The Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute is a partnership between the University of Wollongong and the South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service. IHMRI's research focuses on health and medical issues that are common in the Illawarra region and is aimed at improving the health and well being of the local community. IHMRI's goal is to foster research collaboration through the IHMRI Research Network, creating a centre of excellence and innovation that represents the focal point of health and medical research in this region.
Papers from 2013
An Improved High-Throughput Lipid Extraction Method for the Analysis of Human Brain Lipids, Sarah K. Abbott, Andrew M. Jenner, Todd W. Mitchell, Simon H. Brown, Glenda M. Halliday, and Brett Garner
Increased inflammatory markers identified in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of individuals with schizophrenia, S Fillman, N Cloonan, V S. Catts, L C. Miller, Jenny Wong, T Mccrossin, Mitch Cairns, and Cyndi Shannon Weickert
Accelerated aging of Asp 58 in aA crystallin and human cataract formation, Michelle Yu Sung Hooi, Mark Raftery, and Roger J. Truscott
Age-dependent racemization of serine residues in a human chaperone protein, Michelle Yu Sung Hooi, Mark Raftery, and Roger J. Truscott
Interconversion of the peptide isoforms of aspartate: Stability of isoaspartates, Michelle Yu Sung Hooi, Mark Raftery, and Roger J. Truscott
Lipid Anti-Lipid Antibody Responses Correlate with Disease Activity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Vojislav Jovanovic, Nurhuda Abdul Aziz, Yan Ting Lim, Amanda Ng Ai Poh, Sherlynn Jin Hui Chan, Eliza Ho Xin Pei, Fei Chuin Lew, Guanghou Shui, Andrew M. Jenner, Li Bowen, Eoin F. McKinney, Paul A. Lyons, Michael D. Kemeny, Kenneth G.C. Smith, Markus R. Wenk, and Paul A. MacAry
From the city to the bush: Increases in patient co-payments for medicines have impacted on medicine use across Australia, Anna Kemp, John Glover, David B. Preen, Max Bulsara, James Semmens, and Elizabeth Roughead
Neurotrophin signaling and Alzheimer's Disease neurodegeneration - Focus on BDNF/TrkB signaling, Jenny Wong
Expression of NPAS3 in the human cortex and evidence of its posttranscriptional regulation by miR-17 during development, with implications for schizophrenia, Jenny Wong, Carlotta E. Duncan, Natalie J. Beveridge, Maree J. Webster, Murray J. Cairns, and Cynthia Shannon Weickert
Increases in two truncated TrkB isoforms in the prefrontal cortex of people with schizophrenia, Jenny Wong, D A Rothmond, M J Webster, and Cynthia Shannon Weickert
Hyaluronic acid modified mesoporous silica nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to CD44-overexpressing cancer cells, Meihua Yu, Siddharth Jambhrunkar, Peter Thorn, Jiezhong Chen, Wenyi Gu, and Chengzhong Yu
Papers from 2012
Using a social functionalist framework to understand responses to projected sea level rise and managed retreat policies in Australia, Kim Alexander and Anthony Ryan
Managed retreat of coastal communities: understanding responses to projected sea level rise, Kim S. Alexander, Anthony Ryan, and Thomas G. Measham
Where to draw the line: understanding responses of Australian coastal communities to sea level rise adaptation policies, K S. Alexander, A Ryan, R Gorddard, R Wise, and A Leitch
Recent peritonitis associates with mortality among patients treated with peritoneal dialysis, Neil Boudville, Anna Kemp, Philip Clayton, Wai Lim, Sunil V. Badve, Carmel M. Hawley, Stephen P. McDonald, Kathryn J. Wiggins, Kym M. Bannister, Fiona G. Brown, and David W. Johnson
Factors associated with chronic kidney disease progression in Australian nephrology practices, Neil Boudville, Anna Kemp, Henry Moody, Robert G. Fassett, Eugenie Pedagogos, Craig Nelson, Helen Healy, George Mangos, Geoff Kirkland, Troy Kay, Paul Champion De Crespigny, David Hoffman, and David Waugh
