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                  Archive of Published Research

                  For further details on each publication, please click on the appropriate Link. For the related award, please click on the highlighted name.


                  Changes in systemic type 1 and type 2 immunity in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia may be mediated by natural killer cells
                  Borzychowski AM, Croy BA, Redman CWG and Sargent IL.
                  Eur J Immunol. 2005 Oct;35(10):3054-63.

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                  A 1 Mb minimal amplicon at 8p11-12 in breast cancer identifies new candidate oncogenes.
                  Garcia MJ, Pole JCM, Chin S-F, Vias M, Teschendorff A, Naderi A, Ozdag H, Kranjac T, Subkhankulova T, Ellis I, Brenton JD, Edwards PAW, and Caldas C.
                  Oncogene. 2005 Aug 4;24(33):5235-45

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                  Renal hemodynamic effects of relaxin in humans
                  Smith M, Davison J, Conrad K, Danielson L.
                  Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 May;1041:163-72.

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                  Identification and localization of prostaglandin E2 receptors in upper and lower segment human myometrium during pregnancy.
                  Astle S, Thornton S, Slater DM.
                  Mol Hum Reprod. 2005 Apr;11(4):279-87.

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                  Prostanoid receptors in human uterine myocytes: the effect of reproductive state and stretch
                  Sooranna SR, Grigsby P, Myatt L, Bennett PR and Johnson MR
                  Mol Hum Reprod. 2005 Dec;11(12):859-64.

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                  Common polymorphism in H19 associated with birthweight and cord blood IGF-II levels in humans
                  Petry CJ, Ong KK, Barratt BJ, Wingate D, Cordell HJ, Ring SM, Pembrey ME, The ALSPAC Study Team, Reik W, Todd JA, Dunger DB
                  BMC Genet. 2005 May 10;6(1):22.

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                  Restaging the spindle assembly checkpoint in female mammalian meiosis I
                  Homer HA, McDougall A, Levasseur M, Herbert M Cell Cycle 2005 May;4:650–653.

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                  Measurement of beliefs about effectiveness of laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation
                  Latthe PM, Braunholtz DA, Hills RK, Khan KS, Lilford R. BJOG 2005 Feb;112:243–246

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                  Mad2 prevents aneuploidy and premature proteolysis of cyclin B and securin during meiosis I in mouse oocytes
                  Homer HA, McDougall A, Levasseur M, Yallop K, Murdoch AP, Herbert M
                  Genes Dev. 2005 Jan 15;19(2):202-7

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                  Mechanical stretch up-regulates the human oxytocin receptor in primary human uterine myocytes
                  Terzidou V, Sooranna SR, Kim LU, Thornton S, Bennett PR, Johnson MR
                  J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005 Jan;90(1):237-46

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                  Neurologic and developmental disability at six years of age after extremely preterm birth
                  Marlow N, Wolke D, Bracewell MA, Samara M for the EPICure Study Group
                  N Engl J Med. 2005 Jan 6;352(1):9-19.

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                  Labour is associated with increased expression of type-IIA secretory phospholipase A2 but not type-IV cytosolic phospholipase A2 in human myometrium.
                  Slater DM, Astle S, Bennett PR, Thornton S.
                  Mol Hum Reprod. 2004 Nov;10(11):799-805.

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                  STK15 polymorphisms and association with risk of invasive ovarian cancer.
                  Dicioccio RA, Song H, Waterfall C, et al.
                  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2004 Oct;13(10):1589-94

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                  Variation in practice of laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation: a European Survey
                  Latthe PM, Powell RJ, Daniels J, Hills RK, Gray R, Gupta JK, Khan KS.
                  J Obstet Gynaecol. 2004 Aug;24(5):547-51

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                  A randomised controlled trial to assess the efficacy of Laparoscopic Uterosacral Nerve Ablation (LUNA) in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain: The trial protocol [ISRCTN41196151]
                  Pallavi M Latthe and the LUNA Collaborative team
                  BMC Womens Health. 2003 Dec 8;3(1):6

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                  Homologue disjunction in mouse oocytes requires proteolysis of securing and cyclin B1
                  Herbert M, Levasseur M, Homer HA, Yallop K, Murdoch A, McDougall A
                  Nature Cell Biology 2003 Nov;5(11):1023-5.

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                  The prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis in fresh tissue specimens from patients with ectopic pregnancy or tubal factor infertility as determined by PCR and in-situ hybridisation.
                  Barlow RE, Cooke ID, Odukoya O, Heatley MK, Jenkins J, Narayansingh G, Ramsewak SS, Eley A
                  J Med Microbiol. 2001 Oct;50(10):902-8.

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                  A randomised controlled trial of epidural compared with non-epidural analgesia in labour
                  Howell CJ, Kidd C, Roberts W, Upton P, Lucking L, Jones PW, Johanson RB
                  BJOG. 2001 Jan;108(1):27-33..

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                  Alterations in Distribution of Tenascin, Fibronectin and Fibrogen in Vulval Lichen Sclerosus
                  Farrell AM, Dean D, Charnock FM, Wojnarowska F.
                  Dermatology. 2000;201(3):223-9.

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