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.

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Papers from 2016

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CCNF mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, Kelly L. Williams, Simom Topp, Shu Yang, Bradley Smith, Jennifer A. Fifita, Sadaf T. Warraich, Katharine Y. Zhang, Natalie E. Farrawell, Caroline Vance, Xun Hu, and Justin J. Yerbury

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Videomicroscopy as a tool for investigation of the microcirculation in the newborn, Ian M. R Wright, Joanna L. Latter, Rebecca M. Dyson, Christopher (Chris) Levi, and Vicki L. Clifton

Altered serum levels of interleukin-3 in first-episode drug-naive and chronic medicated schizophrenia, Fu Yin Yang, Tong Zhang, Mei Hong Xiu, Wei Tang, Mei Han, YunLong Tan, Da Chun Chen, Song Chen, Shu-Ping Tan, Jair C. Soares, Wen Jie Tang, and Xiang Yang Zhang

Stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with severe and persistent mental illness in assertive community treatment settings, Jing Ye, Timothy Chen, Diane Paul, Rebecca McCahon, Sumitra Shankar, Alan Rosen, and Claire O'Reilly

Network approaches to the understanding of Alzheimer's disease: from model organisms to humans, Justin J. Yerbury, Dan Bean, and Giorgio Favrin

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Olanzapine prevents the PCP-induced reduction in the neurite outgrowth of prefrontal cortical neurons via NRG1, Qingsheng Zhang, Yinghua Yu, and Xu-Feng Huang

Interaction of BDNF with cytokines in chronic schizophrenia, Xiang Yang Zhang, Yun-Long Tan, Da Chun Chen, Shu-Ping Tan, Fu-De Yang, Hanjing Wu, Giovana B. Zunta-Soares, Xu-Feng Huang, Thomas R. Kosten, and Jair C. Soares

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Cell type-specific modulation of cobalamin uptake by bovine serum, Hua Zhao, Kalani R. Ruberu, Hongyun Li, and Brett Garner

The role of neuropeptide Y in the pathophysiology of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, Ping Zhu, Wei-Wei Sun, Chen-Liang Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Song, and Shu Lin

Papers from 2015

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Fatty acid composition of the anterior cingulate cortex indicates a high susceptibility to lipid peroxidation in Parkinson's disease, Sarah K. Abbott, Andrew M. Jenner, Adena S. Spiro, Marijka Batterham, Glenda M. Halliday, and Brett Garner

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Alterations of p75 neurotrophin receptor and Myelin transcription factor 1 in the hippocampus of perinatal phencyclidine treated rats, Jessica L. Andrews, Kelly A. Newell, Natalie Matosin, Xu-Feng Huang, and Francesca Fernandez-Enright

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NMDA receptor antagonism by phencyclidine reduces NWASP and WAVE1 protein expression and reduces levels of myelination markers in the prefrontal cortex of rats, Jessica L. Andrews, Kelly A. Newell, Natalie Matosin, Xu-Feng Huang, and Francesca Fernandez-Enright

Altered IL-2, IL-6 and IL-8 serum levels in schizophrenia patients with tardive dyskinesia, Hui-Mei An, Yun Long Tan, Jing Shi, Zhi-Ren Wang, Jair C. Soars, Jing Qin Wu, Fu-De Yang, Xu-Feng Huang, and Xiang Yang Zhang

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Clusterin seals the ocular surface barrier in mouse dry eye, Aditi Bauskar, Wendy J. Mack, Jerome Mauris, Pablo Argüeso, Martin Heur, Barbara A. Nagel, Grant R. Kolar, Martin E. Gleave, Takahiro Nakamura, Shigeru Kinoshita, Janet Moradian-Oldak, Noorjahan Panjwani, Stephen Pflugfelder, Mark R. Wilson, M Elizabeth Fini, and Shinwu Jeong

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Olanzapine differentially corrects altered NMDA receptor binding induced by prenatal polyIC and LPS, Christopher Bell, Zehra Boz, Hongqin Wang, Yinghua Yu, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Differential cognitive and behavioural impacts of LPS and PolyI:C prenatal infections on adult female offspring, Christopher Bell, Hongqin Wang, Xu-Feng Huang, and Yinghua Yu

Growth-factor dependent expression of the translationally controlled tumour protein TCTP is regulated through the PI3-K/Akt/mTORC1 signalling pathway, Ulrich A. Bommer, Valentina Iadevaia, Jiezhong Chen, Bianca Knoch, Martin Engel, and Christopher G. Proud

