Publications by authors named "Taner Tuncer"

Nail capillaroscopic examination is an inexpensive and easily applicable method to identify capillary morphological changes in patients with conditions such as systemic sclerosis and Raynaud's. The detection of changes in capillaries makes an important contribution to diagnosing these diseases. Capillary morphology is important in the symptoms of these diseases, and capillary diameter, visibility, distribution, length, microbleeds, blood flow, and density are important indicators in capillaroscopic evaluation.

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The Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) is the most popular method to assess disease progression and treatment effectiveness in patients with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). One of the main problems with the EDSS method is that different results can be determined by different physicians for the same patient. In this case, it is necessary to produce autonomous solutions that will increase the reliability of the EDSS, which has a decision-making role.

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Aurora Kinase A (AURKA) is an oncogenic kinase with major roles in mitosis, but also exerts cell cycle- and kinase-independent functions linked to cancer. Therefore, control of its expression, as well as its activity, is crucial. A short and a long 3'UTR isoform exist for AURKA mRNA, resulting from alternative polyadenylation (APA).

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Keratoconus is a common corneal disease that causes vision loss. In order to prevent the progression of the disease, the corneal cross-linking (CXL) treatment is applied. The follow-up of keratoconus after treatment is essential to predict the course of the disease and possible changes in the treatment.

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  • COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has led to widespread infection and over 2 million fatalities, with RT-PCR tests being the standard method for detection but having a significant false negative rate of 15%-20%.
  • A proposed solution, called Scat-NET, leverages a 25-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) to analyze scattergram images from blood samples, which provide crucial immune cell counts useful for assessing disease presence.
  • This novel approach showed an impressive accuracy of 92.4%, highlighting its potential as an effective alternative or supplementary test for COVID-19, especially for patients with negative RT-PCR but positive CT results.
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The symptoms of Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) and β-thalassemia (β-TT) disease are similar and the distinction between them is time consuming and costly. There are several indices used to differentiate IDA from β-thalassemia disease. Complete Blood Count (CBC) is a rapid, inexpensive and accessible test for the diagnosis of anemia and is used as a primary test.

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Alternative polyadenylation (APA) plays a role in gene expression regulation generally by shortening of 3'UTRs (untranslated regions) upon proliferative signals and relieving microRNA-mediated repression. Owing to high proliferative indices of triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs), we hypothesized APA to cause 3'UTR length changes in this aggressive subgroup of breast cancers. Our probe-based meta-analysis approach identified 3'UTR length alterations where the significant majority was shortening events (∼70%, 113 of 165) of mostly proliferation-related transcripts in 520 TNBC patients compared with controls.

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