The effect of trauma on expressive language impairment in borderline personality disorder, Phoebe Carter and Brin F. S Grenyer
Prevention of obesity-associated colon cancer by (-)-epigallocatechin-3 gallate and curcumin, Jiezhong Chen
Degradation of an old human protein: Age-dependent cleavage of yS-crystallin generates a peptide that binds to cell membranes, Michael G. Friedrich, J Lam, and Roger J. Truscott
The possible mechanisms for β-glucans to prevent atherosclerotic lesions, Tiphaine Gislette, Kong-Nan Zhao, Wenyi Gu, and Jiezhong Chen
TNF-α promotes IFN-γ-Induced CD40 expression and antigen process in Myb-transformed hematological cells, Wenyi Gu, Jiezhong Chen, Lei Yang, and Kong-Nan Zhao
A cluster randomised controlled trial of vascular risk factor management in general practice, Mark F. Harris, Mahnaz Fanaian, Upali W. Jayasinghe, Megan Passey, Suzanne H. Mckenzie, G Davies, David Lyle, Rachel A. Laws, Heike Schuetze, and Qing Wan
A bacterial pathogen co-opts host plasmin to resist killing by cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides, Andrew Hollands, D Gonzalez, E Leire, Cortny A. Donald, Richard L. Gallo, Martina L. Sanderson-Smith, P Dorrestein, and Victor Nizet
Racemization of two proteins over our lifespan: deamidation of asparagine 76 in yS crystallin is greater in cataract than in normal lenses across the age range, M Y. Hooi, M Raftery, and Roger J. Truscott
Distinct neurobehavioural effects of cannabidiol in transmembrane domain neuregulin 1 mutant mice, Xu-Feng Huang, Tim Karl, Iain S. McGregor, Jonathon Arnold, Rose Chesworth, Leonora E. Long, Alexander Wong, and A. Spiro
Functional expression of the damage-associated molecular pattern receptor P2X7 on canine kidney epithelial cells, Iman Jalilian, Mari Spildrejorde, Aine Seavers, Belinda L. Curtis, Jason D. McArthur, and Ronald Sluyter
Lanosterol induces mitochondrial uncoupling and protects dopaminergic neurons from cell death in a model for Parkinson's disease, Andrew M. Jenner, Guanghou Shui, M. R. Wenk, L. Lim, V. Jackson-Lewis, S. Przedborski, S. Kesavapany, A. X. H. Goh, M. Fivaz, and L. C. Wong
Cognitive phenotyping of amyloid precursor protein transgenic J20 mice, Tim Karl, Surabhi Bhatia, David Cheng, Woojin Scott Kim, and Brett Garner
Have increases in co-payments for medicines further burdened Australians in remote and disadvantaged areas?, Anna Kemp, John Glover, David B. Preen, Max Bulsara, James Semmens, and Elizabeth Roughead
The validity of prescription and other health service claims and self-report in identifying cases of invasive breast cancer in Australia, Anna Kemp, David B. Preen, Kris Rogers, Christobel Saunders, C D'Arcy Holman, Max Bulsara, Fran Boyle, and Elizabeth Roughead
Assessment of alternative water options in Adelaide: the MARSUO and optimal water resource mix projects, R Leonard and K S. Alexander
Application of the water needs index: Can Tho City, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, Magnus Moglia, Luis E. Neumann, Kim S. Alexander, Mihn N. Nguyen, Ashok K. Sharma, Stephen Cook, Nguyen H. Trung, and Dinh D.A Tuan
Phospholipid peroxidation: Lack of effect of fatty acid pairing, Sarah E. Norris, Todd W. Mitchell, and Paul L. Else
Molecular signatures of long-lived proteins: Autolytic cleavage adjacent to serine residues, Shi-Ping (Jim) Su, Brian Lyons, M G. Friedrich, Jason D. McArthur, Xiuxian Song, D Xavier, Roger J. Truscott, and J A. Aquilina
Is protein methylation in the human lens a result of non-enzymatic methylation by S-adenosylmethionine?, Roger J. W Truscott, Jasminka Mizdrak, Michael G. Friedrich, Michelle Y. Hooi, Bryan Lyons, Joanne F. Jamie, Michael J. Davies, Phillip A. Wilmarth, and Larry L. David
Srp20 regulates TrkB pre-mRNA splicing to generate TrkB-Shc transcripts with implications for Alzheimer's disease, Jenny Wong, Brett Garner, Glenda M. Halliday, and John B.J Kwok
Amyloid beta selectively modulates neuronal TrkB alternative transcript expression with implications for Alzheimer's disease, J Wong, M Higgins, G Halliday, and B Garner
