Anti-diabetic effect of Murraya koenigii (L) and Olea europaea (L) leaf extracts on streptozotocin induced diabetic ratsMaha El-Amin
Department of Zoology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Pak J Pharm Sci 26:359-65. 2013
..Our results suggest that both the ML and OL possess a potent antihyperglycemic and hypolipidemic effect, which may be due to the presence of antioxidants such as carbazole alkaloids and polyphenols...
Endocrine disruptors and obesity: an examination of selected persistent organic pollutants in the NHANES 1999-2002 dataMai A Elobeid
Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:2988-3005. 2010
..Hence, BMI and WC are associated with POPs levels, making the chemicals plausible contributors to the obesity epidemic...
Olive oil oleuropein has anti-breast cancer properties with higher efficiency on ER-negative cellsMaha H Elamin
Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, University Centre for Women Students, P O Box 22452, Riyadh 11495, Saudi Arabia
Food Chem Toxicol 53:310-6. 2013
..Therefore, oleuropein warrants further investigations to prove its utility in preventing/treating breast cancer, especially the less-responsive basal-like type...
- Sample size in obesity trials: patient perspective versus current practice
David B Allison
Department of Nutrition Sciences and the Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Med Decis Making 30:68-75. 2010
..To evaluate patient opinions on acceptable risks in exchange for a given degree of weight loss and their implications for sample size determination in obesity randomized clinical trials (RCTs)...
- Missing data in randomized clinical trials for weight loss: scope of the problem, state of the field, and performance of statistical methods
Mai A Elobeid
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e6624. 2009
..Herein, we meta-analytically evaluate the extent of missing data, the frequency with which various analytic methods are employed to accommodate dropouts, and the performance of multiple statistical methods...
- Oleuropein induces anti-metastatic effects in breast cancer
Zeinab K Hassan
Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, University Centre for Women Students, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 13:4555-9. 2012
..Treatment of breast cancer cells with oleuropein could help in prevention of cancer metastasis by increasing the TIMPs and suppressing the MMPs gene expressions...
- Waist circumference values are increasing beyond those expected from BMI increases
Mai A Elobeid
Section of Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, Ryals Public Health Building, Suite 414, University of Alabama, 1665 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2380-3. 2007
..S. population-based data from 1959 to 2004 and to investigate the trend in WC over calendar time...
- Putative environmental-endocrine disruptors and obesity: a review
Mai A Elobeid
Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes 15:403-8. 2008
..Synthetic chemicals derived from industrial processes are suspected to play a contributory role. Yet of the approximately 70,000 documented synthetic chemicals, few have been examined to determine their effects on the endocrine system...
- Bisphenol A induces hepatotoxicity through oxidative stress in rat model
Zeinab K Hassan
Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Oxid Med Cell Longev 2012:194829. 2012
..Data from this study demonstrate that BPA generate ROS and reduce the antioxidant gene expression that causes hepatotoxicity...
