Adenovirus-5 and adenovirus-37 seropositivity in obese patients.

Background And Objectives: Obesity is a major health issue linked to conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Infectobesity suggests that certain microorganisms may contribute to obesity. Human adenovirus serotypes, particularly Human adenovirus type-36 (HAdV-36), Human adenovirus type-5 (HAdV-5), and Human adenovirus type-37 (HAdV-37), are thought to influence body fat regulation.

Occipital emissary vein existence and its impact on the diagnosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension in pediatric patients.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of occipital emissary vein (OEV) detection in the diagnosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IHH) in the pediatric age group, and to compare the prevalence and luminal diameter of OEV in patients with IHH and in healthy control subjects.

Methods: Conventional magnetic resonance imaging findings were assessed in the patients with IHH and in healthy control subjects who were under the age of 18, by two observers. The presence and luminal dimension of OEV and transverse sinus stenosis were also evaluated and compared between these two groups with magnetic resonance venography techniques.

Improvement of survival after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and trends at a pediatric transplantation center; a three-decade journey.

Background: Advances in stem cell transplantation have resulted in improved outcomes.

Methods: This is a retrospective study aimed to analyze changes in patient profile, transplantation, graft characteristics, and outcome among 241 pediatric patients who received stem cell transplantation in a single center between 1993 and 2019.

Results: In the 2010-2019, compared with the 1993-2009 period, a significantly higher 5-year overall survival (60% vs.

On the nexus between CO emissions and the air transportation sector in the European Union and Turkey: accessing evidence from wavelet coherence analysis.

The coronavirus disease has had a devastating impact on the airline industry worldwide. However, the cancellation of flights has also enormously reduced CO emissions in the air. The present study empirically explores the environmental impact of the sectoral lockdown within the EU28 and Turkey by leveraging the wavelet coherence transform (WCT) technique.

New CagL Amino Acid Polymorphism Patterns of in Peptic Ulcer and Non-Ulcer Dyspepsia.

: infection is associated with chronic gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancer. The Type 4 secretion system (T4SS) translocates the CagA protein into host cells and plays an essential role in initiating gastric carcinogenesis. The CagL protein is a component of the T4SS.

A novel 2 bp deletion variant in Ovine-DRB1 gene is associated with increased Visna/maedi susceptibility in Turkish sheep.

Visna/maedi (VM) is a multisystemic lentivirus infection of sheep that affecting sheep industry across the globe. TMEM154 gene has been identified to be a major VM-associated host gene, nevertheless, a recent study showed that the frequency of the VM-resistant TMEM154 haplotypes was very low or absent in indigenous sheep. Thus, the present study was designed to determine other possible co-receptors associated with VM.

Genome-Wide Association Studies of Somatic Cell Count in the Assaf Breed.

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed to identify new single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and genes associated with mastitis resistance in Assaf sheep by using the Illumina Ovine Infinium HD SNP BeadChip (680K). In total, 6173 records from 1894 multiparous Assaf ewes with at least three test day records and aged between 2 and 7 years old were used to estimate a corrected phenotype for somatic cell score (SCS). Then, 192 ewes were selected from the top ( = 96) and bottom ( = 96) tails of the corrected SCS phenotype distribution to be used in a GWAS.

Serum survivin is decreased in women with preeclampsia.

: To evaluate the serum survivin level in preeclampsia.: Eighty-eight pregnancies complicated with preeclampsia and 88 gestational-age (GA)-matched uncomplicated pregnancies were evaluated.: Mean serum survivin was detected to be significantly decreased in the early- (EOPE) and late-onset (LOPE) preeclampsia subgroups than the GA-matched control-groups; and were comparable in EOPE- and LOPE-groups after correction for GA.

Serum catestatin level is increased in women with preeclampsia.

Catestatin can inhibit catecholamine release from chromaffin cells and adrenergic neurons. Catestatin can also have a strong vasodilator effect. This may be useful in understanding the pathophysiology of preeclampsia and its treatment.

Prediction of IDH Mutation Status in High-grade Gliomas Using DWI and High T1-weight DSC-MRI.

Rationale And Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) parameters in the noninvasive prediction of the isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation status in high-grade gliomas (HGGs).

Materials And Methods: A total of 58 patients with histopathologically proved HGGs were included in this retrospective study. All patients underwent multiparametric MRI on 3-T, including DSC-MRI and DWI before surgery.

The investigation of temperature data in Turkey's Black Sea Region using functional data analysis.

As the field of study expands, or as the number of observations in a sample increases, data observed at discrete points is generally assumed to be sampled from an underlying real function. As the number of observation points increases, those observations are likely to be sampled from a real-valued function. In this case, the derived data will be examples of a functional structure.

Documentation of extensive genetic diversity in the Ovar- gene in native Turkish sheep.

Indigenous breeds have a high level of genetic diversity that might contribute to develop animal breeds with desired traits such as disease resistance and high productivity. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a key component of adaptive immune system and consists of highly polymorphic genes that take part in adaptive immune response and disease resistance. Exploring and understanding the effect of polymorphisms in MHC could be beneficial to future animal breeding strategies.

