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2. Scaling up of levan yield in Bacillus subtilis M and cytotoxicity study on levan and its derivatives
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Ragab, Tamer I.M., Malek, Roslinda Abd, Elsehemy, Islam A., Farag, Mohamed M.S., Salama, Bassem M., Abd EL-Baseer, Mohamed A., Gamal-Eldeen, Amira M., El Enshasy, Hesham A., and Esawy, Mona A.
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- 2019
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3. Relationship between Sources of Stress and Work Performance among Nurses Working in Psychiatric Hospital
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Rokia Elsayed Abdel kawy, Sayeda Ahmed AbdEl latief, and Doha Abd El baseer Mahmoud
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- 2023
4. Relationship between Sources of Stress and Work Performance among Nurses Working in Psychiatric Hospital
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Elsayed Abdel kawy, Rokia, primary, Ahmed AbdEl latief, Sayeda, additional, and Abd El baseer Mahmoud, Doha, additional
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- 2023
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5. Randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder
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Saad, Khaled, Abdel‐Rahman, Ahmed A., Elserogy, Yasser M., Al‐Atram, Abdulrahman A., El‐Houfey, Amira A., Othman, Hisham A. -K., Bjørklund, Geir, Jia, Feiyong, Urbina, Mauricio A., Abo‐Elela, Mohamed Gamil M., Ahmad, Faisal‐Alkhateeb, Abd El‐Baseer, Khaled A., Ahmed, Ahmed E., and Abdel‐Salam, Ahmad M.
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- 2018
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6. Easiness of sperms retrieval in non-obstructive azoospermia is a strong predictor of clinical pregnancy after intracytoplasmic sperm injection
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Wael Zohdy, Ahmed Sadek, Ahmed Ragab, Medhat Amer, Ahmed Abd El Baseer, and Sameh Fayek GamalEl Din
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Gynecology ,Azoospermia ,endocrine system ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,urogenital system ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Odds ratio ,medicine.disease ,Sperm ,Intracytoplasmic sperm injection ,Confidence interval ,Testicular sperm extraction ,03 medical and health sciences ,Follicle-stimulating hormone ,0302 clinical medicine ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Sperm Retrieval ,medicine ,business ,reproductive and urinary physiology - Abstract
Background: Testicular sperm extraction followed by Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (TESE-ICSI) is the only route to genetically father a child in couples with Non-Obstructive Azoospermia (NOA).Objective: The aim was to identify the effect of severity of NOA on clinical pregnancy following ICSI.Patients and Methods: This retrospective study included 643 patients who underwent 712 ICSI cycles at a specialized In-Vitro Fertilization center between 2014 and 2019. We classified the patients into easy (445) and difficult NOA (267) based on the difficulty of microdissection TESE procedure, number of sperm retrieved, and the number of surgical attempts.Results: The clinical pregnancy rate is significantly higher in the easy NOA group [167/299 (55.8%)] as compared with the difficult NOA group [68/194 (35.1%)]. The mean age of the females and the mean follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) levels were significantly lower in the easy NOA group compared with the difficult group [27.5±4.3 vs 29.9±4.6 years, P=0.0001, and 6.8±2.1 vs 7.4±2.5 mIU/ml, P=0.004, respectively]. There were no significant differences between the 2 groups regarding the mean male age, FSH level, and testicular size. The cumulus mass and the number of mature oocytes injected correlated significantly with the clinical pregnancy (r=0.122, P=0.012 and r=0.145, P=0.003, respectively). The sperm source whether fresh or frozen, the testicular pathology, and the identification of round spermatids in the pathology specimens did not correlate with the clinical pregnancy. We used the binary logistic regression to identify the final predictors. Only the NOA severity could be used to predict ICSI outcome. Easy NOA is more likely to have positive outcomes with ICSI (Odds ratio=1.70; Confidence interval=1.069–2.71; P=0.025). The model showed that neither female age nor FSH level could predict ICSI outcome in those patients.Conclusion: Easy sperm retrieval is an independent factor that is associated with positive ICSI outcomes in couples with NOA.
