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David J. Buttle is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as medicine, with a focus on helminth infection and control, insect pest control strategies, bone metabolism and diseases, and biomarkers in disease mechanisms. The scientist's work also explores entomopathogenic microorganisms in pest control and research related to papaya applications.

The main fields of study associated with David J. Buttle include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Medicine

Further specialization is evident in subfields such as:

  • Small Animals
  • Insect Science
  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Immunology

Frequent publication venues for the scientist's work include:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Bioscience Reports
  • Heliyon

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Jerzy M. Behnke
  • I.R. Duce
  • Victor S Njom
  • Tim Winks
  • Oumu Diallo

Representative recent publications by David J. Buttle include:

  • The effects of plant cysteine proteinases on the nematode cuticle, 2021, Parasites & Vectors
  • Conditional deletion of E11/Podoplanin in bone protects against ovariectomy-induced increases in osteoclast formation and activity, 2020, Bioscience Reports
  • Developing novel anthelmintics: the stability of cysteine proteinase activity in a supernatant extract of papaya latex, 2021, Heliyon

Best Publications

  • Improved quantitation and discrimination of sulphated glycosaminoglycans by use of dimethylmethylene blue

    Richard W. Farndale;David J. Buttle;Alan J. Barrett

  • Living tissue formed in vitro and accepted as skin-equivalent tissue of full thickness

    E Bell;HP Ehrlich;DJ Buttle;T Nakatsuji

  • Matrix synthesis and degradation in human intervertebral disc degeneration.

    C L Le Maitre;A Pockert;D J Buttle;A J Freemont

  • Human cathepsin K cleaves native type I and II collagens at the N-terminal end of the triple helix

    W. Kafienah;D. Brömme;D.J. Buttle;L.J. Croucher

  • Modified expression of the ADAMTS enzymes and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases 3 during human intervertebral disc degeneration

    Aneta J. Pockert;Stephen M. Richardson;Christine L. Le Maitre;Malcolm Lyon

  • CA074 methyl ester: A proinhibitor for intracellular cathepsin B

    David J. Buttle;Mitsuo Murata;C.Graham Knight;Alan J. Barrett

  • The cysteine proteinases of the pineapple plant.

    A D Rowan;D J Buttle;A J Barrett

  • The two cysteine endopeptidases of legume seeds : purification and characterization by use of specific fluorometric assays

    A.A. Kembhavi;D.J. Buttle;C.G. Knight;A.J. Barrett

  • Human cystatin C. role of the N-terminal segment in the inhibition of human cysteine proteinases and in its inactivation by leucocyte elastase.

    Magnus Abrahamson;Robert W Mason;Heléne Hansson;David J Buttle

  • Assessment of the anthelmintic effect of natural plant cysteine proteinases against the gastrointestinal nematode, Heligmosomoides polygyrus, in vitro.

    Gillian Stepek;David J. Buttle;I.R. Duce;Ann Lowe

  • Human gastrointestinal nematode infections: are new control methods required?

    Gillian Stepek;David J. Buttle;Ian R. Duce;Jerzy M. Behnke

  • Stem bromelain: amino acid sequence and implications for weak binding of cystatin.

    Anka Ritonja;Andrew D. Rowan;David J. Buttle;Neil D. Rawlings

  • Agonists of toll-like receptor (TLR)2 and TLR4 are unable to modulate platelet activation by adenosine diphosphate and platelet activating factor.

    Jon R. Ward;Lynne Bingle;Heather M. Judge;Simon B. Brown

  • Catechins from Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) Inhibit Bovine and Human Cartilage Proteoglycan and Type II Collagen Degradation In Vitro

    Clair Adcocks;Peter Collin;David J. Buttle

  • Inhibition of cartilage proteoglycan release by a specific inactivator of cathepsin b and an inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases. evidence for two converging pathways of chondrocyte‐mediated proteoglycan degradation

    David J. Buttle;David J. Buttle;Christopher J. Handley;Mirna Z. Ilic;Jeremy Saklatvala

  • Natural plant cysteine proteinases as anthelmintics

    Gillian Stepek;Jerzy M. Behnke;David J. Buttle;Ian R. Duce

  • Inhibition of bone resorption by selective inactivators of cysteine proteinases.

    Peter A. Hill;David J. Buttle;Sheila J. Jones;Alan Boyde

  • Degradation of type II collagen, but not proteoglycan, correlates with matrix metalloproteinase activity in cartilage explant cultures

    L. Didem Kozaci;David J. Buttle;Anthony P. Hollander

  • Developing novel anthelmintics from plant cysteine proteinases

    Jerzy M Behnke;David J Buttle;Gillian Stepek;Gillian Stepek;Ann Lowe

  • Expression and activity of ADAMTS-5 in synovium.

    Mireille N. Vankemmelbeke;Ingunn Holen;Anthony G. Wilson;Mirna Z. Ilic

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan J. Barrett
Alan J. Barrett Wellcome Sanger Institute
Jerzy M. Behnke
Jerzy M. Behnke University of Nottingham
Colin Farquharson
Colin Farquharson University of Edinburgh
Andrew A. Pitsillides
Andrew A. Pitsillides Royal Veterinary College
Freddie C. Hamdy
Freddie C. Hamdy University of Oxford
Magnus Abrahamson
Magnus Abrahamson Lund University
Andrew D. Rowan
Andrew D. Rowan Newcastle University
Robert D. Short
Robert D. Short Lancaster University
Anthony J. Day
Anthony J. Day University of Manchester
Anthony P. Hollander
Anthony P. Hollander University of Liverpool

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