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Niall M Byrne

Senior Research Fellow, Queen University Belfast
Verified email at qub.ac.uk
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[PDF][PDF] Osteoclasts recycle via osteomorphs during RANKL-stimulated bone resorption

MM McDonald, WH Khoo, PY Ng, Y Xiao, J Zamerli… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Osteoclasts are large multinucleated bone-resorbing cells formed by the fusion of monocyte/
macrophage-derived precursors that are thought to undergo apoptosis once resorption is …

Evaluating ethical sensitivity in medical students: using vignettes as an instrument.

P Hébert, EM Meslin, EV Dunn, N Byrne… - Journal of medical …, 1990 - jme.bmj.com
As a preliminary step to beginning to assess the usefulness of clinical vignettes to measure
ethical sensitivity in undergraduate medical students, five clinical vignettes with seven to …

Tumor cell dormancy and reactivation in bone: skeletal biology and therapeutic opportunities

NM Byrne, MA Summers, MM McDonald - JBMR plus, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the advanced stages of many cancers, tumor cells disseminate from the primary site and
colonize distant locations such as the skeleton. These disseminated tumor cells colonizing …

[HTML][HTML] Radiation response in the tumour microenvironment: predictive biomarkers and future perspectives

NM Byrne, P Tambe, JA Coulter - Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Radiotherapy (RT) is a primary treatment modality for a number of cancers, offering
potentially curative outcomes. Despite its success, tumour cells can become resistant to RT …

[HTML][HTML] Exploiting current understanding of hypoxia mediated tumour progression for nanotherapeutic development

J Feng, NM Byrne, W Al Jamal, JA Coulter - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Hypoxia is one of the most common phenotypes of malignant tumours. Hypoxia leads to the
increased activity of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs), which regulate the expression of …

Microbubble–sonosensitiser conjugates as therapeutics in sonodynamic therapy

N Nomikou, C Fowley, NM Byrne… - Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbubble–sonosensitiser conjugates as therapeutics in sonodynamic therapy - Chemical
Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C2CC33913G Royal Society of Chemistry View …

The future of medical education: a Canadian environmental scan

BD Hodges, M Albert, D Arweiler, S Akseer… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Medical Education 2011: 45: 95–106 Objectives One hundred years after the Flexner report
remade medical education in North America, many countries are reviewing the purpose and …

Androgen deprivation results in time‐dependent hypoxia in LNCaP prostate tumours: informed scheduling of the bioreductive drug AQ4N improves treatment …

L Ming, NM Byrne, SN Camac… - … journal of cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Androgen withdrawal induces hypoxia in androgen‐sensitive tissue; this is important as in
the tumour microenvironment, hypoxia is known to drive malignant progression. Our study …

~ 1-Proteinase Inhibitor, Elastase Activity, and Lung Disease Severity in Cystic Fibrosis

CM O'Connor, K Gaffney, J Keane… - American Review of …, 1993 - atsjournals.org
The potential role of neutrophil elastase in exacerbating pulmonary infection and tissue
damage in cystic fibrosis (CF) has led to proposals for treatment of lung disease in CF with …

Targeting hypoxic prostate tumors using the novel hypoxia-activated prodrug OCT1002 inhibits expression of genes associated with malignant progression

H Nesbitt, NM Byrne, SN Williams, L Ming… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: To understand the role of hypoxia in prostate tumor progression and to evaluate
the ability of the novel unidirectional hypoxia-activated prodrug OCT1002 to enhance the …