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HANAN AWAD H ALKOZI

Associate Professor
College of Applied Medical Sciences
Doctor of Optometry Department

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        Published research

        • Novel protocol for metabolomics data normalization and biomarker discovery in human tears (2025-03-19)
        • Machine Learning Approach to Select Small Compounds in Plasma as Predictors of Alzheimer's Disease (2025-07-21)
        • Effect of sleep quality on vision-related quality of life in a sample of Qassim University students: an ocular surface health approach (2025-08-04)
        • Ocular transmission and manifestation of coronavirus disease: a systematic review (2021-05-27)
        • Ocular Surface Health in Relation to Anxiety and Depression: A Review (2024-01-01)
        • Association Between Dry Eye Disease with Anxiety and Depression Among Medical Sciences Students in Qassim Region: Cortisol Levels in Tears as a Stress Biomarker (2024-01-01)
        • Melatonin counteracts oxidative damage in the lens by regulating Nrf2 and NLRP3 inflammasome activity. (2021-12-30)
        • Modulation of aqueous humor melatonin levels by yellow filter and its protective effect on the lens (2021-06-27)
        • Investigation of visual behavior assays in zebrafish and evaluation for drug screening (2020-06-01)
        • Melatonin and the control of intraocular pressure (2020-03-01)
        • Expression of Melatonin and Dopamine D3 Receptor Heteromers in Ciliary Body Epithelial Cells of the Eye and Their Negative Correlation with Ocular Hypertension (2020-01-01)
        • Yellow Filter Effect on Melatonin Secretion in the Eye: Role in IOP Regulation (2019-06-03)
        • Melatonin receptors are present in the porcine ocular surface and are involved in ex vivo corneal wound healing (2018-07-01)
        • Epigenetics in the Eye: An Overview of the Most Relevant Ocular Diseases (2017-10-12)
        • Elevated intraocular pressure increases melatonin levels in the aqueous humor. (2016-09-01)
        • Melatonin and its synthesizing enzyme increase under ocular hypertension and glaucomatous conditions. (2015-06-01)
        • Recent developments in dry eye disease treatment compounds (2014-01-01)
        • Melatonin and the control of intraocular pressure (2020-01-01)
        • Presence of melanopsin in human crystalline lens epithelial cells and its role in melatonin synthesis (2017-01-01)
        • Epigenetics in the Eye: An Overview of the Most Relevant Ocular Diseases (2017-01-01)
        • TRPV4 activation triggers the release of melatonin from human non-pigmented ciliary epithelial cells (2015-01-01)
        • Elevated intraocular pressure increases melatonin levels in the aqueous humor. (2017-01-01)
        • Melatonin and Melanopsin in the Eye: Friends or Foes (2019-01-01)
        • Docking studies of melatonin receptors (2018-01-01)
        • Melatonin counteracts oxidative damage in the lens by regulating Nrf2 and NLRP3 inflammasome activity. (2022-01-01)
        • Expression of Melatonin and Dopamine D3 Receptor Heteromers in Eye Ciliary Body Epithelial Cells and Negative Correlation with Ocular Hypertension (2020-01-01)
        • Melatonin Synthesis in the Human Ciliary Body Triggered by TRPV4 Activation: Involvement of AANAT Phosphorylation (2017-01-01)
        • Association between dry eye disease with anxiety and depression among medical science students in Qassim region: cortisol levels in tears as a stress biomarker (2024-01-01)
        • The Effect of a Yellow Filter on Melatonin Secretion in the Eye: Its Role in Intraocular Pressure Regulation (2019-01-01)
        • Ocular transmission and manifestation of coronavirus disease: a systematic review (2022-01-01)
        • Adreno-melatonin receptor complexes regulate ion homeostasis and intraocular pressure—their disruption contributes to hypertensive glaucoma (2020-01-01)
        • TRPV4 Stimulation Induces Melatonin Secretion by Increasing the Level of Arylalkymine N-acetyltransferase (AANAT) Protein (2017-01-01)
        • Modulation of aqueous humor melatonin levels by yellow filter and its protective effect on the lens (2021-01-01)
        • Ocular Surface Health in Relation to Anxiety and Depression: A Review (2024-01-01)
        • Melatonin receptors are present in the porcine ocular surface and are involved in ex vivo corneal wound healing. (2018-01-01)
        • Epigenetics in the eye: an overview of the most relevant ocular diseases. Front Genet 8: 144 (2017-01-01)
        • Novel protocol for metabolomics data normalization and biomarker discovery in human tears (2025-01-01)
        • Factors contributing to spectacle intolerance: Insights from a multicenter study in Saudi Arabia (2025-01-01)
        • Specificity and nanomolar potency of melatonin at G-protein-coupled melatonin MT1 and MT2 receptors expressed in HEK-293T human embryonic kidney cells (2019-01-01)
        • Adrenergic-melatonin heteroreceptor complexes are key in controlling ion homeostasis and intraocular eye pressure, and their disruption contributes to hypertensive glaucoma. (2019-01-01)
        • A Machine Learning Approach to Selecting Small Compounds in Plasma as Predictors of Alzheimer’s Disease (2025-01-01)
        • Cholesteryl ester levels (CE (20:4) and CE (22:5)) are elevated in the plasma of Alzheimer’s disease patients with the ε3/ε4 genotype (2025-01-01)
        • Regulatory mechanisms of melatonin synthesis in the control of intraocular pressure (2018-01-01)
        • Improving Melatonin Delivery Within the Eye (2017-01-01)
        • Melatonin and Its Derivatives as Promising Tools for Glaucoma Treatment (2013-01-01)
        • Effect of sleep quality on vision-related quality of life in a sample of Qassim University students: an ocular surface health approach (2025-01-01)
        • Metabolomics reveals LysoPC a C17:0 (LPC 17:0) as a candidate biomarker for personalized medicine in morbid obesity (2026-01-01)
        • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine: A Novel Protocol for Metabolomics Data Normalization and Biomarker Discovery in Human Tears (2025-01-01)
        • Light Exposure in Young University Students: Effects on Ocular Surface Health (2024-01-01)
        • Investigation of visual behavior assays in zebrafish and evaluation for drug screening (2020-01-01)
        • Adrenergic-melatonin receptor complexes control ion homeostasis and intraocular pressure, and their disruption contributes to hypertensive glaucoma. (2020-01-01)
        • PhDAY 2020-FOO (Faculty of Optics and Optometry) (2020-01-01)
        • Modulation of aqueous humor melatonin levels in cataracts by yellow filter. (2020-01-01)
        • Melatonin Levels in the Aqueous Humor in Patients with and without Glaucoma after Cataract Surgery: Role of Melanopsin in Eye Physiology (2019-01-01)
        • Melatonin and Melanopsin in the Eye: Friends or Foes? (2019-01-01)
        • Regulatory Mechanisms of Melatonin Synthesis in the Control of Intraocular Pressure: Mechanisms Regulating Melatonin Synthesis for the Control of Intraocular Pressure … (2017-01-01)
        • Melatonin and the enzyme responsible for its synthesis increase in cases of ocular hypertension and glaucoma. (2015-01-01)
        • 22 Melatonin Analogs (2014-01-01)
        • Hypotensive Effects of Melatonin and Its Analogs in Different Animal Models (2014-01-01)
        • Melatonin Analogues in Glaucoma (2014-01-01)
        • WJO (2013-01-01)
        • Metabolomics reveals LysoPC a C17:0 (LPC 17:0) as candidate biomarker for personalized medicine in morbid obesity (2026-03-30)

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