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Area level socioeconomic disadvantage and diabetes control in the SIMLR Study cohort: Implications for health service planning, Andrew D. Bonney, Darren J. Mayne, Peter Caputi, Kathryn M. Weston, Christopher A. Magee, and Abhijeet Ghosh

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Area-level socioeconomic gradients in overweight and obesity in a community-derived cohort of health service users - a cross-sectional study, Andrew D. Bonney, Darren J. Mayne, Bryan D. Jones, Lawrence Bott, Stephen Andersen, Peter Caputi, Kathryn M. Weston, and Donald C. Iverson

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Neuropathology of muscarinic receptor in the prenatal infection - rat model, Zehra Boz, Yinghua Yu, Christopher Bell, Hongqin Wang, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Bardoxolone methyl: a potential therapeutic for the prevention of anti-psychotic drug-induced obesity?, Danielle Camer, Christopher Bell, Yinghua Yu, Alexander M. Szabo, Francesca Fernandez-Enright, Hoang Lan Chi Dinh, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Is B-type natriuretic peptide a risk factor for heart failure in patients treated with bardoxolone methyl?, Danielle Camer and Xu-Feng Huang

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Bardoxolone methyl prevents insulin resistance and the development of hepatic steatosis in mice fed a high-fat diet, Danielle Camer, Yinghua Yu, Alexander M. Szabo, Hoang Lan Chi Dinh, Hongqin Wang, Licai Cheng, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Bardoxolone methyl prevents high-fat diet-induced alterations in prefrontal cortex signalling molecules involved in recognition memory, Danielle Camer, Yinghua Yu, Alexander M. Szabo, Francesca Fernandez-Enright, Hoang Lan Chi Dinh, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Bardoxolone methyl prevents the development and progression of cardiac and renal pathophysiologies in mice fed a high-fat diet, Danielle Camer, Yinghua Yu, Alexander M. Szabo, Hongqin Wang, Chi H. L Dinh, and Xu-Feng Huang

The nuclear localization pattern and interaction partners of GTF2IRD1 demonstrate a role in chromatin regulation, Paulina Carmona-Mora, Jocelyn Widagdo, Florence Tomasetig, Cesar P. Canales, Yeojoon Cha, Wei S. Lee, Abdullah J. Alshawaf, Mirella Dottori, Renee Whan, Edna C. Hardeman, and Stephen J. Palmer

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Palmitic acid induces central leptin resistance and impairs hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism in male mice, Licai Cheng, Yinghua Yu, Alexander M. Szabo, Yizhen Wu, Hongqin Wang, Danielle Camer, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Arachidonic acid impairs hypothalamic leptin signaling and hepatic energy homeostasis in mice, Licai Cheng, Yinghua Yu, Qingsheng Zhang, Alexander M. Szabo, Hongqin Wang, and Xu-Feng Huang

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High fat diet-induced obesity increases the formation of colon polyps induced by azoxymethane in mice, Jiezhong Chen and Xu-Feng Huang

A splicing-regulatory polymorphism in DRD2 disrupts ZRANB2 binding, impairs cognitive functioning and increases risk for schizophrenia in six Han Chinese samples, O S. Cohen, T W. Weickert, J L. Hess, L M. Paish, S Y. Mccoy, D A. Rothmond, Cherrie Galletly, D Liu, D D. Weinberg, Xu-Feng Huang, Q Xu, Y Shen, D Zhang, W Yue, J Yan, L F. Wang, T Lu, Lin He, Yishan Shi, M Xu, Ronglin Che, Wei Tang, C-H Chen, W-H Chang, H-G Hwu, C-M Liu, Y-L Liu, C-C Wen, Cs-J Fann, C-C Chang, T Kanazawa, F A. Middleton, T M. Duncan, S V. Faraone, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, M T. Tsuang, and S Glatt

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Peer Assisted Study Sessions for research trainees, Anne Cusick, Danielle Camer, Alexander Stamenkovic, and Melissa Zaccagnini

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Differential effects of short- and long-term antipsychotic treatment on the expression of neuregulin-1 and ErbB4 receptors in the rat brain, Chao Deng, Bo Pan, Chang-Hua Hu, Mei Han, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Multipotent caudal neural progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells that give rise to lineages of the central and peripheral nervous system, Mark Denham, Kouichi Hasegawa, Trevelyan Menheniott, Benjamin Rollo, Dongcheng Zhang, Shelley Hough, Abdullah Alshawaf, Fabia Febbraro, Samiramis Ighaniyan, Jessie Leung, David A. Elliott, Donald F. Newgreen, Martin F. Pera, and Mirella Dottori

