Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Studies

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• Chronic Hepatitis C

            -- Jamall I.S., Yusuf S., Azhar, M and Jamall, S. 2008.  Is Pegylated Interferon Superior to Interferon, with Ribavarin, in Chronic Hepatitis C
                  Genotypes 2/3? World J Gastroenterol, 43:6627-6631

            -- Comment (ID BFA97F) on Management of Incidental Hepatitis C, Jamall, I.S. 2009.  New Engl J Med, 360:1902-1906

    

• Regression of liver fibrosis/cirrhosis
  
• Modulation of NF-Kb, JNK, STAT-3 in chronic inflammatory conditions
  
• Role of estrogens in male idiopathic osteoporosis
  
• Longitudinal study of Vitamin D in UV-induced skin cancers
  
• Quantitative evaluation of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants in cellular compartments
  
  -- Jamall I.S.  2005.  Catalase versus Glutathione Peroxidase, Science,May 24 (E--Letter) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/1106653v1.
  
  -- Simmons, T.W. and Jamall, I.S. 1988.  Significance of Alterations in Antioxidant Defense Enzymes: Primacy of Glutathione Peroxidase.
      Biochem. J.   251:913‑917.
  
  
• Spatial distribution of intracellular versus extracellular calcium in disease
  
  --Grupp, I.L., Jamall, I.S., Millard, R.W., and Grupp, G. 1983.  Effects of Selenium Deficiency and Selenium and Cadmium Supplementation on Myocardial Contractile Force and Ouabain Sensitivity of the Rat Heart. IRCS Med. Sci. (Pharmacol). 11:22‑23.
  
  
• Role of essential trace elements in health and disease
  
  -- Jamall, I.S, Ally K.M. and Yusuf, S. 2006.  Acrodermatitis Enteropathica: Zinc Therapy and Possible Identification of a Carrier state Through
      Multiple Hair Zinc Analyses Over Three Decades.  Biol. Trace Elem. Res.114:93-105)

          -- Jamall, I.S. and Allen, P.V. 1990.  Use of Hair as an Indicator of Environmental Lead Pollution in Women of Childbearing Age in Karachi,
             Pakistan and Bangladesh. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 44:350‑356.

         -- Iron overload in hemachromatosis and other chronic inflammatory diseases

         -- Jamall, I.S. and Jaffer, R.A. 1987.   Elevated Iron Levels in Hair of Steel Mill Workers in Karachi, Pakistan.
           Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 39:608‑614.

• Patient advocacy