Sabah Almuhtaseb

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Al-Balqa Applied University

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder of unknown etiology. Studies indicate that RA is related to the oxidative damage caused by reactive oxygen species, but results have been inconsistent. The aim of this study is to measure the oxidant levels (xanthine oxidase and malondialdehyde) and antioxidant levels (enzymatic superoxide...

Objective: Increasing use of medicinal plants in the treatment of infectious diseases are due to the development of multi-antibiotics resistant microorganisms, and had alerted our interest in the examination of some natural products. This study was carried out to investigate the antimicrobial activity of Jordanian propolis, black seed oil (Nigella...

Objective: This study aim to investigate the levels of oxidative stress, antioxidants besides uric acid, C-reactive protein (CRP), lipid profile and cardiac biomarker enzymes in young men admitted to the hospital for the first time with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), to investigate any Relationship between them. Methods: 135 young men age ˂ 40...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the change in the total protein content between the serum and saliva of female patients with breast cancer and in healthy females. The study was conducted between October 2012 and November 2013. There were 80 females in the present study with 40 breast cancer patients and 40 healthy control subjects,...

Objectives: The aims of the study are to monitor the structural changes in the rat pancreatic tissue aftersurgical sympathectomy and assess its effect on the pancreatic endocrine function. Materials and Methods: Twelve animals were used in this study. All animals had surgical sympathectomy. The morphological changes of the islets of Langerhans and...

The enantiomerization mechanism of the trigonal-prismatic [Zn(py)(3)(tach)](2+) complex and several derivatives has been studied by applying DFT calculations (B3LYP/LANL2DZp). The enantiomerization pathways of [Zn(py(3)tach-X)](2+) (X = C, Si, Ge, N, P, As, O, S and Se) start from a distorted trigonal-prismatic C(3) symmetric ground state via an id...

This work is to investigate the levels of human xanthine oxidoreductase (HXOR), its antibodies, and microorganisms in synovial fluid of patients with untreated rheumatoid joint diseases. Synovial fluids were collected from sixty-four patients with rheumatoid joint diseases. Sixty-four age-matched individuals were included as control. Xanthine oxido...

High density lipoproteins (HDLs) have a role in atherosclerosis, but their exact function is not well established yet. Alterations in their chemical composition may reduce their antiatherogenic properties. Data about the proportions of lipid components and their fatty acid constituents of HDL subclasses are scarce in the literature and are not cons...

Benzyl tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids have interesting biological activity. This work aims at investigating Grignard conditions for the preparation of models of 1-(substitutedbenzyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline and to investigate their biological activity. The head 3,4-dihydroisoquinoline (3a) was coupled to selected substituted benzyl chlorid...

In the setting of neoplastic conditions, many biochemical substances deviate from their normal values; these may include proteins of body fluid. To verify this claim a prospective study was carried out to investigate the values of plasma proteins in salivary fluids in patients with primary brain tumors. This study had been conducted between Septemb...

Many agents which damage DNA stimulate nuclear protein ADP-ribosylation by stimulation of nuclear ADP-ribose transferase. There is good evidence that the ADP-ribosylation system is closely involved with DNA repair, since ADP-ribose inhibitors markedly retard the D N A repair process (Durkacz et al., 1981). One of the first indications that ADP-ribo...