K. J. Turner

Publication List Details

Period

1997 - 2006

Number

59

Co-Authors

Androgen Regulation of Stage-Dependent Cyclin D2 Expression in Sertoli Cells Suggests a Role in Modulating Androgen Action on Spermatogenesis1 (2005)

K.J. Turner, G. Verhoeven, K. De Gendt, N. Atanassova, ...

Regulation of spermatogenesis involves stage-dependent androgen action on Sertoli cells, but the pathways involved are unclear. We assessed if cyclin D2 could play a role. In rats, Sertoli cell...

MEASUREMENTS OF DYNAMIC STABILITY FROM THREE SIMPLIFIED FREE-FLIGHTMODELS OF A SUPERSONIC RESEARCH AIRCRAFT 'BRISTOL ER. 134< OVER THE MACH NUMBER RANGE 1.2 - 2.6 (1998)

TURNER, K.J.

Values of the lateral stability derivatives sideforce, yaw, damping,rolling moment due to sideslip, and roll amping, derivatives were measured on free-flight models of the Bristol ER. 134 for Mach...

An Engineering Approach to Formal Methods (1970)

K. J. Turner

this paper illustrates a component-based style of specification at a high level and at a low level. The first application deals with communications services, and might be considered as engineering...

Visual Animation of Formal Requirements (1970)

K. J. Turner, A. Mcclenaghan

this paper does not include inheritance mechanisms, so 1 7 Screen Remote Control

DILL: Specifying Digital Logic in LOTOS (1970)

Kenneth J. Turner, Paul D. Amer, M. Umit Uyar, K. J. Turner, R. O. Sinnott

Data Type) operations on input values. However, the time-dependent behaviour of logic circuits is often important, so it is better to use LOTOS behaviour expressions. More importantly, a...

LOTOS Specification Style for OSI (1970)

K. J. Turner, M. Van Sinderen

The architecture of OSI is used to derive guidelines for writing LOTOS specifications of distributed systems. In particular, the architectural concepts that underlie service and protocol designs are...

Relating Services And Features In The Intelligent Network (1970)

K. J. Turner

: The services and features of the Intelligent Network Capability Set 1 are briefly introduced. The service-feature relationship is analysed and simplified. This leads to the synthesis of a new...

Modelling Digital Logic in SDL (1970)

Tadanori Mizuno, Norio Shiratori, Teruo Higashino, G. Csopaki, K. J. Turner

The specification of digital logic in SDL (Specification and Description Language) is investigated. A specification approach is proposed for multi-level descriptions of hardware behaviour and...

Type Checking in Open Distributed Systems: a Complete Model and its Z Specification (1970)

Jacob Slonim, John Botsford, Open Distributed, R. O. Sinnott, K. J. Turner, Stirling Fk La

Type checking is at the heart of distributed systems. The ability to be able to configure objects and have them interwork correctly may well be regarded as the fundamental issue in the development of...

An Architectural Foundation for Relating Features (1970)

Petre Dini, Raouf Boutaba, Proc Feature, K. J. Turner

Consideration of services in the Intelligent Network and telecommunications leads to the definition of ANISE (Architectural Notions In Service Engineering). This is a rigorous language for defining...

Prototype Performance Evaluation of Multimedia Service Components (1970)

Ilka Miloucheva, Plamen L. Simeonov, Klaus Rebensberg, Kenneth J. Turner, I. Miloucheva, P. L. Simeonov, ...

This paper deals with a formal approach for decomposition and description of multimedia service components and their performance analysis. Our approach is based on the Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA)...

Support Components for Quality of Service in Distributed Environments: Monitoring Service (1970)

D. A. Reed, K. J. Turner, A. P. Grace

A number of services are required in a Quality of Service oriented distributed environment. One of these required services is monitoring. To provide a complete picture monitoring must occur with both...

Expression of a Cs(+)-resistant guard cell K+ channel confers Cs(+)-resistant, light-induced stomatal opening in transgenic arabidopsis.

Ichida, A M, Pei, Z M, Baizabal-Aguirre, V M, Turner, K J, Schroeder, J I

Inward-rectifying K+ (K+in) channels in the guard cell plasma membrane have been suggested to function as a major pathway for K+ influx into guard cells during stomatal opening. When K+in channels...

Regulation of accumulation of ammonium-inducible glutamate dehydrogenase catalytic activity and antigen during the cell cycle of fully induced, synchronous Chlorella sorokiniana cells.

