Selected recent publications

2000

M.H. Johnson & M.L. Day: Egg Timers. BioEssays 22, 57-63.

M.L. Day, M.H. Johnson, M.J. Berridge & O.M. McGuinness: The regulation of Ca2+ spikes in the mouse zygote. Cell Calcium 28, 47-54.

M.H. Johnson: The regulation of human embryo research in the UK: what are the implications for therapeutic research? Chapter 12 in: Assisted Conception: Research, Ethics and Law, Ed. J. Gunning, Ashgate Publishing, pp. 117-126.

M.H. Johnson: Future directions in research on human embryos. Chapter 4 in: Assisted Conception: Research, Ethics and Law, Ed. J. Gunning, Ashgate Publishing, pp. 27-45.

M.H. Johnson & P. Henderson: Acquiring and demonstrating attitudes in medical education: attitudes to homosexuality as a case study. Medical Teacher 22, 585-591.

M.H. Johnson & J.Z. Kubiak: Legal confusion over 'cloning' risks throwing baby out with bath-water. Nature 407, 559.

S.Takada, M.Tevendale, J. Baker, P. Georgiades, E. Campbell, T. Freeman, M.H. Johnson, M. Paulsen & A.C. Ferguson-Smith: Delta-like and gtl2 are reciprocally expressed, differentially methylated linked imprinted genes on mouse chromosome 12. Current Biology 10, 1135-1138.

M.H. Johnson & B.J. Everitt: Essential Reproduction (5th edition). Blackwell Science, Oxford.

2001

M.L. Day, N. Winston, J. L. McConnell, D.I. Cook & M.H. Johnson: tiK+ toK+: an embryonic clock? Reproduction, Fertility and Development 13, 69-79.

P. Henderson, M.H. Johnson, M. Barnett & S. Weaver: Supporting medical students to take responsibility for developing their communication skills. Medical Teacher, 23, 86-87.

M.H. Johnson: Mammalian development: Axes in the egg? Current Biology, 11: R281-284.

M.H. Johnson: Exploring masculinity with male medical students. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 16: 165-171.

J.Z. Kubiak & M.H. Johnson: Human infertility, reproductive cloning and nuclear transfer. BioEssays, 23: 359-3.

M.H. Johnson: Reproduction in the Noughties: will the scientists have all the fun? Journal of Anatomy, 198: 385-398.

D.E. Hickford, N.E. Merry, M.H. Johnson & L. Selwood: Induced ovulation, mating success and embryonic development in the marsupial sminthopsis macroura. Reproduction 122: 777-783.

M.H. Johnson: The Developmental Basis of Identity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32, 601-617.

2002

M.H. Johnson: Time and development. Reproductive Biomedicine 4, 39-45.

M.H. Johnson: Only the best conceptus will do! But what does best mean? In: Mammalian Embryo Quality Evaluation (eds. A. van Soom & M. Boerjan), Kluwer Academic publishers. Pp. 3-16.

M.H. Johnson: Male medical students and the male body. In: Body Lore and Laws. (Eds.) A. Bainham, S.D. Sclater and M. Richards, Hart Publishing Ltd., Oxford and Portland, pp.91-103.

M.H. Johnson, A. Lim, D. Fernando & M.L. Day: Circadian clockwork genes are expressed in the reproductive tract and conceptus of the early pregnant mouse. Reproductive Biomedicine 4, 140-145.

M.H. Johnson: The Art of Regulation & the Regulation of ART: the impact of regulation on research and clinical practice. Journal of Law and Medicine 9, 399-413.

P. Henderson & M.H. Johnson: An innovative approach to developing the reflective skills of medical students. BioMedNet Medical Education 2, 4 available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/2/4

P.Henderson & M.H. Johnson: Assisting medical students to conduct empathic conversations with patients from a sexual medicine clinic. Sexually Transmitted Infections 78, 246-249.