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- 2020
7. Antiviral activity of castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) leaf extracts
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Mohamed A. Abd El-Baseer, Zeinab N. Said, Rawah H. Elkousy, and Salwa A. Abu El wafa
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Cell Survival ,Ethyl acetate ,Acyclovir ,medicine.disease_cause ,Antiviral Agents ,Virus ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Tandem Mass Spectrometry ,Drug Discovery ,Chlorocebus aethiops ,medicine ,Animals ,Petroleum ether ,Vero Cells ,Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ,030304 developmental biology ,Pharmacology ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Traditional medicine ,Chemistry ,Plant Extracts ,Ricinus ,Alkaloid ,Methanol ,biology.organism_classification ,Antimicrobial ,Plant Leaves ,Herpes simplex virus ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Castor oil ,Viruses ,Solvents ,Medicine, Traditional ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Ethnopharmacological relevance Ricinus communis L., commonly known as castor oil plant, is a precious traditional medicine with a history of thousands of years in the world. Castor oil plant has high traditional and medicinal values for treating liver infections, stomach ache, flatulence, constipation, inflammation, warts, colic, enteritis, fever, headache, and as a counter irritant. Its diverse phytochemicals have a wide range of valuable medicinal activities including hepatoprotective, anti-nociceptive, antioxidant, antiulcer, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, central analgesic, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, antiviral, and wound healing activity. Aim of the work To provide a complete characterization of the composition of Ricinus communis leaves using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with hybrid triple time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Triple TOF-MS/MS) and different chromatographic techniques and to evaluate its antiviral potential using three mechanisms against three common viruses. Materials and methods R. communis leaves were extracted with 70% methanol and further partitioned with solvents of increasing polarities: petroleum ether, dichloromethane (CH2Cl2), ethyl acetate, and n-butanol. The CH2Cl2 and n-butanol fractions were subjected to repeated chromatographic separation to isolate the phytochemicals, and their structures were elucidated using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. UPLC-Triple TOF-MS/MS was performed to determine the different phytochemicals in the ethyl acetate fraction. The antiviral activity of the extracts was investigated using the maximum nontoxic concentration of each against the challenge dose of the virus (CDV) and 1/10 and 1/100 dilutions of the CDV for Coxsackie B virus type 4 (COXB4), herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), and hepatitis A virus (HAV) using Vero cell cultures that were treated according to three protocols to test for anti-replicative, protective, and anti-infective antiviral activity. Cell viability was evaluated using the MTT colorimetric assay and each experiment is repeated three times independently of each other. Results R. communis leaves possessed antiviral activity. Evaluation of the anti-replicative activity showed that all extracts possessed high anti-replicative activity against HAV especially methanol and methylene chloride fractions and moderate activity against COXB4; butanol > methylene chloride and ethyl acetate > methanol. All extracts showed protective activity against HAV, especially butanol extract, while methanol extracts showed higher non-significant antiviral protective activity against HSV1 vs Acyclovir. Almost no anti-infective effects were recorded for any extract against the studied viruses. Conclusion The discriminatory effect against each virus by different mechanisms suggests the presence of different chemical compounds. The alkaloid and phenolic derivatives of the extracts of R. communis leaves may help develop a drug to prevent or treat common viral infections. Further investigations are recommended to define the bioactive antiviral properties of R. communis leaves.
