• Animal Health Monitoring Program (AHMP) of LARC 

      Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan; Abujassoum, Hamda; Khan, Imran; Al Naemi, Hamda (2017 , Poster)
      Animal health monitoring is important to maintain the health of the animals used for research purpose. Maintaining healthy research animals is the prime requisite for best research outcomes. Health monitoring is performed ...
    • Animal Husbandry And Care 

      Govindharajan, Vijay Kanth; Kahsu, Tesfaldet; Sielu, Tesfom; Al Naemi, Hamda (2017 , Poster)
      * Qatar University – Laboratory Animal Research Centre (LARC) is providing highest quality animal husbandry and care * LARC is Specific pathogen Free (SPF) facility with state of the art animal housing & supporting ...
    • ANIMAL MODEL FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY 

      Al-Naemi, Hamda; Das, Sandra Concepcion (2017 , Poster)
      Obesity has been recognized as a global health problem and linked with chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular syndromes, musculoskeletal disorders and some cancers. Children exposed to high carbohydrate, ...
    • Biosecurity And Biosafety In LARC 

      Govindharajan, Vijay Kanth; Tesfaldet, Kahsu; Tesfom, Sielu; Joseph, Benny; Al Naemi, Hamda (2017 , Poster)
      * LARC is Specific Pathogen Free(SPF) facility * LARC is free of Specific list of Pathogens maintained by routine testing. * Bio security & Bio safety are main components to maintain the LARC facility
    • Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C in Sprague Dawley (SD) Rats exposed to Sub-Chronic oral dose of Cadmium Chloride 

      Al-Borshaid, Enjoud Khalifa; Varadharajan, Kavitha; Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan; Al-Naemi, Hamda ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      Cadmium is one of the major environmental pollutants associated with an increment in industrial and urbanization activities. It has health consequences when it reaches the human diet through the soil, water, and plant. ...
    • Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory Monitoring of LARC 

      Khan, Imran; Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan; Aboujassoum, Hamda; Al Naemi, Hamda (2017 , Poster)
      Microbial free environment of a research facility is critical to maintain animal health. Establishing Microbiological Monitoring Program is mandatory to assure the quality of the system. Microbiological monitoring involves ...
    • Effect of CARMA 2sh gene in Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells 

      Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan; Varadharajan, Kavitha; Vito, Pasquale (2017 , Poster)
      CARMA2 belongs to the CARMA family of proteins. They are involved in the regulation and activation of NF-κB that have a central role in the control of immune and inflammatory response, and cell survival and proliferation. ...
    • Effect of psoriasis linked CARMA2sh gene in transgenic animal model 

      Kavitha, Varadharajan; Muralitharan, Shanmugakonar; Vito, Pasquale (2018 , Poster)
      Background • CARMA2 belongs to the CARMA family of proteins. They are involved in the regulation and activation of NF-κB, that has a central role in controlling the immune and inflammatory response, cell survival and ...
    • ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE ACTIVITY & BIOAVAILABILITY DURING OBESITY CONDITIONS 

      Das, Sandra Concepcion; Al-Naemi, Hamda (2017 , Poster)
      Obesity has been recognized as a pandemic and linked with several metabolic dysfunctions. One of the hallmarks in the onset of obesity is the development of hypertension coupled with endothelial dysfunction. (ED) A fundamental ...
    • Environmental Health Monitoring Program (EHMP) of LARC 

      Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan; Abujassoum, Hamda; Khan, Imran; Al Naemi, Hamda (2017 , Poster)
      Routine environmental monitoring is the prime necessity to maintain a Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) facility. Monitoring the animals & its environment is important to control the contamination and outbreak of disease. ...
    • Expression of active and inactive forms of CIK and CARMA 2sh proteins in Normal Human Epidermal Keratinocytes (NHEK) 

      Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan; Varadharajan, Kavitha; Vito, Pasquale (2016 , Poster)
      Psoriasis is a debilitating skin disease affecting approximately 23% of human population. The disease is considered to have key genetic underpinning and genome wide association studies and meta analysis have identified ...
    • Humane care and use of laboratory animals training program (HCULA) 

      Al-Naemi, Hamda; Zabady, Hadeer (2017 , Poster)
      HCULA is the first basic training program that covers the use of Rodents as animals models in biomedical research, it is composed of theory and hands on training courses . The theory course is required to all students ...
    • In Vitro Analysis of Psoriasis Linked CARMA2sh Gene in Keratinocytes and Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells towards Developing a Murine Transgenic Model 

      Varadharajan, Kavitha; Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan; Vito, Pasquale ( American Association For Laboratory Animal Science , 2017 , Poster)
      Psoriasis is a debilitating skin disease affecting approximately 23% of human population. Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 40 susceptibility loci for psoriasis. CARMA2 proteins play a major role ...
    • Quality of Drinking water in Qatar University Rodent vivarium 

      Khan, Imran; Muralitharan, Shanmugakonar; Al-Naemi, Hamda (2018 , Poster)
      Edstrom watering system was newly installed and all the accessories were used for limited run, but gradually the system runs continuously and this improved the water quality . Moreover our microbial count of water samples ...