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Bardoxolone methyl prevents mesenteric fat deposition and inflammation in high-fat diet mice, Chi H. L Dinh, Alexander M. Szabo, Yinghua Yu, Danielle Camer, Hongqin Wang, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Bardoxolone methyl prevents fat deposition and inflammation in brown adipose tissue and enhances sympathetic activity in mice fed a high-fat diet, Chi H. L Dinh, Alexander M. Szabo, Yinghua Yu, Danielle Camer, Qingsheng Zhang, Hongqin Wang, and Xu-Feng Huang

Docosahexaenoic and arachidonic acid peroxidation: it's a within molecule cascade, Paul Else and Edouard Kraffe

Replisome speed determines the efficiency of the Tus-Ter replication termination barrier, Mohamed M. Elshenawy, Slobodan Jergic, Zhi-Qiang Xu, Mohamed A. Sobhy, Masateru Takahashi, Aaron J. Oakley, Nicholas E. Dixon, and Samir M. Hamdan

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Neuregulin 1 prevents phencyclidine-induced behavioral impairments and disruptions to GABAergic signaling in mice, Martin Engel, Peta Snikeris, Andrew M. Jenner, Tim Karl, Xu-Feng Huang, and Elisabeth T. Frank

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Comparing alternative design options for chronic disease prevention interventions, Mohammad Golfam, Reed Beall, Jamie Brehaut, Sara Saeed, Clare Relton, Fred D. Ashbury, and Julian Little

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Brief intervention manual for personality disorders, Brin F. S Grenyer, Bernadette A. Jenner, Heidi L. Jarman, Phoebe Carter, Rachel C. Bailey, and Rebecca Bargenquast

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Treatment guidelines for personality disorders, Brin F. S Grenyer, Bernadette A. Jenner, Heidi L. Jarman, Phoebe Carter, Rachel C. Bailey, and Kate L. Lewis

Cis-Expression quantitative trait loci mapping reveals replicable associations with heroin addiction in OPRM1, Dana B. Hancock, Joshua L. Levy, Nathan C. Gaddis, Cristie Glasheen, Nancy L. Saccone, Grier P. Page, Gary K. Hulse, Dieter B. Wildenauer, Erin A. Kelty, Sibylle G. Schwab, Louisa Degenhardt, Nicholas G. Martin, Grant W. Montgomery, John R. Attia, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Mark McEvoy, Rodney Scott, Laura J. Bierut, Elliot C. Nelson, Alex H. Kral, and Eric O. Johnson

Decreases in phospholipids containing adrenic and arachidonic acids occur in the human hippocampus over the adult lifespan, Sarah E. Hancock, Michael G. Friedrich, Todd W. Mitchell, Roger J. W Truscott, and Paul Else

Human prefrontal cortex phospholipids containing docosahexaenoic acid increase during normal adult aging, whereas those containing arachidonic acid decrease, Sarah Hancock, Michael G. Friedrich, Todd W. Mitchell, Roger J. W Truscott, and Paul Else

The key role of mitochondrial apoptotic pathway in the cytotoxic effect of mushroom extracts on cancer cells, Mei Han, Ming Tat Ling, and Jiezhong Chen

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Cognitive differences in schizophrenia on long-term treatments with clozapine, risperidone and typical antipsychotics, Mei Han, Xiang Yang Zhang, Da Chun Chen, Yun Long Tan, Chong Sheng Song, Yinghua Yu, and Xu-Feng Huang

Distinct functional site in Ω-neurotoxins: novel antagonists of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors from snake venom, Varuna Hassan-Puttaswamy, David J. Adams, and R Manjunatha Kini

Inhibition of cholinergic pathways in Drosophila melanogaster by α-conotoxins, Mari D. Heghinian, Monica Mejia, David J. Adams, Tanja A. Godenschwege, and Frank Marí

Regulator of G protein signaling 5 is a determinant of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia, Vasyl Holobotovskyy, Yee Seng Chong, Jennifer Burchell, Bo He, Michael Phillips, Leo Leader, Timothy Murphy, Shaun L. Sandow, Douglas J. McKitrick, Adrian K. Charles, Marianne Tare, Leonard F. Arnolda, and Ruth Ganss