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- 2020
8. Easiness of sperms retrieval in non-obstructive azoospermia is a strong predictor of clinical pregnancy after intracytoplasmic sperm injection
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amer, medhat, primary, sadek, Ahmed, additional, zohdy, wael, additional, GamalEl Din, Sameh, additional, Abd El Baseer, Ahmed, additional, and Ragab, Ahmed, additional
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- 2020
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9. Retracted: Randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder
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Geir Bjørklund, Amira A. El-Houfey, Faisal-Alkhateeb Ahmad, Mauricio A. Urbina, Abdulrahman A. Al-Atram, Hisham A. K. Othman, Ahmad M. Abdel-Salam, Khaled Saad, Khaled A. Abd El-Baseer, Ahmed A. Abdelrahman, Fei-Yong Jia, Ahmed El-Abd Ahmed, Mohamed Gamil M. Abo-Elela, and Yasser M. Elserogy
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Male ,Vitamin ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Autism Spectrum Disorder ,030209 endocrinology & metabolism ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,vitamin D deficiency ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Double-Blind Method ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,mental disorders ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Vitamin D and neurology ,Humans ,Vitamin D ,Child ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,chemistry ,Autism spectrum disorder ,Child, Preschool ,Dietary Supplements ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Childhood Autism Rating Scale ,Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist ,Autism ,Female ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a frequent developmental disorder characterized by pervasive deficits in social interaction, impairment in verbal and nonverbal communication, and stereotyped patterns of interests and activities. It has been previously reported that there is vitamin D deficiency in autistic children; however, there is a lack of randomized controlled trials of vitamin D supplementation in ASD children. Methods This study is a double-blinded, randomized clinical trial (RCT) that was conducted on 109 children with ASD (85 boys and 24 girls; aged 3–10 years). The aim of this study was to assess the effects of vitamin D supplementation on the core symptoms of autism in children. ASD patients were randomized to receive vitamin D3 or placebo for 4 months. The serum levels of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25 (OH)D) were measured at the beginning and at the end of the study. The autism severity and social maturity of the children were assessed by the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC), Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), and the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC). Trial registration number: UMIN-CTR Study Design: trial number: UMIN000020281. Results Supplementation of vitamin D was well tolerated by the ASD children. The daily doses used in the therapy group was 300 IU vitamin D3/kg/day, not to exceed 5,000 IU/day. The autism symptoms of the children improved significantly, following 4-month vitamin D3 supplementation, but not in the placebo group. This study demonstrates the efficacy and tolerability of high doses of vitamin D3 in children with ASD. Conclusions This study is the first double-blinded RCT proving the efficacy of vitamin D3 in ASD patients. Depending on the parameters measured in the study, oral vitamin D supplementation may safely improve signs and symptoms of ASD and could be recommended for children with ASD. At this stage, this study is a single RCT with a small number of patients, and a great deal of additional wide-scale studies are needed to critically validate the efficacy of vitamin D in ASD.
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- 2016
10. Fuzzy Implicative Ideals in KU-algebras
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MOSTAFA, Samy Mohammed and ABD EL-BASEER, Ola Wageeh
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Mathematics::Commutative Algebra ,Fuzzy implicative ideal,image (inverse image ) of fuzzy implicative ideals,Cartesian product of fuzzy implicative ideals - Abstract
In this paper, we consider KU-implicative ideal (brieflyimplicative ideal) in KU-algebras. The notion of fuzzy implicative ideals in KU-algebrasare introduced, several appropriate examples are provided and their someproperties are investigated. The image and the inverse image of fuzzyimplicative ideals in KU-algebras are defined and how the image and the inverseimage of fuzzy implicativeideals in KU-algebras become fuzzy implicative ideals are studied. Moreover,the Cartesian product of fuzzy implicative ideals in Cartesian product of KU-algebrasare given.
