Publications by authors named "Emre Tepeli"

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate sexual dysfunctions (SDs) and related factors in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder receiving pharmacotherapy.

Methods: This study included 111 patients. The Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS), the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS), and the Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS) were applied to the schizophrenia, and the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) to the bipolar patient group.

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Background: Due to the heterogeneous nature of Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), the mechanisms underlying tumor development and progression have not yet been fully elucidated.

Objective: This study aimed to compare the characteristics of plasma exosomes of DLBCL patients and healthy individuals and to evaluate the exosomal interactions between DLBCL cell lines and normal B-cells.

Methods: Exosome isolation was performed using an ultracentrifugation-based protocol from plasma of 20 patients with DLBCL and 20 controls.

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common autoimmune disease in which many different genetic variants of functional gene polymorphisms may play a culprit role in the underlying pathogenetic mechanism. The recent studies suggest that interleukin-23 receptor (IL-23R) gene polymorphisms may increase susceptibility to the development of various autoimmune diseases. We aimed to examine the possible relationship of nine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the IL-23R gene to susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis and their associations with disease characteristics in the South Aegean region of Turkey.

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Purpose: Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) is a critical enzyme that regulates coagulation and fibrinolytic systems. The aim of this study was to determine the role of PAI-1 4G/5G polymorphism in nontraumatic avascular necrosis of the lunate.

Methods: The study included 45 patients with Kienböck disease and 45 healthy individuals as a control group.

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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder. Its etiology is not clearly understood yet, but neurobiological, genetic and environmental factors are shown to play a role. The relationship between ADHD and miRNAs has been studied quite recently, and few studies have been conducted up to now.

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Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is a rare disease caused by mutations in the gene encoding tissue-non-specific isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP). Duplications of the gene account for fewer than 1% of the mutations causing HPP. It has been shown that asfotase alfa enzyme replacement treatment (ERT) mineralizes the skeleton and improves respiratory function and survival in severe forms of HPP.

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Neonatal Bartter syndrome (NBS) is a rare autosomal recessive renal tubular disorder. This disease is characterized by hypokalemia, hypochloremia, and metabolic alkalosis that is often associated with failure to thrive and recurrent episodes of dehydration. The combination of BS and cholelithiasis in an infant is very rare.

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Background/aim: Midkine (MK), a heparin-binding growth factor, has an important role in cancer progression. The aim of this study was to determine MK expression in breast tissue and the preoperative and postoperative serum levels of patients with breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: Sixty-one patients with breast cancer participated in our study.

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Background: Gout is a clinical syndrome that occurs as an inflammatory response to increased concentration of uric acid and monosodium urate crystals. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease with autosomal recessive inheritance. The Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene is responsible for FMF and encodes pyrin that suppresses the inflammatory response.

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Caffey disease is a rare condition of early infancy, characterized by soft tissue swelling, bone lesions, and hyperirritability. Its typical radiological finding is periosteal new bone formation. It can be sporadic or inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.

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Background: Myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MYD88) is a common adaptor protein that is responsible for signaling from several receptors; mutations in this gene may play a role in the pathogenesis of lymphoma.

Aim: We aimed to determine the MYD88 L265P mutation frequency, the level of MYD88 expression, and their associations with clinicopathological parameters in mature B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs).

Methods: A total of 68 patients were included in the study.

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Objective: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among adults and is characterized by heterogeneous clinical, immunophenotypic, and genetic features. Different mechanisms deregulating cell cycle and apoptosis play a role in the pathogenesis of DLBCL. Growth arrest DNA damage-inducible 45 (GADD45γ) is an important gene family involved in these mechanisms.

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Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of serum pentraxin 3 (PTX3) values as an early predictor of subsequent renal involvement in patients with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) with no abnormalities on urinary examination and in renal function tests at disease onset.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study which included 60 pediatric patients with HSP (age range 3-15 years) who were diagnosed between February 2011 and October 2012 and 60 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. The patients were followed up for at least 18 months.

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Background: To investigate the association between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the polymorphisms of HIF1A, a major vascular epithelial growth factor regulator under hypoxic conditions. The associations of AMD and polymorphisms of genes CFH, SKIV2L and MYRIP were also studied.

