Publications

2017 Publications

• Yalcin, H. C., Amindari, A., Butcher, J. T., Althani, A. and Yacoub, M. (2017),Heart Function and Hemodynamics Analysis for Zebrafish Embryos.Dev. Dyn.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/dvdy.24497
• Majdalawieh, A. F., Fayyad, M. W., & Nasrallah, G. K. (2017). Anti-cancer properties and mechanisms of action of thymoquinone, the major active ingredient of Nigella sativa.Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 00-00. 
•  Cenciarelli C, Marei HE, Zonfrillo M, Casalbore P, Felsani A, Giannetti S,Trevisi G, Althani A, Mangiola A.  The interference of Notch1 target Hes1 affects cell growth, differentiation and invasiveness of glioblastoma stem cells through modulation of multiple oncogenic targets.Oncotarget. 2017 Feb 2. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.15013.
•  Marei, H., Elnegiry, A., Zaghloul, A., Althani, A., Afifi, N., Abd-Elmaksoud, A., Farag, A., Lashen, S., Rezk, S., Shouman, Z., Cenciarelli, C. and Hasan, A. (2017),  Nanotubes Impregnated Human Olfactory Bulb Neural Stem Cells Promote Neuronal Differentiation in Trimethyltin-induced Neurodegeneration Rat Model.J. Cell. Physiol. . Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/jcp.25826

2016 Publications  

• Al-Qahtani AA, Alabsi ES, AbuOdeh R, Thalib L, Nasrallah GK . Prevalence of anelloviruses (TTV, TTMDV, and TTMV) in healthy blood donors and in patients infected with HBV or HCV in Qatar.Virol J. 2016 Dec.
•  Fernández-Murray JP, Prykhozhij SV, Dufay JN, Steele SL, Gaston D, Nasrallah GK, Coombs AJ, Liwski RS, Fernandez CV, Berman JN, McMaster CR.Glycine and Folate Ameliorate Models of Congenital Sideroblastic Anemia.PLoS Genet. 2016 Jan 28;12(1):e1005783. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005783. PubMed PMID: 26821380.
•  Abu-Madi, M. A., Behnke, J. M., Boughattas, S., Al-Thani, A., Doiphode, S. H., & Deshmukh, A. (2016). Helminth infections among long-term-residents and settled immigrants in Qatar in the decade from 2005 to 2014: temporal trends and varying prevalence among subjects from different regional origins.Parasites & Vectors, 9, 153.  
• Abu-Madi M, Behnke JM, Sharma A, Bearden R, Al-Banna N.  Prevalence of Virulence/Stress Genes in Campylobacter jejuni from Chicken Meat Sold in Qatari Retail Outlets.PLoS One. 2016 Jun 3;11(6):e0156938. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156938. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 27258021; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4892673.
•  Amimo JO, El Zowalaty ME, Githae D, Wamalwa M, Djikeng A,  and Nasrallah GK*. Metagenomic analysis demonstrates the diversity of the fecal virome in asymptomatic pigs in East Africa.Archive of Virology. 2016 Mar 1.
•  Hassiba, Alaa J, El Zowalaty, Mohamed E, Nasrallah, Gheyath K, Webster, Thomas J, Luyt, Adriaan S, Abdullah, Aboubakr M, & Elzatahry, Ahmed A. (2016).Review of recent research on biomedical applications of electrospun polymer nanofibers for improved wound healing. Nanomedicine(0). 
•  Althani, A. A., Marei, H. E., Hamdi, W. S., Nasrallah, G. K., El Zowalaty, M. E., Al Khodor, S., Al-Asmakh, M., Abdel-Aziz, H. and Cenciarelli, C. (2016), Human Microbiome and its Association With Health and Diseases.J. Cell. Physiol., 231: 1688–1694. doi:10.1002/jcp.25284. 
•  Marei HE, Althani A, Suhonen J, El Zowalaty ME, Albanna MA, Cenciarelli C,Wang T, Caceci T. Common and Rare Genetic Variants Associated With Alzheimer's Disease.J Cell Physiol. 2016 Jul;231(7):1432-7. doi: 10.1002/jcp.25225. Review. PubMed PMID: 26496533.
