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Nigel Belshaw

Career-track Research Leader

Contact Details:

Institute of Food Research,
Norwich Research Park,
Colney, Norwich,
NR4 7UA
UK
nigel.belshaw@ifr.ac.uk

Research interests

Understanding the mechanisms by which dietary factors, inflammation and the gut microflora drive aberrant CpG island methylation leading to neoplasia in the gastrointestinal tract.

Using CpG island methylation as predictive biomarkers for risk of neoplastic progression.

Recent Publications

Barrera L., Cassidy A., Johnson I., Bao Y., Belshaw N. (2012)
Epigenetic and antioxidant effects of dietary isothiocyanates and selenium: potential implications for cancer chemoprevention
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Hindmarsh A., Belshaw N., Mehta S., Johnson I. T., Rhodes M. (2012)
Can the rat be used as a valid model of human esophageal adenocarcinoma?
Diseases Of The Esophagus 25 (2) 159-165
Belshaw N., Johnson I. T. (2011)
Isothiocyanates and polyphenols
Nutrition in Epigenetics
Wiley
(16) 263-274
Lund E. K., Belshaw N. J., Elliott G. O., Johnson I. T. (2011)
Recent advances in understanding the role of diet in the development of colorectal cancer
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 70 (2) 194-204
Belshaw N. J., Pal N., Tapp H. S., Dainty J. R., Lewis M. P. N., Williams M. R., Lund E. K., Johnson I. T. (2010)
Patterns of DNA methylation in individual colonic crypts reveal aging and cancer-related field defects in the morphologically normal mucosa
Carcinogenesis 31 (6) 1158-1163

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