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Nishel Shah

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
Verified email at imperial.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] Regulatory mechanisms in stem cell biology

SJ Morrison, NM Shah, DJ Anderson - Cell, 1997 - cell.com
Stem cells are a subject of intense and increasing interest because of their biological
properties and potential medical importance. Unfortunately, the field has been difficult for the …

[PDF][PDF] Representing sex in the brain, one module at a time

CF Yang, NM Shah - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Sexually dimorphic behaviors, qualitative or quantitative differences in behaviors between
the sexes, result from the activity of a sexually differentiated nervous system. Sensory cues …

[HTML][HTML] Progesterone-related immune modulation of pregnancy and labor

NM Shah, PF Lai, N Imami, MR Johnson - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Pregnancy involves a complex interplay between maternal neuroendocrine and immunological
systems in order to establish and sustain a growing fetus. It is thought that the uterus at …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative neural crest cell fates are instructively promoted by TGFβ superfamily members

NM Shah, AK Groves, DJ Anderson - Cell, 1996 - cell.com
… In striking contrast, when NCSCs were grown in 1.6 nM recombinant BMP2 (rBMP2),
many neuron-only colonies (identified by their neurite-bearing morphology and expression of …

[HTML][HTML] Sexually dimorphic neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus govern mating in both sexes and aggression in males

…, M Alvarado, SA Juntti, EK Unger, JA Wells, NM Shah - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Sexual dimorphisms in the brain underlie behavioral sex differences, but the function of
individual sexually dimorphic neuronal populations is poorly understood. Neuronal sexual …

Glial growth factor restricts mammalian neural crest stem cells to a glial fate

NM Shah, MA Marchionni, I Isaacs, P Stroobant… - Cell, 1994 - Elsevier
Growth factors and cytokines are thought to influence the development of uncommitted
progenitor cell populations, but the issue of how these factors act on individual cells remains …

Trpv1 reporter mice reveal highly restricted brain distribution and functional expression in arteriolar smooth muscle cells

…, R Grant, D O'Donnell, RA Nicoll, NM Shah… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
The heat and capsaicin receptor, TRPV1, is required for the detection of painful heat by primary
afferent pain fibers (nociceptors), but the extent to which functional TRPV1 channels are …

Measurement of women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh

S Mahmud, NM Shah, S Becker - World development, 2012 - Elsevier
Women’s empowerment is a dynamic process that has been quantified, measured, and
described in a variety of ways. We measure empowerment in a sample of 3,500 rural women in …

[HTML][HTML] CIViC is a community knowledgebase for expert crowdsourcing the clinical interpretation of variants in cancer

…, MR Jones, RL Bilski, R Lesurf, YY Feng, NM Shah… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
CIViC is an expert-crowdsourced knowledgebase for Clinical Interpretation of Variants in
Cancer describing the therapeutic, prognostic, diagnostic and predisposing relevance of …

Pan-cancer analysis identifies tumor-specific antigens derived from transposable elements

NM Shah, HJ Jang, Y Liang, JH Maeng, SC Tzeng… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
… Vertical dashed line represents 500 nM and percentages are the proportion of samples
with optimal binding <500 nM. The ‘N=’ specifies the number of tumor samples with HLA data …