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Prenatal infection promotes olanzapine-induced obesity in rats: implications for antipsychotic-induced obesity in schizophrenia, Xu-Feng Huang, Christopher Bell, Hongqin Wang, Zehra Boz, and Yinghua Yu

Novel mechanism of voltage-gated N-type (Cav2.2) calcium channel inhibition revealed through α-conotoxin Vc1.1 activation of the GABAB receptor, Thuan G. Huynh, Hartmut Cuny, Paul A. Slesinger, and David J. Adams

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Nutrient essentiality revisited, Stephanie Jew, Jean-Michel Antoine, Pierre Bourlioux, John Milner, Linda C. Tapsell, Yuexin Yang, and Peter J. H Jones

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Development and evaluation of the Telephone Crisis Support Skills Scale, Taneile Kitchingman, Coralie J. Wilson, Peter Caputi, Alan Woodward, and Tara Hunt

Molecular basis for differential sensitivity of α-conotoxin RegIIA at rat and human neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, Shiva N. Kompella, Hartmut Cuny, Andrew Hung, and David J. Adams

Alanine scan ofα-conotoxin regiia reveals a selective α3α4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist, Shiva N. Kompella, Andrew Hung, Richard J. Clark, Frank Marí, and David J. Adams

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Separation and identification of phosphatidylcholine regioisomers by combining liquid chromatography with a fusion of collision-and ozone-induced dissociation, Rachel Kozlowski, Todd W. Mitchell, and Stephen J. Blanksby

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Evidence for altered cholesterol metabolism in Huntington's disease post mortem brain tissue, Fabian Kreilaus, Adena S. Spiro, Catriona A. McLean, Brett Garner, and Andrew M. Jenner

Biomedical applications of trastuzumab: as a therapeutic agent and a targeting ligand, Hitesh Kulhari, Deep Pooja, Sri V. K Rompicharla, Ramakrishna Sistla, and David J. Adams

Cyclic-RGDfK peptide conjugated succinoyl-TPGS nanomicelles for targeted delivery of docetaxel to integrin receptor over-expressing angiogenic tumours, Hitesh Kulhari, Deep Pooja, Shweta Shrivastava, Srinivasa R. Telukutala, Ayan K. Barui, Chitta Ranjan Patra, Ganga Modi Naidu Vegi, David J. Adams, and Ramakrishna Sistla

Bombesin-conjugated nanoparticles improve the cytotoxic efficacy of docetaxel against gastrin-releasing but androgen-independent prostate cancer, Hitesh Kulhari, Deep Pooja, Mayank K. Singh, Madhusudana Kuncha, David J. Adams, and Ramakrishna Sistla

Predicting support and likelihood of protest in relation to the use of treated stormwater with managed aquifer recharge for potable and non-potable purposes, Rosemary Leonard, Aditi Mankad, and Kim Alexander

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Risperidone-induced weight gain and reduced locomotor activity in juvenile female rats: the role of histaminergic and NPY pathways, Jiamei Lian, Michael De Santis, Meng He, and Chao Deng

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Chronic betahistine co-treatment reverses olanzapine's effects on dopamine D2 but not 5-HT2A/2C bindings in rat brains, Jiamei LIAN, Xu-Feng Huang, Nagesh B. Pai, and Chao Deng

Involuntary psychiatric treatment in the community: general practitioners and the implementation of community treatment orders, Edwina M. Light, Ian Kerridge, Michael D. Robertson, Philip Boyce, Terry Carney, Alan Rosen, Michelle Cleary, Glenn E. Hunt, Nick O'Connor, and Christopher Ryan

The many faces of risk: a qualitative study of risk in outpatient involuntary treatment, Edwina M. Light, Michael D. Robertson, Philip Boyce, Terry Carney, Alan Rosen, Michelle Cleary, Glenn E. Hunt, Nick O'Connor, Christopher Ryan, and Ian Kerridge

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Apolipoprotein D modulates amyloid pathology in APP/PS1 Alzheimer's disease mice, Hongyun Li, Kalani R. Ruberu, Sonia Sanz Munoz, Andrew M. Jenner, Adena S. Spiro, Hua Zhao, Eric Rassart, Diego Sanchez, Maria D. Ganfornina, Tim Karl, and Brett Garner

Association of human papillomavirus with Fanconi anemia promotes carcinogenesis in Fanconi anemia patients, Guang Bin Liu, Jiezhong Chen, Zhan He Wu, and Kong-Nan Zhao

