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Current Project

Working together with the Paediatric Metabolism Unit in the Division of Child Health at St George's Hospital Medical School, London in developing the use of the erythrocytes as carriers of therapeutic enzymes and drugs.

Publications

• Bax, C.M.R., Davies, S., Chatzaki, E., Butler, S.A. and Iles, R.K. (2003). Role of glycoprotein hormones in endometrial cancer. In: Cell and Molecular Biology of Endometrial Carcinoma, Eds Kuramoto, H. and Nishida, M., Springer-Verlag, Tokyo.
• Davies, S., Bax, C.M.R., Chatzaki, E., Chard, T. and Iles, K. (2000). Regulation of endometrial cancer cell growth by luteinising hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). British Journal of Cancer, 83 (12); 1730-1734.
• Shankar V.S., Simon B.J., Bax C.M., Pazianas M., Moonga B.S., Adebanjo O.A., Zaidi M. (1998). Effects of electromagnetic stimulation on the functional responsiveness of isolated rat osteoclasts. Journal of Cell Physiology, 176 (3):537-544.
• Bloxam, D.L., Bax, C.M.R. and Bax, B.E. (1997). Culture of syncytiotrophoblast for the study of human placental transfer. Part I: isolation and purification of cytotrophoblast. Placenta, 18, 93-98.
• Bloxam, D.L., Bax, B.E. and Bax, C.M.R. (1997). Culture of syncytiotrophoblast for the study of human placental transfer. Part II: production, culture and use of syncytiotrophoblast. Placenta, 18, 99-108.
• Bax, C.M.R. and Bloxam, D.L. (1997). Human fetal endothelial cells acquire zinc (II) from both the protein bound and nonprotein bound pools in serum. Biological Trace Element Research, 56, 255-271.
• Chatzaki, E., Bax, C.M.R., Eidne, K., Anderson, L., Grudzinskas, J.G. and Gallagher, C.J. (1996). The expression of gonadotropin-releasing hormone and its receptor in endometrial cancer and its relevance as an autocrine growth factor. Cancer Research, 56, 2059-2065.
• Bax, C.M.R. and Bloxam, D.L. (1995). Two major pathways of zinc (II) acquisition by human placental syncytiotrophoblast. Journal of Cellular Physiology, 164, 546-554.
• Chatzaki,E, Gallagher, C.J., Iles, R.K., Ind, T.E.J., Nouri, A.M.E., Bax, C.M.R. and Grudzinskas, J.G. (1994). Characterisation of the differentiated expression of marker antigens by normal and malignant endometrial epithelium. British Journal of Cancer, 69, 1010-1014.
• Bloxam, D.L., Bax, B.E. and Bax, C.M.R. (1994). Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) differently influence the directional accumulation and transfer of 2-aminoisobutyrate (AIB) by human placental trophoblast in two-sided culture. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 199, 922-929.
• Zaidi, M., Alam, A.S.M.T., Bax, C.M.R., Shankar, V., Bevis, P.J.R., Huang, C.L.-H., and Moonga, B.S. (1994) Cytosolic free calcium measurements in single cells using calcium-sensitive fluorochromes. Methods in Molecular Biology, 27, 279-293.