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2. A chromosomal reference genome sequence for the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, Giles, 1902, Ifakara strain [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
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Ying Sims, Shane A. McCarthy, Damon-Lee B. Pointon, Jonathan MD Wood, James W. Torrance, Harriet Johnson, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Haynes Heaton, Joanna Collins, Alan Tracey, Mara Lawniczak, Marcela Uliano Da Silva, Katharina von Wyschetzki, Alex Makunin, Daniel E. Neafsey, Mara K.N. Lawniczak, Tibebu Habtewold, Mgeni Mohamed Tambwe, Martin Wagah, Nikolai Windbichler, Sarah Moore, Sarah E. Pelan, and George Christophides
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Anopheles gambiae ,African malaria mosquito ,genome sequence ,chromosomal ,eng ,Medicine ,Science - Abstract
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Anopheles gambiae (the malaria mosquito; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Culicidae), Ifakara strain. The genome sequence is 264 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into three chromosomal pseudomolecules with the X sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.4 kilobases in length.
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- 2024
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3. Response to comment of Albarède and colleagues
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Jonathan R. Wood, Matthew Ponting, and Kevin Butcher
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archaeology ,pb ,ag isotopes ,trace elements as provenance tracers ,Archaeology ,CC1-960 - Abstract
Our purpose is to better understand the actions and behaviours of people in the past, often with a focus on ancient economies, and we are willing to use tools from any discipline that allow us to explore these issues. This is why it is so important that the limitations of techniques applied to archaeology are presented as explicitly as their utility.
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- 2023
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4. Mints not Mines: a macroscale investigation of Roman silver coinage
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Jonathan R Wood, Matthew Ponting, and Kevin Butcher
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archaeology ,recycling ,silver ,denarius ,mints ,bismuth ,logratios ,isotopes ,Archaeology ,CC1-960 - Abstract
Although silver coins have been investigated through the lens of geological provenance to locate argentiferous ore deposits exploited in their production, we consider that this avenue of research may be a cul-de-sac, especially for studies that rely heavily on deciphering lead and silver isotope signatures that may have been altered by the addition of lead and copper (and their associated impurities) during silver refining and debasement, and by ancient recycling of coinage. Instead, we focus our attention on mints, by analysing the compositions of over 1000 silver coins from the early 1st century BC to AD 100. We propose that lead from the west Mediterranean was used exclusively to refine silver at mints in the West, and that an unknown lead supply (possibly from Macedonia), used in the East by the Late Seleucid ruler Philip I Philadelphus and later Mark Antony, was mixed with western lead. Extensive mixing of lead and/or silver coins is particularly evident under Nero and Vespasian, aligning with historically attested periods of recycling following currency reform. We further propose that coins minted in the kingdom of Mauretania used different lead and silver sources from the majority of coins minted in the western Mediterranean, and that silver coins minted at Tyre are derived from silver refined in the west Mediterranean. Coinage minted at Alexandria is consistent with debasement of recycled Roman denarii, thereby suggesting that denarii were deliberately removed from circulation to mint tetradrachms during the early Imperial Roman period.
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- 2023
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5. Relationship between histological tumor margins and magnetic resonance imaging signal intensities in brain neoplasia of dogs
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Philippa J. Johnson, Benjamin C. Rivard, Jonathan H. Wood, Mattisen L. DiRubio, Joshua G. Henry, and Andrew D. Miller
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glioma ,histiocytic sarcoma ,meningioma ,oligodendroglioma ,registration ,Veterinary medicine ,SF600-1100 - Abstract
Abstract Background Intracranial neoplasia is relatively common in dogs and stereotactic radiotherapy, surgical debulking, or both, are the most successful treatment approaches. A key component of treatment planning involves delineating tumor margin on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations. How MRI signal intensity alterations relate to histological tumor margins is unknown. Objectives Directly compare histological brain sections to MRI sequence images and determine which sequence alteration best correlates with tumor margins. Animals Five dogs with glioma, 4 dogs with histiocytic sarcoma, and 3 dogs with meningioma. Methods Retrospective cohort study. Histological brain sections were registered to in vivo MRI scan images obtained within 7 days of necropsy. Margins of signal intensity alterations (T2‐weighted, fluid‐attenuating inversion recovery [FLAIR], T1‐weighted and contrast enhancement) were compared directly to solid tumor and surgical margins identified on histology. Jacquard similarity metrics (JSM) and cross‐sectional areas were calculated. Results In glioma cases, margins drawn around T2‐weighted hyperintensity were most similar to surgical margins (JSM, 0.66 ± 0.17) when compared to other sequences. In both meningioma (JSM, 0.57 ± 0.21) and histiocytic sarcoma (JSM, 0.75 ± 0.11) margins of contrast enhancement were most similar to surgical margins. Conclusions and Clinical Importance Signal intensities correspond to tumor margins for different tumor types and facilitate surgical and radiation therapy planning using MRI images.
