Browsing School of Medicine by Sponsor "Health Research Board"
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Adapting developing country epidemiological assessment techniques to improve the quality of health needs assessments in developed countries
(BioMed Central, 2005)Background: We were commissioned to carry out three health assessments in urban areas of Dublin in Ireland. We required an epidemiologically robust method that could collect data rapidly and inexpensively. We were dealing ... -
Age-related networks of regional covariance in MRI gray matter: Reproducible multivariate patterns in healthy aging
(Elsevier, 2009)Healthy aging is associated with brain volume reductions that involve the frontal cortex, but also affect other brain regions. We sought to identify an age-related network pattern of MRI gray matter using a multivariate ... -
Choline and homocysteine interrelations in umbilical cord and maternal plasma at delivery.
(American Society for Clinical Nutrition, 2005)Background: Little is known about the interactions between choline and folate and homocysteine metabolism during pregnancy despite the facts that pregnancy places considerable stress on maternal folate and choline stores ... -
Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder.
(Nature Publishing Group, 2008)To identify susceptibility loci for bipolar disorder, we tested 1.8 million variants in 4,387 cases and 6,209 controls and identified a region of strong association (rs10994336, P = 9.1 10-9) in ANK3 (ankyrin G). We also ... -
A common p73 polymorphism is associated with a reduced incidence of oesophageal carcinoma
(Nature, 2001)The incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma is rising; to date, no susceptibility genes have been identified. p73, a novel p53 homologue, maps to chromosome 1p36, a region commonly deleted in oesophageal cancers. p73 shares ... -
Confirmation of association between autism and the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier SLC25A12 gene on chromosome 2q31
(American Psychiatric Association, 2005)OBJECTIVE: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with childhood onset and a known major genetic component. A recent study identified a highly significant association between autism and a two-single-nucleotide-polymorphism ... -
Confirmation of the R653Q polymorphism of the trifunctional C1-synthase enzyme as a maternal risk for neural tube defects in the Irish population.
(Nature Publishing Group, 2006)The risk of neural tube defects (NTDs) is known to have a significant genetic component that could act through either the NTD patient and/or maternal genotype. The success of folic acid supplementation in NTD prevention ... -
The contribution of qualitative research in designing a complex intervention for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in two different healthcare systems
(BioMed Central, 2006)Background Developing complex interventions for testing in randomised controlled trials is of increasing importance in healthcare planning. There is a need for careful design of interventions for secondary prevention of ... -
Dissociation in performance of children with ADHD and high-functioning autism on a task of sustained attention.
(Elsevier, 2007)Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism are two neurodevelopmental disorders associated with prominent executive dysfunction, which may be underpinned by disruption within fronto-striatal and fronto-parietal ... -
Distinct and Overlapping Effector Functions of Expanded Human CD4, CD8? and CD4CD8? Invariant Natural Killer T Cells
(2011)CD1d-restricted invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells have diverse immune stimulatory/regulatory activities through their ability to release cytokines and to kill or transactivate other cells. Activation of iNKT cells ... -
Endothelin inhibitors for advanced prostate cancer
(John Wiley, 2011)This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: Our review aims to determine the effectiveness and adverse effects of endothelin inhibitors for advanced prostate cancer. The ... -
Estimation of coherence using the median is robust against EEG artefacts
(2017)Coherence is a mathematical measure of correlation in the frequency domain, commonly used to quantify the oscillatory synchrony of bio-signals such as the electroencephalogram (EEG). In biomedical applications, such as ... -
Evaluation of Next-Generation Sequencing to Investigate the Epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile Infection
Introduction: Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is an anaerobic bacteria, which can cause gastrointestinal infection. There are approximately 2,000 cases of C. difficile infection (CDI) diagnosed in Ireland per year, ... -
Folate-related gene polymorphisms as risk factors for cleft lip and cleft palate.
(John Wiley, 2008)BACKGROUND?Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CLP) and cleft palate only (CPO) have an inherited component and, many studies suggest, a relationship with folate. Attempts to find folaterelated genes associated with ... -
Identifying strategies to maximise recruitment and retention of practices and patients in a multicentre randomised controlled trial of an intervention to optimise secondary prevention for coronary heart disease in primary care.
(BioMed Central, 2009)BACKGROUND: Recruitment and retention of patients and healthcare providers in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is important in order to determine the effectiveness of interventions. However, failure to achieve recruitment ... -
Impact of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism on risk of neural tube defects:case-control study
(BMJ, 2004)Homozygosity for the T allele of the C677T polymorphism of the gene encoding the folate dependent enzyme 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is a risk factor for neural tube defects.1 Both the homozygous (TT) ... -
Investigating the Immune System in Parkinson's Disease
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Physiology, 2024)In 1817 James Parkinson first described the symptoms of the Parkinson's disease (PD). It is the second most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide, and cases are rising exponentially. Characteristic hallmarks of PD ... -
Medicinal plants used by traditional medicine practitioners for the treatment of HIV/AIDS and related conditions in Uganda
(Elsevier, 2010)Introduction and objectives: In Uganda, there are over 1 million people with HIV/AIDS. When advanced, this disease is characterized by life-threatening opportunistic infections. As the formal health sector struggles to ... -
A new microtubule-targeting compound PBOX-15 inhibits T-cell migration via post-translational modifications of tubulin.
(Springer, 2008)The ordered, directional migration of T-lymphocytes is a key process during immune surveillance, immune response, and development. A novel series of pyrrolo-1,5-benzoxazepines have been shown to potently induce apoptosis ... -
The NOS1 variant rs6490121 is associated with variation in prefrontal function and gray matter density in healthy individuals
(Elsevier, 2012)A common polymorphism within the nitric oxide sythanse-1 (NOS1) gene (rs6490121), initially identified as risk variant for schizophrenia, has been associated with variation in working memory and IQ. Here we investigated ...