Detecting fecal egg count (FEC) for gastrointestinal nematodes of adult Turkish sheep with different scrapie related haplotypes.

Scrapie is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by prions and leads to neurodegeneration in the Central Nervous System (CNS) of sheep and goats. Genetic resistance/susceptibility to scrapie is well studied and it is known that the variations of 136th, 154th and 171st codons at the ovine gene have a major effect on the development of the disease. Many studies demonstrated that selection for genotypes has not influenced other performance traits, nevertheless, there is a knowledge gap about the possible link between the gene and the status of the other important diseases that affect the sheep population worldwide.

Er:YAG laser in hysterectomized women with stress urinary incontinence: a VELA retrospective cohort, non-inferiority study.

To test whether the erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Er:YAG) SMOOTH laser treatment efficacy on stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in hysterectomized patients is non-inferior to its efficacy in non-hysterectomized patients. In this real-world, retrospective cohort study performed in Turkey, Croatia and Italy, we enrolled a consecutive sample of 35 hysterectomized and 34 non-hysterectomized patients with SUI. We used the Er:YAG SMOOTH laser (Fotona, Slovenia) with a wave length of 2940 nm.

Serum kisspeptin levels correlated with anti-mullerian hormone levels in women with and without polycystic ovarian syndrome.

Materials And Methods: This was a prospective, cross-sectional, comparative study that included 70 women with PCOS and 58 non PCOS controls. PCOS patients were diagnosed according to the Rotterdam criteria. Age, body mass index (BMI), number of menstrual cycles per year, and the Ferriman-Gallwey Score were determined for each woman.

Coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in thin films of the Fe-based superconductor BaLaFeAs.

Magnetization measurements have been performed to understand the role of the magnetic structure on the superconducting properties of epitaxial thin films of BaLaFeAs(= 0.08, 0.13, and 0.

Validation of combined use of DWI and percentage signal recovery-optimized protocol of DSC-MRI in differentiation of high-grade glioma, metastasis, and lymphoma.

Purpose: With conventional MRI, it is often difficult to effectively differentiate between contrast-enhancing brain tumors, including primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL), high-grade glioma (HGG), and metastasis. This study aimed to assess the discrimination ability of the parameters obtained from DWI and the percentage signal recovery- (PSR-) optimized protocol of DSC-MRI between these three tumor types at an initial step.

Methods: DSC-MRI using a PSR-optimized protocol (TR/TE = 1500/30 ms, flip angle = 90°, no preload) and DWI of 99 solitary enhancing tumors (60 HGGs, 24 metastases, 15 PCNSLs) were retrospectively assessed before treatment.

Determination of Myocardial Scar Tissue in Coronary Slow Flow Phenomenon and The Relationship Between Amount of Scar Tissue and Nt-ProBNP.

Background: Pathophysiology and prognosis are not clearly determined in patients with the coronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP). These patients present with various clinical conditions ranging from being asymptomatic to being admitted with sudden cardiac death.

Objectives: We aimed at assessing the findings of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) as an indicator of myocardial fibrosis.

The Utility of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameters for Detecting Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer.

Introduction: To establish the diagnostic performance of the parameters obtained from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging at 3T in discriminating between non-clinically significant prostate cancers (ncsPCa, Gleason score [GS] < 7) and clinically significant prostate cancers (csPCa, GS ≥ 7) in the peripheral zone.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-six male patients with peripheral zone prostate cancer (PCa) who had undergone 3T multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan prior to biopsy were included in the study and evaluated retrospectively. The GS was obtained by both standard 12-core transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy and targeted MRI-US fusion biopsy and then confirmed by prostatectomy, if available.

Fracture structure and thermoelectric enhancement of CuSe with substitution of nanostructured AgSe.

Recently, copper chalcogenides have attracted great attention due to their potential application for mid- to high-temperature thermoelectric power generation. In this work, we report the thermoelectric properties of Cu2Se compounds with different sample preparation processes and the inclusion of a nanoscale Ag2Se powder synthesized with a unique wet chemistry procedure. The Cu2Se compounds were prepared by solid state reaction (SSR), fast quenching (FQ) and mechanically alloyed with nanostructured Ag2Se (NM) followed by hot pressing.

Critical current density and flux pinning in BaFePtAs and La doped BaLaFePtAs polycrystals.

We present the field and temperature dependence of the magnetizations of BaFePtAs and BaLaFePtAs samples synthesized by solid-state reaction method. The samples were formed as a single phase in the ThCrSi-type structure. Replacing Ba with the smaller La atom results in a lattice shrinkage.

High incidence of co-existing factors significantly modifying the phenotype in patients with Fabry disease.

Fabry disease results from deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme alpha-galactosidase A. The families of 11 index cases were screened by enzyme and molecular assays. Further clinical and laboratory investigations were carried out in all cases.