Publications by authors named "P Nuttall"

Grassland restoration is an important conservation intervention supporting declining insect pollinators in threatened calcareous grassland landscapes. While the success of restoration is often quantified using simple measures of diversity or similarity to target communities, these measures do not capture all fundamental aspects of community reconstruction. Here, we develop species-habitat networks that aim to define habitat-level foraging dependencies of pollinators across restored grassland landscapes and compare their value to these more conventional measures of community restoration.

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Objective: To assess the identification of primary aldosteronism (PA) in newly diagnosed, treatment-naïve patients with hypertension by screening in primary care.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: General practices in the South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network with at least three general practitioners and general practices elsewhere in Victoria that had referred patients to the Endocrine Hypertension Clinic at Monash Health, 2017-2020.

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Chemokines are structurally related proteins that activate leucocyte migration in response to injury or infection. Tick saliva contains chemokine-binding proteins or evasins which likely neutralize host chemokine function and inflammation. Biochemical characterisation of 50 evasins from , and shows that they fall into two functional classes, A and B, with exclusive binding to either CC- or CXC- chemokines, respectively.

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