Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders, Centre for

Journal Articles

Agrawal, P.B., Strickland, C.D., Midgett, C., Morales, A., Newburger, D.E., Poulos, M.A., Tomczak, K.K., Ryan, M.M., Iannaccone, S.T., Crawford, T.O., Laing, N.G. and Beggs, A.H. Heterogeneity of Nemaline Myopathy Cases with Skeletal Muscle α-Actin Gene Mutations, Annals of Neurology, 56: pp 86-96 (2004)

Arthur, P.G., Lim, S.C.C., Meloni, B.P., Munns, S.E., Chan, A. and Knuckey, N.W. The protective effect of hypoxic preconditioning on cortical neuronal cultures is associated with increases in the activity of several antioxidant enzymes, Brain Research, 1017: pp 146-154 (2004)

Bonnemann, C.G. and Laing, N.G. Myopathies resulting from mutations in sarcomeric proteins, Current Opinion in Neurology, 17: pp 529-537 (2004)

Buss, A., Brook, G.A., Kakulas, B.A., Martin, D., Franzen, R., Schoene, J., Noth, J. and Schmitt, A.B. Gradual loss of myelin and formation of an astrocytic scar during Wallerian degeneration in the human spinal cord, Brain, 127: pp 34-44 (2004)

Costa, C.F., Rommelaere, H., Waterschoot, D., Sethi, K.K., Nowak, K.J., Laing, N.G., Ampe, C. and Machesky, L.M. Myopathy mutations in α-skeletal-muscle actin cause a range of molecular defects, Journal of Cell Science, 117: pp 3367-3377 (2004)

Edwards, D.J., Thickbroom, G.W., Byrnes, M.L., Ghosh, S. and Mastaglia, F.L. Temporal aspects of passive movement-related corticomotor inhibition, Human Movement Science, 23: pp 379-387 (2004)

Ghosh, S., Koh, A.H. and Ring, A. Comparison of electrical thresholds for evoking movements from sensori-motor areas of the cat cerebral cortex and its relation to motor training, Somatosensory and Motor Research, 21:2, pp 99-115 (2004)

Goebel, H.H., Brockmann, K., Bonnemann, C.G., Warlo, I.A.P., Hanefeld, F., Labeit, S., Durling, H.J. and Laing, N.G. Actin-Related Myopathy Without Any Missense Mutation in the ACTA1 Gene, Journal of Child Neurology, 19: pp 149-153 (2004)

Hammond, G.R., Faulkner, D.L., Byrnes, M.L., Mastaglia, F.L. and Thickbroom, G.W. Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals asymmetrical efficacy of intracortical circuits in primary motor cortex, Experimenal Brain Research, 155: pp 19-23 (2004)

Hijjawi, N.S., Meloni, B.P., Ng'anzo, M., Ryan, U.M., Olson, M.E., Cox, P.T., Monis, P.T. and Thompson, R.C.A. Complete development of Cryptosporidium parvum in host cell-free culture, International Journal of Parasitology, 34: pp 769-777 (2004)

Ilkovski, B., Nowak, K.J., Domazetovska, A., Maxwell, A.L., Clement, S., Davies, K.E., Laing, N.G., North, K.N. and Cooper, S.T. Evidence for a dominant-negative effect in ACTA1 nemaline myopathy caused by abnormal folding, aggregation and altered polymerization of mutant actin isoforms, Human Molecular Genetics, 13:16, pp 1727-1743 (2004)

Jungbluth, H., Sewry, C.A., Counsell, S., Allsop, J., Chattopadhyay, A., Mercuir, E., North, K., Laing, N.G., Bydder, G., Pelin, K., Wallgren-Pettersson, C. and Muntoni, F. Magnetic resonance imaging of muscle in nemaline myopathy, Neuromuscular Disorders, 14: pp 779-784 (2004)

Jungbluth, H., Davis, M.R., Muller, C., Counsell, S., Allsop, J., Chattopadhyay, A., Messina, S., Mercuri, E., Laing, N.G., Sewry, C.A., Bydder, G. and Muntoni, F. Magnetic resonance imaging of muscle in congenital myopathies associated with RYR1 mutations, Neuromuscular Disorders, 14: pp 785-790 (2004)

Kakulas, B.A. Neuropathology: the foundation for new treatments in spinal cord injury, Spinal Cord, 42: pp 549-563 (2004)

