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Said I. Ismail Ismail S. Mahmoud Mahmoud Al-Ardah Amid Abdelnour Nidal A. Younes 《Journal of genetics》2009,88(2):233-238
Five patients, four brothers and their paternal aunt, presented with a history of overt hyperthyroidism and goiter. Hyperthyroidism
in this family was remarkable for its poor response to carbimazole (30–50 mg/d). The thyroid ultrasound showed a diffusely
enlarged gland in all the affected members, and thyroid stimulating antibodies (TSAB) were negative. Screening for germline
mutations in thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor (TSHR) gene was performed by direct sequencing of genomic DNA extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes of all family members.
The sequence analysis of all TSHR gene exons and intron borders revealed two genomic variants. The first was a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within
exon seven (Asn187Asn), whereas the other was located in intron seven (IVS7+68T>G). All affected members, two asymptomatic
brothers with sub-clinical hyperthyroidism, and their father were heterozygous for those two genomic variants. Anti-thyroid
drug treatment for several months successfully relieved symptoms in one subject, whereas the remaining patients required total
thyroidectomy to control their disease. This is the first Jordanian family with familial non-autoimmune hyperthyroidism, with
mutations affecting the TSHR gene. 相似文献
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J Al Suwaidi K Al Habib N Asaad R Singh A Hersi H Al Falaeh S Al Saif A Al-Motarreb W Almahmeed K Sulaiman H Amin J Al-Lawati NQ Al-Sagheer AA Alsheikh-Ali AM Salam 《BMC cardiovascular disorders》2012,12(1):64
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Stroke is a potential complication of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence, risk factors predisposing to stroke, in-hospital and 1-year mortality among patients presenting with ACS in the Middle East. METHODS: For a period of 9 months in 2008 to 2009, 7,930 consecutive ACS patients were enrolled from 65 hospitals in 6 Middle East countries. RESULTS: The prevalence of in-hospital stroke following ACS was 0.70%. Most cases were ST segment elevation MI-related (STEMI) and ischemic stroke in nature. Patients with in-hospital stroke were 5 years older than patients without stroke and were more likely to have hypertension (66% vs. 47.6%, P = 0.001). There were no differences between the two groups in regards to gender, other cardiovascular risk factors, or prior cardiovascular disease. Patients with stroke were more likely to present with atypical symptoms, advanced Killip class and less likely to be treated with evidence-based therapies. Independent predictors of stroke were hypertension, advanced killip class, ACS type --STEMI and cardiogenic shock. Stroke was associated with increased risk of in-hospital (39.3% vs. 4.3%) and one-year mortality (52% vs. 12.3%). CONCLUSION: There is low incidence of in-hospital stroke in Middle-Eastern patients presenting with ACS but with very high in-hospital and one-year mortality rates. Stroke patients were less likely to be appropriately treated with evidence-based therapy. Future work should be focused on reducing the risk and improving the outcome of this devastating complication. 相似文献
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Mohamed T. El-Saadony Ahmed M. Saad Taha F. Taha Azhar A. Najjar Nidal M. Zabermawi Maha M. Nader Synan F. AbuQamar Khaled A. El-Tarabily Ali Salama 《Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences》2021,28(12):6782-6794
The current study was performed to develop a simple, safe, and cost-effective technique for the biosynthesis of selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) from lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from human breast milk with antifungal activity against animal pathogenic fungi. The LAB was selected based on their speed of transforming sodium selenite (Na2SeO3) to SeNPs. Out of the four identified LAB isolates, only one strain produced dark red color within 32 h of incubation, indicating that this isolate was the fastest in transforming Na2SeO3 to SeNPs; and was chosen for the biosynthesis of LAB-SeNPs. The superior isolate was further identified as Lactobacillus paracasei HM1 (MW390875) based on matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and phylogenetic tree analysis of 16S rRNA sequence alignments. The optimum experimental conditions for the biosynthesis of SeNPs by L. paracasei HM1 were found to be pH (6.0), temperature (35˚C), Na2SeO3 (4.0 mM), reaction time (32 h), and agitation speed (160 rpm). The ultraviolet absorbance of L. paracasei-SeNPs was detected at 300 nm, and the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) captured a diameter range between 3.0 and 50.0 nm. The energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and the Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) provided a clear image of the active groups associated with the stability of L. paracasei-SeNPs. The size of L. paracasei-SeNPs using dynamic light scattering technique was 56.91 ± 1.8 nm, and zeta potential value was −20.1 ± 0.6 mV in one peak. The data also revealed that L. paracasei-SeNPs effectively inhibited the growth of Candida and Fusarium species, and this was further confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The current study concluded that the SeNPs obtained from L. paracasei HM1 could be used to prepare biological antifungal formulations effective against major animal pathogenic fungi. The antifungal activity of the biologically synthesized SeNPs using L. paracasei HM1 outperforms the chemically produced SeNPs. In vivo studies showing the antagonistic effect of SeNPs on pathogenic fungi are underway to demonstrate the potential of a therapeutic agent to treat animals against major infectious fungal diseases. 相似文献
