Thesis and Publications by Users of the CRSL Equipment
Thesis Titles
July 2002
Thesis Title:
Effect of GJIC Modulation on JAK2/STATS in Mammary Cells in Vitro
Graduate's Name: Ayman Mohammad Ismail
Department:
Biology
Advisor's Name :
Dr. Rabih Talhouk
Equipment Used:
X-ray film processor, and Fluorescence Microscope
May 2003 - June 2003
Thesis Title:
The Antimicrobial Effects of Components of the Oil of
Lebanese Sage (Salvia Libanotica)
Graduate's Name:
Rodaina Omar Haidar
Department:
Biology
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Medhat Khattar
Equipment
Used: Fluorescence Microscope
Thesis Title:
Isolation and Priliminary Characterisation
of a New Temperature-Sensitive Allele of the NAD+ Ligase
Gene (LIGA) in Escherichia Coli
Graduate's Name:
Hadi Mohamad Yassine
Department:
Biology
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Medhat
Khattar
Equipment
Used: Fluorescence microscope
Thesis Title:
Isolation and Characterisation of a
Temperature-Sensitive Mutation in the 88-89 Minutes of the Escherichia
Coli Chromosome
Graduate's Name:
Issmat Ibrahim Kassem
Department:
Biology
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Medhat
Khattar
Equipment
Used: Fluorescence Microscope
Thesis Title:
Development of Serological Assays for Diagnosis of Cucurbit Yellow Stunting
Disorder Virus using Molecular Techniques
Graduate's Name:
Hala Hourani
Department:
Agriculture
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Youssef
Abou Jawdeh
Equipment
Used: Fluorescence Microscope, Gel Documentation
System, Super Speed Centrifuge, Water Deionizer, and
Distiller
Thesis Title:
Development of Molecular Techniques for Specific Identification of Almond
and Tomato Phytoplasmas
Graduate's Name:
Shoaa El-Mehtar
Department:
Agriculture
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Youssef Abou Jawdeh
Equipment
Used: X-ray Film Developer, Water Deionizer, and Distiller
Thesis Title:
Development of Molecular Biology Techniques for the Diagnosis of Frunus Necrotic Ringspot Virus
Graduate's Name:
Hadia Kawtharani
Department:
Agriculture
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Youssef
Abou Jawdeh
Equipment
Used: Super Speed Centrifuge, Water Deionizer, and Distiller
Thesis Title:
Morphological and Biomedical Alterations of Intestinal Tissues in
Experimental Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Graduate's Name:
Naim Khoury
Department:
Medical School
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Abdo Jurjus
Equipment
Used: Fluorescence Microscope
July 2003 - September 2003
Thesis Title:
Molecular Mechanisms of Antineoplastic Effects by Thymoquinone in Neoplastic Keratinocytes
Graduate's Name: Wassim Gergy Abou
Kheir
Department:
Biology
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Hala Muhtasib
Equipment
Used: Flowcytometer,
Fluorescence Microscope
Thesis Title:
Mechanisims of HPR-Induced Cell Death in HTLV-1
Transformed
Graduate's Name: Humam Nabil Kabbara
Department:
Biology
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Nadine Darwiche
Equipment Used:
Flowcytometer, and Fluorescence Microscope
Thesis Title:
Characterisation of Potential Anti-Inflammatory
Bioactivities in Selected Indigenous Medicinal Plants of Lebanon
Graduates Name: Wassim El-Jouni
Department:
Biology
Advisor's Name:
Dr. Rabih Talhouk
Equipment Used:
Fluorescence Microscope, X-Ray Film Developer
Thesis Title:
The Gap Junction Protein Complex: Role in Mammary Epithelial Cell
Differentiation
Graduate's Name: Ralda Nehme
Department:
Biology
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Rabih Talhouk
Equipment
Used: Flowcytometer,
X-Ray Film Developer, Fluorescence Microscope, and Gel Documentation System
Thesis Title:
The Role of Heterocellular Gap Junctional
Communication in Mammary Epithelial Cell Differentiation
Graduate's Name: Lina Abi Mosleh
Department:
Biology
Advisor's
Name: Dr. Rabih Talhouk
Equipment Used:
Flowcytometer, X-Ray Film Developer, Fluorescence
Microscope, and Gel Documentation System.
