The relation between serum cytokeratin 18 and acute pancreatitis: can it be a serological predictive marker?

Background/aims: Acute pancreatitis is well defined as pancreatic inflammation due to the activation of pancreatic enzymes secondary to several etiological factors. In the majority of patients, the clinical symptoms are self-limited, but it can also cause tissue necrosis and severe organ failures. In experimental animal models, it has been shown that wide apoptotic cell death is related to a clinically mild presentation of acute pancreatitis.

The diagnostic accuracy of urine IgG antibody tests for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection in Turkish dyspeptic patients.

Background/aims: There is increasing interest in noninvasive tests for the assessment of Helicobacter pylori infection, and urine-based tests have been widely used as noninvasive tests to detect Helicobacter pylori infection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the adaptation and usefulness of urine antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and urine card tests in the clinical setting to detect anti-Helicobacter pylori IgG antibody excreted into urine in Turkish adult patients with dyspepsia.

Materials And Methods: One-hundred twenty-four patients who were admitted and referred for upper endoscopy to Dokuz Eylül University Hospital, Gastroenterology Clinic were studied.

Evaluation of different cryoprotective agents in maintenance of viability of Helicobacter pylori in stock culture media.

Four different cryoprotective supplemented stock media were evaluated for maintaining better survival and recovery of H. pylori type strain NCTC 11637 at two different maintenance temperatures of -20°C and -80°C after one month preservation as frozen stocks. The spread plate colony count method was used to investigate the recovery rate of H.

[Helicobacter pylori infection and phagocytosis].

Helicobacter pylori is a chronic infectious agent defined as the major pathogen causing gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer, gastric carcinoma and mucosa associated lenfoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. H. pylori is the only microorganism known to get colonized in human stomach and inhabit in gastric mucosal cells.