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Acute effects of oral olanzapine treatment on the expression of fatty acid and cholesterol metabolism-related gene in rats, Xuemei Liu, Chao Deng, Shuang Cao, Jingwen Gong, Bo-Chu Wang, and Chang-Hua Hu

Orientin improves depression-like behavior and BDNF in chronic stressed mice, Yi Liu, Nuo Lan, Jing Ren, Yizhen Wu, Shu-Ting Wang, Xu-Feng Huang, and Yinghua Yu

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Whole transcriptome of the venom gland from Urodacus yaschenkoi scorpion, Karen S. Luna Ramirez, Veronica Quintero-Hernandez, Víctor Rivelino Juarez-Gonzalez, and Lourival D. Possani

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Intra-operative tissue oxygen tension is increased by local insufflation of humidified-warm CO2 during open abdominal surgery in a rat model, Jean Marshall, Pernilla Lindner, Noel Tait, Tracy A. Maddocks, Angelique H. Riepsamen, and Jan van der Linden

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Alterations of mGluR5 and its endogenous regulators Norbin, Tamalin and Preso1 in schizophrenia: towards a model of mGluR5 dysregulation, Natalie Matosin, Francesca Fernandez-Enright, Samantha J. Fung, Jeremy S. Lum, Martin Engel, Jessica L. Andrews, Xu-Feng Huang, Cynthia S. Weickert, and Kelly A. Newell

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Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5, and its trafficking molecules Norbin and Tamalin, are increased in the CA1 hippocampal region of subjects with schizophrenia, Natalie Matosin, Francesca Fernandez-Enright, Jeremy S. Lum, Jessica L. Andrews, Martin Engel, Xu-Feng Huang, and Kelly A. Newell

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Parenting with personality disorder intervention: a manual for health professionals, Kye L. McCarthy, Heidi L. Jarman, Marianne E. Bourke, and Brin F. S Grenyer

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Disparate metabolic response to fructose feeding between different mouse strains, Magdalene K. Montgomery, C E. Fiveash, J P. Braude, Brenna Osborne, Simon H. Brown, Todd W. Mitchell, and Nigel Turner

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Implications of ghrelin and hexarelin in diabetes and diabetes-associated heart diseases, Rasha Mofeed Habeeb Mosa, Zhen Zhang, Renfu Shao, Chao Deng, Jiezhong Chen, and Chen Chen

Vertical Nanowire Electrode Arrays as Novel Electrochemical Label-Free Immunosensors, Babak Nasr, Gursharan Chana, Ting Ting Lee, Thanh Nguyen, Chathurika Abeyrathne, Giovanna M. D'Abaco, Mirella Dottori, and Efstratios Skafidas

Evidence of CNIH3 involvement in opioid dependence, Elliot C. Nelson, A Agrawal, A C. Heath, R Bogdan, R Sherva, B Zhang, R Al-Hasani, M R. Bruchas, Y -L Chou, and Sibylle G. Schwab

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18 GHz electromagnetic field induces permeability of Gram-positive cocci, The Hong Phong Nguyen, Yury Shamis, Rodney J. Croft, Andrew J. Wood, Robert L. McIntosh, Russell Crawford, and Elena Ivanova

Farmers' perceptions of and responses to annual flood events in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta: adapting to climate change impacts, Van Kien Nguyen and Kim Alexander

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Unique effects of acute aripiprazole treatment on the dopamine D2 receptor downstream cAMP-PKA and Akt-GSK3β signalling pathways in rats, Bo Pan, Jiezhong Chen, Jiamei Lian, Xu-Feng Huang, and Chao Deng

Comparative study of the toxic effects of Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) and Chironex fleckeri (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) venoms using cell-based assays, Dalia Ponce, Diane L. Brinkman, Karen S. Luna Ramirez, Christine E. Wright, and Juan Jose Dorantes-Aranda

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Challenges and opportunities in stigma for psychiatrists: an analysis of effective coping mechanisms to reduce stigma associated with mental illnesses, M Rajasuriya, Sunera M. Fernando, and U Gunawardhana

International trends in community-oriented mental health services, Alan Rosen, Paul M. O'Halloran, Roberto Mezzina, and Ken Thompson

Glutathione transferase M2 variants inhibit ryanodine receptor function in adult mouse cardiomyocytes, Kaveenda Samarasinghe, Dan Liu, Padmaja Tummala, Jean Cappello, Suzy M. Pace, Leonard F. Arnolda, Marco G. Casarotto, Angela Dulhunty, and Philip G. Board

