Outcomes of Planned Home Visits of Intern Public Health Nurses: An Example from Turkey.

Objective: This study aimed at evaluating the outcomes of planned home visits of intern public health nurses enrolled to a school of health over 8 educational years.

Method: The descriptive research consisted of 181 families (N = 745 individuals) who received primary services through the planned home visits undertaken by 431 intern public health nurses at Kocaeli province in Turkey. The data were collected from Family Nursing Process Records and Family Health Achievement Forms.

Evaluation of medial and lateral meniscus thicknesses in early osteoarthritis of the knee with magnetic resonance imaging.

Objective: To evaluate early changes occurring in both medial and lateral meniscus thickness from the knees of patients with osteoarthritis (OA).

Methods: We conducted this study in the Department of Anatomy and Division of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey during the period 2004 to 2005. In this study, we measured the thickness of the medial and lateral meniscus in a group of 36 (50 knees) consecutive patients with chronic knee pain, and clinical findings of early OA, and 10 (20 knees) control subjects using MRI.

Quantification of the FLI1 and CXCR4 gene expressions in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients with t(12,21).

The presence of the t(12,21) is associated with good response to therapy in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) but molecular background of this pathology is not clear. FLI1 gene plays important roles in normal regulation of myeloid hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis. The chemokine receptor CXCR4 gene may play a role in the homing of hematopoietic stem cells.

Rapid Detection of the Apoptosis Related Genes (BCL-2, BAD, BAX) in 12 Hours 1,25 (OH)2D3 Treated HL-60 Cells Using Real-Time Quantitative RT-PCR.

HL-60 cell line offers an interesting model to study apoptosis. Our aim was to detect the expressions of three apoptotic genes (BCL-2, BAD and BAX) using Real-Time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR). HL-60 cells were incubated with 1,25 (OH)2D3 (5 x 10-8 M).