Laing, N.G., Clarke, N.F., Dye, D.E., Liyanage, K., Walker, K.R., Kobayashi, Y., Shimakawa, S., Hagiwara, T., Ouvrier, R., Sparrow, J.C., Nishino, I., North, K.M. and Nonaka, I. Actin Mutations Are One Cause of Congenital Fibre Type Disproportion, Annals of Neurology, 56: pp 689-694 (2004)

Lamont, P.J., Thorburn, D.R., Fabian, V., Vajsar, J., Hawkins, C., Saada, A., Durling, H., Laing, N.G. and Nevo, Y. Nemaline Rods and Complex I Deficiency in Three Infants with Hypotonia, Motor Delay and Failure to Thrive, Neuropediatrics, 35: pp 302-306 (2004)

Lamont, P.J., Jacob, R.L., Mastaglia, F.L. and Laing, N.G. An expansion of the ZNF9 gene causes PROMM in a previously described family with an incidental CLCN1 mutation, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 75: p 343 (2004)

Li, Y.J., Hauser, M.A., Scott, W.K., Martin, E.R., Booze, M.W., Qin, X.J., Walter, J.W., Nance, M.A., Hubble, J.P., Koller, W.C., Pahwa, R., Stern, M.B., Hiner, B.C., Jankovic, J., Goetz, C.G., Small, G.W., Mastaglia, F.L., Haines, J.L., Pericak-Vance, M.A. and Vance, J.M. Apolipoprotein E controls the risk and age at onset of Parkinson disease, Neurology, 62: pp 2005-2009 (2004)

Meredith, C., Herrmann, R., Parry, C., Liyanage, K., Dye, D.E., Durling, H.J., Duff, R.M., Beckman, S.K., de Visser, M., van der Graaf, M.M., Hedera, P., Fink, J.K., Petty, E.M., Lamont, P., Fabian, V., Bridges, L., Voit, T., Mastaglia, F.L. and Laing, N.G. Mutations in the Slow Skeletal Muscle Fiber Myosin Heavy Chain Gene (MYH7) Cause Laing Early-Onset Distal Myopathy (MPD1), American Journal of Human Genetics, 75: pp 703-708 (2004)

Nowak, K.J. and Davies, K.E. Duchenne muscular dystrophy and dystrophin: pathogenesis and opportunities for treatment, EMBO reports, 5: pp 872-876 (2004)

Price, P., Santoso, L., Mastaglia, F.L., Garlepp, M., Kok, C.C., Allcock, R. and Laing, N.G. Two major histocompatibility complex haplotypes influence susceptibility to sporadic inclusion body myositis: critical evaluation of an association with HLA-DR3, Tissue Antigens, 64: pp 575-580 (2004)

Ring, A., Rajandran, H., Harvey, A.R. and Ghosh, S. Changes in electrical thresholds for evoking movements from the cat cerebral cortex following lesions of the sensori-motor area, Somatosensory and Motor Research, 21:2, pp 117-136 (2004)

Schroder, J.M., Durling, H.J. and Laing, N.G. Actin myopathy with nemaline bodies, intranuclear rods, and a heterozygous mutation in ACTA1 (Asp154Asn), Acta Neuropathologica, 108: pp 250-256 (2004)

Thickbroom, G.W., Byrnes, M.L., Archer, S.R. and Mastaglia, F.L. Motor outcome after subcortical stroke correlates with the degree of cortical reorganization, Clinical Neurophysiology, 115: pp 2144-2150 (2004)

Thickbroom, G.W., Byrnes, M.L., Morris, I.T., Fallon, M.J., Knuckey, N.W. and Mastaglia, F.L. Functional MRI near vascular anomalies: comparison of cavernoma and arteriovenous malformation, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 11:8, pp 845-848 (2004)

Wallgren-Pettersson, C., Pelin, K., Nowak, K.J., Muntoni, F., Romero, N.B., Goebel, H.H., North, K.N., Beggs, A.H. and Laing, N.G. Genotype-phenotype correlations in nemaline myopathy caused by mutations in the genes for nebuline and skeletal muscle α-actin, Neuromuscular Disorders, 14: pp 461-470 (2004)

Zhu, H., Meloni, B.P., Moore, S.R., Majda, B.T. and Knuckey, N.W. Intravenous administration of magnesium is only neuroprotective following transient global ischemia when present with post-ischemic mild hypothermia, Brain Research, 1014: pp 53-60 (2004)

Zhu, H., Martin, R., Meloni, B., Oltvolgyi, C., Moore, S., Majda, B. and Knuckey, N. Magnesium sulfate fails to reduce infarct volume following transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats, Neuroscience Research, 49: pp 347-353 (2004)