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- 2022
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6. Association of hydromyelia and acute compressive myelopathy caused by intervertebral disc extrusion in dogs
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Philippa J. Johnson, Amy B. Todd‐Donato, Andrew D. Miller, Yu Wang, Chris Holm, Carolina I. Panisello‐Manterola, Claudia S. Colón Acevedo, and Jonathan H. Wood
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canine ,chronic ,CSF ,obstructive hydromyelia ,syringohydromyelia ,Veterinary medicine ,SF600-1100 - Abstract
Abstract Background Hydromyelia is a common magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) finding associated with compressive myelopathy caused by intervertebral disc extrusion (IVDE). Objectives To describe the MRI features of hydromyelia and explore its relationship to clinical history, neurological severity, and the duration of cord compression. Animals Ninety‐one client‐owned dogs with a focal compressive myelopathy secondary to thoracolumbar IVDE. Methods A retrospective observational study was conducted in which MRIs were blindly evaluated to grade and localize hydromyelia and measure the degree of spinal cord compression. Duration and severity of clinical signs were recorded. Differences between hydromyelia grades in these variables were statistically assessed using a Wilcoxon and Kruskal Wallis test. Receiver operator curve analysis was used to determine the sensitivity and specificity for duration of clinical signs to predict the presence of hydromyelia. Results Hydromyelia was identified at sites of IVDE in 84 of 91 dogs. An absence of hydromyelia was associated a with statistically longer duration of clinical signs (mean 73.1, IQR 76 days) when compared to cases with mild (mean 17.7, IQR 7.25 days, P = .006) or severe (mean 17.9, IQR 10.25 days, P = .006) hydromyelia. Duration of clinical signs
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- 2022
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7. A chromosomal reference genome sequence for the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, Giles, 1902, Ifakara strain [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
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Ying Sims, Shane A. McCarthy, Damon-Lee B. Pointon, Jonathan MD Wood, James W. Torrance, Harriet Johnson, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Haynes Heaton, Joanna Collins, Alan Tracey, Marcela Uliano Da Silva, Katharina von Wyschetzki, Alex Makunin, Daniel E. Neafsey, Mara Lawniczak, Tibebu Habtewold, Mgeni Mohamed Tambwe, Martin Wagah, Nikolai Windbichler, Sarah Moore, Sarah E. Pelan, and George Christophides
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Anopheles gambiae ,African malaria mosquito ,genome sequence ,chromosomal ,eng ,Medicine ,Science - Abstract
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Anopheles gambiae (the malaria mosquito; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Culicidae), Ifakara strain. The genome sequence is 264 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into three chromosomal pseudomolecules with the X sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.4 kilobases in length.
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- 2023
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8. Scrotal Lipoblastoma with Radiological and Histological Correlation
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Lee K. Rousslang, Cole R. Burr, and Jonathan R. Wood
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adipocytic tumor ,lipoblastoma ,mesenchymal tumors ,paratesticular mass ,rhabdomyosarcoma ,Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine ,R895-920 - Abstract
Lipoblastomas are rare benign mesenchymal tumors comprised primarily mature adipocytes, which are most commonly found in infants and children younger than 3 years. They are usually found in the extremities, trunk, head, neck, and retroperitoneum, although cases occurring in the scrotum have been reported. Due to its rarity, there is a relative paucity of literature describing its imaging and management. We present a rare case of a scrotal lipoblastoma, and discuss the current imaging strategies to differentiate this adipocytic tumor from other more common paratesticular masses, including aggressive neoplasms such as rhabdomyosarcomas. Knowledge of the radiological appearance of lipoblastoma can provide the correct diagnosis and prevent unnecessary orchiectomy.
