Sydney Pharmacy School: Recent submissions

    • Pharmacists' Awareness of COVID_19 and Perceptions of their Roles, Barriers, and Roles of Policymakers: exploring the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 

      Basheti, Iman A.; El-hajji, Feras; Nassar, Razan; Thiab, Samar; Barakat, Muna; Basheti, Mariam; Berardi, Alberto; Saini, Bandana
      Published 2021
      BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared in January 2020 as a public health emergency of international concern. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) suffered from several pandemics previously. Pharmacists ...
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    • Evidence for a role of executive functions in learning biology 

      Rhodes, Sinead; Booth, Josephine; Campbell, Lorna; Blythe, Richard; Wheate, Nial; Delibegovic, Mirela
      Published 2013-10-07
      Research examining cognition and science learning has focused on workingmemory, but evidence implicates a broader set of executive functions. The current study examined executive functions and learning of biology in ...
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    • The state-of-play and future of platinum drugs 

      Apps, Michael G.; Choi, Eugene H. Y.; Wheate, Nial J.
      Published 2015-08
      The year 2015 marks the 50th anniversary since the discovery of the anticancer potential of cisplatin and it remains just as useful now as it did back then, especially for the treatment of some endocrine-related cancers ...
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    • Inhalable Hydroxychloroquine Powders for Potential Treatment of COVID-19 

      Albariqi, Ahmed H.; Chang, Rachel Yoon Kyung; Tai, Waiting; Ke, Wei-Ren; Chow, Michael Y.T.; Tang, Patricia; Kwok, Philip Chi Lip; Chan, Hak-Kim
      Published 2021
      Background: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is one of the repurposed drugs proposed for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, all the published clinical trials involve oral administration of the drug, ...
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    • A Novel Purification Procedure for Active Recombinant Human DPP4 and the Inability of DPP4 to Bind SARS-CoV-2 

      Xi, C.R.; Di Fazio, A.; Nadvi, N.A.; Patel, K.; Xiang, M.S.W.; Zhang, H.E.; Deshpande, C.; Low, J.K.K.; Wang, X.T.; Chen, Y.; McMillan, C.L.D.; Isaacs, A.; Osborne, B.; Vieira de Ribeiro, A.J.; McCaughan, G.W.; Mackay, J.P.; Church, W.B.; Gorrell, M.D.
      Published 2020
      Proteases catalyse irreversible posttranslational modifications that often alter a biological function of the substrate. The protease dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) is a pharmacological target in type 2 diabetes therapy ...
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