nour salameh erekat
• Department of Anatomy - Faculty Member

  • Ph.D. of Anatomy/ Neuroscience from Saint Louis University, 2010
  • Bsc. of Dental Medicine and Surgery from Jordan University of Science and Technology, 2001

    Publications
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Apoptosis and its therapeutic implications in neurodegenerative diseases," Clinical Anatomy, vol. 35, no. , pp. 65-78, 2022, John Wiley \& Sons, Inc. Hoboken, USA
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Programmed cell death in cerebellar Purkinje neurons.," Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, vol. 21, no. , pp. 0-0, 2022
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Apoptosis and its Role in Parkinson?s Disease," Exon Publications, vol. , no. , pp. 65-82, 2018
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Cerebellar Purkinje cells die by apoptosis in the shaker mutant rat," Brain research, vol. 1657, no. , pp. 323-332, 2017, Elsevier
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Autophagy precedes apoptosis among at risk cerebellar Purkinje cells in the shaker mutant rat: an ultrastructural study," Ultrastructural pathology, vol. 42, no. , pp. 162-169, 2018, Taylor \& Francis
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Active caspase-3 upregulation is augmented in at-risk cerebellar Purkinje cells following inferior olive chemoablation in the shaker mutant rat: an immunofluorescence study," Neurological research, vol. 41, no. , pp. 234-241, 2019, Taylor \& Francis
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Cerebellar Upregulation of Cell Surface Death Receptor--Mediated Apoptotic Factors in Harmaline-Induced Tremor: An Immunohistochemistry Study," Journal of cell death, vol. 11, no. , pp. 0-0, 2018, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England
  • Erekat, Nour S, "Apoptotic mediators are upregulated in the skeletal muscle of chronic/progressive mouse model of Parkinson's disease," The Anatomical Record, vol. 298, no. , pp. 1472-1478, 2015, Wiley
  • Erekat, Nour and Rababa'h, Rawan and Al-Jarrah, Muhammed, "Overexpression of renal proapoptotic factors is attenuated subsequent to endurance exercise in Type I diabetes: An immunohistochemistry study," Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine, vol. 10, no. , pp. 24-28, 2019, Medknow Publications \& Media Pvt. Ltd.
  • Erekat, Nour S and Al-Jarrah, Muhammed D, "Interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha upregulation and nuclear factor kappa B activation in skeletal muscle from a mouse model of chronic/progressive Parkinson disease," Medical science monitor: international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, vol. 24, no. , pp. 0-0, 2018, International Scientific Information, Inc.
  • Erekat, Nour S and Al-Jarrah, Muhammed D, "Association of Parkinson disease induction with cardiac upregulation of apoptotic mediators P53 and active caspase-3: An immunohistochemistry study," Medical science monitor basic research, vol. 24, no. , pp. 0-0, 2018, International Scientific Information, Inc.
  • Erekat, Nour S and Al-Jarrah, Areen A and Shotar, Ali M and Al-Hourani, Zeid A, "Hepatic Upregulation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Activation of Nuclear Factor Kappa B Following Methyl Methacrylate Administration in the Rat," International Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 14, no. , pp. 889-895, 2018, ASIAN NETWORK SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION-ANSINET
  • Erekat, Nour S and Al-Jarrah, Areen A and Shotar, Ali M and Al-Hourani, Zeid A, "Hepatic Upregulation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Activation of Nuclear Factor Kappa B Following Methyl Methacrylate Administration in the Rat," International Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 14, no. , pp. 889-895, 2018, ASIAN NETWORK SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION-ANSINET
  • Al-Jarrah, Muhammed D and Erekat, Nour S, "Endurance exercise training suppresses Parkinson disease-induced overexpression of apoptotic mediators in the heart," NeuroRehabilitation, vol. , no. , pp. 1-6, 2021, IOS Press
  • Al-Jarrah, Muhammed D and Erekat, Nour S, "Parkinson disease-induced upregulation of apoptotic mediators could be attenuated in the skeletal muscle following chronic exercise training," NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 41, no. , pp. 823-830, 2017, IOS Press
