P. D. Allen

Publication List Details

Period

1969 - 9999

Number

47

Co-Authors

An Introduction to Geometric Programming, (9999)

Allen,P. D., Baker,D. W.

Geometric Programming (GP) can solve two types of problems: non-linear minimization formulations and simultaneous are non-linear, there are numerous potential applications. Furthermore, GP can...

Coordinated Movement of Cytoplasmic and Transmembrane Domains of RyR1 upon Gating (2009)

Montserrat Samsó, Wei Feng, Isaac N. Pessah, P. D. Allen

Ryanodine receptor type 1 (RyR1) produces spatially and temporally defined Ca2+ signals in several cell types. How signals received in the cytoplasmic domain are transmitted to the ion gate and how...

Enhancement of Temporally Variable Features in Nailfold Capillary Patterns (2007)

P. D. Allen, C. J. Taylor, A. L. Herrick, T. Moore

Analysis of the condition of blood capillaries in the nailfold is complicated by the fact that gaps in the flow of blood cells results in temporal variability in their appearance. At a single instant...

Experimental and theoretical investigation of railway wheel squeal (2007)

Hsu, S.S., Huang, Z., Iwnicki, S.D., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C., Xie, G., ...

The tangential contact forces that arise at the interface between the wheel of a railway vehicle and the rail provide all the traction, braking, and guidance required by the vehicle. These forces are...

The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: a census of local compact galaxies (2006)

Liske, J., Driver, S. P., Allen, P. D., Cross, N. J. G., De Propris, R.

We use the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC) to study the effect of compact galaxies on the local field galaxy luminosity function. Here we observationally define as `compact' galaxies that are too...

The introduction of falling friction coefficients into curving calculations for studying curve squeal noise (2006)

Xie, G., Allen, P.D., Iwnicki, S.D., Alonso, A., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C., ...

In this paper, a method of introducing falling friction coefficients into curving simulations for studying curve squeal noise is presented. Generation of squeal at the wheel of a railway vehicle in a...

The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: On the natural sub-division of galaxies (2005)

Ellis, S. C., Driver, S. P., Allen, P. D., Liske, J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., De Propris, R.

The distribution of global photometric, spectroscopic, structural and morphological parameters for a well defined sample of 350 nearby galaxies has been examined. The usual trends were recovered...

Cepheid, Tully-Fisher and SNIa Distances (2002)

Shanks, T., Allen, P. D., Hoyle, F., Tanvir, N. R.

We first discuss why the uncomfortable fine-tuning of the parameters of the Lambda-CDM cosmological model provides continuing, strong motivation to investigate Hubble's Constant. Then we review...

Cepheid and SNIa Distance Scales (2001)

Shanks, T., Allen, P. D., Hoyle, F., Tanvir, N. R.

We first discuss why there remains continuing, strong motivation to investigate Hubble's Constant. Then we review new evidence from an investigation of the Galactic Open Clusters containing Cepheids...

Australia-Wide Calibration Facilities for Ionising Radiation Protection Monitors (1989)

Hargrave, N.J., Allen, P.D.

A nation-wide system for calibrating radiation protection monitors has been developed at the Australian Radiation Laboratory (ARL), and facilities have been installed in most Australian capital...

Photoneutron Production and Dosimetry in Tissue During High Energy Bremsstrahlung Radiotherapy (1988)

Allen, P.D., Chaudhri, M.A.

The total yield of photoneutrons from soft-tissue-equivalent material irradiated with bremsstrahlung of end point energy from 6 MeV to 28 MeV has been measured using the 35 MeV University of...

Aspects of the existentialist hero / (1985)

Allen, P. D.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Essex, 1986.

Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1/Adeno-Associated Virus rep+ Hybrid Amplicon Vector Improves the Stability of Transgene Expression in Human Cells by Site-Specific Integration

Wang, Y., Camp, S. M., Niwano, M., Shen, X., Bakowska, J. C., Breakefield, X. O., ...

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) amplicon vectors are promising gene delivery tools, but their utility in gene therapy has been impeded to some extent by their inability to achieve stable...

Skeletal actin mRNA increases in the human heart during ontogenic development and is the major isoform of control and failing adult hearts.

Boheler, K R, Carrier, L, Allen, P D, Komajda, M, Mercadier, J J, ...

Expression of the two sarcomeric actins, alpha-skeletal and alpha-cardiac, is regulated in the rodent heart in response to developmental, hormonal, and hemodynamic stimuli. Little is known in man,...

Altered sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2(+)-ATPase gene expression in the human ventricle during end-stage heart failure.

