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Eating habits and obesity among Lebanese university students

• Najat Yahia, Alice Achkar, Abbass Abdallah, Sandra Rizk
• Nutrition journal
• 2008

BACKGROUND In the past year Lebanon has been experiencing a nutritional transition in food choices from the typical Mediterranean diet to the fast food pattern. As a consequence, the dietary habits… (More)

Dieting practices and body image perception among Lebanese university students.

• Najat Yahia, Hiba El-Ghazale, Alice Achkar, Sandra Rizk
• Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition
• 2011

Dieting is becoming a popular phenomenon among university students to achieve or maintain a healthy weight. The purpose of this study is to obtain a preliminary understanding of what dieting… (More)

Kefir induces cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis in HTLV-1-negative malignant T-lymphocytes

• Katia Maalouf, Elias A -H Baydoun, Sandra Rizk
• Cancer management and research
• 2011

BACKGROUND Adult lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a malignancy that occurs in white blood cells. The overall cure rate in children is 85%, whereas it is only 40% in adults. Kefir is an important… (More)

Kefir exhibits anti‑proliferative and pro‑apoptotic effects on colon adenocarcinoma cells with no significant effects on cell migration and invasion.

• Nathalie Khoury, Stephany El-Hayek, Omayr Tarras, Marwan M El-Sabban, Mirvat El-Sibai, Sandra Rizk
• International journal of oncology
• 2014

Kefir, a fermented milk product, exhibits anti‑tumoral activity in vivo; yet its mechanism of action remains elusive. Recent studies have focused on the mechanism of action of kefir on cancer cells… (More)

Protein- and pH-dependent binding of nascent pectin and glucuronoarabinoxylan to xyloglucan in pea

• Sandra Rizk, Roula M. Abdel-Massih, Elias A.-H. Baydoun, Christopher T. Brett
• Planta
• 2000

 Nascent pectin and glucuronoarabinoxylan, synthesised in vitro by membrane-bound enzymes from etiolated pea (Pisum sativum L.) epicotyls, were found to bind to pea xyloglucan in a pH-dependent… (More)

Thymoquinone from Nigella sativa Seeds Promotes the Antitumor Activity of Noncytotoxic Doses of Topotecan in Human Colorectal Cancer Cells in Vitro.

• Rana Khalife, Mohammad Hassan Hodroj, Rajaa M. Fakhoury, Sandra Rizk
• Planta medica
• 2016

Topotecan, a topoisomerase I inhibitor, is an anticancer drug widely used in the therapy of lung, ovarian, colorectal, and breast adenocarcinoma. Due to the primary dose-limiting toxicity of… (More)

The antiproliferative effect of kefir cell-free fraction on HuT-102 malignant T lymphocytes.

• Sandra Rizk, Katia Maalouf, Elias A-H. Baydoun
• Clinical lymphoma & myeloma
• 2009

Kefir is produced by adding kefir grains (a mass of proteins, polysaccharides, bacteria, and yeast) to pasteurized milk; it has been shown to control several cellular types of cancer, such as Sarcoma… (More)

A modified lipid composition in Fabry disease leads to an intracellular block of the detergent-resistant membrane-associated dipeptidyl peptidase IV

• Katia Maalouf, Jia Jia, +4 authors Hassan Y Naim
• Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
• 2010

Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder that leads to abnormal accumulation of glycosphingolipids due to a deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A (AGAL). The consequences of these… (More)

Antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects of topotecan in combination with thymoquinone on acute myelogenous leukemia.

• Rana Khalife, Stephany El-Hayek, Omayr Tarras, Mohammad Hassan Hodroj, Sandra Rizk
• Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia
• 2014

BACKGROUND Topotecan has shown promising antineoplastic activity in solid tumors and acute leukemia. Because of the primary dose-limiting toxicity of topotecan, it is necessary to identify other… (More)

Protocadherin of the liver, kidney, and colon associates with detergent-resistant membranes during cellular differentiation.

• Michael P Krahn, Sandra Rizk, Marwan Alfalah, Marc Behrendt, Hassan Y Naim
• The Journal of biological chemistry
• 2010

Protocadherin LKC (PLKC) is a member of the heterogeneous subgroup of protocadherins that was identified and described as a potential tumor-suppressor gene involved in contact inhibition (Okazaki,… (More)

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