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  1. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Catalytic receptors

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Alistair Mathie, Professor Jamie A Davies

  2. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Enzymes

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Alistair Mathie, Professor Jamie A Davies

  3. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Ion channels

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Alistair Mathie, Professor Jamie A Davies

  4. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Nuclear hormone receptors

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Alistair Mathie, Professor Jamie A Davies

  5. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Transporters

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Alistair Mathie, Professor Jamie A Davies

  6. Innervation of the developing kidney in vivo and in vitro

    Article • Biology Open, July 2023, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  7. Synthetic Morphogenesis: Introducing IEEE Journal Readers to Programming Living Mammalian Cells to Make Structures

    Article • Proceedings of the IEEE, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  8. Renal engineering: Strategies to address the problem of the ureter

    Article • Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, December 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  9. The IUPHAR/BPS guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2022: curating pharmacology for COVID-19, malaria and antibacterials

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, October 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamie A Davies, Stephen Alexander

  10. Connection of ES Cell-derived Collecting Ducts and Ureter-like Structures to Host Kidneys in Culture

    Article • Organogenesis, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  11. SynPHARM and the Guide to Pharmacology database: a toolset for conferring drug control on engineered proteins

    Article • Protein Science, October 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  12. Differentiation of a Contractile, Ureter-Like Tissue, from Embryonic Stem Cell–Derived Ureteric Bud and Ex Fetu Mesenchyme

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, August 2020, American Society of Nephrology

    Professor Jamie A Davies, May Sallam

  13. Engineering pattern formation and morphogenesis

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, June 2020, Portland Press Ltd.

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  14. A rational roadmap for SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19 pharmacotherapeutic research and development. IUPHAR Review 29

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Christopher Southan, Professor Jamie A Davies, Stephen Alexander

  15. Inverse pharmacology: Approaches and tools for introducing druggability into engineered proteins

    Article • Biotechnology Advances, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  16. Emergence of structure in mouse embryos: Structural Entropy morphometry applied to digital models of embryonic anatomy

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, July 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  17. In developing mouse kidneys, orientation of loop of Henle growth is adaptive and guided by long‐range cues from medullary collecting ducts

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  18. Macrophages restrict the nephrogenic field and promote endothelial connections during kidney development

    Article • eLife, February 2019, eLife

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  19. Real-World Synthetic Biology: Is It Founded on an Engineering Approach, and Should It Be?

    Article • Life, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  20. Tamoxifen- and Mifepristone-Inducible Versions of CRISPR Effectors, Cas9 and Cpf1

    Article • ACS Synthetic Biology, September 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  21. Organizing Organoids: Stem Cells Branch Out

    Article • Cell Stem Cell, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  22. Asymmetric BMP4 signalling improves the realism of kidney organoids

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  23. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Catalytic receptors

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Stephen Alexander, Dr Christopher Southan, Professor Jamie A Davies

  24. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Other ion channels

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Stephen Alexander, Dr Christopher Southan, Professor Jamie A Davies

  25. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Enzymes

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Stephen Alexander, Dr Christopher Southan, Professor Jamie A Davies

  26. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Transporters

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Stephen Alexander, Dr Christopher Southan, Professor Jamie A Davies

  27. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: G protein-coupled receptors

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Christopher Southan, Dr Anthony P Davenport, Stephen Alexander, Professor Jamie A Davies

  28. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Ligand-gated ion channels

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Christopher Southan, Stephen Alexander, Professor Jamie A Davies

  29. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Nuclear hormone receptors

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Christopher Southan, Stephen Alexander, Professor Jamie A Davies

  30. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Overview

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Christopher Southan, Dr Anthony P Davenport, Professor Israel Hanukoglu, Professor Jamie A Davies, Prof daniel hoyer, Professor of Vascular Physiology Lucie Clapp

  31. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Voltage-gated ion channels

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Christopher Southan, Stephen Alexander, Professor Jamie A Davies

  32. Refuting the hypothesis that semaphorin-3f/neuropilin-2 exclude blood vessels from the cap mesenchyme in the developing kidney

    Article • Developmental Dynamics, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  33. Adaptive self-organization in the embryo: its importance to adult anatomy and to tissue engineering

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  34. Mammalian cells engineered to self-organise into patterns before undergoing selective apoptosis.

    Article • Engineering Biology, September 2017, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Professor Jamie A Davies, Elise Cachat

  35. The inter-dependence of basic and applied biomedical sciences: Lessons from kidney development and tissue-engineering

    Article • Porto Biomedical Journal, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  36. Cycles of vascular plexus formation within the nephrogenic zone of the developing mouse kidney

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2017, Nature

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  37. Pax2: A “Keep to the Path” Sign on Waddington’s Epigenetic Landscape

    Article • Developmental Cell, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  38. Symmetry-breaking in branching epithelia: cells on micro-patterns under flow challenge the hypothesis of positive feedback by a secreted autocrine inhibitor of motility

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, March 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  39. Using synthetic biology to explore principles of development

    Article • Development, March 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  40. Rapid Fabrication of Cell-Laden Alginate Hydrogel 3D Structures by Micro Dip-Coating

    Article • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, February 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  41. Anatomical complexity is acquired at an exponential rate during mouse embryonic development.

