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Assessing the burden of intestinal parasites affecting newly arrived immigrants in Qatar
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BioMed Central
, 2016 , Article)
In the last decades, the enormous influx of immigrants to industrialized countries has led to outbreaks of parasitic diseases, with enteric infections being amongst the most frequently encountered. In its strategy to control ...
Metabolic shift toward oxidative phosphorylation in docetaxel resistant prostate cancer cells
(
Impact Journals
, 2016 , Article)
Drug resistance of cancer cells is recognized as the primary cause of failure of chemotherapeutic treatment in most human cancers. Growing evidences support the idea that deregulated cellular metabolism is linked to such ...
Platelets as a Possible Reservoir of HCV And Predictor of Response to Treatment
(
SciTechnol
, 2016 , Article)
In the era of new Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) therapy, and the detection of
extrahepatic HCV reservoirs such as peripheral blood mononuclear
cells and platelets, it is important to understand the factors underlying
resistance ...
Glycine and Folate Ameliorate Models of Congenital Sideroblastic Anemia
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Public Library of Science (USA)
, 2016 , Article)
Sideroblastic anemias are acquired or inherited anemias that result in a decreased ability to
synthesize hemoglobin in red blood cells and result in the presence of iron deposits in the
mitochondria of red blood cell ...
Macrophage Infection by Mycobacteria
(
OMICS International
, 2016 , Article)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
is the etiological agent of tuberculosis. It is a pathogen that continues to draw international concerns particularly due to the emergence of
multi-drug resistance and to the difficulties ...
Assessment of morphological changes due to oxidative stress: leukodepleted packed red blood cells stored in SAGM
(
Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Background:
In blood bank, the storage procedures of packed red blood cell (pRBC) require some conditions to ensure the maximum storage time for a safe blood supply. pRBC can be stored up to 42 days in 2-6⁰C, as long as ...
Substances Secreted by Starved Human Dermal Fibroblasts Enhancing the Wound Healing Process in Rat without Scar: A Potential Acellular System for Wound Healing
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Background
Despite being a major cellular component of various engineered skin substituent, underlying mechanism of successful fibroblast transplantation in wound healing is not clear. Here we show that substances derived ...