J. M. Sloan

Publication List Details

Period

1998 - 9999

Number

64

Co-Authors

Characterization of Three Aramid Fibers: Kevlar, Twaron, and Technora. (9999)

Lin, S. S., Desper, C. R., Macaione, D. P., Bulpett, D. A., Sloan, J. M.

The exploitation of three aramid fibers, one from a domestic source and two from foreign origins, supported by the U.S. Army Materiel Command under the D650 Program had been carried out. The...

Direct Analysis of Heavily Loaded Carbon Black Filled Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Used in Tank Track Pads by FT-IR. (2002)

Sloan,J. M., Clements,J. P.

Infrared spectra have been obtained of a heavily loaded (50 per hundred) carbon black filled styrene-butadiene rubber using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FT-IT). Attenuated total...

Evaluation of the Epoxy System for the Repair of Fuel Tank M109. (1998)

Scher,R. E., Chow,L. M., Sloan,J. M.

The repair time to completely process and repair the fuel tank NSN 2910-00-937-9539, M109, has been found to take approximately 36 hours. production engineering requires a more productive method of...

Small bowel enterocyte abnormalities caused by methotrexate treatment in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia of childhood.

Gwavava, N J, Pinkerton, C R, Glasgow, J F, Sloan, J M, Bridges, J M

Jejunal biopsy specimens from 10 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on methotrexate treatment were compared with 10 from children being investigated for diarrhoea or failure to thrive. In...

Jejunal crypt cell abnormalities associated with methotrexate treatment in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Pinkerton, C R, Cameron, C H, Sloan, J M, Glasgow, J F, Gwevava, N J

Jejunal mucosal crypts were examined in jejunal biopsies from eight children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who had recently received methotrexate treatment. By comparison with biopsies from...

Relation between intragastric bile acid concentration and mucosal abnormality in the stomach after vagotomy and gastroenterostomy for duodenal ulcer.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Kennedy, T L

A high incidence of possible premalignant conditions of the gastric mucosa has been reported in the postoperative stomach and it has been suggested that bile plays a role in their pathogenesis. Fifty...

Relation between gastric histology and gastric juice pH and nitrite and N-nitroso compound concentrations in the stomach after surgery for duodenal ulcer.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Donaldson, J, Campbell, G, Kennedy, T L

Formation of N-nitroso compounds in gastric juice has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer in the stomach after operation. Gastric juice was aspirated from 85 subjects: 23 were controls, 51...

Herpes simplex lymphadenitis: a case report and review of the published work.

Lapsley, M, Kettle, P, Sloan, J M

Viral lymphadenitis may lead to a histological appearance that can simulate malignancy. The histological features of herpes simplex lymphadenitis have not previously been described in detail. We...

Oesophageal histology in reflux oesophagitis.

Collins, B J, Elliott, H, Sloan, J M, McFarland, R J, Love, A H

Multiple specimens taken at oesophageal suction biopsy were obtained from 56 patients, of whom 44 had symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux and 24 had endoscopic evidence of erosive oesophagitis....

Immunohistochemical staining of normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic adrenal cortex with a monoclonal antibody against alpha inhibin.

McCluggage, W G, Burton, J, Maxwell, P, Sloan, J M

AIMS: To investigate the immunohisto-chemical staining of normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic adrenal cortex with a monoclonal antibody against alpha inhibin. Also, to determine whether...

Malignant fibrothecomatous tumour of the ovary: diagnostic value of anti-inhibin immunostaining.

McCluggage, W G, Sloan, J M, Boyle, D D, Toner, P G

Malignant ovarian tumours of the fibrothecoma group are rare. The clinicopathological features of a case of ovarian malignant fibrothecoma in which there was metastatic disease in the small intestine...

Small intestinal ulceration secondary to carcinoid tumour arising in a Meckel's diverticulum.

McCluggage, W G, McConnell, L, Sloan, J M, Ellis, P K, Irwin, S T

A solitary small intestinal ulcer associated with a carcinoid tumour in a nearby Meckel's diverticulum was found in a 77 year old man presenting with massive rectal bleeding. Angiography and a...

A histological study of the effect of chronic gastritis on gastrin cell distribution in the human stomach.

Sloan, J M, Buchanan, K D, McFarland, R J, Titterington, P, Sandford, J C

To determine the effect of varying degrees of gastritis on the distribution of immuno-reactive gastrin cells 38 partial gastrectomy specimens have been studied. Routinely stained histological...

Histology of the postoperative stomach before and after diversion of bile.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Spencer, A, Kennedy, T L

Gastric biopsy specimens were taken in 33 patients before and after procedures to divert bile (construction of Roux loop in 19, closure of gastrojejunostomy in 14). Each biopsy specimen was assessed...

Changes in gastric mucosa after vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy for duodenal ulcer.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Kennedy, T L

Gastric mucosa was studied histologically in 141 patients. Eighty two had undergone vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy between 15 and 25 years previously for duodenal ulcer, and 59 control patients had a...

Small bowel enterocyte abnormalities caused by methotrexate treatment in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia of childhood.