• Marei HE, Althani A, Rezk S, Farag A, Lashen S, Afifi N, Abd-Elmaksoud A, Pallini R, Casalbore P, Cenciarelli C, Caceci T. Therapeutic potential of human olfactory bulb neural stem cells for spinal cord injury in rats. Spinal Cord. 2016 Feb 16. doi: 10.1038/sc.2016.14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26882489.
• Abu-Madi MA, Behnke JM, Boughattas S, Al-Thani A, Doiphode SH. A decade of intestinal protozoan epidemiology among settled immigrants in Qatar. BMC Infect Dis. 2016 Aug 5;16:370. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-1728-3. PubMed PMID: 27496143; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4974681. 
•  Carlo Cenciarelli, Hany E. Marei, Armando Felsani, Patrizia Casalbore, Gigliola Sica, Maria Ausiliatrice Puglisi, Angus JM Cameron, Alessandro Olivi, Annunziato Mangiola (2016)  PDGFRα depletion attenuates glioblastoma stem cells features by modulation of STAT3, RB1 and multiple oncogenic signals.DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10132.
• Sartelli, Massimo; Weber, Dieter; Ruppé, Etienne;Bassetti, Matteo; Wright, Brian; Althani, Asma; Marei, Hany E. Antimicrobials: a global alliance for optimizing their rational use in intra-abdominal infections (AGORA).World J Emerg Surg. 2016 Jul 15;11:33. doi:10.1186/s13017-016-0089-y. eCollection 2016. Review. PubMed PMID: 27429642; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4946132.  
• Villar RF, Patel J, Weaver GC, Kanekiyo M, Wheatley AK, Yassine HM, Costello CE, Chandler KB, McTamney PM, Nabel GJ, McDermott AB, Mascola JR, Carr SA, Lingwood D.Reconstituted B cell receptor signaling reveals carbohydrate-dependent mode of activation.Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 31;6:36298. doi: 10.1038/srep36298. PubMed PMID: 27796362; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5087089. 
• Al Moustafa AE, Mfoumou E, Roman DE, Nerguizian V, Alazzam A, Stiharu I, Yasmeen A. Impact of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the embryo: a brief review.Int J Nanomedicine. 2016 Jan 21;11:349-55. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S96361. Review. PubMed PMID: 26855573; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4725643. 
•  Mohamed IA, Krishnamoorthy NT, Nasrallah GK, Da'as S.The Role of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein C3 in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy- Progress and Novel Therapeutic Opportunities. J Cell Physiol. 2016 Oct 12. doi: 10.1002/jcp.25639. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 27731493.
• Amer, A., Abu Madi, M., Shebl, F., Al Faridi, D., Alkhinji, M., & Derbala, M. (2016). Platelets as a Possible Reservoir of HCV And Predictor of Response to Treatment. 
•  El-Tahry H, Marei H, Shams A, El-Shahat M, Abdelaziz H, Abd El-Kader M. The effect of triiodothyronine on maturation and differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells during remyelination following induced demyelination in male albino rat.Tissue Cell. 2016 Jun;48(3):242-51. doi: 10.1016/j.tice.2016.03.001. PubMed PMID: 26993973.
• Nasrallah G, Hedaya L, Ali F, Alhusaini A, Al Absi E, Sami M, Taleb S. (2016).Is it the time for Hepatitis E virus (HEV) Testing for Blood Donors in Qatar? Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings 2016: HBSP2838 h p://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qfarc.2016.HBSP2838.
• Marei, Hany E.  ;  Althani, Asmaa  ;  Suhonen, Jaana  ;  El Zowalaty, Mohamed E.  ;  Albanna, Mohammad A.  ;  Cenciarelli, Carlo  ;  Wang, Tengfei  ;  Caceci, Thomas (2016).Recent Perspective About the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis and Stem Cell-Based Therapy in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Alzheimer Disorders. 
•  Sharif, E., Rizk, N., Abu Aqel, S., & Masoud, O. (2016). Associations of Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms with Coronary Artery Diseases.
•  Mohamed IA, Krishnamoorthy NT, Nasrallah, GK, Da'as S. The Role of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein C3 in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy- Progress and Novel Therapeutic Opportunities. Journal of Cellular Physiology.
•  Abdallah O, Jalali F, Zamani Z, Isamil HM, Shijimol M, Nasrallah GK, Husam M Younes HM. Fabrication & Characterization of 3D Electrospun Biodegradable Nanofibers for Wound Dressing, Drug Delivery and Other Tissue Engineering Applications. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. 4: 191-201.  