October 2003
Thesis Title:
Regulation of COX-2 by Statins
Graduate's Name: Ishraq Shamseddeen
Department:
Medical School
Advisor's Name:
Dr. Aida Habib
Equipment Used:
Gel Documentation System, and ELISA Reader
May 2004
Thesis title:
Preliminary
Evaluation of Two Lebanese Folk Medicinal plants for their Anti-Inflammatory
Potentials
Graduate's Name: Malak Esseily
Department: Biology
Advisor:
Rabih Talhouk
Equipment used : xomat,
centrifuge, Cell Culture facility
Thesis Title: Role of Insulin and angiotensin II receptor subtype I antagonist on endothelin-I binding in diabetic rat hearts
Graduate's Name: Shehadeh Nehman Karam
Department: Human Morphology
Advisor : Dr. Nuha Nuwayri-Salti
Equipment used: Fluorescence Microscope
June
2004
Thesis Title: Syntheses of 3,4-Substituted Cyclopentanols: Precursors to Carbocyclic Nucleoside Analogs
Graduate's Name: Niveen Nasser
Department: Chemistry
Advisor: Dr. Kamal Bouhadir
Equipment Used: NMR spectrometer
Thesis Title: Growth of Chromium Oxides By laser Ablation of Cr2O3
Graduate's Name: Samer Kahwagy.
Department: Physics
Advisor: Dr. Malek Tabbal
Equipment Used: PLD, XRD, AFM
Thesis Title:
Assessment of Anemia, Iron, Folate, and Vitamin B12 Status in Lebanese Women of
Childbearing Age
Graduate's Name: Lynn El Khatib
Department: Nutrition
Advisor: Dr. Nahla Hwalla
Equipment Used: HPLC
Thesis Title:
Modification of Glucocorticoid Effects on Body Weight
Gain and Plasma Lipids, By Changes in Diet Composition
Graduate's Name:: Annie Dekermenjian
Department:
Nutrition
Advisor:
Dr. Nahla Hwalla
Equipment
Used: Fluorescence Microscope
July 2004
Thesis Title: Outdoor Chemistry of Carbonyls in the Coastal Atmosphere of Lebanon
Graduate's Name: Samar Moussa
Department:
Chemistry
Advisor:
Dr. Najat A. Saliba
Equipment used: HPLC
Thesis Title:
Potential mechanisms of colon cancer prevention by thymoquinone
extract from black seed with an
of it antioxidant
activities
Graduate's Name: Hiba Moukadem
Department: Biology
Advisor: Dr. Hala Muhtasib
Equipment used: flowcytometer, Xomat
August 2004
September 2004
Thesis Title: Syntheses of Tosylhydrazone Derivatives of 3,4-Substituted Cyclopentanones
Graduate’s Name: Bilal Abou Aleiwe
Department: Chemistry
Advisor: Dr. Kamal Bouhadir
Equipment Used: NMR spectrometer
Thesis Title:
Rhythmicity,Composition and
Geological Simulation in Front Propagation
Systems with Dissolution and Periodic Precipitation.
Graduate’s
Name: Maysam Al-Msharrafieh
Department:
Chemistry
Advisor: Dr Ribih
Sultan
Equipment used: AAS
Thesis Title: Amorphous to Crystalline Phase transition in Pulsed Laser Deposited Silicon Carbide
Graduate’s Name: Aurore Said
Department:
Physics
Advisor:
Dr.
Malek Tabbal
Equipment
Used: PLD, XRD, AFM
October 2004
Thesis Title: The Way to Natural Bioactive Products in an endemic Lebanese Plant
Graduate's Name: Saada Dakdouki
Department: Chemistry
Advisor: Dr. Najat A. Saliba
Equipment used: HPLC, NMR
July
– August – September 2005
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Thesis
Title:
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Antimicrobial Resistance of E.coli
and Y. enterocolitica Isolated from Dairy Based
Foods in Lebanon
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Graduate’s
Name:
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Iman Saleh
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Department:
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Biology
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Defense
Date:
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July 14th, 2005
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Advisor:
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Dr.
Steve Harakeh
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Equipment Used
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PCR,
Gel Documentation System
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Thesis
Title:
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Evaluation
of the Contamination Status and Antimicrobial
Resistance of Staphylococcus and Salmonella Species Isolated from Dairy Based
Products in Lebanon
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Graduate’s
Name:
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Omar
Nayef Zouhairi
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Department:
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Biology
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Defense
Date:
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August 17th, 2005
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Advisor:
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Dr.
Steve Harakeh
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Equipment Used
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PCR,
Gel Documentation System
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Thesis
Title:
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Isolation,
Molecular Characterization and Antimicrobial
Resistance of Brucella and Listeria
Species in Representative Lebanese Foods
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Graduate’s
Name:
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Nisreen Hassan Alwan
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Department:
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Biology
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Defense
Date:
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September 29th, 2005
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Advisor:
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Dr.
