2021

Kavalakatt S, Khadir A, Madhu D, Devarajan S, Warsame S, AlKandari H, AlMahdi M, Koistinen HA, Al-Mulla F, Tuomilehto J, Abubaker J, Tiss A. Circulating levels of urocortin neuropeptides are impaired in children with overweight. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 Feb;30(2):472-481. doi: 10.1002/oby.23356. PMID: 35088550.

Sarah Qabazard, Dalia Al-Abdulrazzaq, Hessa Al-Kandari, Mariam Ayed, Zaid Alharbash, Muna Al-Khabbaz, Khaled Kalander, Saadoun Bin-Hassan, Abdulla Alfraij, Mohammad Alghounaim, Khaled Alsaeid, Hashem Al-Hashemi. The Pediatric COVID-19 Registry in Kuwait (PCR-Q8): Establishment and Results of Pilot Phase. Medical Principles and Practice

Alhuwail D, Al-Jafar E, Abdulsalam Y, AlDuaij S. Information Security Awareness and Behaviors of Health Care Professionals at Public Health Care Facilities. Appl Clin Inform. 2021 Aug;12(4):924-932. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1735527. Epub 2021 Sep 29. PMID: 34587638; PMCID: PMC8481013.

Sancho-Shimizu V, Brodin P, Cobat A, Biggs CM, Toubiana J, Lucas CL, Henrickson SE, Belot A; MIS-C@CHGE, Tangye SG, Milner JD, Levin M, Abel L, Bogunovic D, Casanova JL, Zhang SY. Al Mulla F..et al. SARS-CoV-2-related MIS-C: A key to the viral and genetic causes of Kawasaki disease? J Exp Med. 2021 Jun 7;218(6):e20210446. doi: 10.1084/jem.20210446. PMID: 33904890; PMCID: PMC8080850.

Khan, Abbas and Gui, Jianjun and Ahmad, Waqar and Haq, Inamul and Shahid, Marukh and Khan, Awais Ahmed and Shah, Abdullah and Khan, Arsala and Ali, Liaqat and Anwar, Zeeshan and Safdar, Muhammad and Abubaker, Jehad and Uddin, N. Nizam and Cao, Liqiang and Wei, Dong-Qing and Mohammad, Anwar. The SARS-CoV-2 B.1.618 variant slightly alters the spike RBD–ACE2 binding affinity and is an antibody escaping variant: a computational structural perspective. RSC Adv., 2021,11, 30132-30147

Abd-Alrazaq AA, Alajlani M, Alhuwail D, Erbad A, Giannicchi A, Shah Z, Hamdi M, Househ M. Blockchain technologies to mitigate COVID-19 challenges: A scoping review. Comput Methods Programs Biomed Update. 2021;1:100001. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpbup.2020.100001. Epub 2020 Dec 14. PMID: 34337586; PMCID: PMC7734436.

Shaltout I, Alkandari H, Fouad Y, Hamed AE. Arabic Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism (AASD) endorsing the MAFLD definition of fatty liver disease. J Hepatol. 2022 Mar;76(3):739-740. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.11.027. Epub 2021 Dec 4. PMID: 34875311.

Peltonen LM, Nibber R, Block L, Ronquillo C, Lozada Perezmitre E, Lewis A, Alhuwail D, Ali S, Georgsson M, Jeon E, Tayaben JL, Lee YL, Kuo CH, Shu SH, Hsu H, Sommer J, Sarmiento RFR, Jung H, Eler GJ, Badger MK, Zhao R, Zhou T, Deforest H, Atique S, Topaz M, Pruinelli L. Nursing Informatics Research Trends: Findings from an International Survey. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 Dec 15;284:344-349. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210741. PMID: 34920543

Ajoolabady A, Liu S, Klionsky DJ, Lip GYH, Tuomilehto J, Kavalakatt S, Pereira DM, Samali A, Ren J. ER stress in obesity pathogenesis and management. Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2022 Feb;43(2):97-109. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2021.11.011. Epub 2021 Dec 8. PMID: 34893351; PMCID: PMC8796296.

Graham SE, Clarke SL, Wu KH, .... Hebbar P, Al-Mulla F, Alphonse Thanaraj T.et al. The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids. Nature. 2021 Dec 9. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04064-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34887591.