•  Joyce MG, Wheatley AK, Thomas PV, Chuang GY, Soto C, Bailer RT, Druz A, Georgiev IS, Gillespie RA, Kanekiyo M, Kong WP, Leung K, Narpala SN, Prabhakaran MS, Yang ES, Zhang B, Zhang Y, Asokan M, Boyington JC, Bylund T, Darko S, Lees CR, Ransier A, Shen CH, Wang L, Whittle JR, Wu X, Yassine HM, Santos C, Matsuoka Y, Tsybovsky Y, Baxa U; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program., Mullikin JC, Subbarao K, Douek DC, Graham BS, Koup RA, Ledgerwood JE, Roederer M, Shapiro L, Kwong PD, Mascola JR, McDermott AB. Vaccine-Induced Antibodies that Neutralize Group 1 and Group 2 Influenza A Viruses. Cell. 2016 Jul 28;166(3):609-23. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.043. PubMed PMID: 27453470; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4978566.

2015 Publications

• Ngwuta JO, Chen M, Modjarrad K, Joyce MG, Kanekiyo M, Kumar A, Yassine HM, Moin SM, Killikelly AM, Chuang GY, Druz A, Georgiev IS, Rundlet EJ, Sastry M, Stewart-Jones GB, Yang Y, Zhang B, Nason MC, Capella C, Peeples ME, Ledgerwood JE, McLellan JS, Kwong PD, Graham BS. (2015). Pre-fusion structure of a human coronavirus spike protein. Sci Transl Med. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aac4241.
• Zowalaty M.E Al Thani A.A, Webster T.J, El Zowalaty A.E, Schweizer H.P, Nasrallah G.K, Marei H.E, Ashour H.M. (2015). Pseudomonas aeruginosa: arsenal of resistance mechanisms, decades of changing resistance profiles, and future antimicrobial therapies. Future Microbiology.doi:10.2217/fmb.15.48. 
• AbuOdeh R, Al-Absi E.S, Ali N.H, Hadwan T.A, Khalili M, Al- Mawlawi N,  Al-Thani A.A, Nasrallah G.K. (2015). Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Human Pegivirus (GBV-C) among Blood Donors and Patients Infected with Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) in Qatar. Journal Medical Virology. doi: 10.1002/jmv.24289.
• AbuOdeh R, Al-Mawlawi N, Al-Qahtani A.A, Bohol M.F, Al-Ahdal M.N, Hasan H.A, AbuOdeh L, Nasrallah G.K. (2015). Detection and genotyping of torque teno virus (TTV) in healthy blood donors and patients infected with HBV or HCV in Qatar. Journal Medical Virology. 87:1184-91. 
• Nasrallah G.K.  (2015). A yeast two-hybrid screen reveals a strong interaction between the Legionella chaperonin Hsp60 and the host cell small heat shock protein Hsp10. Acta Microbiologica Et Immunologica Hungarica.
• Rizk N, El-Menyar A, Egue H, Wais IS, Baluli HM, Alali K, Farag F, Younes NB, Al Suwaidi J. (2015). The Association between Serum LDL-Cholesterol and Genetic Variation in Chromosomal Locus 1p13.3 among Coronary Artery Disease Patients.BioMed Research International. 
• Ibrahim, A.S, Tawfik, A.M, Hussein, K.A, Elshafey S, Markand S, Rizk N, Duh E.J, Smith S.B, Al-Shabrawey M. (2015). Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor Inhibits Retinal Microvascular Dysfunction Induced By 12/15-Lipoxygenase-Derived Eicosanoids. Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 2015:290–298.
• Ibrahim A.S, Elshafey S, Sellak H, Hussein K.A, ElSherbiny M, Abdelsaid M, Rizk N, Beasley S, Tawfik A. M, Smith S. B, Al-Shabrawey M. (2015). A Lipidomic Screen of Hyperglycemia-Treated Human Retinal Endothelial Cells Links Lipid Metabolites of 12/15 Lipoxygenase to Microvascular Dysfunction during Diabetic Retinopathy via NADPH Oxidase. Journal of Lipid Research . 56:599-611
•  El-Menyar A.A, Rizk N, Al-Qahtani A, AlKindi F, Elyas A, Farag F, DadBakhsh F, Ebrahim S, Ahmed E, Al-khinji M, Al-Thani H, Al Suwaidi J. (2015). The Cardiovascular Implication of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Chromosome 9p21 Locus Among Arab population. Journal of Research in Medical Sciences. 20:346-52
• Rizk N.M. (2015). Leptin as well as Free Leptin Receptor Is Associated with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Young Women. International Journal of Endocrinology. Retrieved fromhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/927805.
