Sodium pentaborate pentahydrate and pluronic containing hydrogel increases cutaneous wound healing in vitro and in vivo.

After a disruption of skin integrity, the body produces an immediate response followed by a functional and comparable regeneration period, referred to as wound healing. Although normal wounds do not need much attention during the healing period, chronic (non-healing) wounds are the major challenge of current dermatological applications. Therefore, developing new, safe, and effective wound healing drugs has always been an attractive area of international research.

Confirming the brain death diagnosis using brain CT angiography: experience in Tokat State Hospital.

Objective: Fourteen brain death cases diagnosed in Mart 2012-May 2013 period in Tokat State Hospital were studied retrospectively. CT angiography experience about those cases was shared, and use of CT angiography in confirmation of brain death was discussed.

Material And Methods: All 14 cases were patients on mechanical ventilator, who did not respond to medical and surgical treatments at intensive care unit and were diagnosed clinically with brain death.

Comparison of temporal muscle fascia and cartilage grafts in pediatric tympanoplasties.

Objective: To compare anatomic and functional outcomes of the different graft materials used in pediatric tympanoplasty.

Materials And Methods: The patients younger than 18 years of age and who had tympanoplasty between 2010 and 2012 were included in the study. Temporal muscle fascia or cartilage was used as the graft material.

In vitro differentiation of human tooth germ stem cells into endothelial- and epithelial-like cells.

Current clinical techniques in dental practice include stem cell and tissue engineering applications. Dental stem cells are promising primary cell source for mainly tooth tissue engineering. Interaction of mesenchymal stem cell with epithelial and endothelial cells is strictly required for an intact tooth morphogenesis.

Improvements of tolerance to stress conditions by genetic engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during ethanol production.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, industrial yeast isolate, has been of great interest in recent years for fuel ethanol production. The ethanol yield and productivity depend on many inhibitory factors during the fermentation process such as temperature, ethanol, compounds released as the result of pretreatment procedures, and osmotic stress. An ideal strain should be able to grow under different stress conditions occurred at different fermentation steps.

A Fourier-based approach to the angiographic assessment of flow diverter efficacy in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms.

Flow diversion is an emerging endovascular treatment option for cerebral aneurysms. Quantitative assessment of hemodynamic changes induced by flow diversion can aid clinical decision making in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms. In this article, besides summarizing past key research efforts, we propose a novel metric for the angiographic assessment of flow diverter deployments in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms.

Comparison of hematologic toxicity between 3DCRT and IMRT planning in cervical cancer patients after concurrent chemoradiotherapy: a national multi-center study.

Purpose: To compare the incidence and severity of acute and chronic hematologic toxicity (HT) in patients treated with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for curative treatment of cervical cancer and to ascertain the dosimetric parameters of two techniques associated with acute and chronic HT.

Materials And Methods: A total of 127 patients with cervical cancer receiving concomitant pelvic radiotherapy (RT) and cisplatin were evaluated. Pelvic bone marrow (BM) was contoured for each patient and divided into five sub-regions: lumbosacrum (LS), ilium (IL), lower pelvis (LP), pelvis (P), and whole pelvis (WP).

The effects of nasal base stabilization techniques on nasal tip rigidity.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the degree of nasal tip rigidity from different techniques for increasing nasal tip projection.

Methods: Retrospective records of patients who had undergone rhinoplasty were reviewed at the tertiary referral center. 81 patients who had undergone suturing of the medial crura to the extension graft or to the long septum were selected.

Does glubran 2 improve the graft uptake in tympanoplasty? A retrospective study.

Tympanoplasty is a common procedure in otolaryngology practice and several factors have been described to increase graft uptake. Independent of the technique and graft material, the revascularization process of the graft is related to patient factors as well as contact of the tympanic membrane remnant's edges with the graft material. A number of different tissue glue materials and other packing methods have been used for graft stabilization.

WITHDRAWN: Editorial of special issue Computing and Visualisation for Intravascular Imaging.

The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published, http://dx.doi.org/10.

Nasalance scores in pediatric patients after adenoidectomy.

Objective: Adenoidectomy is one of the most frequently performed operations in childhood. Nasal obstruction and chronic infection are the basic indications for surgery. Nasometer measures both oral and nasal air pressure during loud speech, and calculates their ratio.

The use of glass ionomer cement in the reconstructıon of the dorsal L-strut: an experımental study on rabbıts.

Objectives/hypothesis: This experimental study in a rabbit model aimed to investigate the use of glass ionomer cement as a tissue adhesive on the dorsal L-strut.

Study Design: Sixteen adult male New Zealand White rabbits were used. The rabbits were equally divided into two groups as the control and the study groups.

Boron increases the cell viability of mesenchymal stem cells after long-term cryopreservation.

