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:

Papers must be submitted to Marie Kwok by the 3rd of the month following publication.

September 2009 (PDF – 2.2MB)
Rapid somatic expansion causes the brain to lag behind: The case of the brain and behavior of New Zealand’s Haast’s eagle, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29 (3) 637-649.
Authors: R P Scofield and K W S Ashwell

August 2009 (PDF – 449KB)
Fire as an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans, Science, Vol. 325: 859
Authors: Kyle S Brown, Curtis W Marean, Andy I R Herries, Zenobia Jacobs, Chantal Triboo, David Braun, David L Roberts, Michael C Meyer, Jocelyn Bernatchez

July 2009 (PDF – 3.28MB)
Pleiotropic Roles of S100A12 in Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Formation and Rupture, The Journal of Immunology, Vol. 183: 593–603.
Authors: J Goyette, W X Yan, E Yamen, Y M Chung, S Y Lim, K Hsu, F Rahimi, N D Girolamo, C Song, W Jessup, M Kockx, Y V Bobryshev, S B Freedman and C L Geczy

June 2009 (PDF – 535KB)
Mechanism for Quinolinic Acid Cytotoxicity in Human Astrocytes and Neurons, Journal Neurotoxicity Research, doi: 10.1007/s12640-009-9051-z.
Authors: N Braidy, R Grant, S Adams, B J Brew and G J Guillemin

May 2009 (PDF – 480KB)
Characterization of Rat Forepaw Function in Two Models of Cervical Dorsal Root Injury, The Journal of Neurotrauma, Vol. 26: 17–29.
Authors: A Wu, J L Lauschke, R Morris and P M E Waite

April 2009 (PDF – 262KB)
Age and circadian influences on picolinic acid concentrations in human cerebrospinal fluid, Journal of Neurochemistry, Vol. 108, 1220-1225.
Authors: S Coggan, G Smythe, A Bilgin and R Grant

March 2009 (PDF – 3.20MB)
Alternate mRNA Splicing in Multiple Human Tryptase Genes is Predicted to Regulate Tetramer Formation, Journal of Biological Chemistry (2008), Vol. 283 (49): 34178-34187.
Authors: N E Jackson, H-W Wang, K J Bryant, H P McNeil, A Husain, K Liu, N Tedla, P S Thomas, G C King, A Hettiaratchi, J Cairns and J E Hunt

February 2009 (PDF- 701KB)
IL-10-Dependent S100A8 Gene Induction in Monocytes/Macrophages by Double-Stranded RNA1, The Journal of Immunology, (2009) 182: 2258–2268.
Authors: Y Endoh, Y M Chung, I A Clark, C L Geczy and K Hsu

January 2009 (PDF- 556KB)
Characterization of the Effects of Charged Residues in the Intracellular Loop on Ion Permeation in _1 Glycine Receptor Channels, Journal of Biological Chemistry, (2009) Vol 284, no 4: 2023–2030
Authors: J E Carland, M A Cooper, S Sugiharto, H-J Jeong, T M Lewis, P H Barry, J A Peters, J J Lambert and A J Moorhouse

December 2008 (PDF- 655KB)
Correlations between hand preference and cortical thickness in the secondary somatosensory (SII) cortex of the common marmoset, callithrix jacchus. Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol 122, no 6: 1343–51
Authors: C A Gorrie, P M Waite and L J Rogers

November 2008 (PDF- 486KB)
Anion-Cation Permeability Correlates with Hydrated Counter-ion Size in Glycine Receptor Channels. Biophysical Journal. Vol 95: 4698-4715
Authors: S Sugiharto, T M Lewis, A J Moorhouse, P R Schofield and P H Barry

October 2008 (PDF- 419KB)
S-Nitrosylated S100A8: Novel Anti-Inflammatory Properties. The Journal of Immunology, 181: 5627–5636
Authors: S Y Lim, M Raftery, H C, K Hsu, W X Yan, H-L Hseih, R Watts, D Richardson, S Thomas, M Perry and C Geczy

September 2008 (PDF- 79KB)
Mechanisms of neonatal increase in glomerular filtration rate. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 295: R916–R921, doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00823.2007.
Authors: A Turner, R Brown, M Carlstrom, K Gibson and E G Persson

August 2008 (PDF- 324KB)
Nerve function and dysfunction in acute intermittent porphyria. Brain, doi: 10.1093/brain/awn152.
Authors: C S Lin, A V Krishnan, M J Lee, AS Zagami, H L You, C C Yang, H Bostock and M C Kiernan.

July 2008 (PDF- 377KB)
Maternal and postnatal over nutrition differentially impact appetite regulators and fuel metabolism. Endocrinology, doi:10.1210/en.2008-0582
Authors: H Chen, D Simar, K Lambert, J Mercier and M J Morris

June 2008 (PDF- 145KB)
Using multimedia to support jury understanding of DNA profiling evidence. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol 40, no 1: 55–64
Authors: L Hewson, and J Goodman-Delahunty

May 2008 (PDF- 920KB)
A novel role for adiponectin in regulating the immune responses in chronic HCV infection. Hepatology, Vol 48, no 2: 374-384
Authors: C Palmer, T Hampartzoumian, A Lloyd and A Zekry

April 2008 (PDF- 1.0MB)
Cardiovascular and behavioural responses to conditioned fear after medullary raphe neuronal blockade. Neuroscience, doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.03.033.
Authors: D M L Vianna, C Allen and P Carrive

March 2008 (PDF- 664KB)
Suppression of cytokine expression by roflumilast and dexamethasone in a model of chronic asthma. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2222.2008.02950.x
Authors: C Herbert, A. Hettiaratchi, D C Webb, P S Thomas, P S Foster and R K Kumar

February 2008 (PDF- 352KB)
Contractile properties of the pig bladder mucosa in response to neurokinin A: a role for myofibroblasts?. British Journal of Pharmacology; doi:10.1038/bjp.2008.29
Authors: P Sadananda, R Chess-Williams and E Burcher

January 2008 (PDF- 129KB)
The effects of high-intensity intermittent exercise training on fat loss and fasting insulin levels of young women. International Journal of Obesity, doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803781.
Authors: E G Trapp, D J Chisholm, J Freund and S H Boutcher

December 2007 (PDF - 398KB)
Characterization of the Kynurenine Pathway in Human Neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience, November 21, 2007 27(47):12884 –12892
Authors: Gilles J. Guillemin, Karen M. Cullen, Chai K. Lim, George A. Smythe, Brett Garner, Vimal Kapoor, Osamu Takikawa, and Bruce J. Brew

November 2007 (PDF – 108KB)
Polymorphisms in Toll-like receptors-2 and -4 are not associated with disease manifestations in acute Q fever. Genes and Immunity (2007), 1–4
Authors: B Everett, B Cameron, H Li, U Vollmer-Conna, T Davenport, I Hickie, D Wakefield, S Vernon, WC Reeves and AR Lloyd