Who I was

I am a mother. I am the mother of a special needs child. I am Mum to Ellie, the beautiful, wonderful daughter that any mother would be proud of, and I am Mum to Tabitha, the little girl with the infectious giggle, whose daily progress is slow, but visible. But these days, that is who I am. I am Mum. Its a question I get asked a lot, one of the first things Doctors ask when they meet me for the the first time, "Are you Mum?", yes thats me.

But it wasn't always like this. I used to be a whole heap of people. I used to be a sister, a daughter, a student, a research scientist, a wife. Last night, I looked up on PubMed who I was, and I found these.


1. Internalization of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors (GnRHRs): does arrestin binding to the C-terminal tail target GnRHRs for dynamin-dependent internalization?

Hislop JN, Caunt CJ, Sedgley KR, Kelly E, Mundell S, Green LD, McArdle CA.

J Mol Endocrinol. 2005 Aug;35(1):177-89.

PMID: 16087731 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article


2. Signaling and antiproliferative effects of type I and II gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors in breast cancer cells.

Finch AR, Green L, Hislop JN, Kelly E, McArdle CA.

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Apr;89(4):1823-32.

PMID: 15070951 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article


3. Regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors by protein kinase C: inside out signalling and evidence for multiple active conformations.

Caunt CJ, Hislop JN, Kelly E, Matharu AL, Green LD, Sedgley KR, Finch AR, McArdle CA.

Endocrinology. 2004 Aug;145(8):3594-602. Epub 2004 Apr 1.

PMID: 15059960 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article


4. The gonadotrophin-releasing hormone receptor: signalling, cycling and desensitisation.

McArdle CA, Franklin J, Green L, Hislop JN.

Arch Physiol Biochem. 2002 Apr;110(1-2):113-22. Review.

PMID: 11935408 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


5. Signalling, cycling and desensitisation of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone receptors.

McArdle CA, Franklin J, Green L, Hislop JN.

J Endocrinol. 2002 Apr;173(1):1-11. Review.

PMID: 11927379 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article


And I remembered who I used to be......