Yeung, A T, Bascomb, N F, Turner, K J, Schmidt, R R

By use of a rocket immunoelectrophoresis-activity stain procedure, it was shown that catalytic activity of an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate...

Evidence for messenger ribonucleic acid of an ammonium-inducible glutamate dehydrogenase and synthesis, covalent modification, and degradation of enzyme subunits in uninduced Chlorella sorokiniana cells.

Turner, K J, Bascomb, N F, Lynch, J J, Molin, W T, Thurston, C F, Schmidt, R R

The cells of Chlorella sorokiniana cultured in nitrate medium contain no detectable catalytic activity of an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate...

Turnover of ammonium-inducible glutamate dehydrogenase during induction and its rapid inactivation after removal of inducer from Chlorella sorokiniana cells.

Bascomb, N F, Yeung, A T, Turner, K J, Schmidt, R R

When ammonia was removed from Chlorella sorokiniana cells, which contain an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP-GDH), the activity of...

Regulation of initial rate of induction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate dehydrogenase during the cell cycle of synchronous Chlorella.

Turner, K J, Gronostajski, R M, Schmidt, R R

When synchronous cells of the eucaryotic microorganism Chlorella sorokiniana growing in nitrate medium were challenged to synthesize an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide...

Reciprocal regulation of the tandemly duplicated PHO5/PHO3 gene cluster within the acid phosphatase multigene family of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Tait-Kamradt, A G, Turner, K J, Kramer, R A, Elliott, Q D, Bostian, S J, Thill, G P, ...

We characterized the organization and expression of PHO5 and PHO3, the tightly linked repressible and constitutive acid phosphatase genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The "constitutive" gene, PHO3,...

Comparative analysis of the 5'-end regions of two repressible acid phosphatase genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Thill, G P, Kramer, R A, Turner, K J, Bostian, K A

The nucleotide sequence of 5'-noncoding and N-terminal coding regions of two coordinately regulated, repressible acid phosphatase genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae were determined. These unlinked...

Relationship between expression of sex steroid receptors and structure of the seminal vesicles after neonatal treatment of rats with potent or weak estrogens.

Williams, K, Fisher, J S, Turner, K J, McKinnell, C, Saunders, P T, Sharpe, R M

In this study we evaluated the effect of manipulating the estrogen and androgen environment of the neonatal male rat on subsequent immunoexpression of sex steroid receptors in the seminal vesicles...

Effect of neonatal exposure to estrogenic compounds on development of the excurrent ducts of the rat testis through puberty to adulthood.

Fisher, J S, Turner, K J, Brown, D, Sharpe, R M

Neonatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) can alter the structure of the testicular excurrent ducts in rats. We characterized these changes according to dose and time posttreatment and...

IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Housedust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus, and beta-lactoglobulin in sudden infant death syndrome.

Turner, K J, Baldo, B A, Hilton, J M

The prevalence of serum IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house-dust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus, and bovine beta-lactoglobulin was significantly greater in cases of sudden infancy...

Expression of a Cs(+)-resistant guard cell K+ channel confers Cs(+)-resistant, light-induced stomatal opening in transgenic arabidopsis.

Ichida, A M, Pei, Z M, Baizabal-Aguirre, V M, Turner, K J, Schroeder, J I

Inward-rectifying K+ (K+in) channels in the guard cell plasma membrane have been suggested to function as a major pathway for K+ influx into guard cells during stomatal opening. When K+in channels...

Regulation of accumulation of ammonium-inducible glutamate dehydrogenase catalytic activity and antigen during the cell cycle of fully induced, synchronous Chlorella sorokiniana cells.

Yeung, A T, Bascomb, N F, Turner, K J, Schmidt, R R

By use of a rocket immunoelectrophoresis-activity stain procedure, it was shown that catalytic activity of an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate...

Evidence for messenger ribonucleic acid of an ammonium-inducible glutamate dehydrogenase and synthesis, covalent modification, and degradation of enzyme subunits in uninduced Chlorella sorokiniana cells.

Turner, K J, Bascomb, N F, Lynch, J J, Molin, W T, Thurston, C F, Schmidt, R R

The cells of Chlorella sorokiniana cultured in nitrate medium contain no detectable catalytic activity of an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate...

Turnover of ammonium-inducible glutamate dehydrogenase during induction and its rapid inactivation after removal of inducer from Chlorella sorokiniana cells.