Papers from 2011
Chapter 4: 'Water' - Resource Efficiency in Asia and the Pacific, Kim Alexander and James West
Evaluation of water needs index case studies, K S. Alexander, M Moglia, G Tjandraatmadja, M Nguyen, S Larson, N H. Trung, and R A. Barkey
Scanner uniformity improvements for radiochromic film analysis with matt reflectance backing, Ethan Butson, Hani Alnawaf, Peter K.N Yu, and Martin Butson
A possible role of cIAP2 in Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric cancer, Jiezhong Chen, Zesong Li, Kwok Wah Chan, Liang Qiao, and Benjamin C. Y. Wong
Up-regulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress-related genes during the early phase of treatment of cultured cortical neurons by the proteasomal inhibitor lactacystin, M. Chen, Andrew M. Jenner, Z. F. Peng, A. J. Melendez, N. S. Cheung, J. Manikandan, and M. S. Choy
Dependence on Endocytic Receptor Binding via a Minimal Binding Motif Underlies the Differential Prognostic Profiles of SerpinE1 and SerpinB2 in Cancer, Blake J. Cochran, David Croucher, Sergei A. Lobov, Darren Saunders, and Marie Ranson
Small molecule antagonists of the urokinase (uPA): urokinase receptor (uPAR) interaction with high reported potencies show only weak effects in cell-based competition assays employing the native uPAR ligand, Melissa De Souza, Hayden Matthews, Jodi A. Lee, Marie Ranson, and Michael J. Kelso
Isoform-specific proteolysis of apolipoprotein-E in the brain, David A. Elliott, Kayan Tsoi, Sandra Holinkova, Sharon L. Chan, Woojin S. Kim, Glenda M. Halliday, Kerry-Anne Rye, and Brett Garner
Metformin therapy during pregnancy: good for the goose and good for the gosling too?, Denice S. Feig and Robert G. Moses
Attenuation of the lysosomal death pathway by lysosomal cholesterol accumulation, Brett Garner, A Brown, Hanna Appelqvist, C Nilsson, K Kagedal, and K Ollinger
Mass and relative elution time profiling: Two-dimensional analysis of sphingolipids in Alzheimer's disease brains, Leila Hejazi, Jason Wong, D. Cheng, Nicholas Proschogo, D. Ebrahimi, Brett Garner, and Anthony Don
Chronic resveratrol intake reverses pro-inflammatory cytokine profile and oxidative DNA damage in ageing hybrid mice, Andrew M. Jenner, Runsheng Ruan, Jan Gruber, Francis Eng Hock Tay, and Yee Ting Wong
Nuclear microscopy of rat colon epithelial cells, Andrew M. Jenner, Frank Watt, Reshmi Rajendran, M. Ren, C. Udalagama, A. E. Rodrigues, and M. Ng
Forty Years Later and the Role of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 2/SERPINB2 Is Still an Enigma, Jodi A. Lee, Blake J. Cochran, Sergei A. Lobov, and Marie Ranson
Molecular competition between plasminogen activator inhibitors type -1 and -2 for urokinase: implications for cellular proteolysis and adhesion in cancer, Sergei Lobov and Marie Ranson
Anti-tumour/metastasis effects of the potassium-sparing diuretic amiloride: An orally active anti-cancer drug waiting for its call-of-duty?, Hayden Matthews, Marie Ranson, and Michael J. Kelso
Discussion of the enabling environments for decentralised water systems, Magnus Moglia, K S. Alexander, and Ashok K. Sharma
Perceived performance of decentralised water systems: a survey approach, Magnus Moglia, Ashok K. Sharma, Kim Alexander, and Aditi Mankad
Editorial: The Plasminogen Activation System in Pathology: Use in Prognosis and Therapy, Marie Ranson
Dynamic molecular and anatomical changes in the glucocorticoid receptor in human cortical development, D Sinclair, M J. Webster, J Wong, and C S. Weickert
Full length TrkB potentiates estrogen receptor alpha mediated transcription suggesting convergence of susceptibility pathways in schizophrenia, Jenny Wong, H G Woon, and Cynthia Shannon Weickert
Codon usage roles in human papillomavirus, Kongnan Zhao and Jiezhong Chen
Papers from 2010
Water needs assessment: learning to deal with scale, subjectivity and high stakes, Kim S. Alexander, Magnus Moglia, and Craig Miller