  • Al-Jarrah, Muhammed D and Erekat, Nour S, "Treadmill exercise training could attenuate the upregulation of interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha in the skeletal muscle of mouse model of chronic/progressive Parkinson disease," NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 43, no. , pp. 501-507, 2018, IOS Press
  • Erekat, Nour and Al-Khatib, Ahed and Al-Jarrah, Muhammed, "Heat shock protein 90 is a potential therapeutic target for ameliorating skeletal muscle abnormalities in Parkinson's disease," Neural Regeneration Research, vol. 9, no. , pp. 0-0, 2014, Wolters Kluwer--Medknow Publications
  • Erekat, Nour S and Al-Jarrah, Muhammed D and Al Khatib, Ahed J, "Treadmill exercise training improves vascular endothelial growth factor expression in the cardiac muscle of type I diabetic rats," Cardiology research, vol. 5, no. , pp. 0-0, 2014, Elmer Press
  • Erekat, Nour and Al Khatib, Ahed and Al-Jarrah, Muhammed, "Endurance exercise training attenuates the up regulation of iNOS in the skeletal muscles of chronic/progressive mouse model of Parkinson?s disease," Journal of Neurology Research, vol. 3, no. , pp. 108-113, 2013
  • Al-Jarrah, Muhammed and Erekat, Nour and Al Khatib, Ahed, "Upregulation of vascular endothelial growth factor expression in the kidney could be reversed following treadmill exercise training in type I diabetic rats," World Journal of Nephrology and Urology, vol. 3, no. , pp. 25-29, 2014
  • Erekat, NS and Al-Jarrah, MD, "Endurance exercise training suppresses myostatin upregulation and nuclear factor-kappa B activation in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease, Veterinary World, 15 (2): 383-389," , 2022, pp. 0-0, Abstract
  • Stoker, Thomas B and Greenland, Julia C and Barker, Roger and Kouli, Antonina and Erekat, Nour S and Torsney, Kelli M and Kuan, Wei-Li and Jimenez-Ferrer, Itzia and Swanberg, Maria and Konnova, Elena A and others, Parkinson?s disease: pathogenesis and clinical aspects [internet]-(Book), Codon Publications, 2018
  • "Apoptosis and its therapeutic implications in neurodegenerative diseases", Clinical Anatomy
  • "Autophagy and Its Association with Genetic Mutations in Parkinson Disease", Medical Science Monitor
  • "Endurance exercise training suppresses Parkinson disease-induced overexpression of apoptotic mediators in the heart", NeuroRehabilitation
  • "Hepatic Upregulation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Activation of Nuclear Factor Kappa B Following Methyl Methacrylate Administration in the Rat", International Journal of Pharmacology
  • "Interleukin-1 Beta and Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Upregulation and Nuclear Factor Kappa B Activation in Skeletal Muscle from a Mouse Model of Chronic/Progressive Parkinson Disease", Medical Science Monitor
  • "Parkinson disease-induced upregulation of apoptotic mediators could be attenuated in the skeletal muscle following chronic exercise training", NeuroRehabiitaion
  • "Programmed Cell Death in Diabetic Nephropathy: A Review of Apoptosis, Autophagy, and Necroptosis", Medical Science Monitor
  • "Treadmill exercise training could attenuate the upregulation of Interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor alpha in the skeletal muscle of mouse model of chronic/progressive Parkinson disease", NeuroRehabilitation
  • Head of Department, Department of Anatomy, Sep 2022 - Sep 2023
  • Acting Head of Department, Department of Anatomy, Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
  • Faculty Member, Department of Anatomy, Oct 2010 - Present
  • Full-time Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, Sep 2010 - Oct 2010
  • Teaching and research assistant, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan, Jan 2005- Aug 2005
  • ADVANCED ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY
  • ANATOMY & EMBRYOLOGY
  • ANATOMY ( FOR NURSING )
  • ANATOMY (LAB)
  • ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY (LAB)
  • ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY FOR MIDWIVES
  • ANATOMY LAB FOR MIDWIVES (LAB)
  • CELL BIOLOGY & HISTOLOGY
  • CELL BIOLOGY (LAB)
  • EMBRYOLOGY
  • ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
  • GENERAL HISTOLOGY
  • GENERAL HISTOLOGY (LAB)
  • GROSS ANATOMY & HISTOLOGY
  • GROSS ANATOMY & HISTOLOGY (LAB)
  • HEAD AND NECK ANATOMY
  • HEAD AND NECK ANATOMY (LAB)
  • INTRODUCTION TO ANATOMY(FOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND POLICY STUDENTS)
  • NEUROANATOMY
  • NEUROSCIENCE (1)
  • NEUROSCIENCE (2)
  • NEUROSCIENCE 1 (LAB)
  • RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
    Editorial Boards
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 -2024
  • Clinical Pathology, 2019 -2024