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- 2018
11. Retraction: Randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder
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Saad, K., primary, Abdel‐Rahman, A., additional, Elserogy, Y., additional, Al‐Atram, A., additional, El‐Houfey, A., additional, Othman, H., additional, Bjørklund, G., additional, Jia, F., additional, Urbina, M., additional, Abo‐Elela, M., additional, Ahmad, F., additional, Abd El‐Baseer, A., additional, Ahmed, A., additional, and Abdel‐Salam, A., additional
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- 2019
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12. Scaling up of levan yield in Bacillus subtilis M and cytotoxicity study on levan and its derivatives
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Tamer I.M. Ragab, Roslinda Abd Malek, Islam A. Elsehemy, Mohamed M. S. Farag, Amira M. Gamal-Eldeen, Bassem M. Salama, Mohamed A. Abd El-Baseer, Mona A. Esawy, and Hesham A. El Enshasy
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Sucrose ,Bioengineering ,Antineoplastic Agents ,Bacillus subtilis ,01 natural sciences ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Bioreactors ,010608 biotechnology ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Bioreactor ,Yeast extract ,Humans ,Cytotoxicity ,Cell Proliferation ,biology ,Chemistry ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,Levansucrase ,biology.organism_classification ,Fructans ,030104 developmental biology ,Yield (chemistry) ,Fermentation ,Nuclear chemistry ,Biotechnology - Abstract
This study focused on kinetics of levan yield by Bacillus subtilis M, in a 150 L stirred tank bioreactor under controlled pH conditions. The optimized production medium was composed of (g/L): commercial sucrose 100.0, yeast extract 2.0, K2HPO4 3.0 and MgSO4⋅7H2O 0.2; an increase in both carbohydrates consumption and cell growth depended on increasing the size of the stirred tank bioreactor from 16 L to 150 L. The highest levansucrase production (63.4 U/mL) and levan yield of 47 g/L was obtained after 24 h. Also, the specific levan yield (Yp/x) which reflects the cell productivity increased with the size increase of the stirred tank bioreactor and reached its maximum value of about 29.4 g/g cells. These results suggested that B. subtilis M could play an important role in levan yield on a large scale in the future. Chemical modifications of B. subtilis M crude levan (CL) into sulfated (SL), phosphorylated (PL), and carboxymethylated levans (CML) were done. The difference in CL structure and its derivatives was detected by FT-IR transmission spectrum. The cytotoxicity of CL and its derivatives were evaluated by HepGII, Mcf-7 and CaCo-2. In general most tested levans forms had no significant cytotoxicity effect. In fact, the carboxymethylated and phosphrylated forms had a lower anti-cancer effect than CL. On the other hand, SL had the highest cytotoxicity showing SL had a significant anti-cancer effect. The results of cytotoxicity and cell viability were statistically analyzed using three-way ANOVA.
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- 2017
13. Vitamin D status in autism spectrum disorders and the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in autistic children
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Abdulrahman A. Al-Atram, Geir Bjørklund, Nafisa H. R. Abd El-Aziz, Khaled Saad, Hisham A. K. Othman, Ahmed El-Abd Ahmed, Amira A. El-Houfey, Khaled A. Abd El-Baseer, John J. Cannell, Ahmed A. Abdelrahman, Mohamed K. Abdel-Reheim, Ahmed Ali, and Yasser M. Elserogy
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Vitamin ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Eye Movements ,Autism Spectrum Disorder ,Nutritional Status ,Stereotypic Movement Disorder ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Hyperkinesis ,Severity of Illness Index ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,vitamin D deficiency ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,mental disorders ,Severity of illness ,medicine ,Vitamin D and neurology ,Humans ,Attention ,Child ,Social Behavior ,Calcifediol ,Cholecalciferol ,Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,General Neuroscience ,Case-control study ,General Medicine ,Vitamin D Deficiency ,medicine.disease ,Developmental disorder ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,Autism spectrum disorder ,Case-Control Studies ,Child, Preschool ,Dietary Supplements ,Patient Compliance ,Autism ,Egypt ,Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by pervasive deficits in social interaction, impairment in verbal and non-verbal communication, and stereotyped patterns of interests and activities. Vitamin-D deficiency was previously reported in autistic children. However, the data on the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of autism are limited.We performed a case-controlled cross-sectional analysis conducted on 122 ASD children, to assess their vitamin D status compared to controls and the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of autism. We also conducted an open trial of vitamin D supplementation in ASD children.Fifty-seven percent of the patients in the present study had vitamin D deficiency, and 30% had vitamin D insufficiency. The mean 25-OHD levels in patients with severe autism were significantly lower than those in patients with mild/moderate autism. Serum 25-OHD levels had significant negative correlations with Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) scores. Of the ASD group, 106 patients with low-serum 25-OHD levels (30 ng/ml) participated in the open label trial. They received vitamin D3 (300 IU/kg/day not to exceed 5000 IU/day) for 3 months. Eighty-three subjects completed 3 months of daily vitamin D treatment. Collectively, 80.72% (67/83) of subjects who received vitamin D3 treatment had significantly improved outcome, which was mainly in the sections of the CARS and aberrant behavior checklist subscales that measure behavior, stereotypy, eye contact, and attention span.Vitamin D is inexpensive, readily available and safe. It may have beneficial effects in ASD subjects, especially when the final serum level is more than 40 ng/ml.UMIN-CTR Study Design: trial Number: R000016846.
