Paper of the Month
This award was instigated by the Research Committee in July 2004 to promote and reward quality research within SOMS.
Criteria for selection:
- The first author must be a member of staff or a student in the School of Medical Sciences and must acknowledge their affiliation with SOMS
- The paper must meet the DEST criteria for a category C publication (published in a scholarly journal, peer reviewed original research, i.e. not a review) from work done in SOMS
- Where applicable the submission should include a short statement of merit:
- The impact factor of the journal
- The standing of the journal in its field
- The first paper of a Postgraduate or Honours student
- A publication in a new field or with new collaboration, etc.
- Editorial comment
- Article featured on the journal cover
Papers must be submitted to
Marie Kwok by the 3rd of the month following publication.
April 2012
GIRK2 expression in dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area. Journal of Comparative Neurology, DOI 10.1002/cne.23051
Authors: Stefanie Reyes, Yuhong Fu, Kay Double, Lachlan Thompson, Deniz Kirik, George Paxinos and Glenda Halliday
March 2012
Disruption of MEF2C signaling and loss of sarcomeric and mitochondrial integrity in cancer-induced skeletal muscle wasting. Aging, February 2012, Vol. 4 No. 2, 133-143
Authors: Angie Shum, Theodore Mahendradatta, Ryland Taylor, Arran Painter, Melissa Moore, Maria Tsoli, Timothy Tan, Stephen Clarke, Graham Robertson and Patsie Polly
February 2012
Spatial characterization of the motor neuron columns supplying the rat forelimb. Neuroscience (article in press)
Authors: A. P. Tosolini and Renee Morris
January 2012
Hypertrophy and dietary tyrosine ameliorate the phenotypes of a mouse model of severe nemaline myopathy. Brain 2011: 134; 3516–3529
Authors: Mai-Anh T. Nguyen, Josephine E. Joya, Anthony J. Kee, Ana Domazetovska, Nan Yang, Jeff W. Hook, Frances A. Lemckert, Emma Kettle, Valentina A. Valova, Philip J. Robinson, Kathryn N. North, Peter W. Gunning, Christina A. Mitchell and Edna C. Hardeman
December 2011 (PDF - 233KB)
Early Hypothalamic FTO Overexpression in Response to Maternal Obesity – Potential Contribution to Postweaning Hyperphagia, PLoS ONE 6(9): e25261. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025261
Authors: Vanni Caruso, Hui Chen, Margaret J. Morris
November 2011 (PDF - 779KB)
Sequential Bottlenecks Drive Viral Evolution in Early Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection, PLoS Pathogen,7 (9): e1002243
Authors: Rowena Bull, Fabio Luciani, Kerensa McElroy, Silvana Gaudieri, Son Pham, Abha Chopra, Barbara Cameron, Lisa Maher, Gregory Dore, Peter White, Andrew Lloyd
October 2011 (PDF - 505KB)
Neural basis of music knowledge: evidence from the dementias, Brain, 134: 2523-2534
Authors: Sharpley Hsieh, Michael Hornberger, Olivier Piguet and John Hodges
September 2011 (PDF - 1.41MB) -
joint winner
Hemokinin-1 stimulates prostaglandin E2 production in human colon through activation of cyclooxygenase-2 and inhibition of 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (JPET), doi:10.1124/jpet.111.186155
Authors: Liying Dai, D Shevy Perera, Denis King, Bridget Southwell, Elizabeth Burcher and Lu Liu
September 2011 (PDF - 2.05MB) -
joint winner
Exploring DNA Topoisomerase I Ligand Space in Search of Novel Anticancer Agents, PLoS ONE, 6(9): e25150
Authors: Malgorzata Drwal, Keli Agama, Laurence Wakelin, Yves Pommier, Renate Griffith
August 2011 (PDF - 1.51MB)
Effect of alginate encapsulation on the cellular transcriptome of human islets, Biomaterials,doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.06.044
Authors: Vijayaganapathy Vaithilingam, Nayeem Quayum, Mugdha Joglekar, Jan Jensen, Anandwardhan Hardikar, Jose Oberholzer, Gilles Guillemin, Bernard Tuch
July 2011 (PDF - 501KB)
Tubuloglomerular feedback response in the prenatal and postnatal ovine kidney, Am J Physiol Renal Physiol; 300 F1368-F1374
Authors: Russell D. Brown, Anita J. Turner, Mattias Carlström, A. Erik G. Persson, and Karen J. Gibson
June 2011 (PDF - 870KB)
A novel structural framework for α1A/D-adrenoceptor selective antagonists identified using subtype selective pharmacophores, PLoS ONE 6(5): e19695
Authors: Emily S. Stoddart, Sevvandi Senadheera, Iain J. A. MacDougall, Renate Griffith, and Angela M. Finch
May 2011 (PDF - 1.23MB)
Age related changes in NAD+ metabolism oxidative stress and sirt1 activity in Wistar rats, PLoS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019194
Authors: Nady Braidy, Gilles J. Guillemin, Hussein Mansour, Tailoi Chan-Ling, Anne Poljak, and Ross Grant
April 2011 (PDF - 1.35MB)
A reassessment of stress-induced "analgesia" in the rat using an unbiased method, Pain 152: 676–686
Authors: Pascal Carrive, Maxim Churyukanov, and Daniel Le Bars
March 2011 (PDF - 2.51MB)
Ophthalmic pterygium - A stem cell disorder with premalignant features, American Journal of Pathology, 178(2): 817–27
Authors: Jeanie Chui, Minas T. Coroneo, Lien T. Tat, Roger Crouch, Denis Wakefield, and Nick Di Girolamo
February 2011 (PDF - 1.66MB)
Interleukin-17 contributes to neuroinflammation and neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury in mice, Journal of Pain, doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2010.08.003
Authors: Cristina F. Kim and Gila Moalem-Taylor
January 2011 (PDF - 2.82MB)
Role of pancreatic stellate cells in pancreatic cancer metastasis, American Journal of Pathology, 77(5): 2568-96
Authors: Zhihong Xu, Alain Vonlaufen, Phoebe Phillips, Eva Fiala-Beer, Xuguo Zhang, Lu Yang, Andrew Biankin, David Goldstein, Romano Pirola, Jeremy Wilson, and Minoti Apte