M. De Donato, R. A. Brenneman, D. M. Stelly, J. E. Womack, J. F. Taylor
A methodological approach for the construction of a radiation hybrid map of bovine chromosome 5
Ramos, A., Amaral, A.J., Kerstens, H.H.D., Bendixen, C., Hedegaard, J., Rohrer, G., ...
Recent developments in sequencing technology have allowed the generation of millions of short read sequences in a fast and inexpensive way. This enables the cost effective large scale identification...
Fast optimal CMB power spectrum estimation with Hamiltonian sampling (2007)
Taylor, J. F., Ashdown, M. A. J., Hobson, M. P.
We present a method for fast optimal estimation of the temperature angular power spectrum from observations of the cosmic microwave background. We employ a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampler to...
Schnabel, R. D, Murdoch, B. M, Aerts, J, Gill, C. A, ...
High-density whole-genome maps are essential for ordering genes or markers and aid in the assembly of genome sequence. To increase the density of markers on the bovine radiation hybrid map, and hence...
LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS, (2005)
Therriault, D. G., Taylor, J. F.
Interaction of human serum albumin with phosphatidylserine was studied by turbidimetric methods. It was found that human serum albumin will bind phosphatikylserine. Analysis by the law of mass action...
De Donato,M., Brenneman,R.A., Stelly,D.M., Womack,J.E., Taylor,J.F.
A bovine 5,000 rad WG-RH panel was used to construct an RH map of bovine chromosome 5 (BTA5). Twenty-one microsatellites and thirteen genes were scored in the panel using PAGE and radioactive...
Taylor,J. F., Terry,J. L., Ekstrom,M. E., West,J. E.
Using the split-dose technique, recovery was measured in minature swine exposed to whole-body 60Co gamma radiation delivered at 34-35 rads/minute. The initial conditioning dose (150 rads) was...
Since the end of World War II it has been the consistent policy of the United States to utilize various forms of foreign assistance as one method of furthering U.S. national objectives in foreign...
The incidence and distribution of Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease in Liverpool, 1982-95 (2001)
Margetts, B.M., Perry, C.A., Taylor, J.F., Dangerfield, P.H.
AIMS To determine the incidence and distribution of Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease in Liverpool, in the period 1982-95. METHODS Examination of information in a register, analysing the patients'...
Construction and characterizaton of an ovine bacterial artificial chromosome library (1999)
Gill, C. A., Davis, S. K., Taylor, J. F., Cockett, N. E., Bottema, C. D. K.
Construction and characterizaton of an ovine bacterial artificial chromosome library (1999)
Gill, C. A., Davis, S. K., Taylor, J. F., Cockett, N. E., Bottema, C. D. K.
The Polled Locus Maps to BTA1 in a Bos indicus x Bos taurus Cross (1996)
Brenneman, R. A., Davis, S. K., Sanders, J. O., Burns, B. M., Wheeler, T. C., Turner, J. W., ...
Two hundred and nine reciprocal back-cross and F2 progeny produced by embryo transfer from Angus (Bos taurus) and Brahman (Bos indicus) parents and their 60 parents and grandparents were utilized to...
Ventral motor neuron alterations in rat spinal cord after chronic exercise (1977)
Gilliam, Thomas B., Roy, R. R., Taylor, J. F., Heusner, W. W., Huss, W. D.
The observed differences in the soma and nuclear diameters reflect chronic changes specific to each exercise regimen used.
A method for determining cross-measurements of motor neurons (1976)
Gilliam, Thomas B., Taylor, J. F.
This new triangulation technique allows the investigator to make cross-measurements of individual cells quickly and easily with a high degree of accuracy and reliability.
Catalytic reactions of hydrocarbons on metals and alloy films. (1976)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University College Dublin, 1976.
Tropical myositis: ultrastructural studies.
Taylor, J F, Fluck, D, Fluck, D
Specimens of muscle were obtained from non-suppurating lesions of nine patients with tropical myositis. When examined in an electron microscope, these revealed patchy myocytolysis with loss of band...
Influence of mouse age and erythrocyte age on glutathione metabolism.
Abraham, E C, Taylor, J F, Lang, C A
In order to determine whether the biological age of a mouse influences erythrocyte metabolism and erythrocyte aging in vivo, blood samples were collected from male C57/BL6J mice of different...
Alternative splicing for the alpha1 subunit of soluble guanylate cyclase.
Ritter, D, Taylor, J F, Hoffmann, J W, Carnaghi, L, Giddings, S J, Zakeri, H, ...
Soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), the receptor for nitric oxide, is a heterodimer consisting of alpha and beta subunits. We investigated the mRNA species for the alpha(1) subunit in human brain,...