• Ayman El-Menyar, Nasser M. Rizk, Mohammad Asim, Hassan Al-Thani, Akram El-Gendy, Jassim Al-Suwaidi. Association of β-Adrenergic Receptor Gene Polymorphisms with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in an Arab Population" in its current form for publication in Angiology.  (2015 Nov 24. DOI: 10.1177/0003319715618039.
• Ghunaim, Haitham, Behnke, Jerzy M, Aigha, Idil, Sharma, Aarti, Doiphode, Sanjay H, Deshmukh, Anand, & Abu-Madi, Marawan M. (2015). Analysis of Resistance to Antimicrobials and Presence of Virulence/Stress Response Genes in Campylobacter Isolates from Patients with Severe Diarrhoea. PloS one, 10(3), e0119268.
• AbdulWahab A, Taj-Aldeen SJ, Ibrahim EB, Talaq E, Abu-Madi M, Fotedar R. (2015). Discrepancy in MALDI-TOF MS identification of uncommon Gram-negative bacteria from lower respiratory secretions in patients with cystic fibrosis.
• Abu-Madi M, Aly M, Behnke JM, Clark CG, Balkhy H. The distribution of Blastocystis subtypes in isolates from Qatar. Parasit Vectors. 2015 Sep 17;8:465. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-1071-3. PubMed PMID: 26384209; PubMed Central PMCID
•  Amer, Aliaa, Abu-Madi, Marawan, El Dabbagh, Mohamed, Kamal, Madeeha, Shebl, Fatma, Al Marzouqi, Sheikha, . . . Abdulsalam, Wafa’a. (2015). Early Diagnosis of Iron Deficiency in School Children: A Qatari Experience. Journal of Hematology & Thromboembolic Diseases, 2015.
•  Aziz, Hassan, Nasrallah, Gheyath, Hussein, Samah, & Moussa, Houda Yasmine Ali. (2015). First Study in Qatar to Reveal High Legionella Count in Cooling Towers.American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 144(suppl 2), A219-A219. 16
• Yassine HM, Boyington JC, McTamney PM, Wei CJ, Kanekiyo M, Kong WP, Gallagher JR, Wang L, Zhang Y, Joyce MG, Lingwood D, Moin SM, Andersen H, Okuno Y, Rao SS, Harris AK, Kwong PD, Mascola JR, Nabel GJ, Graham BS. Hemagglutinin-stem nanoparticles generate heterosubtypic influenza protection. Nat Med. 2015 Sep;21(9):1065-70. doi: 10.1038/nm.3927. Epub 2015 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 26301691
•  Wang L, Shi W, Joyce MG, Modjarrad K, Zhang Y, Leung K, Lees CR, Zhou T, Yassine HM, Kanekiyo M, Yang ZY, Chen X, Becker MM, Freeman M, Vogel L, Johnson JC, Olinger G, Todd JP, Bagci U, Solomon J, Mollura DJ, Hensley L, Jahrling P, Denison MR, Rao SS, Subbarao K, Kwong PD, Mascola JR, Kong WP, Graham BS. Evaluation of candidate vaccine approaches for MERS-CoV. Nat Commun. 2015 Jul 28;6:7712. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8712. PubMed PMID: 26218507; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4525294.
• Wheatley AK, Whittle JR, Lingwood D, Kanekiyo M, Yassine HM, Ma SS, Narpala SR, Prabhakaran MS, Matus-Nicodemos RA, Bailer RT, Nabel GJ, Graham BS, Ledgerwood JE, Koup RA, McDermott AB. H5N1 Vaccine-Elicited Memory B Cells Are Genetically Constrained by the IGHV Locus in the Recognition of a Neutralizing Epitope in the Hemagglutinin Stem. J Immunol. 2015 Jul 15;195(2):602-10. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1402835. Epub 2015 Jun 15. PubMed PMID: 26078272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4491024. 
