• Mental Health Disclosure in the Public Eye: Accounting for and Managing Absences From Professional Sporting Competition 

  Elsey, Christopher (Article)

  The purpose of this paper is to consider how professional sports players and their sporting clubs and associations publicly manage the disclosure of mental health issues that result in a players enforced absence from ...
• Sequence-Specific Detection of Aristolochia DNA – A Simple Test for Contamination of Herbal Products 

  Sgamma, Tiziana ; Masiero, Eva ; Mali, Purvi ; Mahat, Maslina ; Slater, A. (Article)

  Herbal medicines are used globally for their health benefits as an alternative therapy method to modern medicines. The market for herbal products has increased rapidly over the last few decades, but this has in turn ...
• Product authenticity versus globalisation - The Tulsi case 

  Jurges, G. ; Sahi, V. ; Rios Rodriguez, D. ; Reich, Eike ; Bhamra, Sukvinder ; Howard, Caroline ; Slater, A. ; Nick, P. (Article)

  Using the Indian medicinal plant Tulsi (Holy Basil) as a case study, we have tested to what extent the discrepancy between vernacular and scientific nomenclature can be resolved, whether the presumed chemical diversity ...
• The elicitation and management of multiple health concerns in GP consultations. 

  Stuart, B. ; Leydon, G. ; Woods, C. ; Gennery, E. ; Summers, R. ; Stevenson, F. ; Chew-Graham, C. ; Barnes, R. ; Moore, M. ; Little, P. ; Elsey, Christopher ; Drew, Paul ; Little, P (Article)

  Objective: To describe the nature of patient concerns and to explore if, when and how they are addressed by GPs in the UK. Methods: Detailed coding and descriptive analysis of 185 video recordings from the EPaC ...
• Routines of resistance: an ethnography of the care of people living with dementia in acute hospital wards and its consequences 

  Featherstone, Katie ; Northcott, Andy ; Bridges, Jackie (Article)

  Abstract Background There is little research examining resistance, refusal or rejection of care by people living with dementia within acute hospital wards despite the prevalence of dementia in adult hospital ...
• Markers of oxidative stress, skeletal muscle mass and function, and their responses to resistance exercise training in older adults 

  Carru, Ciriaco ; Da Boit, Mariasole ; Paliogiannis, P. ; Zinellu, Angelo ; Sotgia, Salvatore ; Sibson, Rachael ; Meakin, Judith R. ; Aspden, Richard M. ; Mangoni, Arduino A. ; Gray, Stuart R. (Article)

  BACKGROUND: Oxidative stress (OS) negatively affects skeletal muscle homeostasis in experimental models of ageing. However, little is known about the associations between circulating OS markers and parameters of muscle ...
• The mediating effect of self-disgust on emotion regulation and eating disorder symptoms: A longitudinal perspective. 

  Bell, Katie ; Coulthard, Helen ; Wildbur, D. (Conference)

  1) Background There is a substantial body of literature supporting the view that disordered eating behaviour is broadly characterized by emotion dysregulation but little attention has been paid to the possible mediators ...
• Associations with disgust sensitivity, anxiety and levels of sensory processing 

  Bell, Katie ; Coulthard, Helen ; Wildbur, D. (Conference)

  The factors that may contribute to the emergence of self-disgust have not yet been established (Power, Overton & Simpson, 2015) however there is an increasing interest into the physiological and inherent contributors to ...
• It’s like the onion skins are stripped away; Caregiver accounts of supporting a long-term partner through cancer 

  Bell, Katie ; Williamson, I. ; Wildbur, D. (Conference)

  Purpose: To explore the experiences of caring for a long-term partner or spouse through cancer diagnosis, treatment and aftercare. Background: Although research around caregiving is becoming more theoretically advanced ...
• Histology resources for promoting blended learning 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Ramos, I. ; Young, C. ; Gray, D. ; Evans, M. D. ; Randles, M. ; Zhu, Lan ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. (Conference)

  Human health courses at universities are facing different challenges to provide students with real laboratory experiences due to the combination of large course cohorts with a shortage of academic staff, resources and time. ...
• Novel resources for learning the identification of human-related parasites. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Acosta, L. ; Izquierdo, F. (Conference)

  Microscopic detection of human-related parasites in a range of clinical samples remains the cornerstone of parasitological diagnosis despite recent advances in technology and molecular sciences. However, the use of the ...
• Teaching intervention to enhance HIV infection awareness in a biomedical science degree 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Pena, M. A. ; Escalera, J. B. (Conference)

  Condom use remains the predominant prophylactic intervention to control rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, chemoprophylactic strategies, which involve pre-exposure prophyaxis (PrEP) and ...
• Teaching medical parasitology in a new Physician Associate master’s programme. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Pena, M. A. (Conference)

  The programme of Physician Associate (PA) is a relatively new Master (MSc) in the United Kingdom (UK) to train future health care professionals that will work under the supervision of a medical doctor as part of a medical ...
• Students’ opinion regarding the Pharmacy degree module “Integrated Practice Pharmacy” 

  Escalera Izquierdo, B. ; Pena, M. A. ; Reillo, A. ; Pena-Fernandez, A. (Book chapter)

  La asignatura Farmacia Práctica Integrada (6 ECTS) es una asignatura obligatoria del Grado de Farmacia de la Universidad de Alcalá. Consta de una parte teórica y otra práctica en forma de seminarios. Además de ser impartida ...
• Stearoyl-CoA-Desaturase Inhibition Significantly Reduces the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer 

  Martin, N. ; Hackney, A. B. ; Chung, W. Y. ; Dennison, A. R. (Conference)

  Aims: To determine the potency of Stearoyl-CoA-Desaturase 1 (SCD1) inhibition as a viable treatment option or chemotherapy supplementation for patients with Pancreatic Cancer and how it affects tumour-derived microparticle ...
• Stearoyl-CoA-Desaturase 1 inhibition induces apoptosis in Pancreatic Cancer cells 

  Isherwood, J. ; Runau, F. ; Arshad, A. ; Martin, N. ; Hackney, A. B. ; Chung, W. Y. ; Dennison, A. R. (Conference)

  Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive cancer with advanced disease at diagnosis and lack of effective therapy. PC tumours carry a mutated KRAS gene essential to their growth and spread, which plays a key role in deregulating ...
• Exploring accounts of joint working between Speech and Language Therapists and Stroke Association Communication Support Coordinators 

  Scantlebury, K. ; Bixley, Morag ; Williamson, I. (Conference)

  Exploring accounts of joint working between Speech and Language Therapists and Stroke Association Communication Support Coordinators Introduction Both Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and Stroke Association ...
• Using every day client and advocate clinical interviews to gather outcome measurements – a mixed methods framework 

  Bixley, Morag ; Williamson, I. ; Scase, M. O. (Conference)

  Abstract introduction Aphasia is a multimodality language difficulty experienced by people who have a left sided stroke. Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) who work with People with Aphasia (PWA) often provide word ...
• Studying the presence of Cyclospora and Cystoisospora in urban parks from Leicester, UK. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Izquierdo, F. ; Anjum, U. (Conference)

  Cyclospora cayetanensis and Cystoisospora belli (formerly known as Isospora belli) are emerging coccidian parasites that can spread by ingesting contaminated food or water. Despite their presence is more common in tropical ...
• How to use trichrome staining for environmental surveillance of protozoan human parasites 

  Anjum, U. ; Izquierdo, F. ; Magnet, A. ; Pena-Fernandez, A. (Article)

  Environmental contamination by protozoan intestinal human parasites has become a significant global threat due to increasing globalisation, climate change and population increase globally. In this communication, we describe ...

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