Theses - Medicine
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Biochemical and Functional Investigations into the Contribution of SOX17 Mutations to the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare fatal disease characterised by endothelial dysfunction and obliteration of small pulmonary arteries. The resulting increase in pulmonary arterial pressure and right ventricular ... -
Neutrophil biomechanical properties and immune function in health and inflammatory disease
(2021-07-24)Low density granulocytes (LDGs) are a poorly understood class of immune cells found in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases including psoriasis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Research completed at the ... -
Modelling Human Glomerulosclerosis in vitro
Glomerulosclerosis is a feature of many chronic kidney diseases. Glomeruli are composed of glomerular endothelial cells (GECs), podocytes (PODs) and mesangial cells (MCs), and dysregulation in the interaction between these ... -
Methods for Data Management in Multi-Centre MRI Studies and Applications to Traumatic Brain Injury
Neuroimaging studies are becoming increasingly bigger, and multi-centre collaborations to collect data under similar protocols, but different scanning sites, are now commonplace.However, with increasing sample size the ...
