Desouki Mohamed

Evaluating regional blood spinal cord barrier dysfunction following spinal cord injury using longitudinal dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (2009)

Tatar Ilkan, Chou Peter, Desouki Mohamed, El Sayed Hanaa, Bilgen Mehmet

Abstract Background In vivo preclinical imaging of spinal cord injury (SCI) in rodent models provides clinically relevant information in translational research. This paper uses multimodal magnetic...

Differential expression of metallothioneins (MTs) 1, 2, and 3 in response to zinc treatment in human prostate normal and malignant cells and tissues (2008)

Wei Hua, Desouki Mohamed, Lin Shufei, Xiao Dakai, Franklin Renty, Feng Pei

Abstract Background The disturbance of zinc homeostasis featured with a significant decrease of cellular zinc level was well documented to associate with the development and progression of human...

hZip2 and hZip3 zinc transporters are down regulated in human prostate adenocarcinomatous glands (2007)

Desouki Mohamed, Geradts Joseph, Milon Beatrice, Franklin Renty, Costello Leslie

Abstract Background The normal human prostate glandular epithelium has the unique function of accumulating high levels of zinc. In prostate cancer this capability is lost as an early event in the...

Mitochondrial aconitase and citrate metabolism in malignant and nonmalignant human prostate tissues (2006)

Singh Keshav, Desouki Mohamed, Franklin Renty, Costello Leslie

Abstract Background In prostate cancer, normal citrate-producing glandular secretory epithelial cells undergo a metabolic transformation to malignant citrate-oxidizing cells. m-Aconitase is the...

hZIP1 zinc uptake transporter down regulation and zinc depletion in prostate cancer (2005)

Franklin Renty, Feng Pei, Milon B, Desouki Mohamed, Singh Keshav, Kajdacsy-Balla André, ...

Abstract Background The genetic and molecular mechanisms responsible for and associated with the development and progression of prostate malignancy are largely unidentified. The peripheral zone is...