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- 2021
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9. Comparison of Surgical Outcomes Associated With Compression Secondary to Hemorrhage and Intervertebral Disk Extrusions in Dogs
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Patricia E. Lawler, Jonathan H. Wood, Nicole E. Alleva, Mark Rishniw, Ian Porter, and Phillipa J. Johnson
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intervertebral disk ,magnetic resonance imaging ,epidural hemorrhage ,hemilaminectomy ,dog ,Veterinary medicine ,SF600-1100 - Abstract
Acute intervertebral disk extrusion (IVDE) is one of the most commonly reported neurologic disorders seen in veterinary practice. There is a recognized subset of IVDE cases that have a hemorrhagic inflammatory reaction within the epidural space that causes compression in addition to compression from herniated disk material. Previous reports have been conflicting in the outcomes of these cases. The goals of this retrospective case-control cross-sectional study are to (1) compare the success rate of routine surgical decompression in dogs with DEEH compression compared to Modified Frankel Score (MFS) matched dogs with non-hemorrhagic disk extrusions; (2) evaluate the extent of spinal cord compression on MRI compared to final patient outcomes in DEEH compression and (3) determine the surgical compression to decompression ratio and its relation to patient outcomes in cases of DEEH compression. A total of 143 dogs were included in this study and divided into two groups: DEEH compression dogs (n = 78) and non-hemorrhagic IVDE dogs (n = 65). Outcomes were assigned for each patient [0 = deceased, 1 = alive and non-ambulatory (MFS 0–3), 2 = alive and ambulatory (MFS 4 or 5)] in both groups. Outcomes of DEEH and non-hemorrhagic IVDE did not differ when taken to surgery with comparable success rates when stratified by MFS. Similarly, outcomes did not differ between DEEH and non-hemorrhagic IVDE dogs when assessed by compression to decompression ratio. Dogs with DEEH compression had more compressed sites than dogs with non-hemorrhagic IVDE (P = 0.001) and had more sites decompressed surgically than dogs with non-hemorrhagic IVDE (P < 0.001). Consequently, the compression to decompression ratio did not differ between the two groups (P = 0.52). Our results support the finding that when a similar level of surgical decompression is achieved, dogs with DEEH compression have similar outcomes to dogs with non-hemorrhagic IVDE for similar degrees of neurological dysfunction.
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- 2022
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10. 46th Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium Proceedings
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Edward A Boesiger and Jonathan P Wood
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Mechanical Engineering - Abstract
The Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium (AMS) provides a unique forum for those active in the design, production, and use of aerospace mechanisms. A major focus is the reporting of problems and solutions associated with the development, and flight certification of new mechanisms.
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- 2022
11. Rotating Algae Biofilm Reactor for Management and Valorization of Produced Wastewater
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Jonathan L. Wood, Jon Y. Takemoto, and Ronald C. Sims
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photobioreactor ,cyanobacteria ,phycocyanin ,microalgae biofilm ,produced wastewater ,rotating algal biofilm reactor ,General Works - Abstract
Production and enhancement of high value phycocyanin pigment from microalgae biofilms cultured on oilfield and natural gas produced wastewater were investigated. Cyanobacteria isolated from Logan City, Utah, wastewater treatment Lagoons (LLC2) was cultured in produced water using rotating algal biofilm reactors (RABRs). The RABRs were operated under “low” and “high” light conditions and biomass and phycocyanin content were compared. Phycocyanin content was enhanced by growth under low light conditions to a maximum yield of 31.7 mg/g ash-free dry weight (AFDW) biomass for an 87.6% increase in phycocyanin yield. Phycocyanin productivity was equivalent for both the low and high light treatments (327 ± 81 and 305 ± 39 mg/m2/day, respectively), due to the significantly lower AFDW biomass productivity of the low light treatment (2.7 ± 0.4 g/m2-day). An indoor laboratory evaluation of 14 substrata for biofilm growth showed that cotton rope and cotton belt material provided the highest biomass yields. Further evaluation in a pilot-scale outdoor produced wastewater pond showed that the biomass characteristics from the two substrata differed. The corrugated surface area of the cotton rope cultured a biofilm with a large community of non-photosynthetic organisms with an autotrophic index of 507 and a low phycocyanin yield of 3.4 mg/g AFDW. However, the cotton belt substratum cultured a healthy photosynthetic biofilm with an autotrophic index of 127 and a phycocyanin yield of 47.0 mg/g AFDW. These results demonstrate the cultivation of microalgae biomass and valorization of oilfield and natural gas produced wastewater through the design and management of algal-based biofilm photobioreactors.
