Michael P. Pender

CTLA-4 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in a Caucasian population with schizophrenia (2009)

Jones, Amanda L., Holliday, Elizabeth G., Mowry, Bryan J., McLean, Duncan E., McGrath, John J., Pender, Michael P., ...

Associations between a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in exon 1 of the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA4) gene and schizophrenia in a Korean population have been previously described. The...

An investigation of the C77G and C772T variations within the human protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type C gene for association with multiple sclerosis in an Australian population (2009)

Szvetko, Attila L., Jones, Ashleigh, Mackenzie, Jason, Tajouri, Lotti, Csurhes, Peter A., Greer, Judith M., ...

Variation in The Vitamin D Receptor Gene is Associated With Multiple Sclerosis in an Australian Population (2008)

Lotti Tajouri, Micky Ovcaric, Rob Curtain, Matthew P. Johnson, R. Griffiths, Peter Csurhes, ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) resulting in accumulating neurological disability. The disorder is more prevalent at higher...

Correlation of blood T cell and antibody reactivity to myelin proteins with HLA type and lesion (2008)

Greer, Judith M., Csurhes, Peter A., Diane MULLER, Pender, Michael P.

Myelin proteolipid protein: An effective autoantigen and target of autoimmunity in multiple sclerosis (2008)

Greer, Judith M., Pender, Michael P.

Decreased T cell reactivity to Epstein–Barr virus infected lymphoblastoid cell lines in multiple sclerosis (2008)

Pender, Michael P., Csurhes, Peter A., Lenarczyk, Aleksandra, Pfluger, Casey, Burrows, S. R.

Allelic variation investigation of the estrogen receptor within an Australian multiple sclerosis population (2007)

Tajouri, Lotfi, Fernandez, Francesca, Tajouri, Sophie, Detriche, Geraldine, Szvetko, Attila Laszlo, Colson, Natalie Jane, ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a central nervous system (CNS) chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease leading to various neurological disabilities. The disorder is more prevalent for women with a...

Genetic investigation of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) in multiple sclerosis (2006)

Tajouri, Lotfi, Martin, Virginie, Gasparini, Claudia Francesca, Ovcaric, Micky, Curtain, Rob, Lea, Rodney Arthur, ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease characterized by central nervous system (CNS) inflammation and demyelination. The C677T substitution variant in the methylenetetrahydrofolate...

Variation in the vitamin D receptor gene is associated with multiple sclerosis in an Australian population. (2005)

Tajouri, Lotfi, Ovcaric, Micky, Curtain, Rob, Johnson, Matthew Peter, Griffiths, Lyn, Csurhes, Peter, ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) resulting in accumulating neurological disability. The disorder is more prevalent at higher...

Variation in the vitamin D receptor gene is associated with multiple sclerosis in an Australian population. (2005)

Tajouri, Lotfi, Ovcaric, Micky, Curtain, Rob, Johnson, Matthew Peter, Griffiths, Lyn, Csurhes, Peter, ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) resulting in accumulating neurological disability. The disorder is more prevalent at higher...

Investigation of an unducible nitric oxide synthase gene (NOS2A) polymorphism in a multiple sclerosis population (2004)

Tajouri, Lotfi, Martin, Virginie, Ovcaric, Micky, Curtain, Rob, Lea, Rodney Arthur, Csurhes, Peter, ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) affecting most commonly the Caucasian population. Nitric oxide (NO) is a biological signaling and...

Investigation of a neuronal nitric oxide synthase gene (NOS1) polymorphism in a multiple sclerosis population (2004)

Tajouri, Lotfi, Ferreira, Linda Anne, Ovcaric, Micky, Curtain, Rob, Lea, Rodney Arthur, Csurhes, Peter, ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease characterized by demyelination associated with infiltrating white blood cells in the central nervous system (CNS). Nitric oxide synthases...

Apoptosis of Inflammatory Cells in Immune Control of the Nervous System: Role of Glia (2001)

Michael P. Pender, Michael J. Rist

Normal individuals have T lymphocytes capable of reacting to central nervous system (CNS) antigens such as myelin basic protein (MBP) (Martin et al., [1990]). In view of recent evidence indicating...

Survival And Mitosis Of Myelinating Oligodendrocytes In Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis: An Immunocytochemical Study With Rip Antibody (1999)

Nguyen, Kim B., Pender, Michael P.

The fate of myelin-forming oligodendrocytes in the spinal cord of Lewis rats with acute and chronic relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) was studied using the pre-embedding...

Balo's Concentric Sclerosis In A Woman From Papua New Guinea (1999)

Hulcombe, Jane E., Bradfield, John M., Tannenberg, Anthony E. G., Pender, Michael P.

We report a case of Balo's concentric sclerosis (a variant of multiple sclerosis) from Papua New Guinea. A 42-year-old woman with a past episode of optic neuritis presented with a left hemiparesis....

Gastroparesis With Multiple Sclerosis (1995)

Read, Stephen J., Leggett, Barbara A., Pender, Michael P.

This is a letter to the editor suggesting that gastroparesis be considered as a cause of unexplained upper gastrointestinal tract symptoms in patients with MS.

Antigen-specific down-regulation of myelin basic protein-reactive T cells during spontaneous recovery from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: further evidence of apoptotic deletion of autoreactive T cells in the central nervous system (1995)

Tabi, Zsuzsanna, McCombe, Pamela A., Pender, Michael P., Steinman, L.

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) was induced in Lewis rats by the I.v. injection of 107 cloned Vβ8.2+ T cells specific for the 72–89 peptide of guinea pig myelin basic...

Conduction abnormalities are restricted to the central nervous system in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis induced by inoculation with proteolipid protein but not with myelin basic protein (1995)

Chalk, Jonathan B., McCombe, Pamela A., Pender, Michael P.

There is an error in the dose of anaesthetic given. In the last line of the second column on page 976 the dose of ketamine should be 74 mg/kg not 15 mg/kg. The doses of xylazine and atropine...

Conduction abnormalities are restricted to the central nervous system in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis induced by inoculation with proteolipid protein but not with myelin basic protein (1994)

Chalk, Jonathan B., McCombe, Pamela A., Pender, Michael P.

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) and can be induced by inoculation of animals with homogenized CNS tissue...

Cervical Self-Manipulation and Stroke (1993)

Johnson, David W., Whiting, Gerald, Pender, Michael P.

Neck manipulation, especially self-manipulation, should be considered as one of the risk factors for stroke in the young, and the practice of encouraging patients to perform cervical...

Neurological Signs in Inflammatory Demyelination (1993)

Pender, Michael P.

Vass and colleagues recently reported that interferon-gamma potentiates antibody-mediated demyelination in the spinal cord in the rat. The rats developed prolongation of the latencies of...