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Trakya University
Education•Edirne, Turkey•
About: Trakya University is a education organization based out in Edirne, Turkey. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 2727 authors who have published 5490 publications receiving 76048 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Thrace & Trakya Üniversitesi.
Topics: Population, Medicine, Cancer, Lung cancer, Magnetic field
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TL;DR: In this article, an experimental set-up was designed in order to achieve friction welding of plastically deformed austenitic-stainless steels with equal and different diameters under different process parameters.
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TL;DR: In patients with severe sepsis, intravenous lornoxicam was found to exert no effect on haemodynamic and biochemical parameters, cytokine levels, or patient outcomes.
Abstract: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of intravenous lornoxicam on haemodynamic and biochemical parameters, serum cytokine levels and patient outcomes in severe sepsis. A total of 40 patients with severe sepsis were included, and were randomly assigned (20 per group) to receive either lornoxicam (8 mg administered intravenously every 12 hours for six doses) or placebo. For both groups the following were recorded: haemodynamic parameters (heart rate, mean arterial pressure), nasopharyngeal body temperature, arterial blood gas changes (pH, partial oxygen tension, partial carbon dioxide tension), plasma cytokine levels (IL-1β, IL-2 receptor, IL-6, IL-8, tumour necrosis factor-α), biochemical parameters (lactate, leucocytes, trombocytes, creatinine, total bilirubin, serum glutamate oxalate transaminase), length of stay in the intensive care unit, duration of mechanical ventilation and mortality. All measurements were obtained at baseline (before the start of the study) and at 24, 48 and 72 hours from the start of lornoxicam/placebo administration. No significant differences were found between the intravenous lornoxicam and placebo groups in major cytokines, duration of ventilation and length of intensive care unit stay, and inspired fractional oxygen/arterial oxygen tension ratio (P > 0.05). In these patients with severe sepsis, we found intravenous lornoxicam to exert no effect on haemodynamic and biochemical parameters, cytokine levels, or patient outcomes. Because of the small number of patients included in the study and the short period of observation, these findings require confirmation by larger clinical trials of intravenous lornoxicam, administered in a dose titrated manner.
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TL;DR: The most significant outcome of this study is the correlation between clinical outcome and hs-CRP levels in treatment naive manic episode bipolar type I patients, which is the most consistent indicator according to pro-inflammatory, inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, in predicting treatment outcomes.
Abstract: We aimed to assess the relationship between cytokine levels and the severity of the manic period in medication free patients. 30 Medication free patients and 28 healthy subjects (HS) were recruited. Plasma levels of pro-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory, inflammatory cytokines, and hs-CRP levels were investigated upon hospital admission, after six weeks follow up in bipolar disease manic episode and the results were compared to HS. The severity of the manic episodes was assessed according to the Young mania rating scale. TNF-α, INF-γ, IL-6 and hs-CRP levels were significantly higher in patients with manic episode of bipolar I disorder before treatment than HS. After treatment the levels of TNF-α, INF-γ, IL-6 and hs-CRP were observed to be significantly decreased. There was no difference between the levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines in patients before or after treatment of bipolar disorder and HS. hs-CRP was observed to be the only parameter correlated with clinical response. The most significant outcome of this study is the correlation between clinical outcome and hs-CRP levels in treatment naive manic episode bipolar type I patients. hs-CRP is the most consistent indicator according to pro-inflammatory, inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, in predicting treatment outcomes.
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TL;DR: The results indicated that mental stress negatively affected semen quality, with increase in SOD activities led to poor quality of semen parameters.
Abstract: Background & objectives: Mental stress, which is responsible for various disorders, is one of the most important medical and social problems. It is reported that mental stress causes abnormality in sperm quality. Most of the previous investigations done to study the association between mental stress and infertility were carried out with infertile men. Infertility itself and/or its therapy may lead to stress. Further, most studies investigating the association between psychological stress and semen quality have lacked information on biochemical parameters. In the present study, we investigated the effect of mental stress due to final exams on two important antioxidant enzymes of the seminal plasma, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase in normal healthy medical students. Methods: Semen samples were collected from 27 healthy male volunteers, who were third semester students of a medical school, just before (stress period) and 10.19±0.83 wk after (non-stress period) the final examinations. Psychological stress of participants was measured by the State Trait Anxiety Inventory. After standard semen analysis, semen samples were centrifuged at 10,000 x g for 15 min. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase activities were measured in the seminal plasma.
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Eyüp Sabri Ercan1, Guilherme V. Polanczyk2, Ulku Akyol Ardic, Deniz Yuce3 +158 more•Institutions (29)
TL;DR: This is the largest and most comprehensive epidemiological study to determine the prevalence of psychopathology in children and adolescents in Turkey and contributes to the literature by determining the independent predictors of psychopathologies in this age group.
Abstract: Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of childhood psychopathologies in Turkey.Method: A nation-wide, randomly selected, representative population of 5830 children (6–13 years-...
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Mehmet Kaya | 95 | 751 | 35759 |
A. O. Barut | 42 | 327 | 8833 |
Levent Öztürk | 41 | 128 | 5663 |
Mehmet Kanter | 40 | 148 | 6045 |
Ronni Wolf | 40 | 248 | 5059 |
Michael P. Steinmetz | 36 | 205 | 4513 |
Yalçın Tüzün | 35 | 135 | 4724 |
Necdet Sut | 34 | 250 | 3950 |
Metin Aydogdu | 31 | 95 | 4302 |
Mustafa Yildiz | 31 | 441 | 4129 |
Alparslan Turan | 30 | 175 | 4113 |
Dilek Memiş | 30 | 113 | 3127 |
Alparslan Turan | 28 | 78 | 3702 |
Omer Coskun | 28 | 89 | 3193 |
Oguz Karabay | 27 | 232 | 2602 |