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- 2022
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12. Plata semirrefinada para los plateros de la Edad del Hierro en el Mediterráneo: un mecanismo para identificar la plata ibérica
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Jonathan R. Wood and Ignacio Montero-Ruiz
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península ibérica ,fenicios ,lingote ,la rebanadilla ,análisis de composición ,isótopos de plomo ,Archaeology ,CC1-960 - Abstract
Un fragmento de lingote de plata descubierto recientemente en el yacimiento fenicio de La Rebanadilla (Málaga) ha sido investigado mediante isotopos de plomo y análisis elemental.El lingote recuperado en los niveles inferiores del yacimiento, se fecha potencialmente entre fines del siglo XI y el IX a.C., situándose en cronología similar a algunos depósitos de hacksilver del área del levante mediterráneo.La edad de la corteza calculada a partir de los isotopos de plomo y la composición señalan que el lingote fue obtenido de minerales de Edad Hercínica con concentraciones altas de bismuto.Esta signatura es compatible con la de la Faja Pirítica del suroeste de la península ibérica, en particular con la de las antiguas minas de la zona de Riotinto.Se propone que la plata de este lingote fue obtenida de las jarositas argentíferas de Riotinto, donde sufrió solo un primer refinado mediante copelación, conservando un alto contenido en plomo antes de ser comercializado hacia La Rebanadilla, que pudo ser un lugar potencial para su transporte hacia los territorios fenicios en el Mediterráneo oriental. Las implicaciones del transporte de plata sin refinar son discutidas en relación al comercio de la plata por los fenicios durante la Edad del Hierro en el Mediterráneo y la dificultad de identificar la plata ibérica en el registro arqueológico.
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- 2019
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13. Sending Laurion Back to the Future: Bronze Age Silver and the Source of Confusion
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Jonathan R. Wood, Yi-Ting Hsu, and Carol Bell
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archaeology ,metallurgy ,lead isotope analysis ,lead ,silver ,ore ,laurion ,greece ,Archaeology ,CC1-960 - Abstract
Silver-bearing lead ores at Laurion in Attica were considered to have been first exploited with the introduction of coinage sometime around the birth of Classical Greece. However, in the late 20th century this chronology was radically revised earlier, to the Bronze Age, largely supported by lead isotope analyses (LIA). Here, we acknowledge that lead and silver metallurgy emerged from the earliest times but we propose that any correlation between these metals in the archaeological record is not a consequence of a geological association between lead and silver in ores such as galena until the middle of the first millennium BCE. We suggest that ancient metallurgists recognised that silver minerals (such as horn silver) dispersed in host rocks could be concentrated in molten lead and that LIA signatures of Bronze Age silver artefacts reflect the use of exogenous lead to extract silver, perhaps applying processes similar to those used to acquire silver in Bronze Age Siphnos. We further propose that lead from Laurion used for silver extraction resulted in the inadvertent transfer of its LIA signature (probably aided by roving silver prospectors) to silver objects and metallurgical debris recovered around the Aegean. New compositional analyses for the Mycenaean shaft-grave silver (c. 1600 BCE) support these conclusions. We believe that reverting to the mid-first millennium BCE for the first exploitation of silver from argentiferous lead ores is consistent with the absence of archaeological evidence for centralised control over Laurion until the Archaic period, the paucity of lead slag associated with silver-processing debris at Bronze Age sites, the scarcity of silver artefacts recovered in post-shaft grave contexts at Mycenae and throughout the Early Iron Age Aegean, the few Attic silver coins with LIA signatures consistent with Laurion until after 500 BCE and a single unambiguous mention of silver in the Linear B texts.
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- 2021
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14. Stability of ionization-injection-based laser-plasma accelerators
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Simon Bohlen, Jonathan C. Wood, Theresa Brümmer, Florian Grüner, Carl A. Lindstrøm, Martin Meisel, Theresa Staufer, Richard D’Arcy, Kristjan Põder, and Jens Osterhoff
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Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity ,QC770-798 - Abstract
Laser-plasma acceleration (LPA) is a compact technique to accelerate electron bunches to highly relativistic energies, making it a promising candidate to power radiation sources for industrial or medical applications. We report on the generation of electron beams from an 80 MeV-level LPA setup based on ionization injection (II) over a duration of 8 hours at a repetition rate of 2.5 Hz, resulting in 72,000 consecutive shots with charge injection and acceleration. Over the full operation time the moving averages of the total beam charge of 14.5 pC and the charge between 70–80 MeV did not drift on a detectable level. The largest source of shot-to-shot jitter was in the beam charge (26% standard deviation), which was most strongly correlated with fluctuations in the plasma density (3.6% standard deviation). Particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate that this was chiefly caused by stronger laser self-focusing in higher density plasmas, which significantly increased the ionized charge along with the emittance of the beam. The nonlinearity of this process imposes tight constraints on the reproducibility of the laser-plasma conditions required for a low jitter II-LPA output if self-focusing plays a role in the laser evolution.
