Effects of Obesity on Airway and Systemic Inflammation in Asthmatic Children.

Background: Obese asthma is a complex syndrome with certain phenotypes that differ in children and adults. There is no clear evidence regarding the presence of additive or synergistic pathological interaction between obesity and asthma in children.

Objectives: Our aim was to demonstrate the interaction of obesity and asthma in children in terms of airway and systemic inflammation by a controlled observational study.

Effects of iron and vitamin B12 deficiencies on peripheral blood colony-forming unit capacity.

Iron and vitamin B12 deficiencies are two of the most common diseases in the childhood group. Deficiencies of iron and vitamin B12 affect many systems in the body. In this study, to discover the effects of iron and vitamin B12 deficiencies on the hematopoietic stem cells, we studied CFU assay from peripheral blood.

Two versus three day upfront use of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in healthy bone marrow donors for pediatric bone marrow transplantation.

In order to decrease donors' exposure to granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), we compared the effect of two versus three days of G-CSF priming on CD34+ yield in bone marrow (BM) harvest. Although the number of BM-CD34+ cells was higher in 3day G-CSF priming, we achieved the same number of CD34+ cells per recipient's weight in 2day G-CSF priming group, too. In addition, the number of total nucleated cells (TNC) harvested from BM were similar with two or three day regimen.

The impact of sleep deprivation on hippocampal-mediated learning and memory in rats.

Background: To examine the impact of different types of sleep deprivation on hippocampal-mediated learning and memory in rats.

Methods: Forty-eight Sprague-Dawley male rats were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 equal-size groups: (1) 12 hours of sleep per day (control). (2) total sleep deprivation (TSD), (3) rapid eye movement (REM) deprivation (RD), and (4) sleep restricted to 4 hours per day (SR).

Factors associated with bone marrow stem cell yield for pediatric allogeneic stem cell transplantation: The impact of donor characteristics.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of donor characteristics on CD34 cell yield in BM harvest. Between April 2010 and November 2013, consecutive donors who underwent BM harvesting in our BM transplantation unit were retrospectively investigated. Donors were classified into two groups: those who donated BM without mobilization (steady-state BM donors) and those who received G-CSF for stem cell mobilization (G-CSF-primed BM donors).