Spillane, A. J., Noushi, F., Cooper, R. A., Gebski, V., Uren, R. F.
Background: Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) of internal mammary nodes (IMNs) in breast cancer is controversial. Most centers rarely identify IMN on lymphoscintigraphy but others report up to 45% of cases....
Hussey, N. E., Alexander, J. C., Cooper, R. A.
We present a generalized Drude analysis of the in-plane optical conductivity $\sigma_{ab}$($T$,$\omega$) in cuprates taking into account the effects of in-plane anisotropy. A simple ansatz for the...
Proteomic Approaches to Studying Drug Targets and Resistance in Plasmodium (2006)
Ever increasing drug resistance by Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent of human malaria parasites, is creating new challenges in malaria chemotherapy. The entire genome sequences of P....
ION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE ELECTROLYTES. (2005)
Gregor, H.P., Danziger, R.M., Cooper, R.A., Brandrup, G.
Progress has been made in the preparation of low resistance 8omogeneous membranes, using poly styrenesulfonic acid as the polyelectrolyte, through the use of phenolic and epoxide cross linking...
ION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE ELECTROLYTES. (2005)
Gregor, H. P., Cooper, R. A., Danziger, R. M., Brandrup, G.
Cationic ion-exchange membranes having low ohmic resistance and low electro-osmotic water transport (particularly with the mosaic membrane types) were prepared and evaluated by a number of...
IONCY, Fort Monmouth, N. J. (2005)
Gregor, H.P., Danziger, R.M., Cooper, R.A.
Additional progress has been made in the preparation of low resistance homogeneous membranes, using polystyrene sulfonic acid as the polyelectrolyte through the use of epoxide and divinyl...
The antibacterial activity of honey against coagulase-negative staphylococci (2005)
French, Vanessa, Cooper, R. A., Molan, Peter C.
Development of antibiotic-resistant strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci has complicated the management of infections associated with the use of invasive medical devices, and innovative...
The antibacterial activity of honey against coagulase-negative staphylococci (2005)
French, V. M., Cooper, R. A., Molan, P. C.
Objectives: Development of antibiotic-resistant strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci has complicated the management of infections associated with the use of invasive medical devices, and...
The antibacterial activity of honey against coagulase-negative staphylococci (2005)
French, V. M., Cooper, R. A., Molan, P. C.
Objectives: Development of antibiotic-resistant strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci has complicated the management of infections associated with the use of invasive medical devices, and...
Comparison of Upper Limb Joint Forces During Straight Line and Turning Wheelchair Maneuvers (2003)
Lam, W. N., Mak, A., Tam, W. C., Cooper, R. A.
The objective of this study was to explore the joint kinetics of upper extremities during wheelchair maneuvers. A high incidence of musculoskeletal injuries has been reported due to the overuse and...
Cooper, R. A., Molan, Peter C., Krishnamoorthy, L, Harding, K. G.
Ancient civilizations used honey to heal wounds. Despite the rediscovery of honey by modern physicians1 its use in conventional medicine, unlike in complementary medicine, remains limited. Much...
Ordovician palaeobiogeography of Australasia (2000)
Webby, B. D., Percival, I. G., Edgecombe, G. D., Cooper, R. A., Vandenberg, A. H. M., Pickett, J. W., ...
Ordovician palaeobiogeography of Australasia (2000)
Webby, B. D., Percival, I. G., Edgecombe, G. D., Cooper, R. A., Vandenberg, A. H. M., Pickett, J. W., ...
ION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE ELECTROLYTES (1998)
GREGOR, H.P., DANZIGER, R.M., COOPER, R.A.
The development of membrane electrolytes which permit higher power per unit of weight and volume, as well as long operational life in fuel cells is discussed. More specifically, this investigation...
COOPER, R. A., MADDINENI, V. R., MIRAKHUR, R. K., BRADY, M., FITZPATRICK, K. T. J.
We have studied the onset and duration of action and pharmacokinetics of rocuronium bromide (Org 9426) during anaesthesia with nitrous oxide, fentanyl and isoflurane after a single bolus dose of...
Dwelling and hospitality : a phenomenological inquiry into therapeutic community. (1984)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University, 1984.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 1969.
Thesis (M.Sc.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 1962.
The molecular cloning and fine-structure analysis of the homoprotocatechuate (hpc) catabolic pathway genes of Escherichia coli C are described. The genes were located in two operons, hpcBCDEF and...
