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Publications: 2008

Book Chapters

  1. Black, JL, Burgess, JK, Oliver, BGG, Moir LM, (2008) “Altered properties of airway smooth muscle in asthma” in: Airway Smooth Muscle in Asthma and COPD, Biology and Pharmacology, ed. K Fan Chung. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

Refereed journal articles

  1. **Abdel-Halim H, **Hanrahan JR, **Hibbs DE, Johnston GAR and **Chebib M (2008) A molecular basis for agonist and antagonist actions at GABA-C receptors, Chemical Biology and Drug Design, 71, 306-327
  2. Burgess JK, Lee JH, Ge Q, Ramsay EE, Poniris MH, Parmentier J, Roth M, Johnson PRA, Hunt NH, Black JL, Ammit AJ (2008) Dual ERK and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathways control airway smooth muscle proliferation: differences in asthma. J Cell Physiol 216(3):673-679
  3. *Brancatisano T, *Wahlroos S, Matthews, S and *Brancatisano R (2008). Gastric Banding for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the morbidly obese. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 4, 423-429
  4. **Carland JE, Johnston GAR and **Chebib M (2008) Relative impact of residues at the intracellular and extracellular ends of the human GABA-C rho1 receptor M2 domain on picrotoxinin activity, European Journal of Pharmacology, 580, 27-35
  5. **Chebib M, **Hanrahan JR, **Kumar RJ, Mewett KN, **Morriss G, **Wooller S and Johnston GAR (2008) (3-Aminocyclopentyl)methylphosphinic acids: Novel GABA-C receptor antagonists, Neuropharmacology, 52, 779-787
  6. *Comis A, *Tyler M, Mylecharane E, Spence I and *Howden M (2009)
    Immunization with a synthetic robustoxin derivative lacking disulphide bridges protects against a potentially lethal challenge with funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) venom. Journal of Biosciences, 34, 35-44
  7. *Double KL, *Dedov VN, Fedorow H, *Kettle E, *Halliday GM, *Garner B*, Brunk UT; (2008) The comparative biology of neuromelanin and lipofuscin in the human brain. Cell Mol Life Sci, 65, 1669-1682
  8. Fernandez SP, Mewett KN, **Hanrahan JR, **Chebib M, Johnston GAR (2008) Flavan-3-ol derivatives are positive modulators of GABA-A receptors with higher efficacy for the alpha2 subtype and anxiolytic action in mice, Neuropharmacology, 95, 900-907
  9. Hinton T, **Chebib M and Johnston GAR (2008) Enantioselective actions of 4-amino-3-hydroxybutanoic acid and (3-amino-2-hydroxypropyl)methylphosphinic acid at recombinant GABA-C receptors, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 18, 402-404
  10. Hinton T and Johnston GAR (2008) The role of GABA-A receptors in schizophrenia. Cell Science Reviews, 5, 180-194
  11. Holland ML, Allen JD and Arnold JC (2008) Interaction of plant cannabinoids with the multidrug transporter ABCC1, European Journal of Pharmacology, 591, 128-131
  12. Hostettler KE, Roth M, Burgess JK, Gencay MM, Gambazzi F, Black JL, Tamm M, Borger P (2008) Airway epithelium-derived transforming growth factor-beta is a regulator of fibroblast proliferation in both fibrotic and normal subjects. Clin Exp Allergy 38(8):1309-1317.
  13. *Huynh KB, Oliver BG, *Stelzer S, *Rawlinson WD and **Tovey ER (2008) A new method for sampling and detection of exhaled respiratory virus aerosols. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 46, 93-95
  14. **Ittner LM, **Fath T, **Ke YD, **Bi M, **van Eersel J, Li KM, **Gunning P and **Gotz J (2008) Parkinsonism and impaired axonal transport in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia (pnas.0808084105). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 1051, 15997-16002
  15. **Kumar RJ, **Chebib M, **Hibbs DE, **Kim H-L, Johnston GAR, **Salam NK and **Hanrahan JR (2008) Novel gamma-aminobutyric acid rho1 receptor antagonists; Synthesis, pharmacological activity and structure activity relationships, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 51, 3825-3840
  16. Leaver KR, Allbutt HN, Creber NJ, Kassiou M. Henderson JM (2008) Neuroprotective effects of a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate NR2B receptor antagonist in the 6-hydroxydopamine rat model of Parkinson's disease, Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology & Physiology. 35, 1388-94
  17. McLachlan CS, Almsherqu Z, Deng Y, Matthews S, Mossop P (2008). Vitamin C and mitochrondrial uncoupling protein in enhanced dobutamine myocardial contractility. American Heart Journal, 155, e29
  18. Moir LM, Burgess JK, Black JL. (2008) Transforming Growth Factor-β1 increases fibronectin deposition via integrin receptor α5β1 on human airway smooth muscle. J Allergy Clin Immun 121(4):1034-1039.
  19. Oliver BG, Lim S, Wark P, Laza-Stanca V, King NJ, Black JL, Burgess JK, Roth M, Johnston SL. (2008) Rhinovirus exposure impairs immune responses to bacterial products in human alveolar macrophages. Thorax 63(3):519-525
  20. **Quinn HR, **Matsumoto I, Callaghan PD, **Long LE, Arnold JC, Gunasekaran N, **Thompson MR, **Dawson B, **Mallet PE, **Kashem MA, **Matsuda-Matsumoto H, **Iwazaki T and **McGregor IS (2008) Adolescent rats find repeated Delta(9)-THC less aversive than adult rats but display greater residual cognitive deficits and changes in hippocampal protein expression following exposure, Neuropsychopharmacology. 33, 1113-1126
  21. Sedaghat K, Shen PJ, Finkelstein DI, Henderson JM, Gundlach AL (2008) Leucine-rich repeat containing G protein coupled receptor 8 (LGR8) in the rat brain: enrichment in thalamic neurons and their efferent projections. Neuroscience, 156, 319-333
  22. Skilbeck KJ, Hinton T and Johnston GAR (2008) Sex-differences and stress: effects on regional high and low affinity [3H]GABA binding. Neurochemistry International, 52, 1212-1219
  23. Skillbeck KJ, O'Reilly JN, Johnston GAR and Hinton T (2008) Antipsychotic drug administration differentially affects [3H]muscimol and [3H]flunitrazepam GABA-A receptor binding sites. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 32, 492-498
  24. Vandenberg R, Huang S, Ryan R. (2008) Slips, leaks and channels in glutamate transporters. Channels (Austin, Tex.) 2, 51-58
  25. Van Dijk A, Johnston C, Allbutt H, Kassiou M, Henderson JM (2008) Behavioural effects of trishomocubanes in rats with unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions. Behavioural Brain Research, 190, 14-21
  26. Weckman M, Trian T, Oliver B (2008) Reconstruction is not renovation - the role of remodeling in asthma. Journal of Asthma and Allergy (in press, accepted 21/11/08)
  27. Zuyderduyn S, Sukkar MB, Fust A, Dhaliwal S, Burgess JK (2008) Treating asthma means treating airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells. European Respiratory Journal, 32:265-274.
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Other Publications

  1. *Green AR, *Marsden CA and Mylecharane EJ (2008) Editorial: The Serotonin Club: coming of age. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 29, 431-432
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*Not a member of the University of Sydney