J. Morgan

Publication List Details

Period

1980 - 2008

Number

129

Co-Authors

Left ventricular dysfunction after cardiac resynchronization therapy in congenital heart disease patients with a failing systemic right ventricle (2008)

Kiesewetter, C., Michael, K., Morgan, J., Veldtman, G.R.

BACKGROUND: Cardiac resynchronization therapy is rapidly emerging as an effective strategy for managing ventricular dysfunction and heart failure associated with congenital heart disease. Indications...

Complement C3 variant and the risk of age-related macular degeneration (2007)

Yates, J.R.W., Sepp, T., Matharu, B.K., Khan, J.C., Thurlby, D.A., Shahid, H., ...

Background: Age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness in Western populations. Susceptibility is influenced by age and by genetic and environmental factors. Complement...

Fine mapping by genetic association implicates the chromosome 1q23.3 gene UHMK1, encoding a serine/threonine protein kinase, as a novel schizophrenia susceptibility gene (2007)

Puri, V., McQuillin, A., Choudhury, K., Datta, S., Pimm, J., Thirumalai, S., ...

Background: Linkage studies by us and others have confirmed that chromosome 1q23.3 is a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia. Based on this information, several research groups have published...

Fine mapping by genetic association implicates the chromosome 1q23.3 gene UHMK1, encoding a serine/threonine protein kinase, as a novel schizophrenia susceptibility gene (2006)

Puri, V., McQuillin, A., Choudhury, K., Datta, S., Pimm, J., Thirumalai, S., ...

Background Linkage studies by us and others have confirmed that chromosome 1q23.3 is a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia. Based on this information, several research groups have published...

The Role of the HPA Axis in Psychiatric Disorders and CRF Antagonists as Potential Treatments (2006)

Keller, P. A., McCluskey, A., Morgan, J., O'Connor, S. M.

An overview of the links between the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis and psychiatric disorders is presented. The current treatments are outlined, indicating that they are insufficient to...

The Role of the HPA Axis in Psychiatric Disorders and CRF Antagonists as Potential Treatments (2006)

Keller, P. A., McCluskey, A., Morgan, J., O'Connor, S. M.

An overview of the links between the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis and psychiatric disorders is presented. The current treatments are outlined, indicating that they are insufficient to...

Failure to confirm genetic association between schizophrenia and markers on chromosome 1q23.3 in the region of the gene encoding the regulator of G-protein signaling 4 protein (RGS4) (2006)

Rizig, M.A., McQuillin, A., Puri, V., Choudhury, K., Datta, S., Thirumalai, S., ...

The chromosome 1q23.3 region, which includes the RGS4 gene has been implicated in genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia by two linkage studies with lod scores of 6.35 and 3.20 and with positive lod...

Failure to confirm allelic association between markers at the CAPON gene locus and schizophrenia in a British sample (2006)

Puri, V., McQuillin, A., Thirumalai, S., Lawrence, J., Krasucki, R., Choudhury, K., ...

Background: Linkage studies have confirmed that chromosome 1q23.3 is a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia. It was then claimed that markers at the carboxyl-terminal PDZ ligand of neuronal nitric...

The Role of the HPA Axis in Psychiatric Disorders and CRF Antagonists as Potential Treatments (2006)

Keller, P. A., McCluskey, A., Morgan, J., O'Connor, S. M.

An overview of the links between the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis and psychiatric disorders is presented. The current treatments are outlined, indicating that they are insufficient to...

The Epsin 4 gene on chromosome 5q, which encodes the clathrin-associated protein enthoprotin, is involved in the genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia (2005)

Pimm, J., McQuillin, A., Thirumalai, S., Lawrence, J., Quested, D., Bass, N., ...

Chromosome 5q33 is a region that has previously shown good evidence of linkage to schizophrenia, with four LOD scores >3.00 in independent linkage studies. We studied 450 unrelated white English,...

Re-conceptualising ICT in geography teaching (2004)

Morgan, J, Tidmarsh, C

This paper is concerned with the ways in which ICT is conceptualised in geography education in England. Our argument is that the way ICT has been conceptualised in school geography is clearly linked...

Sodium channel alpha1-subunit mutations in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy and infantile spasms (2003)

Wallace, R.H., Hodgson, B.L., Grinton, B.E., Gardiner, R.M., Robinson, R., Rodriguez-Casero, V., ...

Background: Mutations in SCN1A, the gene encoding the 1 subunit of the sodium channel, have been found in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI) and generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures...

Sodium channel alpha 1-subunit mutations in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy and infantile spasms (2003)

Wallace, RH, Hodgson, BL, Grinton, BE, Gardiner, RM, Robinson, R, Rodriguez-Casero, V, ...

Background: Mutations in SCN1A, the gene encoding the alpha1 subunit of the sodium channel, have been found in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI) and generalized epilepsy with febrile...

