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Mephedrone use and associated adverse effects in school and college/university students before the UK legislation change by Dargan, P.I., Albert, S., Wood, D.M.

“…Background: Mephedrone is a synthetic cathinone that is commonly used as a recreational drug among those who attend nightclubs. There have been increasing…”
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Genomics of cold adaptations in the Antarctic notothenioid fish radiation by Bista, Iliana, Wood, Jonathan M. D., Desvignes, Thomas, McCarthy, Shane A., Matschiner, Michael, Ning, Zemin, Tracey, Alan, Torrance, James, Sims, Ying, Chow, William, Smith, Michelle, Oliver, Karen, Haggerty, Leanne, Salzburger, Walter, Postlethwait, John H., Howe, Kerstin, Clark, Melody S., William Detrich, H., Christina Cheng, C.-H., Miska, Eric A., Durbin, Richard

“…Numerous novel adaptations characterise the radiation of notothenioids, the dominant fish group in the freezing seas of the Southern Ocean. To improve…”
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The genome of Litomosoides sigmodontis illuminates the origins of Y chromosomes in filarial nematodes by Stevens, Lewis, Kieninger, Manuela, Chan, Brian, Wood, Jonathan M D, Gonzalez de la Rosa, Pablo, Allen, Judith, Blaxter, Mark

“…Heteromorphic sex chromosomes are usually thought to have originated from a pair of autosomes that acquired a sex-determining locus and subsequently stopped…”
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Temporal genomics in Hawaiian crickets reveals compensatory intragenomic coadaptation during adaptive evolution by Zhang, Xiao, Blaxter, Mark, Wood, Jonathan M. D., Tracey, Alan, McCarthy, Shane, Thorpe, Peter, Rayner, Jack G., Zhang, Shangzhe, Sikkink, Kirstin L., Balenger, Susan L., Bailey, Nathan W.

“…Theory predicts that compensatory genetic changes reduce negative indirect effects of selected variants during adaptive evolution, but evidence is scarce…”
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Limited use of novel psychoactive substances in South London nightclubs by WOOD, D. M, HUNTER, L, MEASHAM, F, DARGAN, P. I

“…There has been significant media interest in the use of novel psychoactive substances (also known as 'legal highs') and reports in the medical literature of…”
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Misuse of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in the UK by Kapil, V., Green, J. L., Lait, C. Le, Wood, D. M., Dargan, P. I.

“…Benzodiazepines and Z-drugs are commonly prescribed for insomnia and anxiety syndromes and there is increasing concern regarding their misuse. Using an…”
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Purchasing ‘legal highs’ on the Internet—is there consistency in what you get? by Davies, S., Wood, D.M., Smith, G., Button, J., Ramsey, J., Archer, R., Holt, D.W., Dargan, P.I.

“…Background: The supply of recreational drugs has changed and users increasingly buy ‘legal highs’ over the Internet. Use of these is common and there is a…”
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Comprehensive microRNA profiling in acetaminophen toxicity identifies novel circulating biomarkers for human liver and kidney injury by Vliegenthart, A. D. B., Shaffer, J. M., Clarke, J. I., Peeters, L. E. J., Caporali, A., Bateman, D. N., Wood, D. M., Dargan, P. I., Craig, D. G., Moore, J. K., Thompson, A. I., Henderson, N. C., Webb, D. J., Sharkey, J., Antoine, D. J., Park, B. K., Bailey, M. A., Lader, E., Simpson, K. J., Dear, J. W.

“…Our objective was to identify microRNA (miRNA) biomarkers of drug-induced liver and kidney injury by profiling the circulating miRNome in patients with…”
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Hyperglycaemia is associated with poor outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Baker, E H, Janaway, C H, Philips, B J, Brennan, A L, Baines, D L, Wood, D M, Jones, P W

“…Background: Hyperglycaemia is associated with poor outcomes from pneumonia, myocardial infarction and stroke, but the effect of blood glucose on outcomes from…”
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The IAEA handbook on radionuclide transfer to wildlife by Howard, B.J., Beresford, N.A., Copplestone, D., Telleria, D., Proehl, G., Fesenko, S., Jeffree, R.A., Yankovich, T.L., Brown, J.E., Higley, K., Johansen, M.P., Mulye, H., Vandenhove, H., Gashchak, S., Wood, M.D., Takata, H., Andersson, P., Dale, P., Ryan, J., Bollhöfer, A., Doering, C., Barnett, C.L., Wells, C.

