The role of serum adropin in determining the clinical outcomes of patients with traumatic brain injury: a case-control study.

Objective: It has been determined that adropin has a role in tissue healing. This study aimed to determine the effects of head trauma on the tissues and blood levels of patients admitted to the emergency department.

Methods: The study group was divided into two to compare the adropin level in healthy individuals and patients with head trauma.

Systemic inflammatory markers for distinguishing uncomplicated and complicated acute appendicitis in adult patients.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the predictive power of serum systemic inflammatory markers including neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), monocyte-eosinophil ratio (MER), and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels for distinguishing uncomplicated and complicated acute appendicitis in adult patients admitted to the emergency department (ED).

Methods: This retrospective, cross-sectional, observational, and single-center study enrolled 212 consecutive adult patients with acute appendicitis who were admitted to the ED of our tertiary care university hospital between January 1, 2019 and December 31 2021. Patients were divided into two groups (Group I, uncomplicated acute appendicitis; Group II, complicated appendicitis) according to their surgical findings and histopathological examination.

Relationship between measures of thoracic diameter and cardiopulmonary resuscitation-induced thoracoabdominal injury.

Objective: We investigated the relationship between thoracic diameters and chest compression-related thoracoabdominal injury in patients with non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who had a return of spontaneous circulation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Methods: A total of 63 consecutive adult non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients were enrolled in this prospective study. Computed tomography was performed on each patient and the anteroposterior diameter, skin-to-skin anteroposterior diameter, and transverse diameter of the chest were measured.

Sexual dependency of rat sciatic nerve fiber conduction velocity distributions.

Gender differences, either with the structural or through with hormones, dictate how the corresponding organ or organ system responses to physiological signals. Current study aims to investigate gender dependent differences in conduction related parameters of rat sciatic nerve. Compound action potentials (CAP) were recorded via suction electrode whereas the conduction velocity distributions (CVD) were performed using the method known as collision technique in the literature.

Gender-dependent effects of selenite on the perfused rat heart: a toxicological study.

Gender differences are related to the manner in which the heart responds to chronic and acute stress conditions of physiological and pathological nature. Depending on dose, sodium selenite acts as an antioxidant proven to have beneficial effects in several pathological conditions G. Drasch, J.

Deep peroneal motor nerve conduction velocity distribution and correlation between nerve conduction groups and the number of innervated muscle fibers.

In this study, the distribution of peroneal-nerve conduction velocity was studied in 17 normal subjects, using the collision method. Paired supramaximal stimuli with predetermined interstimulus intervals (ISI) were applied at distal and proximal points of peroneal nerve and the resultant compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) were recorded. The change in CMAP amplitudes and areas with ISI were deduced, and the relative number of fibers corresponding to each conduction velocity group (CVG) were computed.

The effect of bupivacaine on compound action potential parameters of sciatic nerve fibers.

The aim of this study was to document the effects of the local anesthetic agent bupivacaine on individual fibers of peripheral nerve. To accomplish this objective, compound action potentials (CAPs) were recorded from isolated frog sciatic nerves treated with bupivacaine for seven individual concentration levels. Numerical and fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis were performed on these recordings.