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Todd McMullen

University of Alberta
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Cholesterol–phospholipid interactions, the liquid-ordered phase and lipid rafts in model and biological membranes

TPW McMullen, RNAH Lewis, RN McElhaney - Current opinion in colloid & …, 2004 - Elsevier
The existence of relatively large and long-lived detergent-insoluble, sphingolipid- and
cholesterol-enriched, liquid-ordered lipid raft domains in the plasma membranes of eukaryotic …

The brain as a dynamic physical system

TM McKenna, TA McMullen, MF Shlesinger - Neuroscience, 1994 - Elsevier
… F(t), F(t + At), F(t + 281) where F(t) is a measurable variable (eg voltage) at time t and A\t is …
and Carrol T. (1992) Drivina nonlinear systems with chaotic sianals. In Proceedings ofthe 1st …

Physical studies of cholesterol-phospholipid interactions

TPW McMullen, RN McElhaney - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 1996 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the role of cholesterol in biological membranes requires a detailed
knowledge of the forces which mediate cholesterol-lipid interactions and of the lateral …

New aspects of the interaction of cholesterol with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayers as revealed by high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry

TPW McMullen, RN McElhaney - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 1995 - Elsevier
… In all cases the T m ~f the broad component at very low … of the T m values will be observed
for DMPC and DPPC but not for DSPC and DAPC. Moreover, since the upward shift of the T m …

Differential scanning calorimetric study of the effect of cholesterol on the thermotropic phase behavior of a homologous series of linear saturated phosphatidylcholines

TPW McMullen, RNAH Lewis, RN McElhaney - Biochemistry, 1993 - ACS Publications
Revised Manuscript Received October 28, 1992 abstract: We have studied the effects of
cholesterol on the thermotropic phase behavior of aqueous dispersions of a homologous series …

Quantitative analysis of small-plastic debris on beaches in the Hawaiian archipelago

KJ McDermid, TL McMullen - Marine pollution bulletin, 2004 - Elsevier
Small-plastic beach debris from nine coastal locations throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago
was analyzed. At each beach, replicate 20 l samples of sediment were collected, sieved for …

[HTML][HTML] Autotaxin in the crosshairs: taking aim at cancer and other inflammatory conditions

MGK Benesch, YM Ko, TPW McMullen, DN Brindley - FEBS letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Autotaxin is a secreted enzyme that produces most of the extracellular lysophosphatidate
from lysophosphatidylcholine, the most abundant phospholipid in blood plasma. …

The effect of variations in phospholipid and sterol structure on the nature of lipid–sterol interactions in lipid bilayer model membranes

DA Mannock, RNAH Lewis, TPW McMullen… - Chemistry and physics …, 2010 - Elsevier
This review deals with the effect of variations in phospholipid and sterol structure on the
nature and magnitude of lipid-sterol interactions in lipid bilayer model membranes. The first …

Inhibition of autotaxin delays breast tumor growth and lung metastasis in mice

…, J Dewald, M Hitt, JM Curtis, TPW McMullen… - The FASEB …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Autotaxin is a secreted enzyme that produces most extracellular lysophosphatidate, which
stimulates 6 G‐protein‐coupled receptors. Lysophosphatidate promotes cancer cell survival, …

A computational model of echo processing and acoustic imaging in frequency‐modulated echolocating bats: the spectrogram correlation and transformation receiver

…, JA Simmons, SP Dear, TA McMullen - The Journal of the …, 1993 - pubs.aip.org
The spectrogram correlation and transformation (SCAT) model of the sonar receiver in the
big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) consists of a cochlear component for encoding the bat’s FM …