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Medical Research Council
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About: Medical Research Council is a government organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Malaria. The organization has 16430 authors who have published 19150 publications receiving 1475494 citations.
Topics: Population, Malaria, Poison control, Gene, Antigen
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that the C-terminal of α-synuclein is an important regulator of aggregation in vivo and will help to understand the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Lewy body disorders and multiple system atrophy.
Abstract: Dysfunction of the 140 aa protein α-synuclein plays a central role in Lewy body disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, as well as in multiple system atrophy. Here, we show that the expression of truncated human α-synuclein(1–120), driven by the rat tyrosine hydroxylase promoter on a mouse α-synuclein null background, leads to the formation of pathological inclusions in the substantia nigra and olfactory bulb and to a reduction in striatal dopamine levels. At the behavioral level, the transgenic mice showed a progressive reduction in spontaneous locomotion and an increased response to amphetamine. These findings suggest that the C-terminal of α-synuclein is an important regulator of aggregation in vivo and will help to understand the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Lewy body disorders and multiple system atrophy.
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TL;DR: Host-range mutants of adenovirus type 5 have been selected on human embryo kidney cells transformed by sheared adeno 5 DNA and these mutants grow well on 293 cells, but are restricted on HeLa cells.
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TL;DR: Owing to the anatomy and physiology of the colon, putrefactive processes become quantitatively more important in the distal bowel, where carbohydrate is more limiting.
Abstract: In both health and disease, the colonic microbiota plays an important role in several areas of human physiology. This complex assemblage of microorganisms endows great metabolic potential on the large intestine, primarily through its degradative abilities. Many hundreds of different types of bacteria, varying widely in physiology and biochemistry, exist in a multitude of different microhabitats in the lumen of the large gut, the mucin layer and on mucosal surfaces. Both microbiota and host obtain clear benefits from association. For example, growth substrates from diet and body tissues, together with a relatively stable environment for bacteria to proliferate are provided by the host, which in turn has evolved to use butyrate, a bacterial fermentation product, as its principal source of energy for epithelial cells in the distal bowel. The main sources of carbon and energy for intestinal bacteria are complex carbohydrates (starches, non-starch polysaccharides). Carbohydrate metabolism is of great importance in the large intestine, since generically, and in terms of absolute numbers, the vast majority of culturable microorganisms are saccharolytic. The amounts and types of fermentation products formed by colonic bacteria depend on the relative amounts of each substrate available, their chemical structures and compositions, as well as the fermentation strategies (biochemical characteristics and catabolite regulatory mechanisms) of bacteria participating in depolymerization and fermentation of the substrates. Protein breakdown and dissimilatory amino acid metabolism result in the formation of a number of putatively toxic metabolites, including phenols, indoles and amines. Production of these substances is inhibited or repressed in many intestinal microorganisms by a fermentable source of carbohydrate. Owing to the anatomy and physiology of the colon, putrefactive processes become quantitatively more important in the distal bowel, where carbohydrate is more limiting.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that HSAN1 is caused by a gain of function mutation, which results in the formation of two atypical and neurotoxic sphingolipid metabolites.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that osteomalacia in the elderly makes an important contribution to the steep rise in femoral-neck fractures with advancing age in the U.K. and that this is attributable to an absolute or relative deficiency of vitamin D.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Shizuo Akira | 261 | 1308 | 320561 |
Trevor W. Robbins | 231 | 1137 | 164437 |
Richard A. Flavell | 231 | 1328 | 205119 |
George Davey Smith | 224 | 2540 | 248373 |
Nicholas J. Wareham | 212 | 1657 | 204896 |
Cyrus Cooper | 204 | 1869 | 206782 |
Martin White | 196 | 2038 | 232387 |
Frank E. Speizer | 193 | 636 | 135891 |
Michael Rutter | 188 | 676 | 151592 |
Richard Peto | 183 | 683 | 231434 |
Terrie E. Moffitt | 182 | 594 | 150609 |
Kay-Tee Khaw | 174 | 1389 | 138782 |
Chris D. Frith | 173 | 524 | 130472 |
Phillip A. Sharp | 172 | 614 | 117126 |
Avshalom Caspi | 170 | 524 | 113583 |