Browsing by Author "Hadjisavvas, Andreas"
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Clinical features of primary ciliary dyskinesia in Cyprus with emphasis on lobectomized patients
Yiallouros, Panayiotis K.; Kouis, Panayiotis; Middleton, Nicos; Nearchou, M.; Adamidi, Tonia; Georgiou, Adamantini; Eleftheriou, Adonis; Ioannou, Phivos; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Kyriacou, Kyriacos (2015)Background: Despite the manifestations of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) in early life, the diagnosis is often much delayed. Since 1998 in Cyprus, we have established the only national diagnostic and clinical referral ...
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Book Chapter
The Contemporary Use of Electron Microscopy in the Diagnosis of Ciliary Disorders and Sperm Centriolar Abnormalities
Yiallouros, Panayiotis K.; Nearchou, M.; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Kyriacou, Kyriacos (John Wiley and Sons, 2013)
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The effect of l-Arginine on Ciliary Beat Frequency in PCD patients, non-PCD respiratory patients and healthy controls
Kouis, Panayiotis; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Middleton, Nicos; Papatheodorou, Stefania I.; Kyriacou, Kyriacos; Yiallouros, Panayiotis K. (2018)OBJECTIVES: Few studies have examined the potentially therapeutic effect of increasing the production of endogenous nitric oxide (NO) in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) and other chronic respiratory conditions. Nasal NO ...
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Conference Object
The effects of applying cell-suppression and perturbation to aggregated genetic data
Antoniades, Athos; Keane, J.; Aristodimou, Aristos; Philipou, Christa; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Georgousopoulos, Christos; Tozzi, Federica; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Loizidou, Maria A.; Demetriou, Christiana A.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)The key test for confidence in any association discovered within the medical domain is replication testing. That is, the ability of the association to be detected in independent populations. At the same time, in order to ...
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Familial C3 Glomerulopathy Associated with CFHR5 Mutations: Clinical Characteristics of 91 Patients in 16 Pedigrees
Athanasiou, Yiannis; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Gale, D. P.; Damianou, Loukas; Patsias, Charalambos; Zavros, Michalis; Maxwell, P. H.; Cook, H. T.; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Zouvani, Ioanna; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2011)Background and objectives Complement factor H and related proteins (CFHR) are key regulators of the alternative complement pathway, where loss of function mutations lead to a glomerulopathy with isolated mesangial C3 ...
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Identification of a mutation in complement factor H-related protein 5 in patients of Cypriot origin with glomerulonephritis
Gale, D. P.; De Jorge, E. G.; Cook, H. T.; Martinez-Barricarte, R.; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; McLean, A. G.; Pusey, C. D.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Palmer, A.; De Cordoba, S. R.; Maxwell, P. H.; Pickering, M. C.; Frémeaux-Bacchi, V. (2010)Summary Background Complement is a key component of the innate immune system, and variation in genes that regulate its activation is associated with renal and other disease. We aimed to establish the genetic basis for a ...
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Intraperitoneal melatonin is not neuroprotective in the G93ASOD1 transgenic mouse model of familial ALS and may exacerbate neurodegeneration
Dardiotis, Efthymios; Panayiotou, Elena; Feldman, M. L.; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Malas, Stavros; Vonta, Filia; Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios M.; Kyriakou, Kyriakos; Kyriakides, Theodoros (2013)In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) reactive oxygen species and apoptosis are implicated in disease pathogenesis. Melatonin with its anti-oxidant and anti-apoptotic properties is expected to ameliorate disease phenotype. ...
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia: An update with molecular correlation
Kyriacou, Kyriacos; Kouis, Panayiotis; Nearchou, M.; Pirpa, P.; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Papatheodorou, S. I.; Yiallouros, Panayiotis K. (2016)
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Wide phenotypic variability in RSPH9-associated primary ciliary dyskinesia: review of a case-series from Cyprus
Yiallouros, Panayiotis K.; Kouis, Panayiotis; Pirpa, Panayiota; Michailidou, Kyriaki; Loizidou, Maria A.; Potamiti, Louiza; Kalyva, Margarita; Koutras, Giorgos; Kyriacou, Kyriacos; Hadjisavvas, Andreas (2019)Background: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited ciliary motility disorder caused by mutations in at least 40 genes. RSPH9 gene mutations encoding aberrant radial spoke head proteins have been linked with PCD. ...