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· Shanahan, Fergus (2010) ‘99th Dahlem Conference on Infection, Inflammation and Chronic Inflammatory Disorders:
Host-microbe interactions in the gut: target for drug therapy, opportunity for drug discovery’. Clinical and experimental
immunology, 160:92-97.
· Shanahan, Fergus (2010) ‘Gut Microbes: From Bugs to Drugs’. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 105 (2):275-279.
· Sibartie, S; Scully, P; Keohane, J; O’Neill, S; O’Mohony, J; O’Hanlon, D; Kirwan, WO; O’Mahony, L; Shanahan, F (2010)
‘Mycobacterium avium subsp Paratuberculosis (MAP) as a Modifying Factor in Crohn’s Disease’. Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases, 16:296-304.
· Slattery, DA; Neumann, I; Cryan, JF (2010) ‘Transient inactivation of the infralimbic cortex induces antidepressant-like
effects in the rat’. Journal of Psychopharmacology.
· Tangney, M; Gahan, CG (2010) ‘Listeria monocytogenes as a vector for anti-cancer therapies’. Current Gene Therapy, 10
(1):46-55.
· Ventura, Marco; Turroni, Francesca; Zomer, Aldert; Foroni, Elena; Giubellini, Vanessa; Bottacini, Francesca; Canchaya,
Carlos; Claesson, Marcus J; He, Fei; Mantzourani, Maria; Mulas, Laura; Ferrarini, Alberto; Gao, Beile; Delledonne, Massimo;
Henrissat, Bernard; Coutinho, Pedro; Oggioni, Marco; Gupta, Radhey S; Zhang, Ziding; Beighton, David; Fitzgerald, Gerald
F; O’Toole, Paul W; van Sinderen, Douwe (2009) ‘The Bifidobacterium dentium Bd1 Genome Sequence Reflects Its Genetic
Adaptation to the Human Oral Cavity’. PLoS Genetics, 5 (12).
· Wall, R; Ross, RP; Shanahan, F; O’Mahony, L; Kiely, B; Quigley, E; Dinan, TG; Fitzgerald, G; Stanton, C (2010) ‘Impact of
Administered Bifidobacterium on Murine Host Fatty Acid Composition’. Lipids, 45:429-436.
· Watson, D; Sleator, RD; Casey, PG; Hill, C; Gahan, CG (2009) ‘Specific osmolyte transporters mediate bile tolerance in
Listeria monocytogenes’. Infection and immunity, 77 (11):4895-4904.
· Watson, RJ; Millichap, P; Joyce, SA; Reynolds, SE; Clarke, DJ (2010) ‘The role of iron uptake in pathogenicity and
symbiosis in Photorhabdus luminescens TT01’. BMC Microbiology, 10.
· Zomer, Aldert; Fernandez, Matilde; Kearney, Breda; Fitzgerald, Gerald F; Ventura, Marco; van Sinderen, Douwe (2009) ‘An
Interactive Regulatory Network Controls Stress Response in Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003’. The Journal of Bacteriology,
191 (22):7039-7049.
· van Pijkeren, JP; Morrissey, D; Monk, IR; Cronin, M; Rajendran, S; O’Sullivan, GC; Gahan, CG; Tangney, M (2010) ‘A novel
Listeria monocytogenes-based DNA delivery system for cancer gene therapy’. Human Gene Therapy, 21 (4):405-416.
Conference Publications
· Claesson, MJ; Cusack, S; O’Sullivan, O; Greene-Diniz, R; de Weerd, H; Flannery, E; Marchesi, JR; Falush, D; Dinan, T;
Fitzgerald, G; Stanton, C; van Sinderen, D; O’Connor, M; Harnedy, N; O’Connor, K; Henry, C; O’Mahony, D; Fitzgerald, AP;
Shanahan, F; Twomey, C;Hill, C; Ross, RP; O’Toole, PW (2010) Microbes and Health Sackler Colloquium: Composition,
variability, and temporal stability of the intestinal microbiota of the elderly.
· Claesson, MJ; Cusack, S; O’Sullivan, O; Greene-Diniz, R; de Weerd, H; Flannery, E; Marchesi, JR; Falush, D; Dinan, T;
Fitzgerald, G; Stanton, C; van Sinderen, D; O’Connor, M; Harnedy, N; O’Connor, K; Henry, C; O’Mahony, D; Fitzgerald, AP;
Shanahan, F; Twomey, C;Hill, C; Ross, RP; O’Toole, PW (2010) Microbes and Health Sackler Colloquium: Composition,
variability, and temporal stability of the intestinal microbiota of the elderly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
· Godinho, BMDC; O’Mahony, AM; Ogier, JR; Darcy, R; O’Driscoll, CM; Cryan, JF (2010) Cyclodextrins as nonviral-vectors for
siRNA delivery to the central nervous system Neuroscience Ireland Annual Conference 2010.
· Hyland, NP; Bongiovanni, C; O’Mahony, C; Fitzgerald, P; Dinan,TG; Cryan, JF (2009) The combined effects of neonatal
psychological stress and an anxious phenotype on visceral hypersensitivity and colonic function in rats
Neurogastroenterology Motility.
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