Shehab M, Alrashed F, Alfadhli A, Alotaibi K, Alsahli A, Mohammad H, Cherian P, Al-Khairi I, Alphonse Thanaraj T, Channanath A, Ali H, Abu-Farha M, Abubaker J, Al-Mulla F. Serological Response to BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccines in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease on Biologic Therapies. Vaccines. 2021; 9(12):1471. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9121471

Senum SR, Li YSM, Benson KA, Joli G, Olinger E, Lavu S, Madsen CD, Gregory AV, Neatu R, Kline TL, Audrézet MP, Outeda P, Nau CB, Meijer E, Ali H, Steinman TI, Mrug M, Phelan PJ, Watnick TJ, Peters DJM, Ong ACM, Conlon PJ, Perrone RD, Cornec-Le Gall E, Hogan MC, Torres VE, Sayer JA; Genomics England Research Consortium, the HALT PKD, CRISP, DIPAK, ADPKD Modifier, and TAME PKD studies, Harris PC. Monoallelic IFT140 pathogenic variants are an important cause of the autosomal dominant polycystic kidney-spectrum phenotype. Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Jan 6;109(1):136-156. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.11.016. Epub 2021 Dec 9. PMID: 34890546; PMCID: PMC8764120.

Aldibbiat A, Alqashami A, Hussain S. The use of automated insulin delivery systems in people with type 1 diabetes fasting during Ramadan- an observational study. J Diabetes Investig. 2021 Nov 26. doi: 10.1111/jdi.13720. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34826214.

Velazquez FN, Viscardi V, Montemage J, Zhang L, Trocchia C, Delamont MM, Ahmad R, Hannun YA, Obeid LM, Snider AJ. A Milk-Fat Based Diet Increases Metastasis in the MMTV-PyMT Mouse Model of Breast Cancer. Nutrients. 2021 Jul 15;13(7):2431. doi: 10.3390/nu13072431. PMID: 34371939; PMCID: PMC8308868.

Sindhu S, Ahmad R, Al-Mulla F. Increased Binding Affinity of Furin to D614G Mutant S-glycoprotein May Augment Infectivity of the Predominating SARS-CoV-2 Variant. J Cell Immunol. 2021; 3(3): 173-176.

Al-Roub A, Al Madhoun A, Akhter N, Thomas R, Miranda L, Jacob T, Al-Ozairi E, Al-Mulla F, Sindhu S, Ahmad R. IL-1β and TNFα Cooperativity in Regulating IL-6 Expression in Adipocytes Depends on CREB Binding and H3K14 Acetylation. Cells. 2021 Nov 19;10(11):3228. doi: 10.3390/cells10113228. PMID: 34831450; PMCID: PMC8619559.

Shehab M, Abu-Farha M, Alrashed F, Alfadhli A, Alotaibi K, Alsahli A, Alphonse Thanaraj T, Channanath A, Ali H, Abubaker J, Almulla F. Immunogenicity of BNT162b2 Vaccine in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease on Infliximab Combination Therapy: A Multicenter Prospective Study. J Clin Med. 2021 Nov 18;10(22):5362. doi: 10.3390/jcm10225362. PMID: 34830644; PMCID: PMC8623980.

Haider M, Al-Rashed F, Albaqsumi Z, Alobaid K, Alqabandi R, Al-Mulla F, Ahmad R. Candida albicans Induces Foaming and Inflammation in Macrophages through FABP4: Its Implication for Atherosclerosis. Biomedicines. 2021 Oct 29;9(11):1567. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines9111567. PMID: 34829801; PMCID: PMC8615257.

Ali H, Alahmad B, Al-Shammari AA, Alterki A, Hammad M, Cherian P, Alkhairi I, Sindhu S, Thanaraj TA, Mohammad A, Alghanim G, Deverajan S, Ahmad R, El-Shazly S, Dashti AA, Shehab M, Al-Sabah S, Alkandari A, Abubaker J, Abu-Farha M and Al-Mulla F.Previous COVID-19 Infection and Antibody Levels After Vaccination. Front Public Health. 2021 Dec 1;9:778243. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.778243. PMID: 34926392; PMCID: PMC8671167.

Ali H, Alterki A, Sindhu S, Alahmad B, Hammad M, Al-Sabah S, Alghounaim M, Jamal MH, Aldei A, Mairza MJ, Husain M, Deverajan S, Ahmad R, Cherian P, Alkhairi I, Alkandari A, Abubaker J, Abu-Farha M and Al-Mulla F. Robust Antibody Levels in Both Diabetic and NonDiabetic Individuals After BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination. Front. Immunol. 2021.12:752233. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.752233