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Boonfei Tan S Jane Fowler Nidal Abu Laban Xiaoli Dong Christoph W Sensen Julia Foght Lisa M Gieg 《The ISME journal》2015,9(9):2028-2045
Methanogenic hydrocarbon metabolism is a key process in subsurface oil reservoirs and hydrocarbon-contaminated environments and thus warrants greater understanding to improve current technologies for fossil fuel extraction and bioremediation. In this study, three hydrocarbon-degrading methanogenic cultures established from two geographically distinct environments and incubated with different hydrocarbon substrates (added as single hydrocarbons or as mixtures) were subjected to metagenomic and 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing to test whether these differences affect the genetic potential and composition of the communities. Enrichment of different putative hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in each culture appeared to be substrate dependent, though all cultures contained both acetate- and H2-utilizing methanogens. Despite differing hydrocarbon substrates and inoculum sources, all three cultures harbored genes for hydrocarbon activation by fumarate addition (bssA, assA, nmsA) and carboxylation (abcA, ancA), along with those for associated downstream pathways (bbs, bcr, bam), though the cultures incubated with hydrocarbon mixtures contained a broader diversity of fumarate addition genes. A comparative metagenomic analysis of the three cultures showed that they were functionally redundant despite their enrichment backgrounds, sharing multiple features associated with syntrophic hydrocarbon conversion to methane. In addition, a comparative analysis of the culture metagenomes with those of 41 environmental samples (containing varying proportions of methanogens) showed that the three cultures were functionally most similar to each other but distinct from other environments, including hydrocarbon-impacted environments (for example, oil sands tailings ponds and oil-affected marine sediments). This study provides a basis for understanding key functions and environmental selection in methanogenic hydrocarbon-associated communities. 相似文献
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Effects of plant diversity, plant productivity and habitat parameters on arthropod abundance in montane European grasslands 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Jrg Perner Carla Wytrykush Ansgar Kahmen Nina Buchmann Ilka Egerer Sylvia Creutzburg Nidal Odat Volker Audorff Wolfgang W. Weisser 《Ecography》2005,28(4):429-442
Arthropod abundance has been hypothesized to be correlated with plant diversity but the results of previous studies have been equivocal. In contrast, plant productivity, vegetation structure, abiotic site conditions, and the physical disturbance of habitats, are factors that interact with plant diversity, and that have been shown to influence arthropod abundance. We studied the combined effect of plant species diversity, productivity and site characteristics on arthropod abundance in 71 managed grasslands in central Germany using multivariate statistics. For each site we determined plant species cover, plant community biomass (productivity), macro- and micronutrients in the soil, and characterized the location of sites with respect to orographic parameters as well as the current and historic management regimes. Arthropods were sampled using a suction sampler and classified a priori into functional groups (FGs). We found that arthropod abundance was not correlated with plant species richness, effective diversity or Camargo's evenness, even when influences of environmental variables were taken into account. In contrast, plant community composition was highly correlated with arthropod abundances. Plant community productivity influenced arthropod abundance but explained only a small proportion of the variance. The abundances of the different arthropod FGs were influenced differentially by agricultural management, soil characteristics, vegetation structure and by interactions between different FGs of arthropods. Herbivores, carnivores and detritivores reacted differently to variation in environmental variables in a manner consistent with their feeding mode. Our results show that in natural grassland systems arthropod abundance is not a simple function of plant species richness, and they emphasize the important role of plant community composition for the abundance patterns of the arthropod assemblages. 相似文献