Mercadier, J J, Lompré, A M, Duc, P, Boheler, K R, Fraysse, J B, Wisnewsky, C, ...

A decrease in the myocardial level of the mRNA encoding the Ca2(+)-ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) has been recently reported during experimental cardiac hypertrophy and failure. To...

Expression of dihydropyridine receptor (Ca2+ channel) and calsequestrin genes in the myocardium of patients with end-stage heart failure.

Takahashi, T, Allen, P D, Lacro, R V, Marks, A R, Dennis, A R, Schoen, F J, ...

Cytoplasmic free calcium ions (Ca2+) play a central role in excitation-contraction coupling of cardiac muscle. Abnormal Ca2+ handling has been implicated in systolic and diastolic dysfunction in...

The human cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor-calcium release channel: identification, primary structure and topological analysis.

Tunwell, R E, Wickenden, C, Bertrand, B M, Shevchenko, V I, Walsh, M B, Allen, P D, ...

Rapid Ca2+ efflux from intracellular stores during cardiac muscle excitation-contraction coupling is mediated by the ryanodine-sensitive calcium-release channel, a large homotetrameric complex...

RYR1 and RYR3 have different roles in the assembly of calcium release units of skeletal muscle.

Protasi, F, Takekura, H, Wang, Y, Chen, S R, Meissner, G, Allen, P D, ...

Calcium release units (CRUs) are junctions between the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and exterior membranes that mediates excitation contraction (e-c) coupling in muscle cells. In skeletal muscle CRUs...

Divergent functional properties of ryanodine receptor types 1 and 3 expressed in a myogenic cell line.

Fessenden, J D, Wang, Y, Moore, R A, Chen, S R, Allen, P D, Pessah, I N

Of the three known ryanodine receptor (RyR) isoforms expressed in muscle, RyR1 and RyR2 have well-defined roles in contraction. However, studies on mammalian RyR3 have been difficult because of low...

Type 1 and type 3 ryanodine receptors generate different Ca(2+) release event activity in both intact and permeabilized myotubes.

Ward, C W, Protasi, F, Castillo, D, Wang, Y, Chen, S R, Pessah, I N, ...

In this investigation we use a "dyspedic" myogenic cell line, which does not express any ryanodine receptor (RyR) isoform, to examine the local Ca(2+) release behavior of RyR3 and RyR1 in a...

23Na and 39K nuclear magnetic resonance studies of perfused rat hearts. Discrimination of intra- and extracellular ions using a shift reagent.

Pike, M M, Frazer, J C, Dedrick, D F, Ingwall, J S, Allen, P D, Springer, C S, ...

High-resolution 23Na and 39K nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of perfused, beating rat hearts have been obtained in the absence and presence of the downfield shift reagent Dy(TTHA)3- in the...

Genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics of human heart failure

DOS REMEDIOS, C.G., LIEW, C.C., ALLEN, P.D., WINSLOW, R.L., VAN EYK, J.E., DUNN, M.J.

Unraveling the molecular complexities of human heart failure, particularly end-stage failure, can be achieved by combining multiple investigative approaches. There are several parts to the problem....

Maintenance of cardiodynamics with aspirin during abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy (AAA).

Utsunomiya, T, Krausz, M M, Dunham, B, Mannick, J A, Allen, P D, Shepro, D, ...

The importance of prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane (Tx) medication of depressed cardiac performance during abdominal aortic aneurysm operative surgery was studied by contrasting the effects of 650...

Determinants of cardiovascular stability during abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy (AAA).

Huval, W V, Lelcuk, S, Allen, P D, Mannick, J A, Shepro, D, Hechtman, H B

Patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy (AAA) develop depressed cardiac function during aortic clamping. The importance of volume status and thromboxane (Tx) mediated declines in cardiac...

Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1/Adeno-Associated Virus rep+ Hybrid Amplicon Vector Improves the Stability of Transgene Expression in Human Cells by Site-Specific Integration

Wang, Y., Camp, S. M., Niwano, M., Shen, X., Bakowska, J. C., Breakefield, X. O., ...

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) amplicon vectors are promising gene delivery tools, but their utility in gene therapy has been impeded to some extent by their inability to achieve stable...

Skeletal actin mRNA increases in the human heart during ontogenic development and is the major isoform of control and failing adult hearts.

Boheler, K R, Carrier, L, Allen, P D, Komajda, M, Mercadier, J J, ...

Expression of the two sarcomeric actins, alpha-skeletal and alpha-cardiac, is regulated in the rodent heart in response to developmental, hormonal, and hemodynamic stimuli. Little is known in man,...