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- 2022
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15. Rare Case of a Calcified Catheter-Related Sheath Embolizing to the Right Pulmonary Artery
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Lee K. Rousslang and Jonathan R. Wood
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Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine ,R895-920 - Abstract
Catheter-related sheaths, formerly known as “fibrin sheaths,” are the most common complications of central venous catheters. Although usually harmless, they can very rarely detach from the venous wall against which they were formed and embolize with effects ranging from subclinical embolisms to death. This rare occurrence has only been described a few times in the literature to date, and to our knowledge, the embolized sheath has never been directly visualized with CT. We report the case of catheter-related sheath embolization to the right pulmonary artery in a child, as confirmed on CT.
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- 2020
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16. An Archaeometallurgical Explanation for the Disappearance of Egyptian and Near Eastern Cobalt-Blue Glass at the end of the Late Bronze Age
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Jonathan R. Wood and Hsu Yi-Ting
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ancient glass ,cobalt ,silver ,glass frit ,recycling ,New Kingdom Egypt ,Mesopotamia ,lead isotope ,compositional analysis ,Iran ,Archaeology ,CC1-960 - Abstract
A recent compositional study of Egyptian cobalt-blue glass from museum collections in Japan (18th Dynasty) and from the site of Dahshur (18th and 19th-20th Dynasties) concluded that a new source of cobalt was exploited for the later Dahshur glass, thereby suggesting that glass production continued into the Ramesside period (Abe et al. 2012). It is shown in the current article that some of this 18th Dynasty glass and the majority of the 19th-20th Dynasty glass had been recycled, not only supporting the general consensus that glass production virtually disappeared by 1250 BC, but that the cobalt source did not necessarily change. It is further proposed, however, that the generally accepted cobalt source for Egyptian glass was not the alum deposits of Egypt's Western Desert, but derived from cobaltiferous siliceous ores, possibly from central Iran. Re-analysis of the compositions of cobalt-blue glass frit found at Amarna, as well as Egyptian and Mesopotamian glass, suggests that the cobalt colourant was a by-product of silver extraction from these ores and can therefore be considered as a concentrated cobalt glass slag, which travelled in the form of a frit to glass producers who added it to locally derived base glasses and/or their precursors. Experiments conducted on ore containing cobalt-nickel arsenides with native silver demonstrate that not only can silver be extracted and that concentrated cobalt glass can be produced simply by adding a flux, but that some components of the ore partition preferentially into the silver or the glass slag, thereby weakening their associations with the other components in archaeological glass. Treating the cobalt-blue colourant as a slag composed of the gangue of a smelting system provides an explanation for the unique elevated levels of alumina and lower levels of potash found in cobalt-blue glasses, as well as providing an explanation for the cessation of cobalt exploitation at the end of the Late Bronze Age. It is suggested that the exhaustion of native silver and siliceous silver ore deposits during the Bronze Age, with argentiferous lead ores becoming the main source of silver, depleted the amount of cobalt available, thereby reducing the amount of glass produced which, in turn, led to increases in recycling during the New Kingdom period.