• Wang T, Marei HE. Landscape of NAT2 polymorphisms among breast cancer. Biomed Pharmacother. 2016 Feb;77:191-6. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2015.12.011. Epub 2015 Dec 29. PubMed PMID: 26796284.
• Al-Thani A, Hamdi WS, Al-Marwani A, Alnaqdy A, Sharafeldin H. Reference ranges of lymphocyte subsets in healthy Qatari adults. Biomark Med. 2015;9(5):443-52.doi: 10.2217/bmm.14.83. PubMed PMID: 25275858.
• Marei, H. E. S., Farag, A., Althani, A., Afifi, N., Abd-Elmaksoud, A., Lashen, S., Rezk, S., Pallini, R., Casalbore, P. and Cenciarelli, C. (2015), Human Olfactory Bulb Neural Stem Cells expressing hNGF Restore Cognitive Deficit in Alzheimer's Disease Rat Model. J. Cell. Physiol., 230: 116–130. doi:10.1002/jcp.24688
• Luka G, Ahmadi A, Najjaran H, Alocilja E, DeRosa M, Wolthers K, Malki A, Aziz  H, Althani A, Hoorfar M.Microfluidics Integrated Biosensors: A Leading Technology towards Lab-on-a-Chip and Sensing Applications. Sensors (Basel). 2015  Dec 1;15(12):30011-31. doi: 10.3390/s151229783. Review. PubMed PMID: 26633409; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4721704
• Al Kuwari H, Al Thani A, Al Marri A, Al Kaabi A, Abderrahim H, Afifi N, Qafoud F, Chan Q, Tzoulaki I, Downey P, Ward H, Murphy N, Riboli E, Elliott P. The Qatar Biobank: background and methods. BMC Public Health. 2015 Dec 3;15:1208. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-2522-7. PubMed PMID: 26635005; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4669623.
• Abu-Madi M, Aly M, Behnke JM, Clark CG, Balkhy H. The distribution of Blastocystis subtypes in isolates from Qatar. Parasit Vectors. 2015 Sep 17;8:465. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-1071-3. PubMed PMID: 26384209; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4573284.
• Al-Saadi, T. (2015-06). Gold Nanoparticles-Based Assays For Direct And Cost Effective Detection Of Clostridium Difficile In Qatar. 

2014 Publications 

• AbdulWahab, Atqah, Taj-Aldeen, Saad J, Ibrahim, Emad, Abdulla, Shaikha H, Muhammed, Ramees, Ahmed, Irshad, . . . Abu-Madi, Marawan. (2014). Genetic relatedness and host specificity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis patients.Infection and drug resistance, 7, 309.
•  Al-Thani AA, Hamdi WS, Al-Ansari NA, Doiphode SH, Wilson GJ. Polymerase chain reaction ribotyping of Clostridium difficile isolates in Qatar: a hospital-based study.BMC Infect Dis. 2014 Sep 15;14:502. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-502. Erratumin: BMC Infect Dis. 2015;15:173. Wilson, Godwin Justus [added]. PubMed PMID: 25223337; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4262129 PubMed.
•  Abu-Madi MA, Behnke JM. Feline patent Toxoplasma-like coccidiosis among feral cats (Felis catus) in Doha city, Qatar and its immediate surroundings. Acta Parasitol.2014 Sep;59(3):390-7. doi: 10.2478/s11686-014-0254-y. Epub 2014 Aug 15. PubMed PMID: 25119351.
•  Knaus, Martin, Abu-Madi, Marawan A, Ibarra-Velarde, Froylán, Kok, Dawie J, Kusi, Ilir, Postoli, Rezart, . . . Irwin, Jennifer. (2014). Efficacy of a novel topical fipronil,(S)-methoprene, eprinomectin and praziquantel combination against naturally acquired intestinal nematode and cestode infections in cats. Veterinary parasitology, 202(1), 18-25.
•  Bansal D, Elmi AA, Skariah S, Haddad P, Abu-Raddad LJ, Al Hamadi AH, Mohamed-Nady N, Affifi NM, Ghedira R, Hassen E, Al-Thani AA, Al-Ansari AA, Sultan AA. Molecular epidemiology and genotype distribution of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) among Arab women in the State of Qatar. J Transl Med. 2014 Nov 26;12:300. doi: 10.1186/s12967-014-0300-4. PubMed PMID: 25424736;