Gwavava, N J, Pinkerton, C R, Glasgow, J F, Sloan, J M, Bridges, J M

Jejunal biopsy specimens from 10 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on methotrexate treatment were compared with 10 from children being investigated for diarrhoea or failure to thrive. In...

Jejunal crypt cell abnormalities associated with methotrexate treatment in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Pinkerton, C R, Cameron, C H, Sloan, J M, Glasgow, J F, Gwevava, N J

Jejunal mucosal crypts were examined in jejunal biopsies from eight children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who had recently received methotrexate treatment. By comparison with biopsies from...

Relation between intragastric bile acid concentration and mucosal abnormality in the stomach after vagotomy and gastroenterostomy for duodenal ulcer.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Kennedy, T L

A high incidence of possible premalignant conditions of the gastric mucosa has been reported in the postoperative stomach and it has been suggested that bile plays a role in their pathogenesis. Fifty...

Relation between gastric histology and gastric juice pH and nitrite and N-nitroso compound concentrations in the stomach after surgery for duodenal ulcer.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Donaldson, J, Campbell, G, Kennedy, T L

Formation of N-nitroso compounds in gastric juice has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer in the stomach after operation. Gastric juice was aspirated from 85 subjects: 23 were controls, 51...

Herpes simplex lymphadenitis: a case report and review of the published work.

Lapsley, M, Kettle, P, Sloan, J M

Viral lymphadenitis may lead to a histological appearance that can simulate malignancy. The histological features of herpes simplex lymphadenitis have not previously been described in detail. We...

Oesophageal histology in reflux oesophagitis.

Collins, B J, Elliott, H, Sloan, J M, McFarland, R J, Love, A H

Multiple specimens taken at oesophageal suction biopsy were obtained from 56 patients, of whom 44 had symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux and 24 had endoscopic evidence of erosive oesophagitis....

Immunohistochemical staining of normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic adrenal cortex with a monoclonal antibody against alpha inhibin.

McCluggage, W G, Burton, J, Maxwell, P, Sloan, J M

AIMS: To investigate the immunohisto-chemical staining of normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic adrenal cortex with a monoclonal antibody against alpha inhibin. Also, to determine whether...

Malignant fibrothecomatous tumour of the ovary: diagnostic value of anti-inhibin immunostaining.

McCluggage, W G, Sloan, J M, Boyle, D D, Toner, P G

Malignant ovarian tumours of the fibrothecoma group are rare. The clinicopathological features of a case of ovarian malignant fibrothecoma in which there was metastatic disease in the small intestine...

Small intestinal ulceration secondary to carcinoid tumour arising in a Meckel's diverticulum.

McCluggage, W G, McConnell, L, Sloan, J M, Ellis, P K, Irwin, S T

A solitary small intestinal ulcer associated with a carcinoid tumour in a nearby Meckel's diverticulum was found in a 77 year old man presenting with massive rectal bleeding. Angiography and a...

A histological study of the effect of chronic gastritis on gastrin cell distribution in the human stomach.

Sloan, J M, Buchanan, K D, McFarland, R J, Titterington, P, Sandford, J C

To determine the effect of varying degrees of gastritis on the distribution of immuno-reactive gastrin cells 38 partial gastrectomy specimens have been studied. Routinely stained histological...

Histology of the postoperative stomach before and after diversion of bile.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Spencer, A, Kennedy, T L

Gastric biopsy specimens were taken in 33 patients before and after procedures to divert bile (construction of Roux loop in 19, closure of gastrojejunostomy in 14). Each biopsy specimen was assessed...

Changes in gastric mucosa after vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy for duodenal ulcer.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Kennedy, T L

Gastric mucosa was studied histologically in 141 patients. Eighty two had undergone vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy between 15 and 25 years previously for duodenal ulcer, and 59 control patients had a...

Glucose Tolerance and Insulin Response in Atherosclerosis

Sloan, J. M., Mackay, J. S., Sheridan, B.

Oral glucose tolerance tests were carried out on 51 men with atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease, none of whom were known diabetics or had suffered recent myocardial infarction. The plasma...

Bcl-2 and c-Myc, but not bax and p53, are expressed during human medullary thyroid tumorigenesis.

Wang, D. G., Liu, W. H., Johnston, C. F., Sloan, J. M., Buchanan, K. D.

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a tumor of parafollicular cells of the thyroid gland. It has served as a useful experimental model for the study of tumor proliferation and differentiation....

Secretor status and Helicobacter pylori infection are independent risk factors for gastroduodenal disease.

Dickey, W, Collins, J S, Watson, R G, Sloan, J M, Porter, K G

The hypothesis that non-secretors of ABO blood group antigens, a group shown to be more susceptible to certain bacterial infections, may be at greater risk of gastroduodenal disease because of...

Helicobacter pylori: comparison of DNA fingerprints provides evidence for intrafamilial infection.

Bamford, K B, Bickley, J, Collins, J S, Johnston, B T, Potts, S, Boston, V, ...

