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Liz Grant

Professor of Global Health
Verified email at ed.ac.uk
Cited by 3425

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the epidemiology of medication errors in adults in community care settings: A retrospective cohort study in central Saudi Arabia

…, AHM Alkhenizan, SM Al-Khani, LM Grant… - Saudi medical …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives: To investigate the period prevalence and risk factors for clinically important
prescription and monitoring errors among adults managed in community care in Saudi Arabia (SA…

Tuning the growth of chiral gold nanoparticles through rational design of a chiral molecular inducer

…, M Obelleiro-Liz, A Criado, S Bals, LM Liz-Marzán… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up production of chiral gold nanomaterials holds great potential for the advancement
of biosensing and nano-optics, among other applications. Reproducible preparations …

Chiral seeded growth of gold nanorods into fourfold twisted nanoparticles with plasmonic optical activity

…, J Morales‐Vidal, M Obelleiro‐Liz… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A robust and reproducible methodology to prepare stable inorganic nanoparticles with chiral
morphology may hold the key to the practical utilization of these materials. An optimized …

Substrate specificity of transthyretin: identification of natural substrates in the nervous system

MA Liz, CE Fleming, AF Nunes, MR Almeida… - Biochemical …, 2009 - portlandpress.com
Besides functioning as the plasma transporter of retinol and thyroxine, TTR (transthyretin) is
a protease, cleaving apoA-I (apolipoprotein AI) after a phenylalanine residue. In the present …

[HTML][HTML] Akt activity protects rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts from Fas-induced apoptosis by inhibition of Bid cleavage

S García, M Liz, JJ Gómez-Reino, C Conde - Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2010 - Springer
Introduction Synovial hyperplasia is a main feature of rheumatoid arthritis pathology that
leads to cartilage and bone damage in the inflamed joints. Impaired apoptosis of resident …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of association of a variable number of aspartic acid residues in the asporin gene with osteoarthritis susceptibility: case-control studies in Spanish …

J Rodriguez-Lopez, M Pombo-Suarez, M Liz… - Arthritis research & …, 2006 - Springer
… This project was supported by grant PI02/0713 form the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain)
with participation of funds from FEDER (European Union), and by a grant of the Fundacion …

Transthyretin is a metallopeptidase with an inducible active site

MA Liz, SC Leite, L Juliano, MJ Saraiva… - Biochemical …, 2012 - portlandpress.com
… We determined a k cat /K m value of 408.8 s −1 ·M −1 for the active fraction of TTR (7%),
which translates to an effective k cat /K m value of 6.0×10 3 s −1 ·M −1 . In comparison with other …

Morphological and optical transitions during micelle-seeded chiral growth on gold nanorods

…, M Obelleiro-Liz, JM Taboada, S Bals, LM Liz-Marzán - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chiral plasmonics is a rapidly developing field where breakthroughs and unsolved problems
coexist. We have recently reported binary surfactant-assisted seeded growth of chiral gold …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting transthyretin in Alzheimer's disease: Drug discovery of small-molecule chaperones as disease-modifying drug candidates for Alzheimer's disease

…, LM Santos, J Rivas, D Blasi, JP Leite, MA Liz… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Transthyretin (TTR) has a well-established role in neuroprotection in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
We have setup a drug discovery program of small-molecule compounds that act as …

Knowledge and reality: some conceptual issues in system dynamics modeling

M Vázquez, M Liz, J Aracil - … Review: The Journal of the System …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a number of epistemological and methodological reflections on modeling
and simulation through system dynamics and the special type of knowledge provided by …