A selection of lustres including 9 century AD polychrome and 10 century AD monochrome Abbasid lustres from Iraq, and 10 to 12 centuries AD Fatimid lustres from Egypt and Syria is studied in the present paper. The selection is based on previous studies that demonstrated that all of them contain metal silver nanoparticles and copper, which, when present, appears either as Cuþ or Cu2þ dissolved in...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy and adverse effects of deferiprone in patients with Thalassemia Major. METHODS A prospective case series study was conducted at the Fatimid Foundation Blood Bank and Haematological Diseases center Lahore. A total of 87 patients entered into the study between September 2005 and November 2006. Deferiprone was given at subsidized rates at a dose of 75/mg/day f...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of rare inherited coagulopathies at three centers of haematology in Karachi and to study the clinical spectrum and laboratory data of these coagulopathies. METHODS This was a descriptive study conducted from September 2003 to December 2004 on subjects from Aga Khan University Hospital, Husaini Blood Bank and Fatimid Blood Transfusion Centre. All the subjec...

Abu Ja'far Ahmad b. Abi Khalid Ibn al-Jazzar, born in Qayrawan, the medieval capital of Tunisia, hailed from a family of physicians. ' His father IbrThim was a doctor, as was his paternal uncle Abu Bakr. He studied with the famous Jewish philosopher and physician Ishaq b. Sulayman al-Isra'ili (c. 243/855-343/955),2 who had been a student of Ishaq ibn 'Imran (d. 296/908),3 and who at the age of ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the problems faced by thalassemic patients in their personal, psychological and social life. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional multi-centre survey. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Karachi, Lahore and Quetta Centres of Fatimid Foundation, from October 2009 to October 2010. METHODOLOGY An indigenously developed Qualifty of Life (QoL) questionnaire modified from SF-36 questio...

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Ubiquitin (Ub)-binding domains (UBDs) located in Ub receptors decode the ubiquitination signal by non-covalently engaging the Ub modification on their binding partners and transduce the Ub signalling through Ub-based molecular interactions. In this way, inducible protein ubiquitination regulates diverse biological processes. The estrogen receptor alpha (ERa) is a ligand-activated transcription ...