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- 2019
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17. Sonic hedgehog functions upstream of disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (disc1): implications for mental illness
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Penelope J. Boyd, Vincent T. Cunliffe, Sudipto Roy, and Jonathan D. Wood
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DISC1 ,Sonic Hedgehog ,CNS ,Mental illness ,Science ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
DISRUPTED-IN-SCHIZOPHRENIA (DISC1) has been one of the most intensively studied genetic risk factors for mental illness since it was discovered through positional mapping of a translocation breakpoint in a large Scottish family where a balanced chromosomal translocation was found to segregate with schizophrenia and affective disorders. While the evidence for it being central to disease pathogenesis in the original Scottish family is compelling, recent genome-wide association studies have not found evidence for common variants at the DISC1 locus being associated with schizophrenia in the wider population. It may therefore be the case that DISC1 provides an indication of biological pathways that are central to mental health issues and functional studies have shown that it functions in multiple signalling pathways. However, there is little information regarding factors that function upstream of DISC1 to regulate its expression and function. We herein demonstrate that Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signalling promotes expression of disc1 in the zebrafish brain. Expression of disc1 is lost in smoothened mutants that have a complete loss of Shh signal transduction, and elevated in patched mutants which have constitutive activation of Shh signalling. We previously demonstrated that disc1 knockdown has a dramatic effect on the specification of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPC) in the hindbrain and Shh signalling is known to be essential for the specification of these cells. We show that disc1 is prominently expressed in olig2-positive midline progenitor cells that are absent in smo mutants, while cyclopamine treatment blocks disc1 expression in these cells and mimics the effect of disc1 knock down on OPC specification. Various features of a number of psychiatric conditions could potentially arise through aberrant Hedgehog signalling. We therefore suggest that altered Shh signalling may be an important neurodevelopmental factor in the pathobiology of mental illness.
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18. GUSTATORY RESPONSE OF COMMON CARP CYPRINUS CARPIO TO VARIABLE CONCENTRATIONS OF TWO STIMULATORY AMINO ACIDS
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Jonathan David Wood and Paola Soledad Arce Azócar
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common carp ,amino acids ,l-cysteine ,l-proline ,gustatory ,Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling ,SH1-691 - Abstract
Common carp possesses a highly evolved gustatory system that is stimulated by a narrow range of free amino acids including L-cysteine and L-proline. A synergetic effect on the gustatory response of a combination of these two substances has not previously been demonstrated. In this study, groups of common carp were randomly presented with different concentrations of L-cysteine (0-0.1 M) and L-proline (0-0.05 M) in agar pellets in one minute trials. First retention duration, total retention duration during each trial and the number of ingestions (pellet acceptances) were recorded for each of a total of 690 trials. Palatability, pellet consumption rate and average pellet acceptances were calculated for each pellet type. It was shown that L-cysteine was more highly stimulatory than L-proline but no synergism between the two regarding the gustatory response was observed. The results are relevant for the formulation of aquafeeds and angling baits for carp.
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- 2013
19. Progressive phenotype and nuclear accumulation of an amino-terminal cleavage fragment in a transgenic mouse model with inducible expression of full-length mutant huntingtin
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Yuji Tanaka, Shuichi Igarashi, Masayuki Nakamura, Juliette Gafni, Cameron Torcassi, Gabrielle Schilling, Danielle Crippen, Jonathan D. Wood, Akira Sawa, Nancy A. Jenkins, Neal G. Copeland, David R. Borchelt, Christopher A. Ross, and Lisa M. Ellerby
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Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized behaviorally by chorea, incoordination, and shortened lifespan and neuropathologically by huntingtin inclusions and neuronal degeneration. In order to facilitate studies of pathogenesis and therapeutics, we have generated a new inducible mouse model of HD expressing full-length huntingtin (Htt) using a tetracycline-regulated promoter. In double transgenic mice Htt was expressed widely in the brain under the control of the tet-transactivator (tTA) driven by the prion promoter PrP (in the absence of doxycycline). Mice expressing full-length mutant Htt, but not full-length normal Htt, displayed a progressive behavioral phenotype, consisting of slowed and irregular voluntary movements, gait ataxia, tremor and jerky movements, incoordination, and weight loss, with a shortened lifespan. Neuropathology included prominent intranuclear inclusions in cortex and striatum as well as cytoplasmic aggregates. This phenotype is very similar to the phenotypes of previous transgenic mice expressing N-terminal fragments of mutant Htt. The current HD-transgenic mice had nuclear accumulation of Htt, particularly an approximately 60-kDa fragment, which appears to represent an N-terminal cleavage product. This fragment is smaller than calpain or caspase-derived cleavage products of Htt, but it is comparable to a product, termed cp-A, which accumulates in nuclei of cells in a previously described cell model. This new mouse model may be useful in the future for pathogenic and preclinical therapeutic studies related to HD. The data suggest that proteolytic processing could be a part of the pathogenesis of HD, potentially representing an attractive therapeutic target.
