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Recent advances in functional nanostructures as cancer photothermal therapy.
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Dove Medical Press
, 2018 , Article Review)
Being a non-invasive and relatively safe technique, photothermal therapy has attracted a lot of interest in the cancer treatment field. Recently, nanostructure technology has entered the forefront of cancer therapy owing ...
The march of pluripotent stem cells in cardiovascular regenerative medicine.
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BMC
, 2018 , Article Review)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. Heart failure remains a major contributor to this mortality. Despite major therapeutic advances over the past decades, a ...
Potential routes of spread of Zika virus to the Middle East, North Africa and Asia: Action must be taken
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Future Medicine Ltd.
, 2017 , Article Review)
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Crosstalk Between Oxidative Stress and Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) Stress in Endothelial Dysfunction and Aberrant Angiogenesis Associated With Diabetes: A Focus on the Protective Roles of Heme Oxygenase (HO)-1
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Frontiers Media
, 2019 , Article Review)
Type-2 diabetes prevalence is continuing to rise worldwide due to physical inactivity and obesity epidemic. Diabetes and fluctuations of blood sugar are related to multiple micro- and macrovascular complications, that are ...
Retinopathy of Type 1 Diabetes in Arab Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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Karger
, 2018 , Article Review)
To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of retinopathy prevalence in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in 22 Arab countries. We systematically searched 4 different literature databases (PubMed, Science Direct, ...
Novel CD44-downstream signaling pathways mediating breast tumor invasion
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Ivyspring International Publisher
, 2018 , Article Review)
CD44, also known as homing cell adhesion molecule is a multi-structural cell molecule involved in cell-cell
and cell-extracellular matrix communications. CD44 regulates a number of central signaling pathways,
including ...
The Dual Specificity Role of Transcription Factor FOXO in Type 2-diabetes and Cancer
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Bentham Science Publishers
, 2018 , Article Review)
The FOXO (Forkhead box O) transcription factors are implicated in several signaling pathways and play a vital role in various cellular and physiological processes include for instance, ROS (reactive oxygen species) response, ...
MicroRNAs in Cardiac Hypertrophy
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article Review)
Like other organs, the heart undergoes normal adaptive remodeling, such as cardiac hypertrophy, with age. This remodeling, however, is intensified under stress and pathological conditions. Cardiac remodeling could be ...
Epstein-Barr virus-associated malignancies: Roles of viral oncoproteins in carcinogenesis
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2018 , Article Review)
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the first herpesvirus identified to be associated with human cancers known to infect the majority of the world population. EBV-associated malignancies are associated with a latent form of ...
Laboratory challenges in the diagnosis of hepatitis E virus.
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Microbiology Society
, 2018 , Article Review)
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an RNA virus that is an important cause of both acute and chronic hepatitis worldwide. To date, there are eight HEV genotypes that can infect mammals. HEV-1 and HEV-2 infect exclusively humans, ...