DNA barcoding of invasive Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 and Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810 inhabiting Upper Euphrates River Basin, Türkiye.

The main contributor to Türkiye's abundant freshwater fish biodiversity is its geographic location. This fauna consists of endemic, native, and non-native fish species. The introduction of Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 to Lake Amik in the 1920s for the biological control of malaria was the first introduction of nonnative species to Türkiye.

The relationship between digital addiction and social anxiety, trait anger and anger expression style in adolescents.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between adolescents' digital addiction levels and their social anxiety, trait anger and anger expression styles.

Method: The study was devised as a descriptive and correlational research study. The sample consisted of 958 adolescents in Konya, Turkey.

Adapting nature's own solution: The effect of rhamnolipid and lytic bacteriophage cocktail on enteric pathogens that proliferate in mucilage.

The mucilage event witnessed in the Sea of Marmara in 2021 has emerged as a prominent environmental concern, capturing public attention due to its detrimental effects on ecological, economic, and aesthetic dimensions. Addressing the multifaceted impacts of mucilage demands a nature-centric scientific approach, given its global ramifications spanning economy, public health, international relations, and tourism. Consequently, this study sought to explore alternative approaches for the removal of pathogenic enteric bacteria associated with mucilage occurrences, diverging from conventional methodologies.

The effects of women's insight levels on breast cancer prevention behaviors: a cross-sectional study.

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of women's insight levels on their breast cancer prevention behaviors in primary health care services. A systematic sampling method was used to select a sample of 393 women in a province in Turkey. Socio-demographic Characteristics Form, Insight Scale and Scale for Determining Factors Affecting Women's Breast Cancer Prevention Behaviour were used as data collection tools.

Sexual quality of life and marital adjustment in pregnant women.

In a cross-sectional study, researchers investigated pregnant women's quality of sexual life and marital adjustment. The sample consisted of 312 pregnant women admitted to the gynecology and obstetrics outpatient clinic of State Hospital between June and November 2020. Data were collected using a personal information form, the Quality Scale-Female (SQLQ-F), and Marriage Adjustment Test (MAT).

Clinicoradiological evaluation of oxidative stress activity in acute cerebral infarction in the first 24 h and the qualitative importance of dysfunctional HDL in stroke.

Background: Acute cerebral infarction (ACI) occurs as a result of instant disruption of vascular flow that causes disbalance between oxidative/antioxidative activity. We examined the relationship of serum neuro-oxidative stress parameters with stroke severity and infarct volume in ACI and emphasized the qualitative importance of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) on its relationship with myeloperoxidase (MPO) and paraoxonase-1 (PON1) in the acute period of stroke.

Methods: One hundred ACI patients applied within the first 24 h and 50 healthy volunteers were included.

The relationship between beliefs toward mental illnesses, empathic tendency and social distancing in university students.

This study was conducted to determine the level of beliefs toward mental illnesses in university students and to examine its relationship with empathic tendency and social distance level. This descriptive and relational study was conducted at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Nursing of a state university in Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 678 students studying in the 4th grade of these faculties.

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Pro12Ala/C161T Genotypes and Risky Haplotype Altering Risk of Breast Cancer: A Turkish Case-Control Study.

Breast cancer (BC) has a high incidence rate among women worldwide, and the mechanisms and etiology of this disease are not yet fully understood. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma), a nuclear hormone receptor that plays important roles in energy metabolism and cellular differentiation, is also suggested to be effective in cancer development. However, the results of studies investigating the cancer association with PPARgamma are inconsistent, creating a need for further investigation of the effects of this transcription factor on BC risk.

[Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: a complication in chronic B-cell lymphatic leukaemia].

Background: Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare infectious cause of sub-acute neurological symptoms, and occurs predominantly in immunocompromised patients. PML is caused by reactivation of the JC virus.

Case Description: A 79-year-old man with a history of chronic B-cell lymphatic leukaemia (B-CLL) presented at our hospital with a neurological deficit of the left side of his body.

A Serial Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) is a form of child abuse that describes children whose parents or caregivers invent illness stories and substantiate the stories by fabricating false physical signs. Through this case report, a serial MSBP case is presented along with psychiatric evaluation of the perpetrator mother who was sent to the Forensic Psychiatric Observation Department of the Council of Forensic Medicine to assess whether she has any mental disorder. Although there are several studies on MSBP, we present this case because the perpetrator mother was caught on the camera surveillance system of the hospital while closing the nose and mouth of the victim for fabricating the illness, and she also said that she had done the same thing to her two elder children to exclude their illnesses.

Violence against women: A series of autopsy studies from Istanbul, Turkey.

Death is the most severe consequence of violence against women. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of violence-related deaths among women and the general characteristics of fatal violence cases against women in Istanbul, Turkey. A total of 20,486 forensic autopsies performed between 2006 and 2010, in Istanbul, were retrospectively analyzed.