Peter M. Jones
King's College London
386 Papers
2.3K Citations
Peter M. Jones is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Islet & Excited state. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 384 publications. Previous affiliations of Peter M. Jones include University of Technology, Sydney & University of Jyväskylä.
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Papers
Predictors of success and failure in pulmonary rehabilitation
TL;DR: Depression was a risk factor for subject drop-out compared with nondepressed patients, and Baseline state is a poor predictor of response to rehabilitation, although Medical Research Council dyspnoea score grade 5 patients showed smaller magnitudes of improvement than patients with less severe Medical Research council dyspnOEa score grades.
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Somatostatin secreted by islet delta-cells fulfills multiple roles as a paracrine regulator of islet function.
Astrid C Hauge-Evans,Aileen King,Danielle Carmignac,C. C. Richardson,Iain C.A.F. Robinson,Malcolm J. Low,Michael R. Christie,Shanta J. Persaud,Peter M. Jones +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that δ-cell SST exerts a tonic inhibitory influence on insulin and glucagon secretion, which may facilitate the islet response to cholinergic activation.
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Revised rates for the stellar triple-alpha process from measurement of C-12 nuclear resonances
H. O. U. Fynbo,C. A. Diget,Uffe C Bergmann,María José García Borge,Joakim Cederkäll,Peter Dendooven,L. M. Fraile,S. Franchoo,Valentin Fedosseev,B. R. Fulton,Wenxue Huang,Jussi Huikari,Henrik B. Jeppesen,A. Jokinen,A. Jokinen,Peter M. Jones,Björn Jonson,Ulli Köster,Karlheinz Langanke,Mikael Meister,Thomas Nilsson,Göran Hugo Nyman,Yolanda Prezado,K. Riisager,Sami Rinta-Antila,Olof Tengblad,M. Turrión,Y. Wang,Leonid Weissman,K. Wilhelmsen,J. Äystö,J. Äystö +31 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported a measurement of the inverse process, where a C-12 nucleus decays to three alpha-particles, and calculated the triple-a rate for temperatures from 10(7) K to 10(10) K and found significant deviations from the standard rates, implying that the critical amounts of carbon that catalysed hydrogen burning in the first stars are produced twice as fast as previously believed.
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Metabolic phenotyping guidelines: assessing glucose homeostasis in rodent models.
James E. Bowe,Zara J. Franklin,Astrid C Hauge-Evans,Aileen King,Shanta J. Persaud,Peter M. Jones +5 more
TL;DR: This review outlines the most commonly used techniques for assessing glucose tolerance in rodents and details the factors that should be taken into account in their use.
Gymnema sylvestre stimulates insulin release in vitro by increased membrane permeability
TL;DR: Results confirm the stimulatory effects of G. sylvestre on insulin release, but indicate that GS4 acts by increasing cell permeability, rather than by stimulating exocytosis by regulated pathways, which means the suitability of GS4 as a potential novel treatment for NIDDM can not be assessed by direct measurements of beta-cell function in vitro.