Editorial Board
Bassem Refaat Ph.D
Laboratory Medicine Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University · Saudi Arabia
Editorial leadership for International Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases ISSN 2994-6743
Research interests
- Female Infertility
- Stds
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Embryo Implantation
Biography
- Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University 2000
- MMedSci in Endocrinology, University of Sheffield, UK 2004
- PhD in Reproductive Endocrinology, University of Sheffield, UK, 2009
- Assistant Professor of Human Physiology, Umm Al-Qura University, KSA since 2011
Selected publications
- Vitamin D alleviates lead induced renal and testicular injuries by immunomodulatory and antioxidant mechanisms in rats 2018 cited 81×
- Vitamin D3 enhances the tumouricidal effects of 5-Fluorouracil through multipathway mechanisms in azoxymethane rat model of colon cancer 2015 cited 44×
- Prevalence of 7 sexually transmitted organisms by multiplex real-time PCR in Fallopian tube specimens collected from Saudi women with and without ectopic pregnancy 2015 cited 38×
- Acute and Chronic Iron Overloading Differentially Modulates the Expression of Cellular Iron-homeostatic Molecules in Normal Rat Kidney 2018 cited 37×
- In Vivo and In Vitro Enhanced Tumoricidal Effects of Metformin, Active Vitamin D3, and 5-Fluorouracil Triple Therapy against Colon Cancer by Modulating the PI3K/Akt/PTEN/mTOR Network 2022 cited 34×
- Vitamin D3 and calcium cosupplementation alleviates cadmium hepatotoxicity in the rat: Enhanced antioxidative and anti‐inflammatory actions by remodeling cellular calcium pathways 2020 cited 33×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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