytocin and brain activity in humans: A systematic review and coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional MRI studies. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018 May 24;96:6-24. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.05.031. [Epub ahead of print]

Tse NY, Goldsworthy MR, Ridding MC, Coxon JP, Fitzgerald PB, Fornito A, Rogasch NC. The effect of stimulation interval on plasticity following repeated blocks of intermittent theta burst stimulation. Sci Rep. 2018 Jun 4;8(1):8526. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-26791-w.


MSHC

Medland NA, Nicholson S, Chow EPF, Read TRH, Bradshaw CS, Denham I, Fairley CK. Time from HIV infection to virological suppression: dramatic fall from 2007 to 2016. AIDS. 2017 Nov 13;31(17):2377-2385. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001634.

Read TRH, Fairley CK, Murray GL, Jensen JS, Danielewski J, Worthington K, Doyle M, Mokany E, Tan L, Chow EPF, Garland SM, Bradshaw C. Outcomes of resistance-guided sequential treatment of Mycoplasma genitalium infections: a prospective evaluation. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Jun 5. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy477. [Epub ahead of print]


Neuroscience

Alrehaili AA, Lee JY, Bakhuraysah MM, Kim MJ, Aui PM, Magee KA, Petratos S. Nogo receptor expression in microglia/macrophages during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis progression. Neural Regen Res. 2018 May;13(5):896-907. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.232488.

Coyle HL, Ponsford J, Hoy KE. Understanding individual variability in symptoms and recovery following mTBI: a role for TMS-EEG? Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2018 Jun 6. pii: S0149-7634(17)30736-4. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.05.027. [Epub ahead of print]

Davis Jones G, Hitchcock A, Vajda F, Craig J, O'Brien TJ, Sen A. Development of EpiRisk: An online clinical tool for estimating the risk of major congenital malformations in pregnant women treated for epilepsy. Epilepsia Open. 2018 Mar 22;3(2):281-285. doi: 10.1002/epi4.12109. eCollection 2018 Jun.

Li C, Silva J, Ozturk E, Dezsi G, O'Brien TJ, Renoir T, Jones NC. Chronic fluoxetine treatment accelerates kindling epileptogenesis in mice independently of 5-HT 2A receptors. Epilepsia. 2018;00:1– 6. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.14435

Tubi MA, [many authors], Jones N, ..., O'Brien TJ, ..., Shultz SR, ..., EpiBioS4Rx Study Group Investigators.  Early seizures and temporal lobe trauma predict post-traumatic epilepsy: A longitudinal study.   Neurobiology of disease. 2018. Available online 1 June 2018, In press

Sun M, Brady RD, Wright DK, Kim HA, Zhang SR, Sobey CG, Johnstone MR, O'Brien TJ, Semple BD, McDonald SJ, Shultz SR. Treatment with an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist mitigates neuroinflammation and brain damage after polytrauma. Brain Behav Immun. 2017 Nov;66:359-371. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.08.005. Epub 2017 Aug 3.

Vajda FJE, O'Brien TJ, Graham J, Hitchcock AA, Lander CM, Eadie MJ. Anti-epileptic drug exposure and risk of foetal death in utero. Acta Neurol Scand. 2018 Jan;137(1):20-23. doi: 10.1111/ane.12816. Epub 2017 Aug 31.

Vu L, Piccenna L, Kwan P and O’Brien T. The treatment of new-onset epilepsy in the elderly. BJCP. 1 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.13653

Wright DK, O'Brien TJ, Mychasiuk R, Shultz SR. Telomere length and advanced diffusion MRI as biomarkers for repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in adolescent rats. Neuroimage Clin. 2018 Jan 31;18:315-324. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.01.033. eCollection 2018.


Surgery

Grummet JP, Plass K, N'Dow J. Prostate Cancer Management in an Ageing Population. Eur Urol. 2017 Oct;72(4):532-533. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2017.04.010. Epub 2017 Apr 19.

Lee JC, Grodski SF, Serpell JW. Response to Re: Body weight change is unpredictable after total thyroidectomy. ANZ J Surg. 2018 Jun;88(6):655-656. doi: 10.1111/ans.14686.

Parameswaran R, Roberts RH, Brown WA, Aly A, Kiroff G, Epari K, MacCormick AD, Thomson IG, Thompson SK. Surgery for gastrointestinal stromal tumours in Australia and New Zealand: results from a bi-national audit. ANZ J Surg. 2017 Apr;87(4):220-221. doi: 10.1111/ans.13840.