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Vasoconstrictor and vasodilator responses to tryptamine of rat‐isolated perfused mesentery: comparison with tyramine and β‐phenylethylamine by Anwar, MA, Ford, WR, Broadley, KJ, Herbert, AA

“…BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Tryptamine increases blood pressure by vasoconstriction, but little is known about its actions on the mesentery, in particular the…”
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Bronchoprotection in conscious guinea pigs by budesonide and the NO‐donating analogue, TPI 1020, alone and combined with tiotropium or formoterol by Turner, DL, Ferrari, N, Ford, WR, Kidd, EJ, Nevin, B, Paquet, L, Renzi, P, Broadley, KJ

“…BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Inhaled corticosteroids, anticholinergics and β2‐adrenoceptor agonists are frequently combined for treating chronic respiratory…”
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Development and exploitation of a controlled vocabulary in support of climate modelling by Moine, M.-P, Valcke, S, Lawrence, B. N, Pascoe, C, Ford, R. W, Alias, A, Balaji, V, Bentley, P, Devine, G, Callaghan, S. A, Guilyardi, E

“…There are three key components for developing a metadata system: a container structure laying out the key semantic issues of interest and their relationships;…”
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Describing Earth system simulations with the Metafor CIM by Lawrence, B. N, Balaji, V, Bentley, P, Callaghan, S, DeLuca, C, Denvil, S, Devine, G, Elkington, M, Ford, R. W, Guilyardi, E, Lautenschlager, M, Morgan, M, Moine, M.-P, Murphy, S, Pascoe, C, Ramthun, H, Slavin, P, Steenman-Clark, L, Toussaint, F, Treshansky, A, Valcke, S

“…The Metafor project has developed a common information model (CIM) using the ISO19100 series formalism to describe numerical experiments carried out by the…”
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LPS exacerbates functional and inflammatory responses to ovalbumin and decreases sensitivity to inhaled fluticasone propionate in a guinea pig model of asthma by Lowe, A P P, Thomas, R S, Nials, A T, Kidd, E J, Broadley, K J, Ford, W R

“…Background and Purpose Asthma exacerbations contribute to corticosteroid insensitivity. LPS is ubiquitous in the environment. It causes bronchoconstriction and…”
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Coupling technologies for Earth System Modelling by Valcke, S., Balaji, V., Craig, A., DeLuca, C., Dunlap, R., Ford, R. W., Jacob, R., Larson, J., O'Kuinghttons, R., Riley, G. D., Vertenstein, M.

“…This paper presents a review of the software currently used in climate modelling in general and in CMIP5 in particular to couple the numerical codes…”
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Differences between the Vasorelaxant Activity of Adenosine-receptor Agonists on Guinea-pig Isolated Aorta Precontracted with Noradrenaline or Phenylephrine by FORD, WILLIAM R., MADDOCK, HELEN L., BUCKINGHAM, ROBIN E., BROADLEY, KENNETH J.

“…The relaxant effect of adenosine and 5′‐(N‐ethylcarboxamido)adenosine (NECA) against α‐adrenoceptor‐mediated contractile tone in guinea‐pig isolated aortic…”
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Effect of the novel angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist L-158,809 on acute infarct expansion and acute anterior myocardial infarction in the dog by Ford, W R, Khan, M I, Jugdutt, B I

“…To assess the effect of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1-R) antagonist L-158,809 on acute infarct expansion and left ventricular (LV) function during…”
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Mechanisms of anandamide‐induced vasorelaxation in rat isolated coronary arteries by White, Richard, Vanessa Ho, W ‐S, Bottrill, Fiona E, Ford, William R, Hiley, C Robin

“…The cannabinoid arachidonyl ethanolamide (anandamide) caused concentration‐dependent relaxation of 5‐HT‐precontracted, myograph‐mounted, segments of rat left…”
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Opposite effects of angiotensin AT1 and AT2 receptor antagonists on recovery of mechanical function after ischemia-reperfusion in isolated working rat hearts by FORD, W. R, CLANACHAN, A. S, JUGDUTT, B. I

“…Angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptor antagonists, when given over the long term, reduce the deleterious consequences of ischemia-reperfusion injury. Whether…”
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LFRic: Meeting the challenges of scalability and performance portability in Weather and Climate models by Adams, S.V., Ford, R.W., Hambley, M., Hobson, J.M., Kavčič, I., Maynard, C.M., Melvin, T., Müller, E.H., Mullerworth, S., Porter, A.R., Rezny, M., Shipway, B.J., Wong, R.

