16 results match your criteria: "Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Pharmacy[Affiliation]"

Objective: The programed cell death gene-1 ligand (PDL-1) is expressed by villous syncytiotrophoblasts, cytotrophoblasts, and fetal cells in close contact with maternal tissue and blood. Programmed cell death gene-1 (PD-1) and the PDL-1 pathway cooperate with human leucocyte antigen-G (HLA-G), expressing intermediate trophoblastic cells and syncytiotrophoblasts to inhibit the function of activated T-cells. With this mechanism, the immunosuppressive microenvironment protects the placenta.

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Objectives: The fact that clinoptilolite reserves are abundant and economical in the world, its toxic effects are not observed in clinical studies in humans and animals, and it has superior physical properties suggests that clinoptilolite may be an easily accessible product for the healing of tooth extraction wounds. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of cliniotilolite on bone tissue healing and bone formation in the extraction socket in experimentally diabetic rats by micro-CT analysis.

Materials And Methods: 36 male Wistar Albino rats were divided into 3 main groups as Healthy Control, Diabetes Control and Diabetes + Clinoptilolite.

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Background: In burn wound healing, zones of burn, namely zone of hyperemia, the zone of stasis, and zone of coagulation, have crucial importance. These zones have been identified based on the pathophysiology of the burn, and treatment of burn has been improved. The zone of necrosis is treated by excision and repair through grafting.

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Acanthamoeba spp. are free-living amoebae isolated from many ecological areas such as swimming pools, dams and lakes, and soil. Granulomatous amebic encephalitis and amebic keratitis, caused by Acanthamoeba spp.

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Objective: Increased intracellular calcium concentration plays an important role in the secondary mechanism of spinal cord injury. In the presenting experimental study, we aimed to evaluate the healing effect of barnidipine, which has a high affinity for L-type calcium channels, on acute spinal cord injury and to compare its effects with those of methylprednisolone.

Methods: A total of 32 Spraque Dawley albino adult female rats were divided into 4 groups; group 1: sham-operated (n=8), group 2: only ischemia (n=6), group 3: barnidipine-treated (n=8), and group 4: methylprednisolone-treated (n=6).

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Background: Morus alba and Morus nigra leaves which have been widely used as herbal teas in Anatolian region of Turkey, were extracted twice by 50 mM HCI solution, derivatized with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate and analyzed by reversed phase HPLC equipped with a fluorescence detector.

Hypothesis/purpose: This study was performed to determine the main antidiabetic active compounds 1-deoxynojirimycin by HPLC method and evaluate the in-vitro antioxidant and antidiabetic activity of ethanol extracts prepared from Morus alba L. and Morus nigra leaves.

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Background: Postoperative epidural adhesion is a frequent cause of failed back surgery syndrome, manifesting with back and leg pain or neurologic deficits. Development of preventive measures for epidural adhesion after laminectomy is critical to improve outcomes of lumbar surgery. We hypothesized that positive effects of topical application of Contractubex (CTX) gel and benzothiazole (BT) individually and in combination could aid in preventing epidural fibrosis in a rat laminectomy model.

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In this study, the efficiency of the different nitrogen doses (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 kg ha-1) on biological activity levels (antioxidant and antimicrobial activity) of Stevia rebaudiana Bert. was investigated. In addition, methanol extracts were obtained by maceration method from different doses of fertilizer applied stevia.

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Although endogenous estrogen is known to offer cardiac and vascular protection, the involvement of estrogen receptors in mediating the protective effect of estrogen on hypertension-induced cardiovascular and renal injury is not fully explained. We aimed to investigate the effects of estrogen receptor (ER) agonists on oxidative injury, cardiovascular and renal functions of rats with renovascular hypertension (RVH). Female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided as control and RVH groups, and RVH groups had either ovariectomy (OVX) or sham-OVX.

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Objective: To investigate Wnt1-inducible signaling pathway protein-1 (WISP1) levels and their correlation with metabolic parameters in pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and non-GDM healthy pregnant women.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study, the study group was composed of 62 women with GDM and 73 healthy pregnant women matched for age, body mass index (BMI) and gestational age. Blood samples were collected at 25-29th gestational week.

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Context: Morus nigra L. (Moraceae) has various uses in traditional medicine. However, the effect of M.

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Human genome sequencing was started to solve four letter algorithm of the genome to understand the complex nature of human metabolism. However, after completion of Human Genome Project many scientists realized that sequence information alone was not sufficient to solve the biochemical mechanism of the organism through classical approaches. Non-coding parts of the genome produce small conserved ribonucleic acids, miRNAs to control cellular and physiological processes [1, 2].

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Evaluation of serum perforin, caspase-3, sFasL and M-30 levels as apoptotic markers in children with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.

Pediatr Infect Dis J

February 2015

From the *Department of Pediatrics; †Department of Biochemistry; ‡Department of Microbiology; §Department of Cardiology, Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, Sivas, Turkey; and ¶Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Pharmacy, Sivas, Turkey.

Background: Apoptosis is a main regulator in responses of cellular immunity throughout systemic viral infections. Perforin, soluble Fas ligand, caspase-3 and caspase-cleaved cytokeratin-18 (M-30) are mediators of apoptosis. The aim of this study is the evaluation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) disease changes in the levels of these apoptotic markers and the relation of these changes with disease severity.

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