Evaluation of Children's Drawings as a Measure of Dental Anxiety Before and After Oral Health Education.

Background: Drawing is an effective tool for evaluating dental anxiety and communicating with children.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate children's drawings as a measure of dental anxiety with two different assessment methods and their possible relationship with age, gender, and previous dental visits before and after education.

Methods: A total of 129 children aged 4-6 years old were requested to draw a picture of the dentist and dental office perception before and after a 20-minute dental education at selected Kindergartens.

Making Teachers and School Health Nurses Part of Pediatric Diabetes Teams.

Children with diabetes need consistent care across all environments, including school, where they spend significant time.Turkey's Diabetes at School Program, initiated in 2010, has made substantial progress in integrating diabetes care into the school system. The program's achievements include government support, annual awareness activities, communication between diabetes teams and schools, policy implementation, and training for school staff.

Evaluation of genotype imputation using Glimpse tools on low coverage ancient DNA.

Ancient DNA provides a unique frame for directly studying human population genetics in time and space. Still, since most of the ancient genomic data is low coverage, analysis is confronted with a low number of SNPs, genotype uncertainties, and reference-bias. Here, we for the first time benchmark the two distinct versions of Glimpse tools on 120 ancient human genomes from Eurasia including those largely from previously under-evaluated regions and compare the performance of genotype imputation with de facto analysis approaches for low coverage genomic data analysis.

Host-directed therapy with amiodarone in preclinical models restricts mycobacterial infection and enhances autophagy.

Unlabelled: () as well as nontuberculous mycobacteria are intracellular pathogens whose treatment is extensive and increasingly impaired due to the rise of mycobacterial drug resistance. The loss of antibiotic efficacy has raised interest in the identification of host-directed therapeutics (HDT) to develop novel treatment strategies for mycobacterial infections. In this study, we identified amiodarone as a potential HDT candidate that inhibited both intracellular and in primary human macrophages without directly impairing bacterial growth, thereby confirming that amiodarone acts in a host-mediated manner.

The potential of lemon peel powder as an additive in layer quails (Coturnix coturnix Japonica): An experimental study.

The current research intended to examine the impact of dietary lemon peel powder (LPP) on laying quail performance, egg quality criteria, and the antioxidant capacity of the yolk. A total of 120 female Japanese quails (272.6±9.