The field of stem-cell biology has emerged as a key technology for the treatment of various disorders and tissue regeneration applications. However, a major problem remains in clinical practice, which is the question of whether stem cells preserve their self-renewal and differentiation potential in the culture conditions or not. In the current study, effects of boron on the cryopreservation of human tooth germ stem cells (hTGSCs) were evaluated for the first time.

The Outcome of Patients with Triple Negative Breast Cancer: The Turkish Oncology Group Experience.

Objective: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is generally considered as a poorer prognostic subgroup, with propensity for earlier relapse and visceral involvement. The aim of this study is to evaluate the outcome of non-metastatic TNBC patients from different centers in Turkey and identify clinical and pathologic variables that may effect survival.

Materials And Methods: Between 1993-2007, from five different centers in Turkey, 316 nonmetastatic triple negative breast cancer patients were identified with follow-up of at least 12 months.

Mitochondrial DNA diversity of modern, ancient and wild sheep(Ovis gmelinii anatolica) from Turkey: new insights on the evolutionary history of sheep.

In the present study, to contribute to the understanding of the evolutionary history of sheep, the mitochondrial (mt) DNA polymorphisms occurring in modern Turkish native domestic (n = 628), modern wild (Ovis gmelinii anatolica) (n = 30) and ancient domestic sheep from Oylum Höyük in Kilis (n = 33) were examined comparatively with the accumulated data in the literature. The lengths (75 bp/76 bp) of the second and subsequent repeat units of the mtDNA control region (CR) sequences differentiated the five haplogroups (HPGs) observed in the domestic sheep into two genetic clusters as was already implied by other mtDNA markers: the first cluster being composed of HPGs A, B, D and the second cluster harboring HPGs C, E. To manifest genetic relatedness between wild Ovis gmelinii and domestic sheep haplogroups, their partial cytochrome B sequences were examined together on a median-joining network.

Facial anatomy.

Dermatologic problems of the face affect both function and aesthetics, which are based on complex anatomical features. Treating dermatologic problems while preserving the aesthetics and functions of the face requires knowledge of normal anatomy. When performing successfully invasive procedures of the face, it is essential to understand its underlying topographic anatomy.

Synthesis of some heterofunctionalized penicillanic acid derivatives and investigation of their biological activities.

6-Substituted amino-penicillanic acid esters were synthesized starting with 6-apa. The compounds containing a 1,3-thiazole- or 1,3-thiazolidinone nucleus linked to the penicillanic acid skeleton via a hydrazino linkage were obtained from 6-apa. The treatment of carbonylamino and carbonothioylamino compounds with 4-chlorophenacyl bromide or ethyl bromoacetate gave 6-bis{4-[1,3-thiazol(idinone)amino]benzoyl}amino derivatives of 6-apa.

Antimicrobial properties of zeolite-X and zeolite-A ion-exchanged with silver, copper, and zinc against a broad range of microorganisms.

Zeolites are nanoporous alumina silicates composed of silicon, aluminum, and oxygen in a framework with cations, water within pores. Their cation contents can be exchanged with monovalent or divalent ions. In the present study, the antimicrobial (antibacterial, anticandidal, and antifungal) properties of zeolite type X and A, with different Al/Si ratio, ion exchanged with Ag(+), Zn(2+), and Cu(2+) ions were investigated individually.

Pseudoaneurysm originating from left ventricle aneurysm: an autopsy case and review of literature.

Rupture of the free wall of the left ventricle is a catastrophic complication of acute myocardial infarction. Rarely, free wall rupture is contained by overlying adherent pericardium, producing a pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle. In this report, a case of a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm due to a previous myocardial infarction is described.

Template-based CTA to x-ray angio rigid registration of coronary arteries in frequency domain with automatic x-ray segmentation.

Purpose: A key challenge for image guided coronary interventions is accurate and absolutely robust image registration bringing together preinterventional information extracted from a three-dimensional (3D) patient scan and live interventional image information. In this paper, the authors present a novel scheme for 3D to two-dimensional (2D) rigid registration of coronary arteries extracted from preoperative image scan (3D) and a single segmented intraoperative x-ray angio frame in frequency and spatial domains for real-time angiography interventions by C-arm fluoroscopy.

Methods: Most existing rigid registration approaches require a close initialization due to the abundance of local minima and high complexity of search algorithms.

Determination of antimicrobial properties of picaridin and DEET against a broad range of microorganisms.

Insect repellents are topically applied to the skin and clothing of human and pet to keep flies, mosquitoes, and ticks away. Two important repellents, N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET) and Picaridin, have been widely used since their discovery. Although repellency and toxicological effects of DEET and Picaridin on human being and insects are well documented without understanding molecular mechanisms, there have been no attempts to study their effects on microorganisms up to now.