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- 2015
14. 3,4,5-Trisubstituted Furan-2(5H)-one Derivatives: Efficient one-pot Synthesis and Evaluation of Cytotoxic Activity
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A. S. El-Sayed, Mohamed M. S. Farag, W. M. Tohamy, Kh. A. M. El-Bayouki, W. M. Basyouni, and M. A. Abd-El-Baseer
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Aniline Compounds ,One-pot synthesis ,Silica sulfuric acid ,Antineoplastic Agents ,General Medicine ,Reference drug ,Inhibitory Concentration 50 ,Structure-Activity Relationship ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,4-Butyrolactone ,chemistry ,Cell culture ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Furan ,Drug Discovery ,Humans ,Organic chemistry ,Cytotoxic T cell ,Cytotoxicity ,IC50 - Abstract
A series of 3,4,5-trisubstituted 2(5H)-furanone derivatives was synthesized through one-pot reaction of amines, aldehydes and diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate. Silica sulfuric acid efficiently catalyzes the 3-component reaction to afford the corresponding 2(5H)-furanones in high yields. The synthesized compounds were tested against HEPG2, MCF7 and CACO tumor cell lines. The cytotoxic activity for the tested compounds showed that: ethyl 2-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-oxo-4-(phenylamino)-2,5-dihydrofuran-3-carboxylate exhibited significant antitumor activity against HEPG2 and MCF7 cell lines (IC50 values 0.002 and 0.002 µM, respectively) more than reference drug (IC50 0.007, 0.005 µM).
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- 2014
15. Retraction: Randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder
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Faisal-Alkhateeb Ahmad, Amira A. El-Houfey, Ahmed A. Abdelrahman, A. Abd El‐Baseer, Fei-Yong Jia, Khaled Saad, Ahmad M. Abdel-Salam, Abdulrahman A. Al-Atram, Hisham A. K. Othman, Yasser M. Elserogy, Mohamed Gamil M. Abo-Elela, Ahmed El-Abd Ahmed, Mauricio A. Urbina, and Geir Bjørklund
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Best practice ,05 social sciences ,Applied psychology ,MEDLINE ,Subject (documents) ,Missing data ,medicine.disease ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,0302 clinical medicine ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Autism spectrum disorder ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Electronic data ,Psychology ,Raw data ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
The above article, published in print in the Jan 2018 issue of the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry and online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by the JCPP Editor-in-Chief, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, and John Wiley & Sons. Following a series of communications from readers highlighting concerns about the paper (now published on the journal website), the journal editors requested that the authors send them the raw data from the trial. In response the authors informed the editors that; (i) the electronic data base had been lost following a computer outage and (ii) that they could send only 95 out of 120 hard-copy participant data sheets as one site had closed and was no longer contactable. The substantial data loss in and of itself posed a serious difficulty in verifying the correctness of the data presented in the paper. The JCPP then analysed the data from the 95 cases itself. A number of significant discrepancies emerged between the re-analysis and the findings reported in the paper both in terms of means and standard deviations of key outcome variables across the trial. These involved very substantial differences that we judged to be extremely unlikely to have arisen due to variations in composition of the original and re-analysed samples. We also discovered previously unidentified/reported problems with missing data and recording irregularities regarding changes in treatment regimen and subject identifiers. As a result of these issues the Editors no longer have confidence in the findings reported in the original paper. Based on all these matters combined and following published guidance from the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) and Wiley's Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics, we have decided that the only course of action available to us is to retract the paper.
