Publications by authors named "M Kassab"
There is insufficient information about the migratory Eurasian teal, Anas crecca. The study provides the first anatomical description of lingual adaptations and their relationship with the species-specific feeding behavior of A. crecca collected near Egyptian Lake Nasser.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: This study aimed to compare the determinants and impact of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance rates for people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) versus other chronic liver diseases.
Methods: A dataset of HCC patients from a UK hospital (2007-2022) was analyzed. The Mann-Whitney U-test compared continuous variables.
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- * During CSR, R-loops at the immunoglobulin heavy chain undergo ribose 2'-O-methylation, a modification facilitated by the interaction between fibrillarin (FBL), activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), and snoRNA aSNORD1C.
- * The study suggests that 2'-O-methylation stabilizes R-loops at the IgH locus, which is crucial for effective CSR, thus providing insights into the mechanisms linking AID function and R
Background: Compared with thin-strut durable-polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DES), ultrathin-strut biodegradable-polymer sirolimus-eluting stents (BP-SES) improve stent-related clinical outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Reduced stent strut thickness is hypothesised to underlie these benefits, but this conjecture remains unproven.
Aims: We aimed to assess the impact of strut thickness on stent healing and clinical outcomes between ultrathin-strut and thin-strut BP-SES.
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- Innovative methods for isolating proteins linked to DNA replication have revealed insights into how DNA replication forks stall.
- A technique called iPOND2-DRIPPER enhances the retrieval and quantification of replication proteins, increasing their levels by up to 300 times compared to standard controls.
- This approach also allows for the direct observation of ubiquitination events and the recruitment of DNA repair factors when replication is stalled, highlighting interactions with nuclear structures.