“…This paper describes LFRic: the new weather and climate modelling system being developed by the UK Met Office to replace the existing Unified Model in…”
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GCF: a general coupling framework by Ford, R. W., Riley, G. D., Bane, M. K., Armstrong, C. W., Freeman, T. L.

“…Coupled modelling is increasingly necessary to make progress in understanding the science of complex physical phenomena and a number of bespoke (‘custom’)…”
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Potassium channel blockade of atrial negative inotropic responses to P1-purinoceptor and muscarinic receptor agonists and to cromakalim by Urquhart, R A, Ford, W R, Broadley, K J

“…The negative inotropic responses of guinea pig isolated left atria to the P1-receptor agonists adenosine and L-N6-phenylisopropyladenosine (L-PIA), the…”
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HIV and hepatitis B seroprevalence in trauma patients in North Central Nigeria by Ugwu, B T, Thacher, T D, Imade, G E, Sagay, A S, Isamade, E I, Ford, R W

“…With the high prevalence rate of HIV and Hepatitis B virus infections in sub-Saharan Africa, infected surgical patients, especially those with fresh open…”
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Angiotensin II reduces infarct size and has no effect on post‐ischaemic contractile dysfunction in isolated rat hearts by Ford, William R, Clanachan, Alexander S, Robin Hiley, C, Jugdutt, Bodh I

“…In order to test the hypothesis that angiotensin II exacerbates myocardial ischaemia‐reperfusion (IR) injury, we examined the effects of graded angiotension II…”
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Effects of K+-channel blockers on A1-adenosine receptor-mediated negative inotropy and chronotropy of guinea-pig isolated left and right atria by Ford, William R., Broadley, Kenneth J.

“…— Adenosine has previously been shown to stimulate K+‐efflux and to block L‐type calcium channels in atrial myocytes. The aim of the present study was to…”
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Emergency airway management (2) by Ford, R W

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Portable multi- and many-core performance for finite-difference or finite-element codes – application to the free-surface component of NEMO (NEMOLite2D 1.0) by Porter, Andrew R, Appleyard, Jeremy, Ashworth, Mike, Ford, Rupert W, Holt, Jason, Liu, Hedong, Riley, Graham D

“…We present an approach which we call PSyKAl that is designed to achieve portable performance for parallel finite-difference, finite-volume, and finite-element…”
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Producing Policy-relevant Science by Enhancing Robustness and Model Integration for the Assessment of Global Environmental Change by Warren, R.F., Edwards, N.R., Babonneau, F., Bacon, P.M., Dietrich, J.P., Ford, R.W., Garthwaite, P., Gerten, D., Goswami, S., Haurie, A., Hiscock, K., Holden, P.B., Hyde, M.R., Joshi, S.R., Kanudia, A., Labriet, M., Leimbach, M., Oyebamiji, O.K., Osborn, T., Pizzileo, B., Popp, A., Price, J., Riley, G.D., Schaphoff, S., Slavin, P., Vielle, M., Wallace, C.

“…We use the flexible model coupling technology known as the bespoke framework generator to link established existing modules representing dynamics in the global…”
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Coupling integrated Earth System Model components with BFG2 by Armstrong, C. W., Ford, R. W., Riley, G. D.

“…GENIE is a suite of modular Earth System Model components coupled in a variety of configurations used to investigate climate phenomena. As part of the GENIEfy…”
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