Introduction: Medical renal diseases stand as one of the major health problems in pediatric age group considering its morbidity/mortality and subsequent management plans. Objectives: In this manuscript, spectrum histopathological patterns medical nephropathic lesions Egyptian patients over duration five years is reported with clinical indications. Patients Methods: We conducted a retrospective ...

HDR syndrome (also known as Barakat syndrome) is a developmental disorder characterized by hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural deafness and renal disease. Although genetic mapping and subsequent functional studies indicate that GATA3 haplo-insufficiency causes human HDR syndrome, the role of Gata3 in sensorineural deafness and auditory system development is largely unknown. In this study, we show...

The paper engages in the discussion of conducting research in war zones, initiated in Disasters by Barakat and Ellis. It looks specifically at possibilities for research in the war zones of Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia during the 1980s, and notes the ways in which this context differs from wars in the former Yugoslavia to which Barakat and Ellis mainly refer. The authors suggest that the uniqu...

BACKGROUND: The aim of the current study was to identify a possible locus of dysfunction in the visual system of depressed patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty Major Depressive patients aged 21-60 years and 15 age-matched controls took part in the study The diagnosis was obtained with the SCAN v 2.0. The psychometric assessment included the HDRS, the HAS, the Newcastle Scales, the Diagnostic ...

Depression is one of the most common and persistent nonmotor syndromes occurring in 35% of patients diagnosed with PD. However, little information is known about the longitudinal study of its natural history of depression in PD. In this study, we identified 110 patients who are diagnosed with idiopathic PD and recruited them for assessing information about their PD related motor and nonmotor sy...

Activation of Nrf2 by Ischemic Preconditioning and Sulforaphane in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: A Comparative Experimental Study By Ahmed A. Shokeir*, Nashwa Barakat*, Abdelaziz M. Hussein†, Amira Awadalla*, Ahmed Harraz*, Shery Khater*, Kamel Hemmaid $ , Ahmed I. Kamal* From *Urology and Nephrology Center, †Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, University, $ Faculty of Sc...

In a randomized, parallel design, 19 patients with winter depression were treated with either a week of a white 1.5-hr dawn simulation peaking at 250 lux or a week of a red, 1.5-hr dawn signal peaking at 2 lux. The subjects were told that they would receive either a white or red dawn reaching in intensity that would be dimmer than standard bright light treatment. At the end of both the baseline...

abu `al-barakat al-baghdadi, before explanation of his selected view about the problem of the quality of emergence of multitudinous from unit, expresses the theory of peripatetic philosophers with a historical outlook. he then critics the viewpoint of peripatetic philosophers and finally explains his view in the course of four descriptions. the following points are proposed when criticized his ...