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  • The modulation of two motor behaviors by persistent sodium currents in Xenopus laevis tadpoles 

    Svensson, Erik; Jeffreys, Hugo; Li, Wenchang (2017-07-01) - Journal article
    Persistent sodium currents (INaP) are common in neuronal circuitries and have been implicated in several diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and epilepsy. However, the role of INaP in the regulation of ...

  • Lightning chemistry on Earth-like exoplanets 

    Ardaseva, Aleksandra; Rimmer, Paul B.; Waldmann, Ingo; Rocchetto, Marco; Yurchenko, Sergey N.; Helling, Christiane; Tennyson, Jonathan (2017-08) - Journal article
    We present a model for lightning shock-induced chemistry that can be applied to atmospheres of arbitrary H/C/N/O chemistry, hence for extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. The model couples hydrodynamics and the STAND2015 ...

  • Follicle Stimulating Hormone is an accurate predictor of azoospermia in childhood cancer survivors 

    Kelsey, Thomas W.; McConville, Lauren; Edgar, Angela B.; Ungurianu, Alex I.; Mitchell, Rod T; Anderson, Richard A.; Wallace, W. Hamish B. (2017-07-20) - Journal article
    The accuracy of Follicle Stimulating Hormone as a predictor of azoospermia in adult survivors of childhood cancer is unclear, with conflicting results in the published literature. A systematic review and post hoc analysis ...

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice 

    Harkins, Catriona P.; Pichon, Bruno; Doumith, Michel; Parkhill, Julian; Westh, Henrik; Tomasz, Alexander; de Lencastre, Herminia; Bentley, Stephen D.; Kearns, Angela M.; Holden, Matthew T. G. (2017-07-20) - Journal article
    Background: The spread of drug-resistant bacterial pathogens poses a major threat to global health. It is widely recognised that the widespread use of antibiotics has generated selective pressures that have driven the ...

  • Life-course partnership history and midlife health behaviours in a population-based birth cohort 

    Keenan, Katherine; Ploubidis, George B.; Silverwood, Richard J.; Grundy, Emily (2017-03) - Journal article
    Background:  Marital and partnership history is strongly associated with health in midlife and later life. However, the role of health behaviours as an explanatory mechanism remains unclear. The aim of this study was to ...

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