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Introduction
I currently work as a PhD student in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University. My research seeks to investigate the effects of exercise on early Rheumatoid Arthritis: from physiological mechanisms to exercise interventions. My other academic areas of research include clinical exercise physiology, cardiac physiology/rehabilitation and inflammation.
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously generated single-stranded RNAs that play crucial roles in numerous biological processes, such as cell development, proliferation, differentiation, metabolism and apoptosis. They negatively regulate target gene expression by repressing translation of messenger RNA into a functional protein. Several miRNAs have bee...
Background
Exercise is advocated in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, uncertainty around the acute effects of exercise on pain and inflammation may be stopping people with RA from exercising more regularly.
Objectives
To determine the acute effects of exercise on pain symptoms, clinical inflammatory markers, and inflammatory cyt...
The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing restrictions have significantly reduced population-wide physical activity (PA) levels. However, the impact of the pandemic and relevant restrictions on PA participation, and any potential barriers to it, in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not clear. Furthermore, we are unsure if any such PA chan...
We investigated the effects of ingesting a leucine-enriched essential amino acid (EAA) gel alone or combined with resistance exercise (RE) versus RE alone (control) on plasma aminoacidemia and intramyocellular anabolic signaling in healthy younger (28 ± 4 years) and older (71 ± 3 years) adults. Blood samples were obtained throughout the three trial...
Background
The benefits of exercise for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are now widely recognised [1]. However, exercise participation among people with RA remains low. A key reason for that could be the commonly held belief that exercise, may exacerbate disease activity while acutely increasing levels of joint pain. The association of acute...
Introduction:
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs that have an important role in regulating gene expression. Although circulating miRNAs are considered good markers of response to acute aerobic exercise (1) change in expression according to workload has yet to be investigated. The aim of this study was therefore to determine the impact of maxim...
Introduction:
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs that have an important role in regulating gene expression. Although circulating miRNAs are considered good markers of response to acute resistance training (RT) (1), change in expression according to the applied stimulus (e.g. high-intensity low-volume vs. low-intensity high-volume) has yet to be...