Design: Prospective study.

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Background: SNAP-25 protein is contributory to plasma membrane and synaptic vesicle fusions that are critical points in neurotransmission. SNAP-25 gene is associated with behavioral symptoms, personality and psychological disorders. In addition, SNAP-25 protein can be related to different neurotransmitter functions due to its association with vesicle membrane transition and fusion.

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Background: Psoriasis is an inflammatory disease characterized by increased squamous cell proliferation and impaired differentiation. Vitamin D, Calcitriol, and its analogues are successfully used for psoriasis therapy. However, it is unknown why some psoriasis patients are resistant to Vitamin D therapy.

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Excision Repair Cross-Complementing Group 1 (ERCC1) is an important DNA repair gene, playing critical role in nucleotide excision repair pathway and having a significant influence on genomic instability. Some studies support that ERCC1 might be a potential predictive and prognostic marker in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). ERCC1 has also been shown to be a promising biomarker in NSCLC treated with a cisplatin-based regimen.

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DNA repair plays a key role in prevention of carcinogenesis and one of the most important DNA repair mechanisms is nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. This pathway includes a number of genes such as excision repair cross-complementing group 1 (ERCC1) gene which are responsible for the 5' incision of damaged DNA. A reduced DNA repair capacity associated with ERCC1 mRNA level has been observed in lung carcinogenesis.

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The current study was undertaken to investigate chromosomal and genetical aberrations leading to overexpression of Topoisomerase-2α (TOP2α) and to reveal the possible association of these aberrations with HER2/neu overexpression and gene amplification, and to search for the relationship between TOP2α and HER2/neu status with prognostical biomarkers in papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a group of tumors with diverse molecular, chromosomal and clinical features. Archival cases of papillary RCC obtained from Departments of Pathology of Pamukkale, Ege and Dokuz Eylul Universities were studied in two groups (type 1 and type 2) each containing 20 cases. The level of TOP2α and HER2/neu expression by tumor cells were determined immunohistochemically.

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Aberrant methylation of promoter CpG islands is known to be a major inactivation mechanism of the tumor-related genes including DNA repair genes. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of promoter methylation of the O⁶-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene as a DNA repair gene in nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and to analyze the correlation with clinicopathological parameters including age, gender, smoking status, histological subtype, and clinical stage. Eighty patients with NSCLC were included in this study.

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Background/aims: Human Cytochrome P450 (CYP) comprises a multigene family of microsomal enzymes that metabolize a wide variety of xenobiotics, including drugs and carcinogens. Although the a number of CYP enzymes were also detected in epithelial cells along the gastrointestinal tract, little is known about the expression of CYP genes in gastric tissue.

Methodology: In this study, the expression patterns of CYP isoforms was investigated in a total of 14 antral biopsy tissues obtained from the patients with either chronic gastritis (n = 6) or cancer (n = 8) by gene-specific real-time reverse transcriptase -PCR analyses.

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We report on a patient with partial monosomy 6p and partial trisomy 12q identified by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). She had a complex phenotype characterized by mental retardation (MR), psychomotor developmental delay, speech disorder, hypertelorism, eye anomalies, hearing loss, low-set malformed ears, thin upper lip, heart defect, clinodactyly, pes valgus, and skeletal anomalies. There is phenotypic overlap between our case and Mutchinick syndrome.

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Background: Lung cancer has the leading mortality rate among all cancers and it is the second most common cause of death following cardiovascular diseases.The aim of the study was determining deleted and/or amplified regions of 64 different loci previously associated with lung cancer, by using Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA).

Results: The most frequently seen deletions in lung cancerous tissues were in 2p, 3p, 13q, 17p, 16p and the most frequently seen amplifications were in 17q, 8p and 5q.

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Aim: To evaluate the possible relationship between blood pressure (BP) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism in normotensive children with a positive family history of essential hypertension (EHT).

Material And Methods: Three hundred seventy-six randomly selected normotensive schoolchildren (147 boys, 229 girls) between the ages of seven and 17 years were enrolled. Children were subdivided into a 'first-degree relative group' and a 'second-degree relative group' according to the presence of EHT in parents or grandparents, respectively.

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