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20. Distinct Behavioral and Neuropathological Abnormalities in Transgenic Mouse Models of HD and DRPLA
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Gabriele Schilling, Hyder A. Jinnah, Vicky Gonzales, Michael L. Coonfield, Yujin Kim, Jonathan D. Wood, Donald L. Price, Xiao-Jiang Li, Nancy Jenkins, Neal Copeland, Timothy Moran, Christopher A. Ross, and David R. Borchelt
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Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) and Dentatorubral and pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) are autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disorders caused by the expansion of polyglutamine tracts in their respective proteins, huntingtin and atrophin-1. We have previously generated mouse models of these disorders, using transgenes expressed via the prion protein promoter. Here, we report the first direct comparison of abnormalities in these models. The HD mice show abbreviated lifespans (4–6 months), hypoactivity, and mild impairment of motor skills. The DRPLA mice show severe tremors, are hyperactive, and are profoundly uncoordinated. Neuropathological analyses reveal that the distribution of diffuse nuclear immunolabeling and neuronal intranuclear inclusions (NII's), in the CNS of both models, was remarkably similar. Cytoplasmic aggregates of huntingtin were the major distinguishing neuropathological feature of the HD mice; mutant atrophin-1 accumulated/aggregated only in the nucleus. We suggest that the distinct behavioral and neuropathological phenotypes in these mice reflect differences in the way these mutant proteins perturb neuronal function.
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- 2001
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21. Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion
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Jonathan P. Wood
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Endocrinology ,business.industry ,Internal medicine ,Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion ,medicine ,medicine.disease ,business - Published
- 2007
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Barbara L. Asselin, Georgianne Arnold, Sherry L. Bayliff, Christopher E. Belcher, Deena Berkowitz, Jeffrey Blake, Christopher F. Bolling, Deborah Borchers, Brittanny Liam Boulanger, Peter N. Bowers, Paula K. Braverman, Carmelita V. Britton, Robert A. Broughton, Ann Buchanan, Gale R. Burstein, James R. Campbell, Kathleen M. Campbell, Lynn R. Campbell, Margaret‐Ann Carno, Patrick L. Carolan, Mary T. Caserta, Heidi A. Castillo, Kathryn Castle, Peter Chang, Sharon F. Chen, Eulalia R.Y. Cheng, Elizabeth K. Cherot, Patricia R. Chess, Olivia Chiang, Barbara A. Chini, Jill M. Cholette, Cynthia Christy, Emma Ciafaloni, Carolyn Cleary, Lisa Loeb Colton, Gregory P. Conners, Heidi V. Connolly, Stephen Cook, Christopher Copenhaver, Elliott L. Crow, Therese Cvetkovich, David Cywinski, Kristen Smith Danielson, Dorothy M. Delisle, Larry Denk, Lee A. Denson, George T. Drugas, Carolyn Piver Dukarm, Jason G. Emmick, Gus Gibbons Emmick, Oscar Escobar, Anna F. Fakadej, Richard A. Falcone, S. Nichole Feeney, Thomas J. Fischer, Donna J. Fisher, Amy Fix, Chin‐To Fong, Cynthia L. Fox, D. Steven Fox, Robert J. Freishtat, Madelyn Garcia, Lynn C. Garfunkel, Matthew D. Gearinger, Mary Ellen Gellerstedt, John Girotto, Michelle A. Grenier, Alka Goyal, Maryellen E. Gusic, Caroline B. Hall, Jill S. Halterman, David W. Hannon, William G. Harmon, J. Peter Harris, Amy Heneghan, Neil E. Herendeen, Joeli Hettler, John L. Hick, Andrea S. Hinkle, Alejandro Hoberman, Christopher H. Hodgman, Allison L. Holm, Mark A. Hostetler, Cynthia R. Howard, Stephanie Sansoni Hsu, William C. Hulbert, Robert Humphreys, Jon Hutchinson, Susan Hyman, Carolyn Jacobs Parks, Andree Jacobs‐Perkins, Sandra H. Jee, Nicholas Jospe, Steven Joyce, Jeffrey M. Kaczorowski, Indra Kancitis, James W. Kendig, John Knight, David N. Korones, Peter A. Kouides, Richard Kreipe, Diana Barnett Kudes, Jennifer M. Kwon, Marc S. Lampell, Meredith Landorf, Nancy E. Lanphear, Jeffrey H. Lee, Lucia H. Lee, Thomas J.A. Lehman, Paul Lehoullier, Norma B. Lerner, Gregory S. Liptak, Ann M. Loeffler, K. Makoroff, Elizabeth Mannick, Christina M. Mccann, Carol A. Mccarthy, Michael E. Mcconnell, Alan M. Mendelsohn, Ram K. Menon, Robert A. Mevorach, Ayesa