    Article • Matters, April 2016, Sciencematters

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  42. Synthetic Biology: Rational Pathway Design for Regenerative Medicine

    Article • Gerontology, October 2015, Karger Publishers

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  43. Integrated β-catenin, BMP, PTEN, and Notch signalling patterns the nephron

    Article • eLife, February 2015, eLife

    Dr Peter Hohenstein, Professor Jamie A Davies

  44. Synthetic Biology Approaches for Regenerative Medicine

    Article • October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  45. Node retraction during patterning of the urinary collecting duct system

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  46. Engineered renal tissue as a potential platform for pharmacokinetic and nephrotoxicity testing

    Article • Drug Discovery Today, June 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  47. A self-avoidance mechanism in patterning of the urinary collecting duct tree

    Article • BMC Developmental Biology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  48. A library of mammalian effector modules for synthetic morphology

    Article • Journal of Biological Engineering, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  49. Disinherited Daughters Travel by Tube

    Article • Developmental Cell, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  50. Nephrons require Rho-kinase for proximal-distal polarity development

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  51. Engineering kidneys from simple cell suspensions: an exercise in self-organization

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  52. FAK-Src signalling is important to renal collecting duct morphogenesis: discovery using a hierarchical screening technique

    Article • Biology Open, February 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  53. An Improved Method of Renal Tissue Engineering, by Combining Renal Dissociation and Reaggregation with a Low-Volume Culture Technique, Results in Development of Engineered Kidneys Complete with Loops of Henle

    Article • Nephron Experimental Nephrology, December 2012, Karger Publishers

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  54. In Vivo Maturation of Functional Renal Organoids Formed from Embryonic Cell Suspensions

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, October 2012, American Society of Nephrology

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  55. Integration potential of mouse and human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells

    Article • Differentiation, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  56. siRNA-Mediated RNA Interference in Embryonic Kidney Organ Culture

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  57. Making Immortalized Cell Lines from Embryonic Mouse Kidney

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  58. Dissociation of Embryonic Kidney Followed by Re-aggregation as a Method for Chimeric Analysis

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  59. A Wt1-Controlled Chromatin Switching Mechanism Underpins Tissue-Specific Wnt4 Activation and Repression

    Article • Developmental Cell, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  60. Calcium/NFAT signalling promotes early nephrogenesis

    Article • Developmental Biology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  61. An improved kidney dissociation and reaggregation culture system results in nephrons arranged organotypically around a single collecting duct system

    Article • Organogenesis, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  62. Esrrg functions in early branch generation of the ureteric bud and is essential for normal development of the renal papilla

    Article • Human Molecular Genetics, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  63. Dact2 is expressed in the developing ureteric bud/collecting duct system of the kidney and controls morphogenetic behavior of collecting duct cells

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, August 2010, American Physiological Society

    Professor Jamie A Davies, Wen-Chin Lee

  64. Contribution of human amniotic fluid stem cells to renal tissue formation depends on mTOR

    Article • Human Molecular Genetics, June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  65. A Novel, Low-Volume Method for Organ Culture of Embryonic Kidneys That Allows Development of Cortico-Medullary Anatomical Organization

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2010, PLOS

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  66. Dissociation of embryonic kidneys followed by reaggregation allows the formation of renal tissues

    Article • Kidney International, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  67. The Embryonic Kidney: Isolation, Organ Culture, Immunostaining and RNA Interference

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  68. Regulation, necessity, and the misinterpretation of knockouts

    Article • BioEssays, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  69. Developmental plasticity and regenerative capacity in the renal ureteric bud/collecting duct system

    Article • Development, June 2008, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  70. Synthetic morphology: prospects for engineered, self-constructing anatomies

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, May 2008, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  71. GUDMAP: The Genitourinary Developmental Molecular Anatomy Project

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, February 2008, American Society of Nephrology

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  72. Epithelial branching: The power of self-loathing

    Article • BioEssays, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies, Wen-Chin Lee

  73. The lectin Dolichos biflorus agglutinin is a sensitive indicator of branching morphogenetic activity in the developing mouse metanephric collecting duct system

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  74. The KIDSTEM European Research Training Network

    Article • Organogenesis, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  75. A method for cold storage and transport of viable embryonic kidney rudiments

    Article • Kidney International, December 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  76. The anatomy of organogenesis: Novel solutions to old problems

    Article • Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  77. A role for microfilament-based contraction in branching morphogenesis of the ureteric bud

    Article • Kidney International, November 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  78. Watching tubules glow and branch

    Article • Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, August 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  79. The European Renal Genome Project

    Article • Organogenesis, April 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  80. Pattern and regulation of cell proliferation during murine ureteric bud development

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, April 2004, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  81. Development of an siRNA-based method for repressing specific genes in renal organ culture and its use to show that the Wt1 tumour suppressor is required for nephron differentiation

    Article • Human Molecular Genetics, November 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  82. Structural Determinants of Heparan Sulphate Modulation of GDNF Signalling

    Article • Growth Factors, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  83. Do different branching epithelia use a conserved developmental mechanism?

    Article • BioEssays, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  84. Morphogenesis of the Metanephric Kidney

    Article • The Scientific World JOURNAL, January 2002, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  85. Glycosaminoglycans in the study of mammalian organ development

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, April 2001, Portland Press Ltd.

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  86. Collecting duct morphogenesis

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, July 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  87. The kidney development database

    Article • Developmental Genetics, January 1999, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  88. Neurturin: An autocrine regulator of renal collecting duct development

    Article • Developmental Genetics, January 1999, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  89. Molecular aspects of the epithelial phenotype

    Article • BioEssays, August 1997, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  90. Molecular cloning and expression pattern of rpr-1 , a resiniferatoxin-binding, phosphotriesterase-related protein, expressed in rat kidney tubules 1

    Article • FEBS Letters, June 1997, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  91. Development, databases and the internet

    Article • BioEssays, November 1995, Wiley

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  92. Induction of Early Stages of Kidney Tubule Differentiation by Lithium Ions

    Article • Developmental Biology, January 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  93. Towards a genetic basis for kidney development

    Article • Mechanisms of Development, October 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies

  94. Isolation from chick somites of a glycoprotein fraction that causes collapse of dorsal root ganglion growth cones

    Article • Neuron, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Jamie A Davies