Bascomb, N F, Yeung, A T, Turner, K J, Schmidt, R R

When ammonia was removed from Chlorella sorokiniana cells, which contain an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP-GDH), the activity of...

Regulation of initial rate of induction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate dehydrogenase during the cell cycle of synchronous Chlorella.

Turner, K J, Gronostajski, R M, Schmidt, R R

When synchronous cells of the eucaryotic microorganism Chlorella sorokiniana growing in nitrate medium were challenged to synthesize an ammonium-inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide...

Reciprocal regulation of the tandemly duplicated PHO5/PHO3 gene cluster within the acid phosphatase multigene family of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Tait-Kamradt, A G, Turner, K J, Kramer, R A, Elliott, Q D, Bostian, S J, Thill, G P, ...

We characterized the organization and expression of PHO5 and PHO3, the tightly linked repressible and constitutive acid phosphatase genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The "constitutive" gene, PHO3,...

Comparative analysis of the 5'-end regions of two repressible acid phosphatase genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Thill, G P, Kramer, R A, Turner, K J, Bostian, K A

The nucleotide sequence of 5'-noncoding and N-terminal coding regions of two coordinately regulated, repressible acid phosphatase genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae were determined. These unlinked...

Relationship between expression of sex steroid receptors and structure of the seminal vesicles after neonatal treatment of rats with potent or weak estrogens.

Williams, K, Fisher, J S, Turner, K J, McKinnell, C, Saunders, P T, Sharpe, R M

In this study we evaluated the effect of manipulating the estrogen and androgen environment of the neonatal male rat on subsequent immunoexpression of sex steroid receptors in the seminal vesicles...

Effect of neonatal exposure to estrogenic compounds on development of the excurrent ducts of the rat testis through puberty to adulthood.

Fisher, J S, Turner, K J, Brown, D, Sharpe, R M

Neonatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) can alter the structure of the testicular excurrent ducts in rats. We characterized these changes according to dose and time posttreatment and...

IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Housedust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus, and beta-lactoglobulin in sudden infant death syndrome.

Turner, K J, Baldo, B A, Hilton, J M

The prevalence of serum IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house-dust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus, and bovine beta-lactoglobulin was significantly greater in cases of sudden infancy...

Comparison of IgE expression at the mRNA and protein levels in vitro.

Turner, K J, Creany, J, Coelen, R J, Cameron, K J, Holt, B J, Beilharz, M W

The regulating effects of IL-4 and pokeweed mitogen on IgE synthesis in vitro by human peripheral blood leucocytes has been compared with the corresponding effect of these regulators on the...

The immune response of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus): the production of a low molecular weight antibody

Thomas, W. R., Turner, K. J., Eadie, Margaret E., Yadav, M.

The quokka (Setonix brachyurus) a macropod marsupial endemic to Western Australia forms circulating antibodies to bacteriophage ΦX174, Salmonella adelaide flagella, sheep erythrocytes and bovine...

The mechanisms of IgE uptake by human alveolar macrophages and a human B-lymphoblastoid cell line (Wil-2wt).

Richardson, D R, Cameron, K, Robinson, B, Turner, K J

Human alveolar macrophages (HAM) internalized more IgE (81%) than human Wil-2wt B-lymphoblastoid cells (28%) suggesting a difference in the metabolic processing of the specific IgE receptor (CD23)...

Increase in macroglobin antibodies of mouse and pig following injection of bacterial lipopolysaccharide

Rowley, D., Turner, K. J.

A single intraperitoneal injection of 30 mg. of lipopolysaccharide into a pig gave rise to a rapid evanescent increase in opsonic activity towards Salmonella typhimurium C5. This increase was due to...

The functional development of the reticulo-endothelial system: IV. Studies of serum opsonins to Salmonella typhimurium in foetal and natal rats

Reade, P. C., Turner, K. J., Jenkin, C. R.

`Natural' opsonins to Salmonella typhimurium in serum from foetal and natal rats have been shown to be in part macroglobulins. The titre of these opsonins was shown to increase in the young natal...

Immunoglobulins of the marsupial Setonix brachyurus (Quokka): Characterization of three major serum classes, IgG2, IgG1 and IgM

Bell, R. G., Lynch, N. R., Turner, K. J.

Three immunoglobulin classes, IgG2, IgG1 and IgM, have been identified in the serum of the marsupial Setonix brachyurus (quokka). Each of these classes has been isolated in pure form and partially...