RNA-DNA hybridization analysis of transcription of the plasmid ColV-K30 aerobactin gene cluster.
Roberts, M, Leavitt, R W, Carbonetti, N H, Ford, S, Cooper, R A, Williams, P H
Plasmid pABN1 contains the genetic determinants for the aerobactin iron uptake system of plasmid ColV-K30. Transposon Tn1000 mutants of pABN1 defective in synthesis of a 50,000-dalton polypeptide...
When Escherichia coli K-12 was grown on gamma-aminobutyrate, a second succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, dependent upon oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide or oxidized nicotinamide adenine...
Escherichia coli K-12 mutants lacking the adenosine 5'-monophosphate-activated pyruvate kinase have been isolated accidentally and used to prepare further mutants additionally devoid of the fructose...
Genetic Studies on Ribose 5-Phosphate Isomerase Mutants of Escherichia coli K-12
A gene for the constitutive ribosephosphate isomerase (rpiA) is highly cotransducible with serA at 56.2 min on the genetic linkage map of Escherichia coli K-12. Suppression of ribosephosphate...
Various strains of Escherichia coli (but not strain K-12) were found to grow on 3-hydroxyphenylacetate and 4-hydroxyphenylacetate. Both compounds were catabolized by the same pathway, with...
Cooper, R A, Arner, E C, Wiley, J S, Shattil, S J
Cholesterol-rich membranes are the hallmark of "spur" red cells. Spur cells accumulate cholesterol from cholesterol-rich serum lipoproteins. Previous studies suggested that this added cholesterol is...
Platelet hypersensitivity induced by cholesterol incorporation.
Shattil, S J, Anaya-Galindo, R, Bennett, J, Colman, R W, Cooper, R A
Platelets from individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia show increased sensitivity to the aggregating atents, epinephrine and ADP. Since the mechanism of this abnormal sensitivity is unknown,...
Effect of corticosteroids on the human monocyte IgG and complement receptors.
Schreiber, A D, Parsons, J, McDermott, P, Cooper, R A
A quantitative in vitro assay was employed to directly assess the effect of corticosteroids on the IgG and complement receptor function of human mononuclear phagocytic cells. In this system...
The role of membrane lipids in the survival of red cells in hereditary spherocytosis
Red cells in hereditary spherocytosis (HS) have a decreased ratio of membrane surface area to cell volume and therefore a spheroidal shape. This abnormality in shape predisposes them to pooling and...
Anemia with spur cells: a red cell defect acquired in serum and modified in the circulation
The sera and red cells of three patients with severe liver disease and “spur cells” were studied. In each case the per cent of serum cholesterol which was free (unesterified) was elevated, and...
Loss of Membrane Components in the Pathogenesis of Antibody-Induced Spherocytosis
The infusion of hyperimmune agglutinating antibodies into man or animals causes spherocytosis and hemolysis. The mechanism of spherocytosis was studied in rats given rabbit anti-rat red cell...
Phorbol ester induction of leukemic cell differentiation is a membrane-mediated process.
Cooper, R A, Braunwald, A D, Kuo, A L
Phorbol esters are potent inducers of macrophage-like differentiation in the HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cell line. The sequence of events by which they bring about this transition is poorly...
Cellular cholesterol ester accumulation induced by free cholesterol-rich lipid dispersions.
Arbogast, L Y, Rothblat, G H, Leslie, M H, Cooper, R A
The influence of lipoprotein composition on free cholesterol (RC) esterification and accumulation of esterified cholesterol (EC) was studied in cells of Fu5AH rat hepatoma exposed to culture media...
Cooper, R A, Knowles, P F, Brown, D E, McGuirl, M A, Dooley, D M
The cofactors present in a amine oxidase induced in Escherichia coli K-12 by growth on 2-phenylethylamine have been studied by spectroscopic methods. E.s.r. spectroscopy establishes the presence of...
Formation in vitro of the 3,4,6-trihydroxyphenylalanine quinone cofactor.
Hanlon, S P, Carpenter, K, Hassan, A, Cooper, R A
An Escherichia coli K-12 2-phenylethylamine oxidase gene with a mutated leader sequence region produced a largely inactive form of the enzyme in the cytoplasm. This form of the enzyme was activated...
The purification and properties of Escherichia coli methylglyoxal synthase
1. Methylglyoxal synthase was purified over 1500-fold from glycerol-grown Escherichia coli K 12 strain CA 244. The purified enzyme was inactivated by heat or proteolysis, had a molecular weight of...