Steve Harakeh
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Equipment Used
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PCR,
Gel Documentation System
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Thesis
Title:
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Induction
of Apoptosis by Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate (EGCG) in HTLV-1-Positive and –
Negative Malignant T-Cells
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Graduate’s
Name:
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Khalil Ahmad Abou El Ardat
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Department:
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Biology
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Defense
Date:
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September 15th, 2005
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Advisor:
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Dr.
Steve Harakeh
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Equipment Used
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Flowcytometer, XOMAT, Gel Documentation
System
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Thesis
Title:
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Mammary
Epithelial Differentiation: The Role of Heterocellular
Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication (GJIC)
and Connexin Associated Proteins.
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Graduate’s
Name:
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Rana Mroue
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Department:
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Biology
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Defense
Date:
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July 1st, 2005
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Advisor:
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Dr.
Rabih Talhouk
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Equipment Used
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XOMAT.
Fluorescence Microscope, Flowcytometer, Centrifuge,
Tissue Cell Culture Facility
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Thesis
Title:
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Mammary
Epithelial Cell Differentiation: A Role for Connexin
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Graduate’s
Name:
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Maysa Mkalled
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Department:
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Biology
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Defense
Date:
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July 1st, 2005
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Advisor:
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Dr.
Rabih Talhouk
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Equipment Used
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XOMAT.
Fluorescence Microscope, Flowcytometer, Centrifuge,
Tissue Cell Culture Facility
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Thesis
Title:
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Effect
and Mechanism of Action of TNF-Alpha and PGE2 on Ion Transporters in Kidney
and Liver Cells
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Graduate’s
Name:
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Sara
Riman
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Department:
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Biology
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Defense
Date:
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August 5th, 2005
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Advisor:
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Dr.
Sawsan Kreydiyyeh
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Equipment Used
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XOMAT,
Gel Documentation System
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Fall 2005-2006
Thesis Title:
Differential Apoptosis by Galotanin in Human
Colon Cancer Cells
Distinct in their P53 Status: Potential
Mechanisms Involved.
Graduate's Name:
Sahar Al Ayyoubi
Department:
Biology
Advisor:
Dr. Hala Muhtasib
Date: October 28th, 2005
Equipment Used : Flowcytometer,
Xomat, Real Time PCR
Thesis Title: Transport and Magnetic Properties of the New High Temperature Superconductors Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu(3 x)FexO10
and Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu(3-x)ZnxO10
Graduate's Name: Haybat Itani
Department:
Physics
Advisor: Dr. Samih Isber
Date:
November 18th,
2005
Equipment Used: XRD, PPMS
Thesis Title:
Mass Concentration and Inorganic Composition of Ambient Aerosols
in Suburban Beirut
Subtitle: Implications Regarding Local Emissions and
Long
Range Transport
Graduate's Name:
Hovig Khoren Kouyoumdjian
Date:
December 23rd, 2005
Advisor’s Name: Dr. Najat Saliba
Department: Chemistry
Equipment Used: Ion
Chromatography, Flame and Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry,
Microwave Digestion.
Thesis
Title: Radiosensitization by
2-benzoyl-3-phenyl-6,7-dichloro phenylquinoxaline
1,4-dioxide under oxic and hypoxic
conditions:
Potential Mechanisms Involved
Graduate
Name: Wafica Sami Itani
Department:
Biology
Advisor:
Dr. Hala Muhtasib
Date:
March 9, 2006
Equipment
used: XOMAT, flowcytometer, gel
documentation system
June - July - September 2006
Thesis
Title: Perinatal Hypoxia-Induced Apoptosis: New
insights
Graduate
Name: Diana Jehad Azzam
Department:
Biochemistry
Advisor:
Dr. Mohammad Mikati
Date:
September 2006
Equipment used : HPLC
Thesis title:
Identification and characterization of crude
and purified
extracts from the Indigenous Lebanese plant EP using models of squamous
cell carcinogenesis.
Graduate Name: Racha Halawi
Department: Biology
Advisor: Dr. Nadine Darwiche
Date of defense: June 2006
Equipment used : Flow Cytometer-
Cell culture facility
Thesis title:
Induction of Apoptosis by Ascorbic Acid in
HTLV-1-Positive and –Negative Malignant T-cells.
