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.
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
December 2010 (PDF - 810KB)
Alveolar macrophages stimulate enhanced cytokine production by pulmonary CD4+ T-lymphocytes in an exacerbation of murine chronic asthma
Authors: Cristan Herbert, Melissa M. Scott, Kim H. Scruton, Rylie P. Keogh, Kristy C. Yuan, Kenneth Hsu, Jessica S. Siegle, Nicodemus Tedla, Paul S. Foster, and Rakesh K. Kumar
November 2010 (PDF – 175KB)
Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs b-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring, Nature 467: 963-967.
Authors: Sheau-Fang Ng, Ruby Lin, D. Ross Laybutt, Romain Barres, Julie Owens and Margaret Morris
October 2010 (PDF – 760KB)
Pancreatic stellate cells produce acetylcholine and may play a role in pancreatic exocrine secretion, (PNAS) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107 (40): 17397–402.
Authors: Phoebe Phillips, Lu Yang, Arthur Shulkes, Alain Vonlaufen, Anne Poljak, Sonia Bustamante, Alessandra Warren, Zhihong Xu, Michael Guilhaus, Romano Pirola, Minoti Apte, and Jeremy Wilson
September 2010 (PDF – 434KB)
Surgical anatomy of the uterosacral ligament, Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. Sept, 21 (9): 1123-8.
Authors: D Vu, BT Haylen, K Tse, and A Farnsworth
August 2010 (PDF – 383KB)
Soluble LILRA3, a Potential Natural Anti-inflammatory Protein, Is Increased in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Is Tightly Regulated by Interleukin 10, Tumor Necrosis Factor-α, and Interferon-γ, The Journal of Rheumatology, 37: 8; doi:10.3899/jrheum.091119.
Authors: Hongyan An, Vasudha Chandra, Barbara Piraino, Luis Borges, Carolyn Geczy, H. Patrick Mcneil, Katherine Bryant and Nicodemus Tedla
July 2010 (PDF – 456KB)
Voluntary exercise and palatable high-fat diet both improve behavioural profile and stress responses in male rats exposed to early life stress: Role of hippocampus, Psychoneuroendocrinology doi:10.1016/ j.psyneuen.2010.05.012.
Authors: Jayanthi Maniam and Margaret J. Morris
June 2010 (PDF – 648KB)
External divalent cations increase anion–cation permeability ratio in glycine receptor channels, Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, 460 (1): 131-152.
Authors: Silas Sugiharto, Jane E. Carland, Trevor M. Lewis, Andrew J. Moorhouse and Peter H. Barry
May 2010 (PDF – 1.85MB)
S-glutathionylation regulates inflammatory activities of S100A9, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285 (19): 14377-88.
Authors: S.Y. Lim, M.J. Raftery, J. Goyette, C.L. Geczy
April 2010 (PDF – 507KB)
Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from southern Africa, Science, 328: 205-209.
Authors: P.H.D.M. Dirks, J.N. Kibii, B.F. Kuhn, C. Steininger, S.E. Churchill, J.D. Kramers, R. Pickering, D.L. Farber, S-A. Mériaux, A.I.R. Herries, G.C.P. King, L.R. Berger
March 2010 (PDF – 738KB)
New aspects of tropomyosin-regulated neuritogenesis revealed by the deletion of Tm5NM1 and 2, European Journal of Cell Biology, 89 (7): 489-498.
Authors: Thomas Fath, Yee-Ka Agnes Chan, Bernadette Vrhovski, Hamish Clarke, Nikki Curthoys, Jeff Hook, Frances Lemckert, Galina Schevzov, Patrick Tam, Catherine Watson, Poh-Lynn Khoo and Peter Gunning
February 2010 (PDF – 634KB)
The Evolutionary Dynamics of a Rapidly Mutating Virus within and between Hosts: The Case of Hepatitis C Virus, PLoS Computational Biology, 5 (11): e1000565. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000565.
Authors: Fabio Luciani and Samuel Alizon
January 2010 (PDF – 1.08MB)
Early-life viral infection and allergen exposure interact to induce an asthmatic phenotype in mice, Respiratory Research, 11:14 doi:10.1186/1465-9921-11-14
Authors: Jessica Siegle, Nicole Hansbro, Cristan Herbert, Helene Rosenberg, Joseph Domachowske, Kelly Asquith, Paul Foster and Rakesh Kumar