Altered sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2(+)-ATPase gene expression in the human ventricle during end-stage heart failure.

Mercadier, J J, Lompré, A M, Duc, P, Boheler, K R, Fraysse, J B, Wisnewsky, C, ...

A decrease in the myocardial level of the mRNA encoding the Ca2(+)-ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) has been recently reported during experimental cardiac hypertrophy and failure. To...

Expression of dihydropyridine receptor (Ca2+ channel) and calsequestrin genes in the myocardium of patients with end-stage heart failure.

Takahashi, T, Allen, P D, Lacro, R V, Marks, A R, Dennis, A R, Schoen, F J, ...

Cytoplasmic free calcium ions (Ca2+) play a central role in excitation-contraction coupling of cardiac muscle. Abnormal Ca2+ handling has been implicated in systolic and diastolic dysfunction in...

The human cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor-calcium release channel: identification, primary structure and topological analysis.

Tunwell, R E, Wickenden, C, Bertrand, B M, Shevchenko, V I, Walsh, M B, Allen, P D, ...

Rapid Ca2+ efflux from intracellular stores during cardiac muscle excitation-contraction coupling is mediated by the ryanodine-sensitive calcium-release channel, a large homotetrameric complex...

RYR1 and RYR3 have different roles in the assembly of calcium release units of skeletal muscle.

Protasi, F, Takekura, H, Wang, Y, Chen, S R, Meissner, G, Allen, P D, ...

Calcium release units (CRUs) are junctions between the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and exterior membranes that mediates excitation contraction (e-c) coupling in muscle cells. In skeletal muscle CRUs...

Divergent functional properties of ryanodine receptor types 1 and 3 expressed in a myogenic cell line.

Fessenden, J D, Wang, Y, Moore, R A, Chen, S R, Allen, P D, Pessah, I N

Of the three known ryanodine receptor (RyR) isoforms expressed in muscle, RyR1 and RyR2 have well-defined roles in contraction. However, studies on mammalian RyR3 have been difficult because of low...

Type 1 and type 3 ryanodine receptors generate different Ca(2+) release event activity in both intact and permeabilized myotubes.

Ward, C W, Protasi, F, Castillo, D, Wang, Y, Chen, S R, Pessah, I N, ...

In this investigation we use a "dyspedic" myogenic cell line, which does not express any ryanodine receptor (RyR) isoform, to examine the local Ca(2+) release behavior of RyR3 and RyR1 in a...

23Na and 39K nuclear magnetic resonance studies of perfused rat hearts. Discrimination of intra- and extracellular ions using a shift reagent.

Pike, M M, Frazer, J C, Dedrick, D F, Ingwall, J S, Allen, P D, Springer, C S, ...

High-resolution 23Na and 39K nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of perfused, beating rat hearts have been obtained in the absence and presence of the downfield shift reagent Dy(TTHA)3- in the...

Maintenance of cardiodynamics with aspirin during abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy (AAA).

Utsunomiya, T, Krausz, M M, Dunham, B, Mannick, J A, Allen, P D, Shepro, D, ...

The importance of prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane (Tx) medication of depressed cardiac performance during abdominal aortic aneurysm operative surgery was studied by contrasting the effects of 650...

Determinants of cardiovascular stability during abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy (AAA).

Huval, W V, Lelcuk, S, Allen, P D, Mannick, J A, Shepro, D, Hechtman, H B

Patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy (AAA) develop depressed cardiac function during aortic clamping. The importance of volume status and thromboxane (Tx) mediated declines in cardiac...

Modulation of CD4 by suramin.

Allen, P D, Johnston, D H, Macey, M G, Williams, N S, Newland, A C

Suramin is a polysulphonated compound which can selectively bind to, and inhibit the activity of, a wide range of growth factors. There has been renewed interest recently in suramin as an anti-cancer...

A Transgenic Myogenic Cell Line Lacking Ryanodine Receptor Protein for Homologous Expression Studies: Reconstitution of Ry1R Protein and Function

Moore, R.A., Nguyen, H., Galceran, J., Pessah, I.N., Allen, P.D.

Abstract. CCS embryonic stem (ES) cells possessing two mutant alleles (ry1r−/ry1r−) for the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RyR) have been produced and injected subcutaneously into severely...

Coordinated Movement of Cytoplasmic and Transmembrane Domains of RyR1 upon Gating

Samsó, Montserrat, Feng, Wei, Pessah, Isaac N, Allen, P. D

Ryanodine receptor type 1 (RyR1) produces spatially and temporally defined Ca2+ signals in several cell types. How signals received in the cytoplasmic domain are transmitted to the ion gate and how...