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- 2019
16. Retracted: Randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder
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Saad, Khaled, primary, Abdel‐Rahman, Ahmed A., additional, Elserogy, Yasser M., additional, Al‐Atram, Abdulrahman A., additional, El‐Houfey, Amira A., additional, Othman, Hisham A. -K., additional, Bjørklund, Geir, additional, Jia, Feiyong, additional, Urbina, Mauricio A., additional, Abo‐Elela, Mohamed Gamil M., additional, Ahmad, Faisal‐Alkhateeb, additional, Abd El‐Baseer, Khaled A., additional, Ahmed, Ahmed E., additional, and Abdel‐Salam, Ahmad M., additional
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- 2016
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17. One body possessed by two souls : Mixed- Race Characters in Jean Toomer's Cane
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Mohamed Ali Abd El-Baseer
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Mixed race ,biology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Art ,Cane ,Religious studies ,biology.organism_classification ,media_common - Published
- 2006
18. Chromosomal aberrations in children with autism spectrum disorders in Upper Egypt
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Yasser M. Elserogy, Abdulrahman A. Al-Atram, Hisham A. K. Othman, Ahmed El-Abd Ahmed, Khaled Saad, and Khaled A. Abd El-Baseer
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Monosomy ,Down syndrome ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Karyotype ,medicine.disease ,Long arm ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,03 medical and health sciences ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Sex chromosome aneuploidy ,0302 clinical medicine ,mental disorders ,Turner syndrome ,medicine ,Autism ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Pshychiatric Mental Health ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Chromosome 13 - Abstract
Objective: The pathogenesis of Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is complex and still not clear. Genetic factors contribute to the occurrence of ASD. However, the genetics of ASD is highly heterogeneous. Chromosomal aberrations have a key role to the genetic abnormalities of both syndromic and non-syndromic ASD. Methods: In our study, we conducted karyotyping analysis in a sample of 231 Egyptian children with ASD aged 3-13 years (132 males and 99 females) from five Governorates in Upper Egypt. Results: Eleven patients (4.7%) were found to have chromosomal abnormalities in this study. We found five patients having sex chromosome aneuploidy, including two patients with Turner syndrome, two with 47XYY and one with 47XXY. In addition, we detected three patients have Down syndrome, one patient has monosomy 1p36, one patient has Williams-Beuren syndrome and one patient has a deletion of the long arm of chromosome 13. Conclusions: The present study reinforces the findings of the association between some chromosomal aberrations and ASD. Further investigations into these regions may lead to discovery of new genes involved in ASD. The present study directs the attention of the clinicians about the importance of karyotyping in the evaluation of ASD patients.
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- 2017
19. Effects of bovine colostrum on recurrent respiratory tract infections and diarrhea in children
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Ahmed El-Abd Ahmed, Ahmed Ali, Mohamed Diab Aboul_Khair, Faisal-Alkhateeb Ahmad, Khaled Saad, Heba M. Qubaisy, Mohamed Gamil M. Abo-Elela, Amira A. El-Houfey, Mostafa S. K. Tawfeek, Eman Abdel-Mawgoud, Khaled A. Abd El-Baseer, Ahmad M. Abdel-Salam, and Amir Abo-elgheit
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Diarrhea ,Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Recurrent respiratory tract infections ,medicine.medical_specialty ,respiratory tract infection ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,children ,Recurrence ,Internal medicine ,Secondary Prevention ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Respiratory system ,Child ,Respiratory Tract Infections ,Recurrent upper respiratory tract infections ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,business.industry ,Colostrum ,Infant ,Clinical Trial/Experimental Study ,General Medicine ,Antimicrobial ,bovine colostrum ,Clinical trial ,Tolerability ,Child, Preschool ,Cattle ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Research Article - Abstract
