The effect of hypotensive drugs on the quality of life

…, H Brierley, S Jachuck, PM Willcox - The Journal of the Royal …, 1982 - bjgp.org
Quality of life after antihypertensive therapy was assessed in 75 patients with controlled
hypertension using questionnaires given to patients, close companions and doctors. The overall …

Contact lens-induced discomfort and protein changes in tears

…, FJ Stapleton, MDP Willcox - Optometry and Vision …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Ocular discomfort is among the main causes of contact lens wear discontinuation.
This study investigated the association between subjective ocular comfort ratings and diurnal …

The proinflammatory cytokines and arachidonic acid metabolites in human overnight tears: homeostatic mechanisms

A Thakur, MDP Willcox, F Stapleton - Journal of clinical immunology, 1998 - Springer
… and 20 pM GM-CSF showed maximum expression at the 20 pM concentration. The percentage
positive PMNs after GM-CSF treatment was 35% at 50 pM and 60% at 20 pM, whereas …

Contact lens–induced discomfort and inflammatory mediator changes in tears

S Masoudi, Z Zhao, F Stapleton, M Willcox - Eye & contact lens, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: Studies indicate that contact lens (CL) discontinuation mostly occurs because of
dryness and discomfort symptoms. This study aimed to investigate relationships between …

Constraints on Weak Supernova Kicks from Observed Pulsar Velocities

R Willcox, I Mandel, E Thrane, A Deller… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations of binary pulsars and pulsars in globular clusters suggest that at least some
pulsars must receive weak natal kicks at birth. If all pulsars received strong natal kicks above …

Specific tolerance to an acetylcholine receptor epitope induced in vitro in myasthenia gravis CD4+ lymphocytes by soluble major histocompatibility complex class II …

…, B Nag, SD Sharma, N Willcox… - The Journal of …, 1994 - Am Soc Clin Investig
… clone (PM-Al) with a known peptide epitope (al44-163) and MHC class II restriction (DR4
Dwl4.2 or 4.2) by using soluble MHC-class II peptide complexes. Preincubation of PM-Al T cells …

Critical role for the Val/Gly86 HLA-DR beta dimorphism in autoantigen presentation to human T cells.

B Ong, N Willcox, P Wordsworth… - Proceedings of the …, 1991 - National Acad Sciences
… showed an AChR epitope and MHC restriction pattern almost identical to PM-A (not shown).
Both lines were >96% CD3+ and CD4+, <2% CD8+, and 40-70% HLA class II-positive on …

Lookahead Bayesian optimization with inequality constraints

R Lam, K Willcox - Advances in neural information …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… The PM algorithm does not improve its recommendations. This is not surprising because
PM focuses on exploitation (PM does not depends on posterior variance) which can result in …

Antioxidants in cardiovascular health and disease: key lessons from epidemiologic studies

BJ Willcox, JD Curb, BL Rodriguez - The American journal of cardiology, 2008 - Elsevier
… 2002 Women's Angiographic Vitamin and Estrogen Trial 80 423 PM PM women CVD patients
Willcox, MD, has no financial arrangement or affiliation with a corporate organization or a …

Human vascular endothelial cells process and present autoantigen to human T cell lines

…, W King, DM Sansom, N Willcox - International …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… The development of line PM-A from the hyperplastic thymus of a … Line PM-A was raised
against the recombinant a subunit of … Furthermore PM-A (and a clone of PM-A called PM-C3) …