Does dexamethasone therapy affect intimal hyperplasia after injury in rat abdominal aorta models?

Background: Intimal hyperplasia is a normal adaptive feature of arteries in response to injuries, which include invasive vascular interventions. Its development limits the long-term success of bypass grafts. Various pharmacological agents have been successfully employed in experimental models to reduce the degree of intimal hyperplasia.

Morphometric evaluation of the left atrioventricular valve complex and its clinical relations.

Background: In this study, it was aimed to evaluate morphometrically and morphologically the left fibrous ring, mitral leaflets, tendinous cords, and papillary muscles, which are the components of the left atrioventricular valve complex (LAVC), and to reveal their clinical relationships.

Materials And Methods: A total of 120 human hearts were examined at the Forensic Medicine Institute. Cases aged 30 years and older, less than 24 hours after their death, were included in the study.

Comparative Analysis of Transcriptome Profiles in Patients with Thromboangiitis Obliterans.

Background: Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) causes vascular insufficiency due to chronic inflammation and abrupt thrombosis of the medium and small arteries of the extremities. In our study, we aimed to determine biomarkers for the diagnosis of TAO by evaluating 15 male TAO patients with Shinoya diagnostic criteria and 5 healthy controls who did not have TAO-related symptoms in their family histories.

Methods: The Clariom D Affymetrix platform was used to conduct microarray analysis on total RNA extracted from whole blood.

Nematode-citrus plant interactions: host preference, damage rate and molecular characterization of Citrus root nematode Tylenchulus semipenetrans.

Citrus plants are host to several plant parasitic nematodes (PPNs), which are microscopic organisms. Among PPNs, the citrus root nematode, T. semipenetrans (Cobb 1913) (Tylenchida: Tylenchulidae), causes significant damage to citrus plantations worldwide.

The Effect of Perioperative Fluid Management and Operative Modifications on Mortality and Morbidity in Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Endarterectomy.

Introduction: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a severe disease treated with pulmonary endarterectomy. Our study aims to reveal the differences in liquid modalities and operation modifications, which can affect the patients' mortality and morbidity.

Methods: One hundred twenty-five patients who were diagnosed with CTEPH and underwent pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) at our center between February 2011 and September 2013 were included in this retrospective study with prospective observation.

Evaluation of Entomopathogenic Nematodes against Common Wireworm Species in Potato Cultivation.

Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) are common insect pests that attack a wide range of economically important crops including potatoes. The control of wireworms is of prime importance in potato production due to the potential damage of the larvae to tuber quantity and quality. Chemical insecticides, the main control strategy against wireworms, generally fail to provide satisfactory control due to the lack of available chemicals and the soil-dwelling habits of the larvae.

Investigating the protective effect of glutamine against cerebral ischemia and bilateral carotid occlusion in rats.

Background: This study aims to investigate the protective effects of glutamine against cerebral injury resulting from cerebral ischemia-reperfusion by bilateral carotid occlusion in rats.

Methods: Eighteen Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into three equal groups: 1) control group; 2) ischemia-reperfusion group which underwent clamping of the carotid artery for 20 min; and 3) ischemiareperfusion + glutamine group which was treated with two doses of glutamine (1 g/kg) prior to the same clamping procedure as the ischemia-reperfusion group. All rats were sacrificed 24 h after the experiment.

Diversity and Identification of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Wheat-Growing Ecosystems.

Several nematode species can be found in different densities in almost any soil ecosystem, and their diversity in those ecosystems depends on numerous reasons, such as climatic conditions and host presence. Cereals are one of the main hosts of plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN), chiefly root-lesion nematodes (RLN, spp.) and cereal cyst nematodes (CCN, spp.

Molecular analysis of nematode-responsive defence genes , , and in tissues during the infection of plant-parasitic nematode species of the genus .

Several pathogens, including nematodes, have severe effects on plant development and growth, and immense populations of parasitic nematodes may cause plant death and crop loss. Obligate plant-parasitic nematodes and root-knot nematodes belonging to the genus are significant parasites in crops. During nematode infection, damage-associated molecular patterns play a role in the activation of plant defence responses to pathogens.

Molecular investigation of proteinase inhibitor (PI) gene in tomato plants induced by Meloidogyne species.