The utilization of aconate and itaconate by Micrococcus sp
Cooper, R. A., Itiaba, K., Kornberg, H. L.
1. An organism, identified as Micrococcus sp., was isolated by elective culture on aconate; it also grew on itaconate. 2. Washed suspensions of the aconate-grown organism readily oxidized...
Antibacterial activity of honey against strains of Staphylococcus aureus from infected wounds.
Cooper, R A, Molan, P C, Harding, K G
The antibacterial action of honey in infected wounds does not depend wholly on its high osmolarity. We tested the sensitivity of 58 strains of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus, isolated from...
Perks, W H, Horrocks, P M, Cooper, R A, Bradbury, S, Allen, A, Baldock, N, ...
Day time somnolence or excessive snoring, or both, occurred in five out of 11 patients with acromegaly. All five had episodes of sleep apnoea, and three had the sleep apnoea syndrome. Growth hormone...
The molecular cloning and fine-structure analysis of the homoprotocatechuate (hpc) catabolic pathway genes of Escherichia coli C are described. The genes were located in two operons, hpcBCDEF and...
RNA-DNA hybridization analysis of transcription of the plasmid ColV-K30 aerobactin gene cluster.
Roberts, M, Leavitt, R W, Carbonetti, N H, Ford, S, Cooper, R A, Williams, P H
Plasmid pABN1 contains the genetic determinants for the aerobactin iron uptake system of plasmid ColV-K30. Transposon Tn1000 mutants of pABN1 defective in synthesis of a 50,000-dalton polypeptide...
When Escherichia coli K-12 was grown on gamma-aminobutyrate, a second succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, dependent upon oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide or oxidized nicotinamide adenine...
Escherichia coli K-12 mutants lacking the adenosine 5'-monophosphate-activated pyruvate kinase have been isolated accidentally and used to prepare further mutants additionally devoid of the fructose...
Genetic Studies on Ribose 5-Phosphate Isomerase Mutants of Escherichia coli K-12
A gene for the constitutive ribosephosphate isomerase (rpiA) is highly cotransducible with serA at 56.2 min on the genetic linkage map of Escherichia coli K-12. Suppression of ribosephosphate...
Various strains of Escherichia coli (but not strain K-12) were found to grow on 3-hydroxyphenylacetate and 4-hydroxyphenylacetate. Both compounds were catabolized by the same pathway, with...
Cooper, R A, Arner, E C, Wiley, J S, Shattil, S J
Cholesterol-rich membranes are the hallmark of "spur" red cells. Spur cells accumulate cholesterol from cholesterol-rich serum lipoproteins. Previous studies suggested that this added cholesterol is...
Platelet hypersensitivity induced by cholesterol incorporation.
Shattil, S J, Anaya-Galindo, R, Bennett, J, Colman, R W, Cooper, R A
Platelets from individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia show increased sensitivity to the aggregating atents, epinephrine and ADP. Since the mechanism of this abnormal sensitivity is unknown,...
Effect of corticosteroids on the human monocyte IgG and complement receptors.
Schreiber, A D, Parsons, J, McDermott, P, Cooper, R A
A quantitative in vitro assay was employed to directly assess the effect of corticosteroids on the IgG and complement receptor function of human mononuclear phagocytic cells. In this system...
The role of membrane lipids in the survival of red cells in hereditary spherocytosis
Red cells in hereditary spherocytosis (HS) have a decreased ratio of membrane surface area to cell volume and therefore a spheroidal shape. This abnormality in shape predisposes them to pooling and...
Anemia with spur cells: a red cell defect acquired in serum and modified in the circulation
The sera and red cells of three patients with severe liver disease and “spur cells” were studied. In each case the per cent of serum cholesterol which was free (unesterified) was elevated, and...
Loss of Membrane Components in the Pathogenesis of Antibody-Induced Spherocytosis
The infusion of hyperimmune agglutinating antibodies into man or animals causes spherocytosis and hemolysis. The mechanism of spherocytosis was studied in rats given rabbit anti-rat red cell...
Phorbol ester induction of leukemic cell differentiation is a membrane-mediated process.
Cooper, R A, Braunwald, A D, Kuo, A L
Phorbol esters are potent inducers of macrophage-like differentiation in the HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cell line. The sequence of events by which they bring about this transition is poorly...
Cellular cholesterol ester accumulation induced by free cholesterol-rich lipid dispersions.
