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Cairo University
Education•Giza, Egypt•
About: Cairo University is a education organization based out in Giza, Egypt. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 33532 authors who have published 55581 publications receiving 792654 citations. The organization is also known as: Fuad I University & King Fuad I University.
Topics: Population, Medicine, Cancer, Breast cancer, Diabetes mellitus
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TL;DR: CUR was found to protect rat forebrain against I/R insult and may be attributed to its antioxidant properties and/or its inhibitory effects on xanthine dehydrogenase/xanthine oxidase (XD/XO) conversion and resultant O(2)*(-) production.
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TL;DR: The results showed that targeted MTX delivery might be achieved using topically applied niosomes for enhanced treatment of psoriasis.
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TL;DR: The results indicate that both N.O and TQ possess gastroprotective effect against gastric lesions which may be related to the conservation of the gastric mucosal redox state.
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TL;DR: Occupational exposure to OP pesticides was associated with deficits in a wider array of neurobehavioural functions than previously reported, perhaps because of higher exposure in this population.
Abstract: Aims: To identify neurobehavioural deficits among workers exposed to organophosphorous (OP) pesticides in their occupation. Methods: This study was conducted during the period when pesticides were applied to cotton crops in the fields in Menoufiya Governorate, Egypt. Fifty two occupationally exposed male workers were compared to 50 unexposed male controls who were similar in age, socioeconomic class, and years of education (⩾12 years). All participants completed a questionnaire (assessing personal, occupational, and medical histories), general and neurological clinical examination, neurobehavioural test battery (including tests for verbal abstraction, problem solving, attention, memory, and visuomotor speed), personality assessment, and serological analysis for serum acetylcholinesterase. Results: After correcting for confounders of age and education, the exposed participants exhibited significantly lower performance than controls on six neurobehavioural tests (Similarities, Digit Symbol, Trailmaking part A and B, Letter Cancellation, Digit Span, and Benton Visual Retention). A longer duration of work with pesticides was associated with lower performance on most neurobehavioural tests after adjusting for multiple comparisons. Although serum acetylcholinesterase was significantly lower in the exposed than the control participants, it was not significantly correlated with either neurobehavioural performance or neurological abnormalities. Conclusions: Occupational exposure to OP pesticides was associated with deficits in a wider array of neurobehavioural functions than previously reported, perhaps because of higher exposure in this population. Moderate chronic OP exposure may not only affect visuomotor speed as reported previously, but also verbal abstraction, attention, and memory.
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TL;DR: Genome-scale analysis of multiple strains of a species can be used to identify metabolic determinants of virulence and increase the understanding of why certain strains of this deadly pathogen have spread rapidly throughout the world.
Abstract: Staphylococcus aureus is a preeminent bacterial pathogen capable of colonizing diverse ecological niches within its human host. We describe here the pangenome of S. aureus based on analysis of genome sequences from 64 strains of S. aureus spanning a range of ecological niches, host types, and antibiotic resistance profiles. Based on this set, S. aureus is expected to have an open pangenome composed of 7,411 genes and a core genome composed of 1,441 genes. Metabolism was highly conserved in this core genome; however, differences were identified in amino acid and nucleotide biosynthesis pathways between the strains. Genome-scale models (GEMs) of metabolism were constructed for the 64 strains of S. aureus. These GEMs enabled a systems approach to characterizing the core metabolic and panmetabolic capabilities of the S. aureus species. All models were predicted to be auxotrophic for the vitamins niacin (vitamin B3) and thiamin (vitamin B1), whereas strain-specific auxotrophies were predicted for riboflavin (vitamin B2), guanosine, leucine, methionine, and cysteine, among others. GEMs were used to systematically analyze growth capabilities in more than 300 different growth-supporting environments. The results identified metabolic capabilities linked to pathogenic traits and virulence acquisitions. Such traits can be used to differentiate strains responsible for mild vs. severe infections and preference for hosts (e.g., animals vs. humans). Genome-scale analysis of multiple strains of a species can thus be used to identify metabolic determinants of virulence and increase our understanding of why certain strains of this deadly pathogen have spread rapidly throughout the world.
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Chiara Mariotti | 141 | 1426 | 98157 |
Pierluigi Paolucci | 138 | 1965 | 105050 |
Andrea Giammanco | 135 | 1362 | 98093 |
Matthew Herndon | 133 | 1732 | 97466 |
Eduardo De Moraes Gregores | 133 | 1454 | 92464 |
Pedro G Mercadante | 129 | 1331 | 86378 |
Alexander Nikitenko | 129 | 1159 | 82102 |
Stephen G. Ellis | 127 | 655 | 65073 |
Peter R. Carroll | 125 | 966 | 64032 |
Mikhail Dubinin | 125 | 1091 | 79808 |
Cesar Augusto Bernardes | 124 | 965 | 70889 |
K. Krajczar | 124 | 646 | 65885 |
Flavia De Almeida Dias | 120 | 590 | 59083 |
Jaap Goudsmit | 111 | 581 | 42149 |
Hans J. Eysenck | 106 | 512 | 59690 |