Graduate Name: Jihane khalife
Department: Biology
Advisor: Dr. Elias Baydoun
Date of defense: September 2006
Equipment used: Flow Cytometer,
Spectrophotometer, Gel Documentation System, Cell Culture Facility.
January - February - March 2007
Thesis title:
The Role of DNA damage
Pathways in the Radiosentising Effects of 2-Benzoyl-6,7-dichloro-3-Phenylquinoxaline
1,4-Dioxide
Graduate Name: Joelle
Michel Haykal
Department: Biology
Advisor: Dr. Hala Muhtasib
Date of defense: February 28th, 2007
Equipment used : Flowcytometer,
Fluorescence Microscope, Gel Documentation System, Cell Culture Facility.
June - August - September 2007
Thesis Title:
Oil Spill Contaminants in Selected Vertebrates and Invertebrates of the Eastern
Mediterranean Sea.
Graduate's Name: Alia Sabra
Department: Ecosystem
Management
Advisor's Name: Dr. Elie Barbour
Equipment Used: Microwave Digestion
October - November - December 2007
Thesis Title: The Role of Signal
Transducer and Produer of Transcription 3 and Reactive Oxygen Species in
Gallotanin – Induced Antiproliferation and Apoptosis in Human Colon Cancer.
Graduate's Name: Widian Fouad
Abi Saab
Department: Biology
Advisor's Name: Dr. Hala Muhtasib
Equipment Used: Flowcytometer,
XOMAT, Gel Documentation System
Date:
October, 2007
April - May - June 2008
- Thesis Title:
Synthesis of some Quinoxalines, Quinoxaline
1,4-dioxides, and Quinoxalinocinnoline N-oxide
- Student full name:
Mirna El-khatib
- Department:
Chemistry
- Date of thesis:
June 2008
- Advisor:
Dr. Haddadin
- Instruments used at the CRSL: NMR and hplc-ms
- Thesis Title:
The effect of dietary phosphorus manipulation on lipid
status of rats
maintained on a high fructose diet.
- Student Full
Name: Lama E Mattar
- Department:
Nutrition
- Advisor:
Dr. Omar Obeid
- Date of
thesis:
June 2008
- Instruments
used at the CRSL: HPLC
- Thesis Title:
The effect of Branched chain amino acids on meal patterns in rats
- Student Full
Name: Nabiha G
Ramadan
- Department:
Nutrition
- Advisor:
Dr. Omar Obeid
- Date of
Thesis :
June 2008
- Instruments used at the CRSL: HPLC
- Thesis Title:
The effect of exogenous connexin43 expression on mammary epithelial
tumor cell lines.
- Student Full
Name:
Hashem A. Dbouk
- Department:
Biology
- Date of Thesis:
11-June-2008
- Advisor:
Dr Rabih Talhouk
- Instruments used at the CRSL: XOMAT,
flowcytometer, and fluorescence microscope
- Thesis Title:
Gap Junctions Mediate a STAT-5 Independent Beta-Casein Expression
- Student Full
Name:
Antoine Abboud Khalil
- Department:
Biolgy
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Date of Thesis:
12 June 2008
- Advisor:
Dr. Rabih Talhouk
- Instruments
used at the CRSL: XOMAT
Publications
Article Title: Quinoxaline 1,4-dioxides induce G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human colon cancer cells.
Author: Gali-Muhtasib HU, Diab-Assaf M, Haddadin MJ.
Department: Biology
Magazine: Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2005 Apr;55(4):369-78.
Equipment used : Flowcytometer
Article Title:
Molecular pathway for thymoquinone-induced cell-cycle
arrest and apoptosis in neoplastic keratinocytes
Author:
Hala U. Gali-Muhtasib, Wassim G. Abou Kheir, Lynn A. Kheir, Nadine Darwiche and Peter A. Crooks
Department:
Biology
Magazine:
Anti-Cancer Drugs 2004, April, 15:389–399
Equipment Used: Flow cytometer, fluorescence
microscope
Article Title: Quinoxaline 1,4-dioxides are Novel
Angiogenesis Inhibitors that Potentiate
Antitumor Effects of Ionizing Radiation.
Author:
Hala Gali-Muhtasib, Ph.D., Mazen Sidani, MSc., Fady
Geara, M.D., PhD., Assaf-Diab
Mona, Ph.D., Josianne Al-Hmaira,
BSc., Makhluf J. Haddadin, Ph.D., and Ghazi Zaatari,
M.D.
Department:
Biology
Magazine:
International Journal of Oncology , 2004
May;24(5):1121-31.