N. Mian, Heather Michalak, Daniel E. Miga, Nicole L. Mihalopoulos, Jonathan W. Mink, M. Susan Moyer, Suzanne Fredrickson Mullin, Charles M. Myer, Ran Namgung, Jonathan F. Nasser, Robert Needlman, Joseph A. Nicholas, Maureen Novak, Samuel Nurko, Craig Orlowski, Ponrat Pakpreo, James Palis, Murray H. Passo, Joanne Pedro‐Carroll, Walter Pegoli, Karen S. Powers, Susan Haller Psaila, Ronald Rabinowitz, Marc A. Raslich, Karen L. Resch, Meredith E. Reynolds, Matthew Richardson, Brett Robbins, Mark Roddy, Dennis Roy, Leticia Manning Ryan, Sheryl A. Ryan, Stanley J. Schaffer, Lora L. Schauer, Charles Schubert, George J. Schwartz, Steven Scofield, George B. Segel, Edgard A. Segura, Lorna M. Seybolt, Nader Shaikh, Ronald L. Sham, Laura Jean Shipley, Benjamin L. Shneider, David M. Siegel, Mark Scott Smith, R. Dennis Steed, Moira A. Szilagyi, Susanne E. Tanski, Danielle Thomas‐Taylor, Svetlana Tisma‐Dupanovic, John J. Treanor, C. Elizabeth Trefts, William T. Tsai, Reginald Tsang, Elise W. Van Der Jagt, Jon A. Vanderhoof, William S. Varade, Kathleen M. Ventre, Michael K. Visick, Brad W. Warner, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, Melanie Wellington, David R. White, Susan Wiley, Robert R. Wittler, Bryan J. Wolhwend, Jonathan P. Wood, Kimberly A. Workowski, Daniel Yawman, Roger A. Yeager, and Rosemary J. Young
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- 2007
23. Changes in alveolar septal border lengths with postnatal lung growth
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John T. McBride, John E. Kolassa, and Jonathan P. Wood
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Male ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Aging ,Lung ,Physiology ,Ferrets ,Cell Biology ,Anatomy ,Organ Size ,Weaning ,respiratory system ,Biology ,Pulmonary Alveoli ,Lung structure ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Animals, Newborn ,Physiology (medical) ,Parenchyma ,medicine ,Animals ,Pulmonary alveolus ,Respiratory system - Abstract
Evaluation of alveolar development beyond the postnatal period of rapid septation has generally involved alveolar counting. We used an alternate approach to assess postseptation parenchymal development: measurement of the lengths of various types of alveolar septal borders. This technique directly addresses changes in the elastin fiber network that determines parenchymal complexity. Lungs from weanling and adult ferrets, inflated to 15 cmH2O, were perfusion fixed and dehydrated, and 2-μm sections were stained with Miller’s elastin stain for light microscopy. We used standard morphometric methods to measure the lengths of the various types of alveolar septal borders. Three types comprised >90% of all septal borders: 1) free septal ends (“ends”) containing an elastin cable; 2) angled meetings of two alveolar septa (“bends”), also with a cable; and 3) the near-symmetrical intersections of three septa (“junctions”) devoid of elastin. When scaled for lung volume, ends and bends were 23 and 37% greater in adults ( P < 0.001), reflecting the increase in parenchymal complexity with growth. The 17% difference in scaled junction lengths was not significant ( P = 0.10). Bends increased out of proportion to the increase in ends, and both bends and ends increased to a greater degree than any possible increase in junctions ( P < 0.001 for all comparisons). Although the interpretation of changes in the distribution of alveolar border lengths is not straightforward, an increase in bends resulting in an increase in the complexity of individual alveoli may contribute to the increase in alveolar gas-exchanging surface area with growth. Septation, the process responsible for the rapid early postnatal increase in parenchymal complexity in many species, should tend to increase the lengths of ends and junctions and decrease the lengths of bends. Therefore, these data suggest that septation is not the predominant mechanism of later postnatal parenchymal development in the ferret.
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- 1998
24. Book Reviews : Critical Care of Infants and Children
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Jonathan P. Wood
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Psychoanalysis ,business.industry ,Medicine ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,business - Published
- 1999
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