Although a high prevalence of antibodies to Helicobacter pylori has been documented within families, culture and DNA typing of strains from infected children and their parents has not been evaluated....

Quantitative histological study of mucosal inflammatory cell densities in endoscopic duodenal biopsy specimens from dyspeptic patients using computer linked image analysis.

Collins, J S, Hamilton, P W, Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Love, A H

Inflammatory cell counting in endoscopic biopsy sections was carried out on duodenal mucosal samples from defined sites in patients with duodenal ulcer, duodenitis but no ulcer, non-ulcer dyspepsia,...

Colitis complicating chronic granulomatous disease. A clinicopathological case report.

Sloan, J M, Cameron, C H, Maxwell, R J, McCluskey, D R, Collins, J S

BACKGROUND--This report concerns a female patient now aged 24 years, diagnosed at the age of 7 years as suffering from chronic granulomatous disease. At age 20 she developed diarrhoea accompanied by...

Changes in N-terminal glucagon-like immunoreactivity and insulin during short-term gluten challenge in childhood coeliac disease.

Carson, D J, Glasgow, J F, Buchanan, K D, Sloan, J M

Sixteen patients (aged 3.5-14.3 years) with normal jejunal mucosa, originally diagnosed as having coeliac disease at least 18 months before, were started on gluten challenge. The 'end point' of...

Oesophageal mucosal changes in patients with varices.

Spence, R A, Sloan, J M, Johnston, G W, Greenfield, A

Histological examination of oesophageal rings removed at transection for varices reveals dilated intraepithelial blood filled channels. These are present in all oesophageal rings removed at...

Relationship between histology and gastric juice pH and nitrite in the stomach after operation for duodenal ulcer.

Watt, P C, Sloan, J M, Donaldson, J D, Patterson, C C, Kennedy, T L

One hundred patients who had undergone operation for duodenal ulcer (68 vagotomy and gastroenterostomy; seven vagotomy and pyloroplasty; 22 gastrectomy and three gastroenterostomy) 10 or more years...

Endoscopic measurement of oesophageal transmucosal potential difference in reflux oesophagitis.

Collins, B J, McFarland, R J, Sloan, J M, Love, A H

Oesophageal transmucosal potential difference (PD) was measured in 76 patients during endoscopy. Twelve patients with no symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux, and normal oesophageal appearance on...

The changing pattern of miliary tuberculosis

Jacques, J., Sloan, J. M.

Over the past 20 years there has been a striking change in the clinical pattern of miliary tuberculosis, which is now more common in adults than in children. This is shown by a comparative study of...

Serosal miliary Crohn's disease in association with probable coeliac disease.

Glasgow, J F, Pinkerton, C R, Sloan, J M

A 2-year-old boy with peritoneal miliary Crohn's disease is described. In addition to vague gastrointestinal symptoms, ascites was a prominent feature. The jejunal mucosa was markedly atrophic,...

Randomised controlled trial of ranitidine versus omeprazole in combination with antibiotics for eradication of Helicobacter pylori.

Tham, T. C., Collins, J. S., Molloy, C., Sloan, J. M., Bamford, K. B., Watson, R. G.

This study compared high dose ranitidine versus low dose omeprazole with antibiotics for the eradication of H pylori. 80 patients (mean age 48 years, range 18-75) who had H pylori infection were...

A comparison of symptoms between non-ulcer dyspepsia patients positive and negative for Helicobacter pylori.

Collins, J. S., Knill-Jones, R. P., Sloan, J. M., Hamilton, P. W., Watt, P. C., Crean, G. P., ...

The role of Helicobacter pylori infection in the symptom complex associated with non-ulcer dyspepsia is uncertain, despite the presence of the organism in a high proportion of these patients. In...

Early experience with chronic hepatitis C in Northern Ireland: epidemiology and response to monotherapy.

McDougall, N. I., McCluggage, W. G., Coyle, P. V., Sloan, J. M., Callender, M. E.

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has become a major health problem affecting an estimated 170 million people worldwide. The epidemiology of HCV and its response to treatment in Northern...

Chronic suppurative lung disease with associated vasculitis.

Bruce, I. N., McAteer, J. A., Gardiner, P. V., McFarland, R. J., Sloan, J. M., Bell, A. L.

We report a patient with chronic bronchiectasis who developed systemic vasculitis. The patient was initially treated with immunosuppression; however, the addition of antibiotic therapy improved...

Comparison of p53 and DNA content abnormalities in adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and gastric cardia.

Gleeson, C. M., Sloan, J. M., McManus, D. T., Maxwell, P., Arthur, K., McGuigan, J. A., ...

This study examined the association between 17p allelic loss, p53 gene mutation, p53 protein expression and DNA aneuploidy in a series of adenocarcinomas arising in the oesophagus and gastric cardia....

Allelotype analysis of adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia.

Gleeson, C. M., Sloan, J. M., McGuigan, J. A., Ritchie, A. J., Weber, J. L., Russell, S. E.

To identify chromosomal loci involved in the development of proximal gastric adenocarcinoma, this study delineated the pattern of allelic imbalance in a series of 38 adenocarcinomas arising in the...