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List of works by Michael J Taggart

A comparison of the effects of intracellular and extracellular pH on contraction in isolated rat portal vein

scientific article published on 01 March 1994

A computational model of the ionic currents, Ca2+ dynamics and action potentials underlying contraction of isolated uterine smooth muscle.

scientific article

A role for cytoskeletal protein acetylation in modulating myometrial activity.

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

Abolition of contractions in the myometrium by acidification in vitro

scientific article published in The Lancet

Acetylation of heat shock protein 20 (Hsp20) regulates human myometrial activity

scientific article

Acute effects of oestrogen receptor subtype-specific agonists on vascular contractility.

scientific article

Acute hyperglycemia in uterine arteries from pregnant, but not non-pregnant mice, enhances endothelium-dependent relaxation

scientific article published on 22 September 2006

Advantage of knowing nature's secrets

scientific article published in Nature

Age-related changes in the contractile and passive arterial properties of murine mesenteric small arteries are altered by caveolin-1 knockout.

scientific article published on August 2012

Agonist mobilization of sarcoplasmic reticular calcium in smooth muscle: functional coupling to the plasmalemmal Na+/Ca2+ exchanger?

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Altered endothelial function in isolated human myometrial vessels induced by plasma from women with pre-eclampsia is not reproducible in isolated mouse vessels

article published in 2005

An investigation into the mechanism whereby pH affects tension in guinea-pig ureteric smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Are animal models relevant to key aspects of human parturition?

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Ca2+ regulation of the thin filaments: biochemical mechanism and physiological role

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

Cardiac remodelling during pregnancy: whither the guinea pig?

scientific article published on 25 August 2014

Caveolae and sarcoplasmic reticular coupling in smooth muscle cells of pressurised arteries: the relevance for Ca2+ oscillations and tone

scientific article published on 7 February 2006

Changes in intracellular pH close to term and their possible significance to labour

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Changes in myometrial 'perfusion' during normal labor as visualized by three-dimensional power Doppler angiography

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Changes in stretch-induced tone induced by intracellular acidosis in rabbit basilar artery: effects on BKCa channel activity

scientific article

Changes of pH affect calcium currents but not outward potassium currents in rat myometrial cells

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Characterisation of tone oscillations in placental and myometrial arteries from normal pregnancies and those complicated by pre-eclampsia and growth restriction.

scientific article published on 11 March 2008

Characterization of small arteries isolated from the human placental chorionic plate

scientific article published in May 2002

Chemotactic activity of gestational tissues through late pregnancy, term labor, and RU486-induced preterm labor in Guinea pigs

scientific article

Comparison of U46619-, endothelin-1- or phenylephrine-induced changes in cellular Ca2+ profiles and Ca2+ sensitisation of constriction of pressurised rat resistance arteries

scientific article

Compartmentalized signaling in cardiomyocyte lipid domains—Do structure and function match up?

scientific article published on 12 June 2006

Computational modeling of inhibition of voltage-gated Ca channels: identification of different effects on uterine and cardiac action potentials

scientific article

Computational modeling reveals key contributions of KCNQ and hERG currents to the malleability of uterine action potentials underpinning labor

scientific article

Contractile responses of isolated rat mesenteric arteries to acute episodes of severe hypoxia and subsequent reoxygenation

scientific article published in November 2004

Contribution of extracellular calcium to intracellular pH-induced changes in spontaneous force of rat portal vein

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Contribution of sarcoplasmic reticular calcium to smooth muscle contractile activation: gestational dependence in isolated rat uterus ⬇️

scientific article published on August 15, 1998

Current perspectives in uterine research: reviews from the Society for Gynecologic Investigation Myometrium and Parturition Satellite symposia

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Depletion of Myofibril-Associated Proteins Using Selective Protein Extraction as a Tool in Cardiac Proteomics

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Differential effect of insulin like growth factor-I on constriction of human uterine and placental arteries

scientific article

Differentiation of human epidermal neural crest stem cells (hEPI-NCSC) into virtually homogenous populations of dopaminergic neurons

scientific journal article

Doctors should expect to repay state investment with NHS service

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Effect of cholesterol depletion on mitogenesis and survival: the role of caveolar and noncaveolar domains in insulin-like growth factor-mediated cellular function.

scientific article published on 15 September 2005

Effect of metabolic inhibition on intracellular Ca2+, phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chain and force in rat smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Effects of a phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor on endothelium-dependent relaxation of myometrial small arteries

scientific article

Effects of pH and inorganic phosphate on force production in alpha-toxin-permeabilized isolated rat uterine smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

Endothelial dysfunction in myometrial arteries of women with gestational diabetes.

scientific article published on 22 April 2010

Estrogenic vascular effects are diminished by chronological aging.