Approximate fixed point theorems in Banach spaces with applications in game theory (2002)

Branzei, R., Morgan, J., Scalzo, V., Tijs, S.

In this paper some new approximate fixed point theorems for multifunctions in Banach spaces are presented and a method is developed indicating how to use approximate fixed point theorems in proving...

Measuring employment security in Europe using surveys of employers (2001)

Morgan, J., Genre, V., Wilson, C.

Using results from surveys in which employers were questioned about their freedom to shed staff, we develop a measure of employment security in Europe. We seek to identify which institutional factors...

Comparison of Photodynamic Targets in a Carcinoma Cell Line and Its Mitochondrial DNA-Deficient Derivative (2000)

J. Morgan, W. R. Potter, A. R. Oseroff

The relative contribution, to cell death, of photodynamic damage to respiratory proteins (known targets of photodynamic therapy with many photosensitizers) and other cellular sites was examined. The...

Towards Language Independent Acoustic Modeling (2000)

W. Byrne, P. Beyerlein, J. M. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi, J. Morgan, ...

We describe procedures and experimental results using speechfrom diverse source languages to build an ASR system for a single target language. This work is intended to improve ASR in languages for...

Towards Language Independent Acoustic Modeling (1999)

P. Beyerlein, W. Byrne, J. M. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi, J. Morgan, ...

We describe procedures and experimental results using speech from diverse source languages to build an ASR system for a single target language. This work is intended to improve ASR in languages for...

Towards Language Independent Acoustic Modeling (1999)

P. Beyerlein, W. Byrne, J. M. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi, J. Morgan, ...

We describe procedures and experimental results using speechfrom diverse source languages to build an ASR system for a single target language. This work is intended to improve ASR in languages for...

Towards Language Independent Acoustic Modeling (1999)

P. Beyerlein, W. Byrne, J. M. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi, J. Morgan, ...

We describe procedures and experimental results using speechfrom diverse source languages to build an ASR system for a single target language. This work is intended to improve ASR in languages for...

A Dynamic Momentum Compaction Factor Lattice in the FERMILAB DEBUNCHER Ring (1998)

Debuncher Ring, D. N. Olivieri, M. Church, J. Morgan

this paper is underway. At the present time, we are implementing only the case for #

HIGH-RESOLUTION DETECTORS FOR IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY AT ULTRAVIOLET AND SOFT X-RAY WAVELENGTHS (1988)

Timothy, J., Morgan, J., Slater, D.

The Multi-Anode Microchannel Arrays (MAMAs) are a family of pulse-counting imaging array detectors designed specifically for astrophysical investigations in space. The MAMAs have a number of unique...

HIGH-RESOLUTION DETECTORS FOR IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY AT ULTRAVIOLET AND SOFT X-RAY WAVELENGTHS (1988)

Timothy, J., Morgan, J., Slater, D.

The Multi-Anode Microchannel Arrays (MAMAs) are a family of pulse-counting imaging array detectors designed specifically for astrophysical investigations in space. The MAMAs have a number of unique...

HIGH-RESOLUTION DETECTORS FOR IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY AT ULTRAVIOLET AND SOFT X-RAY WAVELENGTHS (1988)

Timothy, J., Morgan, J., Slater, D.

The Multi-Anode Microchannel Arrays (MAMAs) are a family of pulse-counting imaging array detectors designed specifically for astrophysical investigations in space. The MAMAs have a number of unique...

Monetary Policy in the OECD INTERLINK Model

A. Blundell-Wignall, J. Morgan, M. Rondoni, H. Ziegelschmidt

The international financial linkage block of the OECD Secretariat's multi-country model, INTERLINK, is based on a portfolio balance model of exchange rate determination. International consistency is...

Investigation of the Role of CD8+ T Cells in Bovine Tuberculosis In Vivo

Villarreal-Ramos, B., McAulay, M., Chance, V., Martin, M., Morgan, J., Howard, C. J.

Mycobacterium bovis is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (TB), and it has the potential to induce disease in humans. CD8+ T cells (CD8 cells) have been shown to respond to mycobacterial...

Morphogenesis and Ultrastructure of Geotrichum candidum Septa

Hashimoto, Tadayo, Morgan, J., Conti, S. F.

The ultrastructure and mode of formation of septa of Geotrichum candidum were investigated by light and electron microscopy. The invaginations of the lateral membrane and wall appear to initiate at...

Negative modulation of Epstein-Barr virus episomes by a human B-cell growth factor.

Morgan, J, Roome, A, Maizel, A, Sharma, S

To study the effect of T-cell-derived BCGF-12kD on human B-cell autocrine growth-associated functions, we cultured Epstein Barr virus (EBV)-transformed normal B cells (LCL 72285) and Burkitt's...

Thymosin beta 4: a ubiquitous peptide in rat and mouse tissues.