Sustainable development in the uplands of lao PDR, Kim Suzanne Alexander, Joanne Millar, and Neil Lipscombe
Community management of onsite wastewater treatment systems- what they want in Mount Gambier, South Australia, K S. Alexander, K J. Levett, and J L. Vanderzalm
Changes in colon gene expression associated with increased colon inflammation in interleukin-10 gene-deficient mice inoculated with Enterococcus species, Matthew P. Barnett, Warren C. McNabb, Adrian L. Cookson, Shuotun Zhu, Marcus Davy, Bianca Knoch, Katie Nones, Alison J. Hodgkinson, and Nicole Roy
Psychotherapists' response to borderline personality disorder: a core conflictual relationship theme analysis, Marianne Bourke and Brin Grenyer
The first author h-index (hfa-index): levelling the field for small and large institute medical and science scholars, Martin Butson and Peter K.N Yu
Hormone induction of gamete release and In-vitro fertilization in the critically endangered corroboree frog, Phillip G. Byrne and A J Silla
Activation of signal pathways and the resistance to anti-EGFR treatment in colorectal cancer, Jiezhong Chen, Xu-Feng Huang, and Andrew Katsifis
The kynurenine pathway and inflammation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Yiquan Chen, Roger Stankovic, Karen M Cullen, Vincent Meininger, Brett Garner, Sarah Coggan, Ross Grant, Bruce J Brew, and Gilles J Guillemin
Lester Luborsky: a trailblazer in empirical research on psychoanalytic therapy, Paul Crits-Christoph, Jacques Barber, Brin Grenyer, and Louis Diguer
Toward consensus in the analysis of urinary 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2′- deoxyguanosine as a noninvasive biomarker of oxidative stress, M D Evans, R Olinski, S Loft, M S cooke, Jr P Rossner, R Sram, T Henriksen, H E Poulsen, Allan Weimann, A Barbieri, L Sabatini, F Violante, S Kino, T Ochi, K Sakai, M Takeuchi, H Kasai, J H N Meerman, D Gackowski, R Rozalski, A Siomek, Barry Halliwell, Andrew M. Jenner, H Wang, C Cerda, G Saez, S Haghdoost, P Svoboda, C-W Hu, M-R Chao, K-Y Peng, W-C Shih, K-Y Wu, H Orhan, N S Istanbullu, V Mistry, P B Farmer, J Sandhu, R Singh, C Cortez, Y Su, R M Santella, P Lambert, and R Smith
Intraluminal pressure readings during the establishment of a positive 'tamponade test' in the management of postpartum haemorrhage, Christos Georgiou
The possible role of IL-17 in obesity-associated cancer, Tiphaine Gislette and Jiezhong Chen
The heart and soul of change: delivering what works in therapy, second edition (Book Review), B. F. S. Grenyer
The Australian psychology workforce 2: A national profile of psychologists' education, training, specialist qualifications and continuous professional development, Brin Grenyer, R. Mathews, D. D Stokes, and K. Crea
The effect of APOE genotype on brain levels of oxysterols in young and old human APOE ε2,ε3 and ε4 knock-in mice, Andrew M. Jenner, W L F Lim, M P E Ng, M R Wenk, G Shui, M J Sharman, S E Gandy, and R N Martins
Changes in cholesterol biosynthetic and transport pathways after excitotoxicity, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jinatta Jittiwat, Wei-Yi Ong, Akhlaq A Farooqui, and Andrew M. Jenner
Molecular characterization of the onset and progression of colitis in inoculated interleukin-10 gene-deficient mice: a role for PPARcx, Bianca Knoch, Matthew Barnett, Janine Cooney, Warren McNabb, Diane Barraclough, William Laing, Shuotun Zhu, Zaneta A. Park, Paul MacLean, Scott O. Knowles, and Nicole Roy
Nutritional supplementation for older people, Matt A. Lambert, Jan M. Potter, and Marion ET McMurdo
Human TrkB gene: Novel alternative transcripts, protein isoforms and expression pattern in the prefrontal cerebral cortex during postnatal development, K. Luberg, Jenny Wong, C. S. Weickert, and T. Timmusk
Changes in brain cholesterol metabolome after excitotoxicity, Wei-Yi Ong, Ji-Hyun Kim, Xin He, Peng Chen, Akhlaq A Farooqui, and Andrew M. Jenner