Equipment Used: Flow cytometer, fluorescence
microscope
Article Title:
Inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis by 2-benzoyl-3-phenyl-6,7-dichloroquinoxaline 1,4-dioxide in adult T-cell leukemia
cells.
Authors:
Steve Harakeh, Mona Diab-Assef,
Marwan El-Sabban, Makhluf Haddadin, Hala Gali-Muhtasib
Department:
Biology
Magazine:
Chem Biol Interact. 2004
Jul 20;148(3):101-13.
Equipment Used: Flow cytometer, fluorescence
microscope
Article Title:
Thymoquinone extracted from black seed triggers
apoptotic cell death in human colorectal cancer cells via a p53- dependent
mechanism.
Author:
Hala Gali-Muhtasib
Department: Biology
Magazine:
International Journal of Oncology 2004 Oct;25(4):857-66.
Equipment Used: Flow cytometer, fluorescence
microscope
Article Title:
Quinoxaline 1,4-dioxides
INDUCE G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis In human colon cancer
cells.
Author:
Hala U. Gali-Muhtasib Assaf-Diab Mona, and Makhluf J. Haddadin
Department:
Biology
Magazine:
Cancer Chemotherpay and Pharmacology, in press
Equipment Used: Flow cytometer, fluorescence
microscope
Article Title:
Exchange Coupling in Spins Quartet of Dimeric Polyoxoanions [M4(H2O)2(GeW9O34)2]12-
(M = Mn2+, Cu2+)
Author:
S. Isber, M. Tabbal, T. Christidis, S. Charar and F. Terki
Department: Physics
Magazine: Journal of Magnetism And Magnetic Materials (In Press)
Equipment used: Physical Properties Measurements System (PPMS), Spectrophotmeter UV, Visible and Near IF, X-Ray diffractometer.
Article Title: Crystal field investigations and magnetic properties of Nd3+ doped Bi4Si3O12
Author: S. Isber, M. Tabbal, T. Christidis, S. Charar, F. Terki and M. Ishii
Department: Physics
Magazine: Phys. Rev B. (In press)
Equipment used: Physical Properties Measurements System (PPMS), Spectrophotmeter UV, Visible and Near IF, X-Ray diffractometer.
Article Title: Cross talk between insulin and angiotensin II. Role of Lozartan in the prevention of cardiomaopathy in normotensive diabetic type I rats with no nephropathy
Author: Nuha Nuwayri-Salti M.D.
Department: Human Morphology
Equipment Used: Fluorescence Microscope
Article Title: N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl) Retinamide Induces Growth Arrest and Apoptosis in HTLV-I Transformed Cells.
Authors: Darwiche, N., Hatoum, A., Dbaibo, G., Kadara, H., Nasr, N., Abou-Lteif, G., Bazzi, R., Hermine, O., de Thé, H. and Bazarbachi, A.
Department: Biology
Equipment Used: Flow cytometry
Magazine: Leukemia. 18: 607-615, 2004.
Article Title: Stage-Specific Effect of N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)Retinamide on Cell Growth in Squamous Cell Carcinogenesis.
Authors: Kabbout, M., Hatoum, A., Abou-Lteif, G., Chakroun, I., Homaidan, F. and Darwiche, N.
Department: Biology
Magazine: Molecular Carcinogenesis. 40: 12-23, 2004.
Equipment Used: Flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, and dark room (develop X-ray fims)
Article Title: Crystal field investigations and magnetic properties of Nd3+ doped Bi4Si3O12Phys.
Author: S. Isber, M. Tabbal, T. Christidis, S. Charar, F. Terki and M. Ishii
Department: Physics
Magazine: Rev B71, 014405, pp1-5 (2005).
Date: November 2005
Equipment Used: PPMS, XRD
Article Title: Apoptosis Induction by Epican Forte in HTLV-1 Positive and Negative Malignant T-Cells.
Authors: S. Harakeh, M. Diab-Assaf, J. Khalifeh, K. Abu El-Ardat
Department: Biology
Equipment Used: Flowcytometer, Fluorescence Microscope, Gel Documentation System, and XOMAT.
Article
Title:
Simulation of Geochmical banding in Acidization-Precipitation Experiments in Situ
Authors:
Maysam Msharrafieh, Mazen El-Ghoul, Rabih Sultan
Department: Chemistry
Equipment Used : Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Fluorescence Microscope,
and X-Ray Diffractometer
Article
Title:
Patterns with High Rhythmicity Levels in Multicomponent Liesegang Systems
Authors:
Maysam Mshrrafieh and Rabih Sultan