Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
June 2015
Aim: This study proposes a new approach to a borderline pathology between Otorhinolaryngology (E.N.T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFatigue is a symptom commonly diagnosed in cancers and in many other chronic debilitating diseases and is one of the main therapeutic targets for various pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions. However, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), this symptom, which can be considered as the main extrapulmonary clinical feature of the disease, can impact significantly on the health-related quality of life of the patients. The aims of this review are to discuss the issues related to fatigue assessment in COPD and to highlight the importance of this symptom in this setting based on the data retrieved from articles published between 1987 through August 2014 available on MEDLINE database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCardiovascular risk of prediabetes is still subject to controversies. We analyzed the associations between insulin resistance, adipokines and incipient atherosclerosis estimated by intima-media thickness (IMT) in a cross-sectional study on 122 prediabetic subjects without clinical signs of atherosclerotic disease. Homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR, calculated as fasting insulin × fasting plasma glucose / 22.
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October 2014
Unlabelled: Vitamin D deficiency has been known as a global health problem and there were reported moderate to strong inverse associations between 25(OH) D concentrations and cardiovascular diseases, serum lipid concentrations, inflammation, glucose metabolism disorders, weight gain, infectious diseases, multiple sclerosis, mood disorders, declining cognitive function, impaired physical functioning, and all-cause mortality. In Romania there are only a few published reports on vitamin D status among adult population.
Aim: To evaluate vitamin D status in 440 patients those were admitted in our clinic for various endocrine pathology.
Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a rare disease which can develop in pleura, pericardium or peritoneum and in which the therapies available have limited efficacy and are associated with various side effects. Therefore, there is a need for more targeted and more effective therapies which are able to halt the disease progression. Among them immune therapies actively or passively directed against various structures of the MM cells seem to be particularly promising given their inhibitory potential demonstrated in both experimental and early clinical studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Many cancer cell lines have been found to overexpress the recombinase Rad51. The overexpression is associated with increased invasive potential and resistance to DNA-damaging therapeutic agents. This has been attributed to an increased capacity of cells overexpressing Rad51 to repair DNA lesions or to a genetic stabilization of the genome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRad52 protein plays a significant role in DNA lesions repair by homologous recombination in eukariotic cells. Human Rad52 function somewhat overlaps with BRCA2 and has a role in cell survival in the absence of BRCA1-BRCA2 mediated recombination. Additional Rad52 function analysis and intracellular localization studies are probably necessary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe main objective of this study was to investigate whether cardiac troponin (cTn) and N-terminal, protein B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) can be useful as indicators for amitriptyline cardiotoxicity which is a known drug having sublethal toxic cardiac effects. At the same time, this study looked at detecting potential histopathological changes specific to irreversible cardiac injuries in a rat model of amitriptyline cardiotoxicity. Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 2 groups, control (saline) group and amitriptyline group (100 mg/kg body weight intraperitoneally, equivalent for lethal dose at 50%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To evaluate the prevalence of steatosis and to assess its correlations with the classical cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, components of metabolic syndrome (MS) in a rural population.
Material And Methods: A sample of 254 subjects was enrolled in the study. Collected data included: age, gender, complete medical history, anthropometric and blood pressure (BP) measurements.
Background: Recent advances have suggested that periodontitis (PD), the paradigm of chronic infection in dental pathology, shares several pathogenic pathways with cardio- and cerebro-vascular disorders (CVD), based on inflammatory mediators including IL-1, IL-6, TNF-α.
Aim: To assess pro-inflammatory biomarkers (C-reactive protein - CRP, IL-6) in serum and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) in patients with PD and with transient ischemic attacks (TIAs).
Materials And Methods: Prospective observational study on 143 patients classified as follows: 40 healthy subjects (group A), 50 PD patients (group B) and 53 PD-TIAs patients (group C).
Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
September 2010
Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to find a correlation between the consumption frequency of the main food groups and the presence of dyslipidemia as compared to a control group without dyslipidemias.
Material And Method: For this study we have considered a number of 678 people, divided in two groups: 339 with dyslipidemias and 339 without dyslipidemias, each of the two groups comprising 137 subjects from the rural area and 201 from the urban area, through the questionnaire method.
Results: The involved people have been questioned about the consumption of milk and related products (cheese), meat and related products (beef and pork), fish and related products and fruits.
Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
June 2011
Unlabelled: The aim of our study was to investigate the influence of biogenic amines on rat blood levels of total antioxidant status (TAS). Total antioxidant species refers to all circulating species in plasma including vitamin E, vitamin C, beta-carotene, uric acid, bilirubin, albumin as well as metal-binding proteins (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the activity of the enzyme aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and IL1-beta in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) on animal model with experimentally induced diabetes mellitus and periodontal disease.
Material And Method: During our study we used 15 Wistar rats, divided into three groups: I--control, II--with experimental model of periodontal disease, III--with experimental model of periodontal disease and diabetes. The sampling of GCF was realized using Whatman no.
Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
September 2008
Aim: Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) have been found to support leukemic cell survival; however, the mechanisms responsible are far from being elucidated yet. The main aim of the current study is to identify particular cytokine/chemokine patterns of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells, and, on a longer term, to correlate them with the patient outcome and response to therapy. Therefore, the influence of BMSCs on in vitro modulation of cytokine secretion (IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, IL-10, IFN-gamma, IL-4, IL-5, and IL-2) by AML cells as well as the AML cells supportive capacity of BMSCs-derived soluble factors was investigated.
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June 2008
The interrelation between diabetes mellitus and inflammatory periodontal disease has been intensively studied for more than 50 years, a real bidirectional influence existing between patient's glycemic level disorder and periodontal territories alteration. Several studies developed in this direction emerged to the evidences that reveal a general increase of prevalence, extent and severity of gingivitis and periodontitis. Inflammation plays an important role in this interrelation, orchestrating both the periodontal disease and diabetes mellitus pathogeny and complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Aiming to detect reliable markers indicating protection from or susceptibility to tuberculosis infection, we investigated both Th1/Th2 cytokines and total IgE plasma levels in health care workers occupationally exposed to M. tuberculosis, in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and in healthy persons.
Material And Method: The study groups have included 15 health care workers in close contact with TB patients, patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis at diagnosis and after treatment (12 advanced and 10 moderate TB, of which 6 had also pleurisy) and 20 healthy volunteers.
Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
June 2007
Malnutrition is known to induce a state of immunodeficiency and a predisposition to death from infectious diseases. During fasting or starvation, it appears that oxidative stress is decreased. The goal of our study was to assess the interrelation between nutritional factors, oxidative stress and immune response.
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June 2006
We have investigated the cellular and serum CK18 in 26 non-treated primary ductal invasive breast carcinomas. The soluble CK18 (TPS) was detected by chemiluminescent assay, and the cellular CK18 and PCNA expression by immunocytochemistry. Flow-cytometry was used to estimate the amount of DNA in malignant cells.
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September 2005
Oxidative stress has an important role in genesis of diabetic complications, especially diabetic nephropathy. The aim of the study was to assess correlations between increase of oxidative stress (OS) and the development of microalbuminuria (MA) in type 1 diabetic patients. We determined the oxidative status by measuring the level of superoxide dismutase (SOD-Minanui method), catalase (CAT-Aebi method), glutathione peroxidase (GPx-Fukuzawa method) and glutathione (GSH-Ellman method) in 87 type 1 diabetic patients (44 with normal urinary protein excretion-group A and 43 with MA-group B) and 38 nondiabetic matched controls, before and 24 hours after a test effort.
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July 2005
It is known that high sanguin levels of cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol (LDLc) have an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The treatment of hypercholesterolemia with statins and/or with fibrates have had beneficial effects on coronary heart disease and on other localization of atherosclerosis. The decreased of cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol is the most important effect of this treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA group of patients with moderate hypertension (149-150/90-99 mmHg) performed physical exercise for 3 months; we determined the oxidative stress in blood samples, by calculating the level of some antioxidative markers, the enzymes SOD, CAT, GPx, MDA and comparing the results with the values obtained from a group of healthy subjects. We found an increased oxidative stress at the hypertensive patients, with initial higher values of SOD and MDA and with lower values of CAT and GPx, compared to the normal subjects. After the 3 months of physical training, the oxidative stress improved, with decreasing activity of SOD, GPx, MDA and increasing CAT, maintaining the ratio CAT/SOD and GPx/SOD superior compared to normal subjects.
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August 2004
Purpose: Determination of ioduria in order to establish the actual degree of iodine deficiency in school-age children from 4 counties in Moldavia.
Materials And Methods: Urinary iodine was determined in 927 school-children aged 7-14 years from 4 counties: Suceava, Iaşi, Neamţ and Botoşani. The determination was made by cerium-arsenate method and by a semi-quantitative method.
Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
August 2004
Fibrates are hypolipemic agents used in noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) because these drugs have no influence on glycemia control. The efficiency of fenofibrate (Lipanthyl) was studied in a group of 22 subjects, 30-70 years, obese (body mass index-BMI over 30 kg/m2) or overweight (BMI = 28-30 kg/m2) with hypertension or/and diabetes. All the patients received 200 mg fenofibrate daily, for 6 month, and they had a hypocaloric diet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMethylglyoxal (MG) is an early glycation product which is implicated in genesis of diabetic complications either as a direct toxin or as a precursor for advanced glycation end products. It is metabolized via S-D-lactoylglutathione to D-lactate by means of the enzymes glyoxalase I and II, which depend on glutattione as cofactor. MG is highly reactive and can bind to and modify proteins by chemical interaction with cellular proteins, action on energy production, induce free radical generation and cell killing.
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