Background: Bovine colostrum (BC) has direct antimicrobial and endotoxin-neutralizing effects throughout the alimentary tract, as well as other bioactivities that suppress gut inflammation and promote mucosal integrity and tissue repair under various conditions related to tissue injury. The precise role of BC in respiratory and gastrointestinal (GI) infections in children is not well defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of BC administration in preventing recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) and diarrhea in children. Methods: One hundred sixty children (aged 1–6 years) having recurrent episodes of URTI or diarrhea received BC for 4 weeks. The number of episodes of URTI, diarrhea, and frequency of hospitalization required for URTI and diarrhea occurring during the study period were assessed at weeks 8 and 24. Results: From a total number of 160 children, 81 patients (50.63%) were males. The mean age (± SD) was 3.65 (± 2.01) years. The mean (± SD) total number of infections was significantly decreased after BC therapy from 8.6 ± 5.1 at baseline to 5.5 ± 1.2 after 2 months (P
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- 2016
20. Vitamin D status in autism spectrum disorders and the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in autistic children
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Saad, Khaled, primary, Abdel-rahman, Ahmed A., additional, Elserogy, Yasser M., additional, Al-Atram, Abdulrahman A., additional, Cannell, John J., additional, Bjørklund, Geir, additional, Abdel-Reheim, Mohamed K., additional, Othman, Hisham A. K., additional, El-Houfey, Amira A., additional, Abd El-Aziz, Nafisa H. R., additional, Abd El-Baseer, Khaled A., additional, Ahmed, Ahmed E., additional, and Ali, Ahmed M., additional
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- 2015
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21. Isolation, purification, characterization, and physiological behavior of drinking water-borne pathogenic bacteria
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S S Louboudy, M H El-Sehraway, M A Abd-El-Baseer, and R. A. Bayoumi
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Shigella dysenteriae ,biology ,Providencia stuartii ,Staphylococcus gallinarum ,medicine ,Pathogenic bacteria ,Klebsiella oxytoca ,Enterobacter aerogenes ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease_cause ,Proteus rettgeri ,Microbiology ,Citrobacter freundii - Abstract
The present work was devoted for isolation, characterization, and studying physiological behavior of drinking water borne pathogenic bacteria isolated from tap and cooling water. Total of 171 bacterial isolates were isolated from twenty nine different localities on eight common and specific agar media (Nutrient, Salmonella & Shigella, Desoxycholate citrate, Eosin–methylene blue, Thioglycollate, Mannitol salt, MacConkey and Clostridium) agar media. All bacterial isolates were purified and characterized on the basis of morphological, physiological, and biochemical tests. These lead to the following suggested names: Bacillus cereus (8); B. badius (1); B. macerans (1); B. brevis (6); B. circulans (4); B. coagulans (3); B. firmus (4); B. globisporus (2); B. megaterium (10); B. mycoides (3); B. pantotheniticus (9); B .pasteurii (1); B. pumilus (1); Staphylococcus gallinarum (1); Staph. epidermidis (6); Staph. haemolyticus (1); Staph. sciuri (2); Enterobacter aerogenes (1); Micrococcus halobius (2); M. sedentarius (1); M. varians (1); Pseudomonas aeruginosa (6); Klebsiella oxytoca (2); K. pneumonia (3); Enterobacter agglomerans (3); Edwardsiella ictalluri (4); Citrobacter freundii (1); Salmonella typhi (3); S. pullorum (1); Shigella dysenteriae (2); Sh. flexneri (2); Proteus mirabilis (13); Providencia stuartii (1); Pro. Rettgeri (2); Proteus rettgeri (1) and Escherichia coli (2).Thirty six characterized bacterial strains were selected and studying some physiological characteristics and evaluating of their five extracellular enzymes potencies including α-amylase, cellulase, lipase, pectinase, and protease with percentage of 41.66, 41.66, 33.33, 11.11, & 94.44 % respectively among all selected bacterial strains. The selected water borne pathogenic bacterial strains were growing at different pH values covering a relatively wide range of pH (4-12). Minimum, maximum, and optimum pH values for their growth were determined as 4, 12, and 7 respectively. Selected isolates showed abundant growth within the temperature range of 10-55ºC. Bacterial strains succeeded to grow in sodium chloride free medium and also containing sodium chloride up to 12.5 % (w/v). Recorded data emphasized that tested drinking water samples were polluted with different waterborne pathogenic bacteria and by investigating its physiological behavior, the virulence of the 36 bacterial strains was controllable. New Egyptian Journal of Microbiology Vol. 17 (2) 2007: pp. 105-120