Background: The plant parasitic nematode genus Meloidogyne parasitize almost all flowering crops. Plants respond with a variety of morphological and molecular mechanisms to reduce the effects of pathogens. Proteinase inhibitors (PI), a special group of plant proteins which are small proteins, involve in protective role in the plants attacked by microorganisms.

Anxiety and health-related quality of life after cardiac surgery.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of elective cardiac surgery on health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Material And Methods: One hundred and eight (35 women and 73 men, mean age 62.3 ±12.

Expressions of Pathogenesis related 1 (PR1) Gene in Solanum lycopersicum and Influence of Salicylic Acid Exposures on Host-Meloidogyne incognita Interactions.

Salicylic acid (SA) induces the mechanism of the plant defence and plays a role in plant -pathogen interactions. Following the nematode infection, effects of SA treatment on plant weights and the expression of pathogen related gene have not been fully understood. The present study was aimed to determine the effects of SA treatment on the expression Pathogenesis related 1 gene (PR1 gene) and alteration on plant parameters in tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum).

Assessment of anxiety and health-related quality of life in patients with lower extremity peripheral arterial occlusive disease.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chronic occlusive vascular disease on anxiety with adverse outcome with health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Material And Methods: Three hundred and thirty-five patients who were treated for peripheral arterial occlusive disease were enrolled in this study. 187 patients who had undergone percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and 148 patients who had one or more surgical revascularizations enrolled in the study.

Primary Sonic Hedgehog-activated dorsal brainstem medulloblastoma and ipsilateral cerebellar atrophy in an adult.

Medulloblastoma (MB) that arises outside the cerebellum from cells of the dorsal brainstem is rare. The most common subtype of MB in the dorsal brainstem is the Wingless (WNT) subtype that contains activating mutations in the WNT pathway effector CTNNB1. Ipsilateral cerebellar hemi-atrophy with a brainstem tumour is a finding that is usually documented with brainstem gangliogliomas as a possible specific imaging sign.

The Geometrical Modeling of Aortic Root Complex.

Background: This study was designed to investigate the anatomical relationship of the different levels of aortic root.

Materials And Methods: The morphological features of the aortic root were examined using of 12 adult hearts from fixed male cadavers who had expired due to noncardiac causes by magnetic resonance imaging and applied mathematical analyses to the results. The measurements of the aortic root were done at four levels: at the ventriculoarterial junction (annulus), at the largest level of the Valsalva sinuses (sinus), at the level of commissures (sinotubular junction [STJ]), and at 1 cm above the STJ (aorta ascendens).

Host-specific signatures of the cell wall changes induced by the plant parasitic nematode, Meloidogyne incognita.

Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are an important group of plant parasitic nematodes that induce within host plant roots unique feeding site structures, termed giant cells, which supply nutrient flow to the nematode. A comparative in situ analysis of cell wall polysaccharides in the giant cells of three host species (Arabidopsis, maize and aduki bean) infected with Meloidogyne incognita has been carried out.

Gender Differences in Patients with Anxiety after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.

The present study was designed to evaluate the relationship between gender and coexisting anxiety in patients undergoing coronary artery surgery. Materials and Methods: A total of 137 patients (41 women and 96 men with a mean age 66.1 ± 6.

Anatomical and morphometrical evaluation of the jugular tubercle.

Background: The jugular tubercle (JT) is an important part of the craniovertebral junction. The removal of the JT in the far-lateral approach provides a significant increase in the operative space. The purpose of this morphometrical study was to define the anatomical variations of the JT.

Cerebral tuberculoma mimicking high grade glial tumor.

Tuberculosis has been an important public health problem in both developing and develop nations. Tuberculosis of the central nervous system is rare. Tuberculosis meningitis and tuberculoma are the two most important manifestations of tuberculosis of the CNS.

The relation between surgical cleavage and preoperative neuroradiological findings in intracranial meningiomas.

Background: Meningiomas are generally benign masses, and in many cases they do not invade the brain. Therefore their potential to provide cures is high. The most important cause of the development of recurrence in the post-operative period is subtotal resection.

Primary brain tumors associated with cerebral aneurysm: report of three cases.

The primary brain tumors associated with cerebral aneurysms are rare in neurosurgical practice. The present article constitutes an evaluation of the management of coexistent primary brain tumor and cerebral aneurysm. A retrospective study of three cases of primary brain tumor with cerebral aneurysm was performed.