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Expression and function of potassium channels in the human placental vasculature

scientific article published on 02 March 2006

Expression of TASK and TREK, two-pore domain K+ channels, in human myometrium.

scientific article published in April 2005

External alkalinization decreases intracellular Ca++ and spontaneous contractions in pregnant rat myometrium

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Functional effects of intracellular pH alteration in the human uterus: simultaneous measurements of pH and force

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

Glibenclamide inhibits agonist-induced vasoconstriction of placental chorionic plate arteries.

scientific article published on 18 July 2005

Histamine-induced contraction and relaxation of placental chorionic plate arteries.

scientific article

Human uterine and placental arteries exhibit tissue-specific acute responses to 17β-estradiol and estrogen-receptor-specific agonists

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Hypoxic inhibition of human myometrial contractions in vitro: implications for the regulation of parturition

scientific article published in February 2006

Inhibition of rho-associated kinase reduces MLC20 phosphorylation and contractility of intact myometrium and attenuates agonist-induced Ca2+ sensitization of force of permeabilized rat myometrium

scientific article

Inhibitors of actin filament polymerisation attenuate force but not global intracellular calcium in isolated pressurised resistance arteries

scientific article published in January 2003

Intracellular calcium stores and agonist-induced contractions in isolated human myometrium

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Isolated small uterine arteries from non-pregnant and term pregnant rats exhibit regulatory responses to elevations in extravascular pressure ⬇️

scientific article published on November 27, 2012

Kinetochore localized Mad2 and Cdc20 is itself insufficient for triggering the mitotic checkpoint when Mps1 is low in Drosophila melanogaster neuroblasts

scientific article

Letter to the editor: "KDAC and the regulation of nonnuclear smooth muscle protein acetylation".

scientific article published on September 2014

Localization of TASK and TREK, two-pore domain K+ channels, in human cytotrophoblast cells

scientific article

Lysine deacetylase inhibition promotes relaxation of arterial tone and C-terminal acetylation of HSPB6 (Hsp20) in vascular smooth muscle cells

scientific article

Major difference between rat and guinea-pig ureter in the ability of agonists and caffeine to release Ca2+ and influence force.

scientific article published in December 1995

Mechanisms of 17 beta-oestradiol induced vasodilatation in isolated pressurized rat small arteries.

scientific article

Modulation of caveolin-1 expression can affect signalling through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway and cellular proliferation in response to insulin-like growth factor I.

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

Modulation of human arterial tone during pregnancy: the effect of the bioactive metabolite sphingosine-1-phosphate

scientific article published on 04 April 2007

Molecular pathways regulating contractility in rat uterus through late gestation and parturition.

scientific article published on 8 May 2012

Nuclear factor of activated T-cell isoform expression and regulation in human myometrium

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Occurrence of intracellular pH transients during spontaneous contractions in rat uterine smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Outcomes of labours augmented with oxytocin

scientific article published on 13 June 2005

Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors and omental and placental small artery function in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Possible dual roles for prostacyclin in human pregnancy and labor.

scientific article published on 20 November 2008

Receptor-coupled contractility of uterine smooth muscle: from membrane to myofilaments.

scientific article

Recurring patterns in stationary intervals of abdominal uterine electromyograms during gestation

scientific article

Regulation of endothelial-dependent relaxation in human systemic arteries by SKCa and IKCa channels.

scientific article published on January 2007

Regulation of the uterine contractile apparatus and cytoskeleton.

scientific article

Responses of isolated pressurised rat uterine arteries to changes in pressure: effects of pre-constriction, endothelium and pregnancy.

scientific article published on 8 May 2009

Simultaneous measurement of intracellular pH and contraction in uterine smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

Sphingosine-1-phosphate acts via rho-associated kinase and nitric oxide to regulate human placental vascular tone.

scientific article

Stimulus-dependent modulation of smooth muscle intracellular calcium and force by altered intracellular pH

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

Stretch activates human myometrium via ERK, caldesmon and focal adhesion signaling

scientific article

TNF-alpha alters nitric oxide- and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor-mediated vasodilatation in human omental arteries.

scientific article

The effect of metabolic inhibition on rat uterine intracellular pH and its role in contractile failure

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

The effect of superoxide free radicals on human myometrial contractility in vitro

scientific article published on 03 February 2006

The effects of intracellular and extracellular alkalinization on contractions of the isolated rat uterus

scientific article published in October 1992

The effects of vascular smooth muscle caldesmon on force production by 'desensitised' skeletal muscle fibres

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

The involvement of Rho-associated kinases in agonist-dependent contractions of human maternal and placental arteries at term gestation

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

The inwardly rectifying K+ channel KIR7.1 controls uterine excitability throughout pregnancy

scientific article

The knack of resisting increases in intravascular pressure: the potential role for epithelial Na+ channel protein subunits in arterial myogenic reactivity ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

The mechanism of Ca2+ release from the SR of permeabilised guinea-pig and rat ureteric smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

The multifaceted KDAC8: a smooth muscle contractile regulator

scientific article published on 03 July 2015

The role of the sarcolemmal Ca2+-ATPase in the pH transients associated with contraction in rat smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

The transcription factor encyclopedia

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Three-dimensional electron microscopic reconstruction of intracellular organellar arrangements in vascular smooth muscle--further evidence of nanospaces and contacts

scientific article

Towards a computational reconstruction of the electrodynamics of premature and full term human labour ⬇️

scientific article published on July 13, 2011

Towards understanding the myometrial physiome: approaches for the construction of a virtual physiological uterus

scientific article

Ultrastructural Features of Smooth Muscle and Endothelial Cells of Isolated Isobaric Human Placental and Maternal Arteries

scientific article published on 18 July 2005

Uterine artery function in a mouse model of pregnancy complicated by diabetes.

scientific article published on 23 August 2008

Vascular function in health and disease review series

scientific article published on 9 March 2010

Vasoactive Responses of Veins Isolated from the Human Placental Chorionic Plate

article

Vasoactive effects of neurokinin B on human blood vessels

scientific article

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