Hannappel, E, Xu, G J, Morgan, J, Hempstead, J, Horecker, B L

Thymosin beta 4, recently isolated from calf thymus, is present in a number of rat and mouse tissues, including spleen, thymus, brain, lung, liver, and heart muscle. High concentrations are found in...

Synthesis of thymosin beta 4 by peritoneal macrophages and adherent spleen cells.

Xu, G J, Hannappel, E, Morgan, J, Hempstead, J, Horecker, B L

Thymosin beta 4, previously identified as a component of thymosin fraction 5 isolated from calf thymus, is synthesized by peritoneal macrophages derived from rats or mice, including cells from nu/nu...

Biochemical separation of a human B cell mitogenic factor.

Maizel, A, Sahasrabuddhe, C, Mehta, S, Morgan, J, Lachman, L, Ford, R

Recent studies have established the ability of human B lymphocytes to undergo G1-phase cell cycle progression and subsequent DNA synthesis upon exposure to factor(s) present in media conditioned by...

Evidence for an intracellular precursor for human B-cell growth factor.

Sahasrabuddhe, C G, Morgan, J, Sharma, S, Mehta, S, Martin, B, Wright, D, ...

Human B-cell growth factor has been described as a trypsin-sensitive protein of Mr 12,000-14,000. Evidence is provided herein that this relatively low molecular weight product may be released from a...

Treatment of colorectal hepatic metastases by intrahepatic chemotherapy alone or as an adjuvant to complete or partial removal of metastatic disease.

Hodgson, W J, Friedland, M, Ahmed, T, Mittelman, A, Berman, H, Katz, S, ...

Because of the wide variation in reported benefits from the use of intrahepatic chemotherapy for colorectal hepatic metastases, the authors performed their own phase II studies comparing the use of...

Aluminium sucrose biscuit fillings to control hyperphosphataemia in patients undergoing dialysis.

Gabriel, R, Morgan, J

Aluminium hydroxide is used to prevent hyperphosphataemia in patients undergoing dialysis, but many standard preparations are unpalatable. In this study hydrated aluminium sucrose was suspended in...

Ultrastructural features of composite skin cultures grafted onto athymic mice.

Nolte, C J, Oleson, M A, Hansbrough, J F, Morgan, J, Greenleaf, G, Wilkins, L

Skin substitutes composed of cultured keratinocytes with or without a dermal substrate are now being used in the treatment of burns and other cutaneous wounds. Composite skin cultures (Graftskin,...

Investigation of the Role of CD8+ T Cells in Bovine Tuberculosis In Vivo

Villarreal-Ramos, B., McAulay, M., Chance, V., Martin, M., Morgan, J., Howard, C. J.

Mycobacterium bovis is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (TB), and it has the potential to induce disease in humans. CD8+ T cells (CD8 cells) have been shown to respond to mycobacterial...

Morphogenesis and Ultrastructure of Geotrichum candidum Septa

Hashimoto, Tadayo, Morgan, J., Conti, S. F.

The ultrastructure and mode of formation of septa of Geotrichum candidum were investigated by light and electron microscopy. The invaginations of the lateral membrane and wall appear to initiate at...

Negative modulation of Epstein-Barr virus episomes by a human B-cell growth factor.

Morgan, J, Roome, A, Maizel, A, Sharma, S

To study the effect of T-cell-derived BCGF-12kD on human B-cell autocrine growth-associated functions, we cultured Epstein Barr virus (EBV)-transformed normal B cells (LCL 72285) and Burkitt's...

Thymosin beta 4: a ubiquitous peptide in rat and mouse tissues.

Hannappel, E, Xu, G J, Morgan, J, Hempstead, J, Horecker, B L

Thymosin beta 4, recently isolated from calf thymus, is present in a number of rat and mouse tissues, including spleen, thymus, brain, lung, liver, and heart muscle. High concentrations are found in...

Synthesis of thymosin beta 4 by peritoneal macrophages and adherent spleen cells.

Xu, G J, Hannappel, E, Morgan, J, Hempstead, J, Horecker, B L

Thymosin beta 4, previously identified as a component of thymosin fraction 5 isolated from calf thymus, is synthesized by peritoneal macrophages derived from rats or mice, including cells from nu/nu...

Biochemical separation of a human B cell mitogenic factor.

Maizel, A, Sahasrabuddhe, C, Mehta, S, Morgan, J, Lachman, L, Ford, R

Recent studies have established the ability of human B lymphocytes to undergo G1-phase cell cycle progression and subsequent DNA synthesis upon exposure to factor(s) present in media conditioned by...

Evidence for an intracellular precursor for human B-cell growth factor.

Sahasrabuddhe, C G, Morgan, J, Sharma, S, Mehta, S, Martin, B, Wright, D, ...

Human B-cell growth factor has been described as a trypsin-sensitive protein of Mr 12,000-14,000. Evidence is provided herein that this relatively low molecular weight product may be released from a...