Recent CCS publications: Week ending 29 July 2016

A/Prof Kate Hoy (left) with a colleague and research participant

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in ACBD, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, MAPrc and MSHC:

Chung SW, Rogasch NC, Hoy KE, Fitzgerald PB. Measuring brain stimulation induced changes in cortical properties using TMS-EEG. Brain Stimul. 2015 Nov-Dec;8(6):1010-20. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.07.029. Epub 2015 Jul 17.



Dahl LC, Nasa Z, Chung J, Niego B, Tarlac V, Ho H, Galle A, Petratos S, Lee JY, Alderuccio F, Medcalf RL. The Influence of Differentially Expressed Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis: Implications for Multiple Sclerosis. PLoS One. 2016 Jul 18;11(7):e0158653. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158653. eCollection 2016.

Facey AD, Tallentire V, Selzer RM, Rotstein L. Understanding and reducing work-related psychological distress in interns: a systematic review. Intern Med J. 2015 Oct;45(10):995-1004. doi: 10.1111/imj.12785.

Lalaoui N, Hänggi K, Brumatti G, Chau D, Nguyen NY, Vasilikos L, Spilgies LM, Heckmann DA, Ma C, Ghisi M, Salmon JM, Matthews GM, de Valle E, Moujalled DM, Menon MB, Spall SK, Glaser SP, Richmond J, Lock RB, Condon SM, Gugasyan R, Gaestel M, Guthridge M, Johnstone RW, Munoz L, Wei A, Ekert PG, Vaux DL, Wong WW, Silke J. Targeting p38 or MK2 Enhances the Anti-Leukemic Activity of Smac-Mimetics. Cancer Cell. 2016 Feb 8;29(2):145-58.
PMID: 26859455 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2016.01.006 See also Comment.

Lau A, Spark S, Tomnay J, Smith MT, Fairley CK, Guy RJ, Donovan B, Hocking JS. Socio-demographic and structural barriers to being tested for chlamydia in general practice. Med J Aust. 2016 Feb 15;204(3):112.e1-5.

Moghaddas F, Smith C, Pilcher D, O'Hehir R, Hew M, Dabscheck E. Need for intensive care in patients admitted for asthma: Red flags from the social history. Respirology. 2016 Jun 19. 
PMID: 27321760 DOI: 10.1111/resp.12831 [Epub ahead of print]

Noho-Konteh F, Adetifa JU, Cox M, Hossin S, Reynolds J, Le MT, Sanyang LC, Drammeh A, Plebanski M, Forster T, Dickinson P, Ghazal P, Whittle H, Rowland-Jones SL, Sutherland JS, Flanagan KL. Sex-differential non-vaccine specific immunological effects of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles vaccination. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Jul 19. pii: ciw492. [Epub ahead of print]

O'Hehir RE, Prickett SR, Rolland JM. T cell epitope peptide therapy for allergic diseases. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2016 Feb;16(2):14. doi: 10.1007/s11882-015-0587-0. Full text.
See also our CCS blog 'explainer' by Prof Robyn O'Hehir.

Smith AM, Dun MD, Lee EM, Harrison C, Kahl R, Flanagan H, Panicker N, Mashkani B, Don AS, Morris J, Toop H, Lock RB, Powell JA, Thomas D, Guthridge MA, Moore A, Ashman LK, Skelding KA, Enjeti A, Verrills NM. Activation of protein phosphatase 2A in FLT3+ acute myeloid leukemia cells enhances the cytotoxicity of FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Oncotarget. 2016 Jun 18. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.10167. [Epub ahead of print]