Publications by authors named "Hamed Al Balushi"
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- Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a self-limiting inflammatory condition with an unclear cause, sometimes occurring in families, and linked to defects in complement proteins C1q and C4.
- In a case study, a 16-year-old Omani boy from a consanguineous family was found to have typical KFD features and a novel mutation in the C1S gene affecting the classical complement pathway.
- This research establishes the first known connection between a deficiency in the C1s component and the occurrence of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease.
Background: There are limited data on short- versus long-term changes in adaptive immune response across different COVID-19 disease severity groups.
Methods: A multicenter prospective study of 140 adult patients with COVID-19 (a total of 325 samples) were analyzed for inflammatory markers and lymphocyte subsets at presentation, week 2, and week 24.
Results: Inflammatory markers at presentation were higher in the critical/severe than in moderate and mild groups.
High-grade epithelial ovarian cancer is a fatal disease in women frequently associated with drug resistance and poor outcomes. We previously demonstrated that a marine-derived compound MalforminA1 (MA1) was cytotoxic for the breast cancer cell line MCF-7. In this study, we aimed to examine the effect of MA1 on human ovarian cancer cells.
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