Publications by authors named "Nahla M Awad"
Unlabelled: Cells electrical fields have a significant role in cell function.
Aim: The current study examined the effects of nanoscale electric fields generated by magneto-electric nanoparticles (MENs) on precancerous liver tissue.
Methods & Results: A total of 30 nm MENs synthesized by sol-gel method were tested in vitro on HepG2 cells and in vivo on liver cell dysplasia in mice, which were exposed to 50 Hz 2 mT for 2 weeks, +/- MENs.
Objective: To assess the diagnostic accuracy and illustrate positive findings of contrast-enhanced fluorine-18 fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) image in patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) with rising alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) after bridge therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Materials And Methods: This prospective study included 100 patients who were waiting for LT and who previously underwent locoregional therapy (LRT) of HCC. These patients had rising AFP levels on a routine follow-up examination awaiting LT.
Aim: To evaluate the role of uterine natural killer (uNK) CD56 and CD16 cells in patients with refractory antiphospholipid, antibody-mediated, recurrent, pregnancy loss.
Settings And Design: A case-control study was conducted between 2012 and 2015 at a university hospital.
Patients And Methods: A group of 118 women with a history of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome experiencing fetal loss in spite of low dose aspirin (LDA) and low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) treatment in the current pregnancy were included in this study.
Background: Bladder cancer cells illustrate major disruptions in their DNA methylation patterns as compared with normal ones. Authors aimed to identify epigenetic molecular markers in urine for early detection of bladder cancer.
Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the methylation status of RARβ(2) and APC genes in urine samples from 210 bladder cancer patients, 61 patients with benign urological diseases, and 49 healthy volunteers by using methylation-specific PCR.
Background: The association of oncogenic EBV with breast carcinoma (BC) is still in controversy.
Aim Of Work: Assess the association of EBV with BC in Egyptian women and find possible relationship between prognostic factors of BC and EBV detection.
Subjects And Methods: Paraffin-embedded sections from 40 female patients with primary invasive BC; ductal (n=32) and lobular (n=8) and breast tissues from patients with fibrocystic disease (n=20) as control were screened for presence of EBV by EBV nuclear antigen-1 (EBNA-1) immunostaining and by PCR for EBV-DNA.