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Sarah A Morgan

Lecturer (Beef & Sheep Production), Harper Adams University
Verified email at harper-adams.ac.uk
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11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1: translational and therapeutic aspects

LL Gathercole, GG Lavery, SA Morgan… - Endocrine …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) interconverts the inactive
glucocorticoid cortisone and its active form cortisol. It is widely expressed and, although …

Can we improve the nutritional quality of meat?

ND Scollan, EM Price, SA Morgan, SA Huws… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The nutritional value of meat is an increasingly important factor influencing consumer
preferences for poultry, red meat and processed meat products. Intramuscular fat content …

Successful suppression of a field mosquito population by sustained release of engineered male mosquitoes

…, D Nimmo, Z Curtis, I Black, SA Morgan… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
To the Editor: Our paper published last year described the results of preliminary release
experiments showing that engineered sterile male mosquitoes could mate with females in a …

11β-HSD1 is the major regulator of the tissue-specific effects of circulating glucocorticoid excess

SA Morgan, EL McCabe… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The adverse metabolic effects of prescribed and endogenous glucocorticoid (GC) excess,
Cushing syndrome, create a significant health burden. We found that tissue regeneration of …

Simulations of Bose fields at finite temperature

MJ Davis, SA Morgan, K Burnett - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
We introduce a time-dependent projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation to describe a partially
condensed homogeneous Bose gas, and find that this equation will evolve randomized …

Phenomenological damping in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

S Choi, SA Morgan, K Burnett - Physical Review A, 1998 - APS
The method of phenomenological damping developed by Pitaevskii (Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 35,
408 (1958)[Sov. Phys. JETP 35, 282 (1959)]) for superfluidity near the λ point is simulated …

11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 regulates glucocorticoid-induced insulin resistance in skeletal muscle

SA Morgan, M Sherlock, LL Gathercole, GG Lavery… - Diabetes, 2009 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Glucocorticoid excess is characterized by increased adiposity, skeletal
myopathy, and insulin resistance, but the precise molecular mechanisms are unknown …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of lipogenesis by glucocorticoids and insulin in human adipose tissue

LL Gathercole, SA Morgan, IJ Bujalska, D Hauton… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Patients with glucocorticoid (GC) excess, Cushing's syndrome, develop a classic phenotype
characterized by central obesity and insulin resistance. GCs are known to increase the …

A gapless theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases at finite temperature

SA Morgan - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we develop a gapless theory of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) which can
be applied to both trapped and homogeneous gases at zero and finite temperature. The …

[HTML][HTML] 11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase blockade prevents age-induced skin structure and function defects

A Tiganescu, AA Tahrani, SA Morgan… - The Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Glucocorticoid (GC) excess adversely affects skin integrity, inducing thinning and impaired
wound healing. Aged skin, particularly that which has been photo-exposed, shares a similar …