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Roquin binds microRNA-146a and Argonaute2 to regulate microRNA homeostasis, Monika Srivastava, Guowen Duan, Nadia J. Kershaw, Vicki Athanasopoulos, Janet H. Yeo, Toyoyuki Ose, Desheng Hu, Simon H. Brown, Slobodan Jergic, Hardip R. Patel, Alvin Pratama, Sashika Richards, Anil Verma, E Yvonne Jones, Vigo Heissmeyer, Thomas Preiss, Nicholas E. Dixon, Mark M. Chong, Jeffrey J. Babon, and Carola Vinuesa

Age-related cleavages of crystallins in human lens cortical fiber cells generate a plethora of endogenous peptides and high molecular weight complexes, Shih-Ping Su, Xiaomin Song, Dylan Xavier, and John Andrew Aquilina

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Feasibility of a community-based interdisciplinary lifestyle intervention trial on weight loss (the HealthTrack study), Linda C. Tapsell, Rebecca L. Thorne, Marijka Batterham, Joanna Russell, Joseph Ciarrochi, Gregory E. Peoples, Maureen A. Lonergan, and Allison Martin

Regulation of αA- and αB-crystallins via phosphorylation in cellular homeostasis, Erin Thornell and John Andrew Aquilina

αB-crystallin phosphorylation as a precursor to cataractogenesis, Erin Thornell, Heath Ecroyd, and John Andrew Aquilina

Venoms-based drug discovery: bioassays, electrophysiology, high-throughput screens and target identincation, Irina Vetter, Wayne C. Hodgson, David J. Adams, and Peter D. McIntyre

Improved pharmacokinetic and biodistribution properties of the selective urokinase inhibitor PAI-2 (SerpinB2) by site-specific PEGylation: implications for drug delivery, Kara L. Vine, Sergei Lobov, Vineesh Indira Chandran, Nathanial Harris, and Marie Ranson

Homer1/mGluR5 activity moderates vulnerability to chronic social stress, Klaus V. Wagner, Jakob Hartmann, Christiana Labermaier, Alexander S. Hausl, Gengjing Zhao, Daniela Harbich, Bianca Schmid, Xiao-Dong Wang, Sara Santarelli, Christine Kohl, Nils C. Gassen, Natalie Matosin, Marcel Schieven, Christian Webhofer, Christoph W. Turck, Lothar Lindemann, Georg Jaschke, Joseph G. Wettstein, Theo Rein, Marianne B. Muller, and Mathias V. Schmidt

α-Conotoxin dendrimers have enhanced potency and selectivity for homomeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, Jingjing Wan, Johnny X. Huang, Irina Vetter, Mehdi Mobli, Joshua Lawson, Han-Shen Tae, Nikita Abraham, Blessy Paul, Matthew Cooper, David J. Adams, Richard J. Lewis, and Paul F. Alewood

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Alpha-2-macroglobulin is acutely sensitive to freezing and lyophilization: implications for structural and functional studies, Amy R. Wyatt, Janet R. Kumita, Natalie E. Farrawell, Christopher M. Dobson, and Mark R. Wilson

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Conotoxin αd-GeXXA utilizes a novel strategy to antagonize nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, Shaoqiong Xu, Tianlong Zhang, Shiva N. Kompella, Mengdi Yan, Aiping Lu, Yanfang Wang, Xiaoxia Shao, Chengwu Chi, David J. Adams, Jianping Ding, and Chunguang Wang

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Preimplantation exposure to Bisphenol A and Triclosan may lead to implantation failure in humans, Mu Yuan, Ming-Zhu Bai, Xu-Feng Huang, Yue Zhang, Jing Liu, Min-Hao Hu, Wei-Qian Zheng, and Fan Jin

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Less is more: design of a highly stable disulfide-deleted mutant of analgesic cyclic α-conotoxin Vc1.1, Rilei Yu, Victoria A. L Seymour, Géza Berecki, Xinying Jia, Muharrem Akcan, David J. Adams, Quentin Kaas, and David J. Craik

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Teasaponin improves leptin sensitivity in the prefrontal cortex of obese mice, Yinghua Yu, Hongqin Wang, Yizhen Wu, Alexander M. Szabo, Christopher Bell, and Xu-Feng Huang

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Prenatal PolyIC and LPS exposure alters serotonin transporter and 5-HT2A receptor binding densities in rodents: implications for schizophrenia, Yinghua Yu, Rory Watsford, Christopher Bell, Zehra Boz, Hongqin Wang, and Xu-Feng Huang