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Peter Davies

- Verified email at northwell.edu - Cited by 62318

Peter F Davies

- Verified email at pennmedicine.upenn.edu - Cited by 26074

Peter M Davies

- Verified email at murdoch.edu.au - Cited by 15433

The Genome Sequence of Drosophila melanogaster

…, S Cawley, C Dahlke, LB Davenport, P Davies… - Science, 2000 - science.org
The fly Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most intensively studied organisms in biology
and serves as a model system for the investigation of many developmental and cellular …

Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

…, SE Bunn, CA Sullivan, CR Liermann, PM Davies - nature, 2010 - nature.com
Protecting the world’s freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range
of scales, from global to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly …

Correlation of Alzheimer disease neuropathologic changes with cognitive status: a review of the literature

…, RJ Castellani, BJ Crain, P Davies… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Clinicopathologic correlation studies are critically important for the field of Alzheimer disease
(AD) research. Studies on human subjects with autopsy confirmation entail numerous …

Association of missense and 5′-splice-site mutations in tau with the inherited dementia FTDP-17

…, J Hackett, J Adamson, S Lincoln, D Dickson, P Davies… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Thirteen families have been described with an autosomal dominantly inherited dementia
named frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) 1 , 2 , 3 …

Flow-mediated endothelial mechanotransduction

PF Davies - Physiological reviews, 1995 - journals.physiology.org
Mechanical forces associated with blood flow play important roles in the acute control of
vascular tone, the regulation of arterial structure and remodeling, and the localization of …

The plant hormones: their nature, occurrence, and functions

PJ Davies - Plant hormones: biosynthesis, signal transduction …, 2010 - Springer
Plant hormones are a group of naturally occurring, organic substances which influence
physiological processes at low concentrations. The processes influenced consist mainly of growth…

Haemodynamic shear stress activates a K+ current in vascular endothelial cells

SP Olesen, D Claphamt, P Davies - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
The endothelial lining of blood vessels is subjected to a wide range of haemodynamically-generated
shear-stress forces throughout the vascular system 1 . In vivo and in vitro, …

Correlation between elevated levels of amyloid β-peptide in the brain and cognitive decline

J Näslund, V Haroutunian, R Mohs, KL Davis, P Davies… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
ContextAlzheimer disease (AD) is characterized neuropathologically by the presence of
amyloid β-peptide (Aβ)–containing plaques and neurofibrillary tangles composed of abnormal …

Hemodynamic shear stress and the endothelium in cardiovascular pathophysiology

PF Davies - Nature clinical practice Cardiovascular medicine, 2009 - nature.com
Endothelium lining the cardiovascular system is highly sensitive to hemodynamic shear
stresses that act at the vessel luminal surface in the direction of blood flow. Physiological …

Neurofibrillary tangles, amyotrophy and progressive motor disturbance in mice expressing mutant (P301L) tau protein

…, A Corral, WL Lin, SH Yen, DW Dickson, P Davies… - Nature …, 2000 - nature.com
Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) composed of the microtubule-associated protein tau are
prominent in Alzheimer disease (AD), Pick disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and …