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- 2007
22. Chromosomal aberrations in children with autism spectrum disorders in Upper Egypt.
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ELSEROGY, Yasser M., SAAD, Khaled, AL-ATRAM, Abdulrahman Abdullah, OTHMAN, Hisham A. K., ABD EL-BASEER, Khaled A., and AHMED, Ahmed E.
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- 2017
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23. 3,4,5-Trisubstituted Furan-2(5H)-one Derivatives: Efficient one-pot Synthesis and Evaluation of Cytotoxic Activity
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Basyouni, W., additional, El-Bayouki, Kh., additional, El-Sayed, A., additional, Tohamy, W., additional, Farag, M., additional, and Abd-El-Baseer, M., additional
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- 2014
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24. Vitamin D status in autism spectrum disorders and the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in autistic children.
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Saad, Khaled, Abdel-rahman, Ahmed A., Elserogy, Yasser M., Al-Atram, Abdulrahman A., Cannell, John J., Bjørklund, Geir, Abdel-Reheim, Mohamed K., Othman, Hisham A. K., El-Houfey, Amira A., Abd El-Aziz, Nafisa H. R., Abd El-Baseer, Khaled A., Ahmed, Ahmed E., and Ali, Ahmed M.
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VITAMIN D deficiency ,AUTISM spectrum disorders ,AUTISTIC children ,SOCIAL interaction ,CROSS-sectional method - Abstract
Objectives: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by pervasive deficits in social interaction, impairment in verbal and non-verbal communication, and stereotyped patterns of interests and activities. Vitamin-D deficiency was previously reported in autistic children. However, the data on the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of autism are limited. Methods: We performed a case–controlled cross-sectional analysis conducted on 122 ASD children, to assess their vitamin D status compared to controls and the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of autism. We also conducted an open trial of vitamin D supplementation in ASD children. Results: Fifty-seven percent of the patients in the present study had vitamin D deficiency, and 30% had vitamin D insufficiency. The mean 25-OHD levels in patients with severe autism were significantly lower than those in patients with mild/moderate autism. Serum 25-OHD levels had significant negative correlations with Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) scores. Of the ASD group, 106 patients with low-serum 25-OHD levels (<30 ng/ml) participated in the open label trial. They received vitamin D3 (300 IU/kg/day not to exceed 5000 IU/day) for 3 months. Eighty-three subjects completed 3 months of daily vitamin D treatment. Collectively, 80.72% (67/83) of subjects who received vitamin D3 treatment had significantly improved outcome, which was mainly in the sections of the CARS and aberrant behavior checklist subscales that measure behavior, stereotypy, eye contact, and attention span. Conclusion: Vitamin D is inexpensive, readily available and safe. It may have beneficial effects in ASD subjects, especially when the final serum level is more than 40 ng/ml. Trial registration number: UMIN-CTR Study Design: trial Number: R000016846. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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25. Isolation, purification, characterization, and physiological behavior of drinking water-borne pathogenic bacteria.
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Louboudy, S S, primary, Bayoumi, R A, additional, El-Sehraway, M H, additional, and Abd-El-Baseer, M A, additional
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- 2007
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26. 3,4,5-Trisubstituted Furan-2(5H)-one Derivatives: Efficient one-pot Synthesis and Evaluation of Cytotoxic Activity.
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Basyouni, W. M., El-Bayouki, Kh. A. M., El-Sayed, A. S., Tohamy, W. M., S. Farag, M. M., and Abd-El-Baseer, M. A.
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27. One body possessed by two souls : Mixed- Race Characters in Jean Toomer's Cane
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Abd El-Baseer, Mohamed Ali, primary
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