Vascular pharmacotherapy and dementia, Oliver Piguet and Brett Garner
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha target genes, Maryam Rakhshandehroo, Bianca Knoch, Michael Muller, and Sander Kersten
The Australian psychology workforce 3: A national profile of psychologists in salaried employment or in independent private practice, D. Stokes, R. Mathews, Brin Grenyer, and K. Crea
The Australian psychology workforce 4: An analysis of psychologists in private practice providing Medicare-funded services, D. Stokes, R. Mathews, Brin Grenyer, and K. Stokes
Preclinical Evaluation of Novel All-in-one Formulations of 5-Fluorouracil and Folinic Acid with Reduced Toxicity Profiles - Supplementary Data, Tamantha K. Stutchbury, Kara L. Vine, Julie M. Locke, Jeremy S. Chrisp, John B. Bremner, Philip R. Clingan, and Marie Ranson
Dietary oleic acid as a control fatty acid for a polyunsaturated fatty acid intervention studies: A transcriptomics and proteomics investigation using interleukin-10 gene-deficient mice, Bianca Suesse, Matthew Barnett, Janine Cooney, Warren McNabb, Diane Barraclough, William Laing, and Nicole Roy
Assessing the risks of recycling urban stormwater for potable supply via an aquifer, Joanne Vanderzalm, Kerry Levett, Declan Page, Peter Dillon, Simon Toze, Konrad Miotlinski, Jatinder Sidhu, Karen Barry, and Kim Alexander
Selection of reference gene expression in a schizophrenia brain cohort, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, D. Sheedy, D. A. Rothmond, I. Dedova, S. Fung, T. Garrick, Jenny Wong, A. J. Harding, S. Sivagnanansundaram, C. Hunt, C. Duncan, N. Sundqvist, S.-Y. Tsai, J. Anand, Daren Draganic, and C. Harper
ProBDNF inhibits infiltration of ED1+ macrophages after spinal cord injury, Ira Wong, Hong Liao, Xianshu Bai, Antony Zaknic, Jinhua Zhong, Yue Guan, Hongyun Li, Yan-Jiang Wang, and Xin-Fu Zhou
Promoter specific alterations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA in schizophrenia, Jenny Wong, T M Hyde, H L Cassano, A Deep-Soboslay, J E Kleinman, and Cynthia Shannon Weickert
Papers from 2009
Social implications of management of on-site wastewater treatment systems for groundwater protection, Kim Alexander
Informing future investment decisions for water and sanitation projects in the asia pacific by integrating statistical and qualitative information, Kim S. Alexander, Magnus Moglia, and Stewart Burn
Extreme sequential polyandry insures gainst nest failure in a frog, Phillip G. Byrne and J Scott Keogh
Guide d'aide a l'arret du cannabis (Guide to quitting cannabis), B. F. S. Grenyer, Nadia Solowij, and R Peters
Allantoin in human plasma, serum, and nasal-lining fluids as a biomarker of oxidative stress: Avoiding artifacts and establishing real in vivo concentrations, Jan Gruber, Soon Yew Tang, Andrew M. Jenner, Ian Mudway, Anders Blomberg, Annelie Behndig, Katherine Kasiman, Chung-Yung J. Lee, Raymond C S Seet, wenxia zhang, Christopher Chen, Frank J. Kelly, and Barry Halliwell
Apolipoprotein D modulates F2-isoprostane and 7-ketocholesterol formation and has a neuroprotective effect on organotypic hippocampal cultures after kainate-induced excitotoxic injury, Xin He, Jinatta Jittiwat, Ji-Hyun Kim, Andrew M. Jenner, Akhlaq A. Farooqui, Shutish C. Patel, and Wei-Yi Ong
Apolipoprotein-D expression is increased during development and maturation of the human prefrontal cortex, Woojin s. Kim, Jenny Wong, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Maree J. Webster, Sabine Bahn, and Brett Garner
Study of the effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids: Molecular mechanisms involved in intestinal inflammation, Bianca Knoch, Matthew Barnett, Nicole Roy, and Warren McNabb
IFN-γ promotes generation of IL-10 secreting CD4+ T cells that suppress generation of CD8 responses in an antigen-experienced host, Xiaosong Liu, Kelli MacDonald, Joanne Leerberg, Graham R. Leggatt, and Ian H. Frazer