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Children (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Ege University, Izmir 35040, Turkey.
Background/objectives: Vitamin D helps the mineralization of bone, teeth, and other calcified tissues by regulating calcium-phosphate metabolism. The nuclear activation of the vitamin D receptor () gene is essential for the effectiveness of vitamin D. The main objective of this study is to determine the role of vitamin D levels and gene variants in dental caries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Physiol Sci
January 2025
Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Folic acid (FA), with its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, may offer protection against ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. This study investigated whether FA safeguards rat kidneys from IR by targeting high mobility group box-1 (HMGB1), a key inflammatory mediator. Fifty adult male Wistar rats were randomly allocated into four groups: control, IR, IR + FA pretreatment, and FA alone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHosp Pediatr
January 2025
Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Background And Objectives: Some Minnesota clinicians perceive that the incidence of prophylactic vitamin K refusal is increasing, yet the actual incidence and which populations are most likely to refuse is unknown. Our objective is to identify the incidence of vitamin K refusal and to characterize the maternal-newborn dyads with increased refusal rates.
Methods: This retrospective multi-institution study analyzed vitamin K refusal in newborns born from 2015 to 2019.
J Child Neurol
January 2025
Department of Pediatric Neurology, Konya City Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
Objective: We aimed to evaluate the relationship between attack frequency and severity and serum levels of micronutrient in pediatric migraine patients.
Methods: Children at 2 hospitals from February to December 2022 diagnosed with migraine were reviewed.
Results: A total of 171 patients with a mean age of 14.
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