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Age-related decline in the resistance of mice to bacterial infection and in LPS/TLR4 pathway-dependent neutrophil responses
Host defense against bacterial and fungal infections diminishes with age. In humans, impaired neutrophil responses are thought to …
Kirsti Hornigold, Julia Y. Chu, Stephen A. Chetwynd, Polly A. Machin, Laraine Crossland, Chiara Pantarelli, Karen E. Anderson, Phillip T. Hawkins, Anne Segonds-Pichon, David Oxley, Heidi C. E. Welch
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Optimizing metastatic-cascade-dependent Rac1 targeting in breast cancer: Guidance using optical window intravital FRET imaging
Assessing drug response within live native tissue provides increased fidelity with regards to optimizing efficacy while minimizing …
Alessia Floerchinger, Kendelle J. Murphy, Sharissa L. Latham, Sean C. Warren, Andrew T. McCulloch, Young-Kyung Lee, Janett Stoehr, Pauline Mélénec, Cris S. Guaman, Xanthe L. Metcalf, Victoria Lee, Anaiis Zaratzian, Andrew Da Silva, Michael Tayao, Sonia Rolo, Monica Phimmachanh, Ghazal Sultani, Laura McDonald, Susan M. Mason, Nicola Ferrari, Lisa M. Ooms, Anna-Karin E. Johnsson, Heather J. Spence, Michael F. Olson, Laura M. Machesky, Owen J. Sansom, Jennifer P. Morton, Christina A. Mitchell, Michael S. Samuel, David R. Croucher, Heidi C. E. Welch, Karen Blyth, C. Elizabeth Caldon, David Herrmann, Kurt I. Anderson, Paul Timpson, Max Nobis
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Rho Family GTPases and Rho GEFs in Glucose Homeostasis
Dysregulation of glucose homeostasis leading to metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes is the cause of an increasing world health …
Polly A. Machin, Elpida Tsonou, David C. Hornigold, Heidi C. E. Welch
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Rac-GTPases and Rac-GEFs in neutrophil adhesion, migration and recruitment
Rac-GTPases and their Rac-GEF activators play important roles in the recruitment and host defence functions of neutrophils. These …
Chiara Pantarelli, Heidi C. E. Welch
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Removing physiological motion from intravital and clinical functional imaging data
Intravital microscopy can provide unique insights into the function of biological processes in a native context. However, physiological …
Sean C. Warren, Max Nobis, Astrid Magenau, Yousuf H. Mohammed, David Herrmann, Imogen Moran, Claire Vennin, James Rw Conway, Pauline Mélénec, Thomas R. Cox, Yingxiao Wang, Jennifer P. Morton, Heidi CE Welch, Douglas Strathdee, Kurt I. Anderson, Tri Giang Phan, Michael S. Roberts, Paul Timpson
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P-Rex1 cooperates with PDGFRβ to drive cellular migration in 3D microenvironments
Expression of the Rac-guanine nucleotide exchange factor (RacGEF), P-Rex1 is a key determinant of progression to metastasis in a number …
Andrew D. Campbell, Samuel Lawn, Lynn C. McGarry, Heidi C. Welch, Bradford W. Ozanne, Jim C. Norman
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P-Rex1 is required for efficient melanoblast migration and melanoma metastasis
Metastases are the major cause of death from melanoma, a skin cancer that has the fastest rising incidence of any malignancy in the …
Colin R. Lindsay, Samuel Lawn, Andrew D. Campbell, William J. Faller, Florian Rambow, Richard L. Mort, Paul Timpson, Ang Li, Patrizia Cammareri, Rachel A. Ridgway, Jennifer P. Morton, Brendan Doyle, Shauna Hegarty, Mairin Rafferty, Ian G. Murphy, Enda W. McDermott, Kieran Sheahan, Katherine Pedone, Alexander J. Finn, Pamela A. Groben, Nancy E. Thomas, Honglin Hao, Craig Carson, Jim C. Norman, Laura M. Machesky, William M. Gallagher, Ian J. Jackson, Leon Van Kempen, Friedrich Beermann, Channing Der, Lionel Larue, Heidi C. Welch, Brad W. Ozanne, Owen J. Sansom
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Ca2+-dependent monomer and dimer formation switches CAPRI Protein between Ras GTPase-activating protein (GAP) and RapGAP activities
CAPRI is a member of the GAP1 family of GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) for small G proteins. It is known to function as an amplitude …
Yanfeng Dai, Simon A. Walker, Edwin De Vet, Simon Cook, Heidi C. E. Welch, Peter J. Lockyer
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Membrane translocation of P-Rex1 is mediated by G protein betagamma subunits and phosphoinositide 3-kinase
P-Rex1 is a guanine-nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for the small GTPase Rac that is directly activated by the betagamma subunits of …
Mark A. Barber, Sarah Donald, Sylvia Thelen, Karen E. Anderson, Marcus Thelen, Heidi C. E. Welch
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PI3K and RAC signalling in leukocyte and cancer cell migration
Leukocytes and amoeboid-stage cancer cells migrate in a similar manner. Key signalling molecules regulating leukocyte and cancer cell …
Mark A. Barber, Heidi C. E. Welch
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