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Journal Club Archive

Journal Club is an informal meeting which is held every Friday at 9.15am. The focus of the meeting is to review a chosen scientific paper as a group, sharing and exchanging knowledge and ideas. BSc, MSc students and junior researchers are especially encouraged to attend, but the meetings are open to everybody.

Friday 29th June

Presented by Daphne Zoutendijk:

• Tissue transglutaminase (TG-2) modified amniotic membrane: a novel scaffold for biomedical applications by Chau et al., 2012, Biomedical Materials, 7 (4), 045011.

Friday 22nd June

Presented by Katerina Stamati:

• Paracrine effects influenced by cell culture medium and consequences on microvessel-like structures in cocultures of mesenchymal stem cells and outgrowth endothelial cells. Kolbe M, Xiang Z, Dohle E, Tonak M, Kirkpatrick CJ, Fuchs S.

Friday 15th June

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 15th June at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided

This week a paper will be presented by Jennifer Verhoekx:

• Recapitulation of fibromatosis nodule by multipotential stem cells in immunodeficient mice
  by Jung-pan Wang et al published in plos one in 2011

Please bring your own copy of the paper.
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Friday 1st June

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 1st June at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided

This week a paper will be presented by Christian Smith: Translational hurdles for tissue engineering: 

• An in vitro analysis of commonly used local anaesthetics on skeletal stem cell survival by E. R. Tayton et al,
  Journal of bone and joint surgery (British Volume), June 2012 94-B(6): 848-855

Please bring your own copy of the paper.

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Friday 25th May

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 25th May (this Friday) at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided.

This week a paper will be presented by Dominic Patel:

• Thrombospondin-1 inhibits osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells through latent TGF-B activation. DuBose et al., (2012)

Please bring your own copy of the paper.

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Friday 18th May

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 18th May at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided.

This week a paper will be presented by Dr. Michelle Korda:

• Muscle-derived stem/progenitor cell dysfunction limits healthspan and lifespan in a murine progeria model by Lavasani et al (2012), Nature Communications 3,608, doi:10.1038/ncomms1611 (nature.com)

Please bring your own copy of the paper.

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Friday 11th May

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 11th May (this Friday) at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided!

This week a paper will be presented by Noah Tan:

• Controlled release of bupivacaine HCl through microchannels of biodegradable drug delivery device (2012), Kang Ju Lee, Sung Yeun Yang and WonHyoung Ryu. Biomedical microdevices, DOI: 10.1007/s10544-012-9637-8 (springerlink.com)

Please bring your own copy of the paper.

Journal Club is an informal meeting which is held every Friday at 9.15am. The focus of the meeting is to review a chosen scientific paper as a group, sharing and exchanging knowledge and ideas. BSc, MSc students and junior researchers are especially encouraged to attend, but the meetings are open to everybody.

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Friday 4th May

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 4th May at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided. This week a paper will be presented by Barian Mohidin:

• A prospective randomised controlled trial comparing three alternative bearing surfaces in primary total hip replacement by Nikolaou et al 2012, Journal of bone and joint surgery, 94 (4); 459-465 (boneandjoint.org.uk)

 Please bring your own copy of the paper.

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Friday 27th April

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 27th April at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided! This week a paper will be presented by Josephine Wong:

• Live free or die: Stretch-induced apoptosis occurs when adaptive reorientation of annulus fibrosus cells is restricted (sciencedirect.com) Authors: Rosalyn D. Abbott , Alan K Howe, Helene M. Langevin, James C. Iatridis

Please bring your own copy of the paper.

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Friday 20th April

The next IOMS journal club meeting will be Fri 20th April at 9am, for a 9.15am start, in the student centre. Everyone is welcome and as usual there will be breakfast provided! This week a paper will be presented by Jemma Kerns:

• Microindentation for in vivo measurement of bone tissue mechanical properties in humans by Diez-Perez et al., (2010) Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 25 (8); 1877-1885 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Please bring your own copy of the paper.

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