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Benjamin Davies

- Verified email at crick.ac.uk - Cited by 4288

Benjamin Davies

- Verified email at upmc.edu - Cited by 3307

Benjamin Marshall Davies

- Verified email at cam.ac.uk - Cited by 2858

Active surveillance for early‐stage prostate cancer: review of the current literature

MA Dall'Era, MR Cooperberg, JM Chan… - … Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The natural history of prostate cancer is remarkably heterogeneous and, at this time, not
completely understood. The widespread adoption and application of prostate‐specific …

[HTML][HTML] Degenerative cervical myelopathy

BM Davies, OD Mowforth, EK Smith, MRN Kotter - Bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Degenerative cervical myelopathy | The BMJ Skip to main content Intended for healthcare
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How does peer teaching compare to faculty teaching? A systematic review and meta-analysis

EL Rees, PJ Quinn, B Davies, V Fotheringham - Medical teacher, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: In undergraduate medical education, peer-teaching has become an established
and common method to enhance student learning. Evidence suggests that peer-teaching …

[HTML][HTML] Rapamycin reverses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a mouse model of LEOPARD syndrome–associated PTPN11 mutation

TM Marin, K Keith, B Davies, DA Conner… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Clin Investig
LEOPARD syndrome (LS) is an autosomal dominant “RASopathy” that manifests with
congenital heart disease. Nearly all cases of LS are caused by catalytically inactivating …

[HTML][HTML] A New Raman Metric for the Characterisation of Graphene oxide and its Derivatives

AAK King, BR Davies, N Noorbehesht, P Newman… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Raman spectroscopy is among the primary techniques for the characterisation of graphene
materials, as it provides insights into the quality of measured graphenes including their …

15-year experience with the management of extrinsic ureteral obstruction with indwelling ureteral stents

SY Chung, RJ Stein, D Landsittel, BJ Davies… - The Journal of …, 2004 - auajournals.org
Purpose: We assessed the success of retrograde placement of indwelling ureteral stents in
the management of ureteral obstruction due to extrinsic compression. Materials and …

Re-engineering the zinc fingers of PRDM9 reverses hybrid sterility in mice

B Davies, E Hatton, N Altemose, JG Hussin, F Pratto… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The DNA-binding protein PRDM9 directs positioning of the double-strand breaks (DSBs)
that initiate meiotic recombination in mice and humans. Prdm9 is the only mammalian …

Tissue-specific CTCF–cohesin-mediated chromatin architecture delimits enhancer interactions and function in vivo

LLP Hanssen, MT Kassouf, AM Oudelaar, D Biggs… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
The genome is organized via CTCF–cohesin-binding sites, which partition chromosomes
into 1–5 megabase (Mb) topologically associated domains (TADs), and further into smaller …

Cardiac ferroportin regulates cellular iron homeostasis and is important for cardiac function

S Lakhal-Littleton, M Wolna, CA Carr… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Iron is essential to the cell. Both iron deficiency and overload impinge negatively on cardiac
health. Thus, effective iron homeostasis is important for cardiac function. Ferroportin (FPN) …

An essential cell-autonomous role for hepcidin in cardiac iron homeostasis

S Lakhal-Littleton, M Wolna, YJ Chung, HC Christian… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Hepcidin is the master regulator of systemic iron homeostasis. Derived primarily from the
liver, it inhibits the iron exporter ferroportin in the gut and spleen, the sites of iron absorption …