Experimental aspergillosis in rats infected via intraperitoneal and subcutaneous routes.

Turner, K J, Hackshaw, R, Papadimitriou, J, Wetherall, J D, Perrott, J

Normal adult rats infected via the subcutaneous (s.c.) route with viable spores of Aspergillus fumigatus develop serum antibodies, measured by passive haemagglutination and passive cutaneous...

Regulation of asthma by intestinal parasites. Investigation of possible mechanisms.

Turner, K J, Quinn, E H, Anderson, H R

The serum IgE levels of asthmatic subjects from Papua, New Guniea (PNG) were similar to those of corresponding control subjects but significantly higher than Caucasian asthmatics from Western...

Inhibition of specific IgE responses in mice by pre-exposure to inhaled antigen.

Holt, P G, Batty, J E, Turner, K J

Exposure of mice to aerosolized ovalbumin (OA) once weekly for 5 min, or once weekly to 10 microgram OA in PBS intranasally, elicited transient IgE responses which declined by the seventh week. When...

In vitro synthesis of IgE by human peripheral blood leucocytes. III. Release of pre-formed antibody.

Turner, K J, Holt, P G, Holt, B J, Cameron, K J

The appearance of IgE in supernatant fluids from cultures of human peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL) is employed in many laboratories as an index of antibody 'synthesis'. This study demonstrates...

Lymphocyte blastogenesis in nephrotic syndrome.

Minchin, M A, Turner, K J, Bower, G D

Peripheral blood lymphocytes from children with steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome showed inhibition of the blastogenic response to PHA-P when incubated in the presence of autologous serum....

In vitro synthesis of IgE by human peripheral blood leucocytes: relationship to serum titre of leucocyte donor.

Turner, K J, Holt, B J, Holt, P G

A microculture system was developed for in vitro IgE synthesis employing human peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL), comprising 1.0 x 10(6) cells in 1.0 ml serum-supplemented medium, in round-bottomed...

Experimental nephrosis: interassociation of proteinuria with impaired lymphocyte blastogenesis.

Minchin, M A, Bower, G D, Turner, K J

The drug puromycin aminonucleoside (PA), used to induce an experimental nephrosis in rats, inhibited the blastogenic response of normal rat spleen cells when cultured in vitro with autologous or...

Production of a histamine-releasing lymphokine by antigen- or mitogen-stimulated human peripheral T cells.

Sedgwick, J D, Holt, P G, Turner, K J

Human peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL), cultured in the presence of mitogen or antigen, yielded supernatants which contained a factor with histamine-releasing activity (HRA). This factor, analogous...

In vitro synthesis of IgE by human peripheral blood leucocytes. II modulation of IgE B cell activity by isotype-specific regulatory T cells.

Holt, G H, Turner, K J, Holt, B J

IgE and IgG synthesis was demonstrated in cultures of isolated B cells from normal subjects, and those manifesting mild to severe atopy. Titration of autochthonous T cells into B cell cultures...

Regulatory T cells in the humoral response of protein deficient mice.

Price, P, Turner, K J

Cell suspensions from the spleen or thymus of mice fed normally or mice that were protein deficient were injected into mice from each dietary group and also syngeneic nudes. Antigen, polyvinyl...

In vitro synthesis of IgE by human peripheral blood leucocytes: V. Functional heterogeneity within the IgE-B-cell pool.

Turner, K J, Holt, P G, Holt, B J, Cameron, K J, Hobday, J D, Thompson, P, ...

Fractionation of human peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL) B cells by differential sedimentation on a discontinuous Percoll gradient separates B cell subpopulations which vary markedly in rates of...

A comparison of the immunoglobulins, IgA, IgG and IgE in nasal secretions from normal and asthmatic children

Hobday, J. D., Cake, M., Turner, K. J.

The secreted proteins obtained from nasal washings from eighty-five normal children and fifty asthmatic children, between 6 and 14 years, were investigated by immunological assay for their content of...

Genetic inheritance of susceptibility to tinea imbricata.

Ravine, D, Turner, K J, Alpers, M P

Segregation analysis on 228 family pedigrees collected from a Papua New Guinean population provided data that strongly supported a previous report of an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance of...

Is day case surgery in urology associated with high admission rates?

Crew, J. P., Turner, K. J., Millar, J., Cranston, D. W.

The nature of the procedures and patients in urological day surgery may lead to high admission rates. A retrospective audit was performed over 8 years (1988 to 1996) to determine admission rates in a...