E.A. Harding, C.A. Gibb, M.H. Johnson, D.I. Cook & M.L. Day: Developmental changes in the management of acid load during pre-implantation mouse development. Biology of Reproduction 67, 1419-1429.

2003

M.H. Johnson: Surrogacy and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. In: Surrogate Motherhood: International Perspectives. (Eds. R.Cook & S.D. Sclater with F Kaganas), Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland Orgeon, pp. 93-97.

M.H. Johnson: So what exactly is the role of the spermatozoon in first cleavage? Reproductive BioMedicine 6, 163-167.

2004

N.J. Winston, M.H. Johnson, J.L. McConnell, D.I. Cook & M. Day: Expression and structural role of the ether-à-go-go-related (MERG) potassium channel protein during early mouse embryo development. Biology of Reproduction 70, 1070-1079.

M.H. Johnson: The biomedical basis of human sexuality. In: Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law edited by B. Brookes-Gordon, L. Gelsthorp, M.H. Johnson and A. Bainham, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2004; pages 155-185.

J.R. Reeve, S.E. Gull, M.H. Johnson, S. Hunter, M. Streather. A preliminary study on the use of experiential learning to support women's choices about infant feeding. European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Reproductive Biology 113, 199-203.

M.H. Johnson and JML McConnell: Lineage allocation and cell polarity during mouse embryogenesis. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 15, 583-597.

M.H. Johnson: A moral case study for discussion: designer babies and tissue typing. Reproductive Biomedicine 9, 372.

C.E.M. Aiken, P.P.L. Svoboda, J.N. Skepper & M.H. Johnson: The direct measurement of embryogenic volume and nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio during mouse preimplantation development. Reproduction 128, 1-10.

2005

M.H. Johnson: The problematic in-vitro embryo in the Age of Epigenetics. Reproductive BioMedicine 10 (Suppl.1), 88-96.

M.H. Johnson: Donor anonymity, expenses and payments: why were clinics not prepared? BioNews 300 at http://www.BioNews.org.uk/commentary.lasso?storyid=2495 21/3/05.

P. Henderson, A.C. Ferguson-Smith & M.H. Johnson: Developing essential professional skills: a framework for teaching and learning about feedback. BMC Medical Education 5,11.

R.D. Catalano, M.H. Johnson, E.E. Campbell, D.S. Charnock-Jones, S.K. Smith and A.M. Sharkey: Inhibition of Stat3 activation in the endometrium prevents implantation: a nonsteroidal approach to contraception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102, 8585-8590.

2006

H. Dolatshad, E.A. Campbell, L. O'Hara, E.S. Maywood, M.H. Hastings and M.H. Johnson: Developmental and reproductive performance in circadian mutant mice. Human Reproduction 21, 68-79.

L. Selwood and M.H. Johnson: Trophoblast and hypoblast in themonotreme, marsupial and eutherian mammal: evolution and origins. BioEssays 28, 128-145.

M.H. Johnson: Regulating the Science and Therapeutic Application of Human Embryo Research: Managing the Tension Between Biomedical Creativity and Public Concern. Chap. 10 in: Freedom and Responsibility in Reproductive Choice. Editors A.L. Pedain and J.R. Spencer. Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, 91-106.

E.A. Campbell, L. O’Hara, R.D. Catalano, A.M. Sharkey, T.C. Freeman and M.H. Johnson: Temporal expression profiling of the uterine luminal epithelium of the pseudo-pregnant mouse suggests receptivity to the fertilised egg is associated with complex transcriptional changes. Human Reproduction 21, 2495-2513.

M.H. Johnson: Escaping the tyranny of the embryo? A new approach to ART regulation based on UK and Australian experiences. Human Reproduction, 21, 2756-2765.

M.H. Johnson: Defining the human embryo: A way with words? BioNews (July, 2006) 366 at http://www.bionews.org.uk/commentary.lasso?storyid=3097