Evaluation of Plasma Melatonin Levels in Children With Afebrile and Febrile Seizures.

Background: Melatonin modulates central nervous system neuronal activity. We compared the melatonin levels of patients with febrile and afebrile seizures during and after seizure with those of healthy controls.

Methods: We enrolled 59 individuals with afebrile and febrile seizures (mean age, 6.

Medical ozone therapy reduces oxidative stress and intestinal damage in an experimental model of necrotizing enterocolitis in neonatal rats.

Purpose: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains a major cause of morbidity and death in neonates. Evidence suggests that an imbalance between activated proinflammatory response with inadequate antiinflammatory protection results in NEC. Ozone has been proposed as an antioxidant enzyme activator, immunomodulator, and cellular metabolic activator.

Massive pulmonary ossification due to recurrent aspiration pneumonia.

Pulmonary ossification is an idiopathic disorder that presents with the formation of mature bone in the pulmonary parenchyma. This is a very rare entity that occurs in conjunction with busulfan therapy as well as with a number of diseases including chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, congestive heart failure, myositis ossificans, and idiopathic interstitial fibrosis. It is usually seen in older age groups.

Enteral glutamine and/or arginine supplementation have favorable effects on oxidative stress parameters in neonatal rat intestine.

Objective: To investigate and compare the effects of enteral glutamine and arginine supply on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzyme levels in the small intestine of healthy breast-fed rats.

Materials And Methods: The study comprised 40 newborn Sprague-Dawley rats born to 5 mother rats. Newborn rats were randomly divided into 4 groups.

Melatonin and 1400 W ameliorate both intestinal and remote organ injury following mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion.

Objective: Acute intestinal ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury affects not only the intestines but also remote organs due to pro-inflammatory and tissue injurious factors. Thus, we aimed to investigate the roles of melatonin (a powerful antioxidant) and 1400W (a strong inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide) in a rat intestinal I/R injury model, since oxidative and nitrosative injury are believed to be the major causes.

Methods: A total of 56 Wistar albino rats were used, with seven rats in each group.

Evaluation of bone mineral density in children with cerebral palsy.

In the present study, bone mineral density of 40 children with cerebral palsy (study group) and the effects of various risk factors on bone mineralization in these children were investigated by comparing with 40 age-matched healthy children (control group). Weight, height, skinfold thickness, body-mass index measurements, and serum levels of calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase and 25 OH vitamin D were not significantly different between the study and control groups (p>0.05).