Perthes' disease of the hip in Liverpool.
Hall, A J, Barker, D J, Dangerfield, P H, Taylor, J F
A survey of Perthes' disease of the hip in three regions of England showed a higher incidence in the Mersey region compared with Trent or Wessex. To explore this further a case register was set up in...
Genotypic Diversity: Estimation and Prediction in Samples
Stoddart, J. A., Taylor, J. F.
We show that a commonly used statistic of genotypic diversity can be used to reflect one form of deviation from panmixia, viz. clonal reproduction, by comparing observed and predicted sample...
Taylor, J. F., Abbitt, B., Walter, J. P., Davis, S. K., Jaques, J. T., Ochoa, R. F.
β-Mannosidosis is a lethal lysosomal storage disease inherited as an autosomal recessive in man, cattle and goats. Laboratory assay data of plasma β-mannosidase activity represent a mixture of...
The role of periosteal tension in the growth of long bones.
Vertical or circumferential periosteal incisions were made over one tibia of anaesthetized rats, supplemented by localized periosteal stripping in two of the experimental groups. The rats were killed...
The response of the rat tibial growth plates to distal periosteal division.
Taylor, J F, Warrell, E, Evans, R A
The growth plate chondrocytes have been examined in the tibiae of normal immature rats and in similar rats after circumferential distal periosteal release. In control rats, calculation of the growth...
Immunological Studies in Kaposi's Sarcoma in Uganda
Master, S. P., Taylor, J. F., Kyalwazi, S. K., Ziegler, J. L.
An evaluation of humoral and cellular immune mechanisms was performed on patients with Kaposi's sarcoma in Uganda. Antibody responses and immunoglobulin levels were normal in all patients studied....
Tropical myositis: ultrastructural studies.
Taylor, J F, Fluck, D, Fluck, D
Specimens of muscle were obtained from non-suppurating lesions of nine patients with tropical myositis. When examined in an electron microscope, these revealed patchy myocytolysis with loss of band...
Influence of mouse age and erythrocyte age on glutathione metabolism.
Abraham, E C, Taylor, J F, Lang, C A
In order to determine whether the biological age of a mouse influences erythrocyte metabolism and erythrocyte aging in vivo, blood samples were collected from male C57/BL6J mice of different...
Genotypic Diversity: Estimation and Prediction in Samples
Stoddart, J. A., Taylor, J. F.
We show that a commonly used statistic of genotypic diversity can be used to reflect one form of deviation from panmixia, viz. clonal reproduction, by comparing observed and predicted sample...
Taylor, J. F., Abbitt, B., Walter, J. P., Davis, S. K., Jaques, J. T., Ochoa, R. F.
β-Mannosidosis is a lethal lysosomal storage disease inherited as an autosomal recessive in man, cattle and goats. Laboratory assay data of plasma β-mannosidase activity represent a mixture of...
Alternative splicing for the alpha1 subunit of soluble guanylate cyclase.
Ritter, D, Taylor, J F, Hoffmann, J W, Carnaghi, L, Giddings, S J, Zakeri, H, ...
Soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), the receptor for nitric oxide, is a heterodimer consisting of alpha and beta subunits. We investigated the mRNA species for the alpha(1) subunit in human brain,...
The role of periosteal tension in the growth of long bones.
Vertical or circumferential periosteal incisions were made over one tibia of anaesthetized rats, supplemented by localized periosteal stripping in two of the experimental groups. The rats were killed...
The response of the rat tibial growth plates to distal periosteal division.
Taylor, J F, Warrell, E, Evans, R A
The growth plate chondrocytes have been examined in the tibiae of normal immature rats and in similar rats after circumferential distal periosteal release. In control rats, calculation of the growth...
Perthes' disease of the hip in Liverpool.
Hall, A J, Barker, D J, Dangerfield, P H, Taylor, J F
A survey of Perthes' disease of the hip in three regions of England showed a higher incidence in the Mersey region compared with Trent or Wessex. To explore this further a case register was set up in...
Immunological Studies in Kaposi's Sarcoma in Uganda
Master, S. P., Taylor, J. F., Kyalwazi, S. K., Ziegler, J. L.
An evaluation of humoral and cellular immune mechanisms was performed on patients with Kaposi's sarcoma in Uganda. Antibody responses and immunoglobulin levels were normal in all patients studied....
Smallhorn, J F, De Leval, M, Stark, J, Somerville, J, Taylor, J F, Anderson, R H, ...
Five patients with isolated clefts in the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve, unassociated with atrioventricular septal defects, are described. All had significant mitral regurgitation, with the...
Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary valve stenosis in infants and children.
Sullivan, I D, Robinson, P J, Macartney, F J, Taylor, J F, Rees, P G, Bull, C, ...
Pulmonary valve stenosis was relieved by balloon dilatation during cardiac catheterisation on 27 occasions in 23 infants and children aged 7 days to 12 years, median 31 months (three aged less than 2...
Byrne, J, Clarke, D, Taylor, J F, Macartney, F, De Leval, M, Stark, J
Twenty-two patients with transposition of the great arteries with or without ventricular septal defect and one with double outlet right ventricle, d-malposition, and severe pulmonary vascular...
Macartney, F J, Rees, P G, Daly, K, Piccoli, G P, Taylor, J F, De Leval, M R, ...
Preoperative distinction between common atrioventricular orifice and ostium primum atrial septal defect may be difficult. To improve diagnostic accuracy, the right and left ventricle angiocardiograms...
Deanfield, J E, Leanage, R, Stroobant, J, Chrispin, A R, Taylor, J F, Macartney, F J
Determination of atrial situs is of cardinal importance in the analysis of complex congenital heart lesions, and is best predicted from bronchial situs. Previous methods for assessing bronchial...
Aortic atresia occurring with complete transposition of great arteries.
McGarry, K M, Taylor, J F, Macartney, F J
Aortic atresia occurring with complete transposition of the great arteries (ventriculoarterial discordance) has not previously been reported. A patient with this condition is described, who is alive...
Moulton, A L, De Leval, M R, Macartney, F J, Taylor, J F, Stark, J
Forty-one children with transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction underwent a Rastelli operation between 1971 and 1978. A...
Haworth, S G, Rees, P G, Taylor, J F, Macartney, F J, De Leval, M, Stark, J
In nine patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries, the effect of a systemic-pulmonary anastomosis on the lung was studied by comparison...
Formalin infiltration of ductus arteriosus in cyanotic congenital heart disease.
Deanfield, J E, Rees, P G, Bull, C M, De Leval, M, Stark, J, Macartney, F J, ...
Formalin infiltration of the ductus arteriosus was performed in 13 neonates with pulmonary atresia (three with ventricular septal defect, two with tricuspid atresia, and eight with intact ventricular...
Duplicate sources of pulmonary blood supply in pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect.
Fäller, K, Haworth, S G, Taylor, J F, Macartney, F J
In pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries, there is a tendency for each collateral artery to be the sole supply to a particular region of lung....
Surgical management of coarctation of aorta with ventricular septal defect. Multivariate analysis.
Leanage, R, Taylor, J F, De Leval, M R, Stark, J, Macartney, F J
Optimal management of coarctation with ventricular septal defect is difficult. Should one treat the coarctation, the ventricular septal defect, or both? This dilemma was investigated by reviewing 39...
Multiple and single ventricular septal defect. A clinical and haemodynamic comparison.
Fox, K M, Patel, R G, Graham, G R, Taylor, J F, Stark, J, De Leval, M R, ...
Haemodynamics after Mustard's operation for transposition of the great arteries.
Cardiac catheterization data from 54 investigations after Mustard's procedure were examined to study the influence of the operation on pressure events in the atria, great veins, and pulmonary...
Singh, A K, Stark, J, Taylor, J F
Progressive cyanosis after banding of the pulmonary artery in infancy occurred in a child with transposition of the great arteries and a ventricular septal defect, and a Blalock-Taussig shunt...
Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in infancy.
Clarke, D R, Stark, J, De Leval, M, Pincott, J R, Taylor, J F
Between May 1971 and December 1975, 39 infants had operations for correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Fourteen of the 39 patients were under 1 month of age at the time of...
Patel, R, Fox, K, Dawson, J, Taylor, J F, Graham, G R
Four pairs of thoracopagus twins have been described. Cardiac catheterisation was performed in all the cases. Angiocardiographic and necropsy findings suggest that the most common abnormality was...
McNicholas, K, De Leval, M, Stark, J, Taylor, J F, Macartney, F J
Results of primary closure of ventricular septal defects are compared with those of two-stage repair, with banding of the pulmonary artery followed by debanding and closure. Apart from the high...
Celermajer, D S, Robinson, J T, Taylor, J F
BACKGROUND--Vascular access for cardiac catheterisation of children and young adults who have had previous catheter procedures is often difficult. OBJECTIVE--To assess the influence of age at and...
Balloon dilatation of the aortic valve for congenital aortic stenosis in childhood.
Sullivan, I D, Wren, C, Bain, H, Hunter, S, Rees, P G, Taylor, J F, ...