“…An IAEA handbook presenting transfer parameter values for wildlife has recently been produced. Concentration ratios (CRwo-media) between the whole organism…”
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Circulating acetaminophen metabolites are toxicokinetic biomarkers of acute liver injury by Vliegenthart, ADB, Kimmitt, RA, Seymour, JH, Homer, NZ, Clarke, JI, Eddleston, M, Gray, A, Wood, DM, Dargan, PI, Cooper, JG, Antoine, DJ, Webb, DJ, Lewis, SC, Bateman, DN, Dear, JW

“…Acetaminophen (paracetamol‐APAP) is the most common cause of drug‐induced liver injury in the Western world. Reactive metabolite production by cytochrome P450…”
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Antibiotic strategies for eradicating Pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis by Wood, D M, Smyth, A R

“…Lower respiratory tract infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) occurs in most people with cystic fibrosis. Once chronic infection is…”
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Buying ‘legal’ recreational drugs does not mean that you are not breaking the law by Ramsey, J., Dargan, P.I., Smyllie, M., Davies, S., Button, J., Holt, D.W., Wood, D.M.

“…Background: Recreational drug use in the UK is common; sources of recreational drugs are changing, with increasing purchase of legal highs from the Internet…”
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Assessing doses to terrestrial wildlife at a radioactive waste disposal site: Inter-comparison of modelling approaches by Johansen, M.P., Barnett, C.L., Beresford, N.A., Brown, J.E., Černe, M., Howard, B.J., Kamboj, S., Keum, D.-K., Smodiš, B., Twining, J.R., Vandenhove, H., Vives i Batlle, J., Wood, M.D., Yu, C.

“…Radiological doses to terrestrial wildlife were examined in this model inter-comparison study that emphasised factors causing variability in dose estimation…”
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Chromosome level genome assembly of the Etruscan shrew Suncus etruscus by Bukhman, Yury V., Meyer, Susanne, Chu, Li-Fang, Abueg, Linelle, Antosiewicz-Bourget, Jessica, Balacco, Jennifer, Brecht, Michael, Dinatale, Erica, Fedrigo, Olivier, Formenti, Giulio, Fungtammasan, Arkarachai, Giri, Swagarika Jaharlal, Hiller, Michael, Howe, Kerstin, Kihara, Daisuke, Mamott, Daniel, Mountcastle, Jacquelyn, Pelan, Sarah, Rabbani, Keon, Sims, Ying, Tracey, Alan, Wood, Jonathan M. D., Jarvis, Erich D., Thomson, James A., Chaisson, Mark J. P., Stewart, Ron

“…Suncus etruscus is one of the world’s smallest mammals, with an average body mass of about 2 grams. The Etruscan shrew’s small body is accompanied by a very…”
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Characterizing metabolites and potential metabolic pathways for the novel psychoactive substance methoxetamine by Menzies, E. L., Hudson, S. C., Dargan, P. I., Parkin, M. C., Wood, D. M., Kicman, A. T.

“…The classic approach of controlled volunteer studies to study drug metabolism is difficult or impossible to undertake for novel psychoactive substances (NPS),…”
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Demonstrating compliance with protection objectives for non-human biota within post-closure safety cases for radioactive waste repositories by Jackson, D., Smith, K., Wood, M.D.

“…Over recent years, a number of approaches have been developed that enable the calculation of dose rates to animals and plants following the release of…”
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Plutonium in wildlife and soils at the Maralinga legacy site: persistence over decadal time scales by Johansen, M.P., Child, D.P., Davis, E., Doering, C., Harrison, J.J., Hotchkis, M.A.C., Payne, T.E., Thiruvoth, S., Twining, J.R., Wood, M.D.

“…The mobility of plutonium (Pu) in soils, and its uptake into a range of wildlife, were examined using recent and ∼25 year old data from the Taranaki area of…”
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A high-quality, chromosome-level genome assembly of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens L.) by Generalovic, Tomas N, McCarthy, Shane A, Warren, Ian A, Wood, Jonathan M D, Torrance, James, Sims, Ying, Quail, Michael, Howe, Kerstin, Pipan, Miha, Durbin, Richard, Jiggins, Chris D

“…Hermetia illucens L. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) is an increasingly important species for bioconversion of organic material into…”
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A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles by Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D.

“…A major source of uncertainty in the estimation of radiation dose to wildlife is the prediction of internal radionuclide activity concentrations. Allometric…”
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