Recent Publications
Rizk S, Maalouf K, Baydoun E, 2009. The anti proliferative effect of kefir cell free fraction on HUT-102 malignant T-lymphocytes. Clinical Lymphoma & Myeloma. In press.
Abdel-Massih R, Fares R, Bazzi S, El-Chami N, Baydoun E, 2009. The apoptotic and anti-proliferative activity of Origanum majorana extracts on human leukemic cell line. In press.
Harakeh S, Saleh I, Zouhairi O, Baydoun E, Barbour E, Alwan N, 2009. Antimicrobial resistance of Listeria momocytogenes isolated from dairy-based food products. Science of the Total Environment 407: 4022-4027.
Musallam K, Baydoun E, Uthman I, 2009. Severe photosensitive skin reaction secondary to an herbal treatment in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis & Rheumatism 60: 2854.
Kassaify Z, Banat G, Baydoun E, Barbour E (2008). Quantitative assessment of fimbriae-specific serum and egg yolk antibodies induced in chicken layers by a newly developed live Salmonella Enteritidis vaccine and its relationship to infection. The International Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine 6: 111-120.
Baydoun E, Abdel-Massih RM, Waldron KW, Brett CT, 2007. Effects of partial enzymic degradation of sugar beet pectin on oxidative coupling of pectin-linked ferulates in vitro. Phytochemistry. In press.
Harakeh S, Diab-Assaf M, Khalife J, Abu-El-Ardat K, Baydoun E, Niedzwiecki A, El-Sabban M, Rath M, 2007. Ascorbic acid induces apoptosis in adult T-cell leukaemia. Anticancer Research 27: 289-298.
Abdel-Massih RM, Seif El-Din R, Rizkallah HD, Baydoun E, Brett CT, 2007. Nascent pectin formed in Golgi apparatus of pea epicotyls by addition of uronic acids has different properties from nascent pectin at the stage of galactan elongation. Journal of Plant Physiology 164: 1-10.
Cumming CM, Rizkallah HD, McKendrick KA, Abdel-Massih RM, Baydoun E, Brett CT, 2005. Biosynthesis and cell-wall deposition of a pectin- xyloglucan complex in pea. Planta 222: 546-555.
Brett CT, Rizkallah HD, Abdel-Massih RM, Cumming CE, Baydoun E, 2005. Biosynthesis of the cell-wall matrix: A pectin-xyloglucancomplex formed in the Golgi apparatus in pea. Biochemical Society Transactions. online: http://www.biochemistry.org/meetings/abstracts/SA032/SA032P018.pdf
Brett CT, Baydoun E, Abdel-Masih R, 2005. Xyloglucan-pectin linkages in type I primary cell walls of plants. Plant Biosystems 139: 54-59.
Ayoub G, Saikaly P, El-Fadel M, Baydoun E, 2004. The impact of step-feed on COD and BOD5 removal in rotating biological contactors. Environmental Engineering Science 21: 558-568.
Baydoun E, Pavlencheva N, Cumming C, Waldron K, Brett C, 2004. Control of diferulate cross-linking in pectins from sugar-beet tissues. Phytochemistry 65: 1107-1115.
Haladjian N, Fayad R, Toufeili I, Shadarevian S, Sidahmed M, Baydoun E, Karwe M, 2003. pH, temperature and hydration kinetics of faba beans ( Vicia faba L. ). Journal of Food Processing and Preservation 27: 9-20.
Abdel-Masih R, Baydoun E, Brett CT, 2003. In vitro biosynthesis of 1,4- -galactan attached to a pectin-xyloglucan complex in pea. Planta 216: 502-511.
DaSilva E, Baydoun E, Badran A. Biotechnology and the Developing World. EJB Electronic Journal of Biotechnolgy [online]. 15 April 2002, vol.5, no.1. Available from: http://ejb.ucv.cl/content/vol5/issue1/full/1/index.html ISSN 07173458.
Baydoun E, Abdel-Massih R, Dani D, Rizk S, Brett CT, 2001. Galactosyl- and fucosyltransferases in etiolated pea epicotyls: Product identification and sub-cellular localisation. . Journal of Plant Physiology 158: 145-150.