Balloon dilatation of the aortic valve was attempted in 34 consecutive children aged 16 months to 17 years (median 7 years), weight range 9-60 (median 22) kg. Previous surgical valvotomy had been...
Karl, T, Wensley, D, Stark, J, De Leval, M, Rees, P, Taylor, J F
The diagnostic and prognostic features of 44 episodes of infective endocarditis in 42 children with congenital heart disease were reviewed. Endocarditis occurred in 18 patients who had not had...
Leber's congenital amaurosis--a new syndrome with a cardiomyopathy.
Russell-Eggitt, I M, Taylor, D S, Clayton, P T, Garner, A, Kriss, A, Taylor, J F
Seven members of four families had nystagmus noted by 4 months of age, poor vision, photophobia, and a markedly reduced or absent electroretinogram. Six of these patients had a life threatening...
McKay, S D, Schnabel, R D, Murdoch, B M, Aerts, J, Gill, C A, Gao, C, ...
High-density whole-genome maps are essential for ordering genes or markers and aid in the assembly of genome sequence. To increase the density of markers on the bovine radiation hybrid map, and hence...
Arch, J. R., Buckle, D. R., Bumstead, J., Clarke, G. D., Taylor, J. F., Taylor, S. G.
1. The potential of the potassium channel activator, cromakalim (BRL 34915), as a bronchodilator has been evaluated in guinea-pig models in comparison with nifedipine. Some effects of the compounds...
Bowring, N. E., Arch, J. R., Buckle, D. R., Taylor, J. F.
1. BRL 55834, a novel potassium channel activator, has been compared with levcromakalim (BRL 38227) for its relaxant effects in vivo on the airways and vasculature of the guinea-pig and rat. 2. When...
Mechanical inefficiency of the thoracic cage in scoliosis.
Jones, R S, Kennedy, J D, Hasham, F, Owen, R, Taylor, J F
The mechanism of impairment of ventilatory function in idiopathic scoliosis has been studied in 23 children, all girls, and compared with 27 normal children and 24 normal young adult females. The...
Lead in human blood and in the environment near a battery factory
Elwood, W. J., Clayton, B. E., Cox, R. A., Delves, H. T., King, E., Malcolm, D., ...
Samples of blood, air, dust, soil, vegetation, and tap water were examined between 1973 and 1975 to determine whether a large battery factory (with a smelter) was contributing to lead in the...
Savage, J M, Dillon, M J, Taylor, J F
Both systolic and diastolic pressures can be measured in children with the mercury sphygmomanometer, the Arteriosonde and the Infrasonde. Estimates made blindly with these instruments were compared...
Correction of isolated secundum atrial septal defect in infancy.
Bull, C, Deanfield, J, De Leval, M, Stark, J, Taylor, J F, Macartney, F J
Although it is a common congenital cardiac lesion, secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) rarely presents in infancy. Its natural history in the first two decades of life is generally benign. Reports of...
Congenital heart disease in the neonate: results of surgical treatment.
Bove, E L, Bull, C, Stark, J, De Leval, M, Macartney, F J, Taylor, J F
All 212 neonates undergoing cardiac surgery at this hospital during the 5-year period from 1976 to 1980 inclusive were reviewed. Forty required open heart surgery with 23 (57%) deaths. One hundred...
Linkage disequilibrium and signatures of selection on chromosomes 19 and 29 in beef and dairy cattle
Prasad, A, Schnabel, R D, McKay, S D, Murdoch, B, Stothard, P, Kolbehdari, D, ...
The objective of this study was to quantify the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) on bovine chromosomes 19 and 29 and to study the pattern of selection signatures in beef and dairy breeds (Angus...
Kaposi's Sarcoma in Uganda: Geographic and Ethnic Distribution
Taylor, J. F., Smith, P. G., Bull, Diana, Pike, M. C.
Over the quinquennium 1964-68 the crude annual incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma in Uganda per million of the population was 7·9 overall, 14·6 for males and 1·1 for females. Statistical analysis...
Delayed Cutaneous Hypersensitivity Reactions in Patients With Kaposi's Sarcoma
Defects in cellular immunocompetence have been sought in 25 patients with Kaposi's sarcoma. Skin tests with recall antigens, and PHA lymphocyte stimulation in vitro showed that efferent delayed...
Growth kinetics of Kaposi's sacroma.
Taylor, J. F., Iversen, O. H., Bjerknes, R.
This is a study of cell kinetics in nodular and florid (fungating) Kaposi's sarcomas. One or more tumours from 9 patients were examined at the Uganda Cancer Institute. The very variable clinical...