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Redox‐triggered chiroptical switching activity of ruthenium(III)‐bis‐(β‐diketonato) complexes bearing a bipyridine‐helicene ligand 下载免费PDF全文
Nidal Saleh Nicolas Vanthuyne Jacques Bonvoisin Jochen Autschbach Monika Srebro‐Hooper Jeanne Crassous 《Chirality》2018,30(5):592-601
The charged, electroactive bipyridine‐helicene‐ruthenium(III) complex [ 4 ] . +,PF6? has been prepared from 3‐(2‐pyridyl)‐4‐aza[6]helicene and a Ru‐bis‐(β‐diketonato)‐bis‐acetonitrile precursor (β‐diketonato: 2,2,6,6‐tetramethyl‐3,5‐heptanedionato). Its chiroptical properties (electronic circular dichroism and optical rotation) were studied both experimentally and theoretically and suggest the presence of 2 diastereoisomers, namely (P,Δ)‐ and (P,Λ)‐[ 4 ] . +,PF6? (denoted jointly as (P,Δ*)‐[ 4 ] . +,PF6?) and their mirror‐images (M,Λ)‐ and (M,Δ)‐[ 4 ] . +,PF6? ((M,Δ*)‐[ 4 ] . +,PF6?). The electrochemical reduction of (P,Δ*)‐[ 4 ] . +,PF6? to neutral complex (P,Δ*)‐ 4 was performed and revealed strong changes in the UV‐vis and electronic circular dichroism spectra. A reversible redox‐triggered chiroptical switching process was then achieved. 相似文献
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Amani Elsayed Mayyas Al-Remawi Nidal Qinna Asim Farouk Khaldoun A. Al-Sou’od Adnan A. Badwan 《AAPS PharmSciTech》2011,12(3)
The present work explores the possibility of formulating an oral insulin delivery system using nanoparticulate complexes made from the interaction between biodegradable, natural polymer called chitosan and anionic surfactant called sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS). The interaction between chitosan and SLS was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The nanoparticles were prepared by simple gelation method under aqueous-based conditions. The nanoparticles were stable in simulated gastric fluids and could protect the encapsulated insulin from the GIT enzymes. Additionally, the in vivo results clearly indicated that the insulin-loaded nanoparticles could effectively reduce the blood glucose level in a diabetic rat model. However, additional formulation modifications are required to improve insulin oral bioavailability.KEY WORDS: chitosan, insulin, nanoparticles, oral delivery system, sodium lauryl sulfate 相似文献
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High strength sewage treatment in a UASB reactor and an integrated UASB-digester system 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Mahmoud N 《Bioresource technology》2008,99(16):7531-7538
The treatment of high strength sewage was investigated in a one-stage upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor and a UASB-digester system. The one-stage UASB reactor was operated in Palestine at a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 10h and at ambient air temperature for a period of more than a year in order to asses the system response to the Mediterranean climatic seasonal temperature fluctuation. Afterwards, the one-stage UASB reactor was modified to a UASB-digester system by incorporating a digester operated at 35 degrees C. The achieved removal efficiencies in the one-stage UASB reactor for total, suspended, colloidal, dissolved and VFA COD were 54, 71, 34, 23%, and -7%, respectively during the first warm six months of the year, and achieved only 32% removal efficiency for COD total over the following cold six months of the year. The modification of the one-stage UASB reactor to a UASB-digester system had remarkably improved the UASB reactor performance as the UASB-digester achieved removal efficiencies for total, suspended, colloidal, dissolved and VFA COD of 72, 74, 74, 62 and 70%. Therefore, the anaerobic treatment of high strength sewage during the hot period in Palestine in a UASB-digester system is very promising. 相似文献
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Ahmad Rauf Subhani Nidal Kamel Mohamad Naufal Mohamad Saad Nanda Nandagopal Kenneth Kang Aamir Saeed Malik 《Cognitive neurodynamics》2018,12(1):1-20
Complaints of stress are common in modern life. Psychological stress is a major cause of lifestyle-related issues, contributing to poor quality of life. Chronic stress impedes brain function, causing impairment of many executive functions, including working memory, decision making and attentional control. The current study sought to describe newly developed stress mitigation techniques, and their influence on autonomic and endocrine functions. The literature search revealed that the most frequently studied technique for stress mitigation was biofeedback (BFB). However, evidence suggests that neurofeedback (NFB) and noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) could potentially provide appropriate approaches. We found that recent studies of BFB methods have typically used measures of heart rate variability, respiration and skin conductance. In contrast, studies of NFB methods have typically utilized neurocomputation techniques employing electroencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging and near infrared spectroscopy. NIBS studies have typically utilized transcranial direct current stimulation methods. Mitigation of stress is a challenging but important research target for improving quality of life. 相似文献