Arbogast, L Y, Rothblat, G H, Leslie, M H, Cooper, R A
The influence of lipoprotein composition on free cholesterol (RC) esterification and accumulation of esterified cholesterol (EC) was studied in cells of Fu5AH rat hepatoma exposed to culture media...
Cooper, R A, Knowles, P F, Brown, D E, McGuirl, M A, Dooley, D M
The cofactors present in a amine oxidase induced in Escherichia coli K-12 by growth on 2-phenylethylamine have been studied by spectroscopic methods. E.s.r. spectroscopy establishes the presence of...
Formation in vitro of the 3,4,6-trihydroxyphenylalanine quinone cofactor.
Hanlon, S P, Carpenter, K, Hassan, A, Cooper, R A
An Escherichia coli K-12 2-phenylethylamine oxidase gene with a mutated leader sequence region produced a largely inactive form of the enzyme in the cytoplasm. This form of the enzyme was activated...
The purification and properties of Escherichia coli methylglyoxal synthase
1. Methylglyoxal synthase was purified over 1500-fold from glycerol-grown Escherichia coli K 12 strain CA 244. The purified enzyme was inactivated by heat or proteolysis, had a molecular weight of...
The utilization of aconate and itaconate by Micrococcus sp
Cooper, R. A., Itiaba, K., Kornberg, H. L.
1. An organism, identified as Micrococcus sp., was isolated by elective culture on aconate; it also grew on itaconate. 2. Washed suspensions of the aconate-grown organism readily oxidized...
Antibacterial activity of honey against strains of Staphylococcus aureus from infected wounds.
Cooper, R A, Molan, P C, Harding, K G
The antibacterial action of honey in infected wounds does not depend wholly on its high osmolarity. We tested the sensitivity of 58 strains of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus, isolated from...
Perks, W H, Horrocks, P M, Cooper, R A, Bradbury, S, Allen, A, Baldock, N, ...
Day time somnolence or excessive snoring, or both, occurred in five out of 11 patients with acromegaly. All five had episodes of sleep apnoea, and three had the sleep apnoea syndrome. Growth hormone...
Bensouyad, A, Hollander, A P, Dularay, B, Bedwell, A E, Cooper, R A, Hutton, C W, ...
The dimethylmethylene blue assay showed higher concentrations of glycosaminoglycans in many synovial fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) than in autologous sera or sera or synovial...
Sleep apnoea in Scheie's syndrome.
Perks, W H, Cooper, R A, Bradbury, S, Horrocks, P, Baldock, N, Allen, A, ...
An 18-year-old student presented with a two-year history of daytime sleepiness and noisy breathing during sleep. Both he and his brother, aged 25 years, had Scheie's syndrome, a mucopolysaccharidosis...
Acyclovir treatment of herpes simplex encephalitis: experience in a district hospital.
Gulliford, M. C., Chandrasekera, C. P., Cooper, R. A., Murphy, R. P.
Herpes simplex encephalitis may be underdiagnosed in Britain. We report eight patients treated at one hospital over three years. Fever, impaired consciousness or focal neurological signs were seen in...
Studies in early paleozoic historical geology, biostratigraphy and evolution.
Papers published between 1970 and 1992 submitted for D.Sc. thesis (Geology) - Victoria University of Wellington, 1992.
Effective treatment of anal cancer in the elderly with low-dose chemoradiotherapy
Charnley, N, Choudhury, A, Chesser, P, Cooper, R A, Sebag-Montefiore, D
Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is accepted as the standard initial treatment for squamous cell anal cancer. However, frail elderly patients cannot always tolerate full-dose CRT. This paper reports the...
Cooper, R A, West, C M L, Wilks, D P, Logue, J P, Davidson, S E, Roberts, S A, ...
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between intrinsic radiosensitivity and vascularity in carcinoma of the cervix given radiotherapy, and assess whether more refined prognostic...
Sheridan, M T, West, C M L, Cooper, R A, Stratford, I J, Logue, J P, Davidson, S E, ...
A relationship between hypoxia and apoptosis has been identified in vitro and in experimental tumours. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between apoptosis, hypoxia and the...
Loncaster, J A, Cooper, R A, Logue, J P, Davidson, S E, Hunter, R D, West, C M L
The aim of the study was to evaluate VEGF expression in tumour biopsies as a prognostic factor for radiotherapy outcome in advanced carcinoma of the cervix. A retrospective study was carried out on...