BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate inflammatory indicators and oxidative status in patients with asbestos exposure with and without mesothelioma and to compare results with data from healthy subjects. METHODS Eighty people with exposure to environmental asbestos and without any disease, 46 mesothelioma patients, and a control group of 50 people without exposure...

Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease. Inflammatory reactions trigger the oxidative stress and oxidants decrease the level of antioxidants. In the present study, we aimed to determine serum oxidative/antioxidative status in patients with BD. Serum antioxidative status was evaluated by measuring total antioxidant capacity (TAC), paraoxonase 1, arylesterase, sulfhydryl ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the effect of 21% and 40% oxygen supplementation on maternal and neonatal oxidative stress in elective cesarean section (CS) under spinal anesthesia. METHODS Eighty term parturients undergoing elective CS under spinal anesthesia were enrolled in the study. We allocated patients randomly to breathe 21% (air group) or 40% (oxygen group) oxygen f...

PURPOSE To evaluate intra- and intersession repeatability of objective optical quality and intraocular scattering measurements with a double-pass system in children. METHODS Forty-two eyes of 42 children were included in the study. An optical quality analysis system (OQAS) was used to measure optical quality parameters, including modulation transfer function cutoff frequency (MTFcutoff), Stre...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the oxidative stress and paraoxonase 1 (PON1) levels in children with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) compared to healthy controls, and to examine the association of demographical with oxidative stress. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Forty children diagnosed with pulmonary TB and 40 age- and gender-matched healthy controls were enrolled in the study. Serum ...

BACKGROUND Atherosclerotic plaque in the descending thoracic aorta (dAo) is related to altered wall shear stress (WSS) for normal patients. Resection with end-to-end anastomosis (RWEA) is the gold standard for coarctation of the aorta (CoA) repair, but may lead to altered WSS indices that contribute to morbidity. METHODS Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models were created from imaging and ...

INTRODUCTION Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a fairly common chronic inflammatory disorder. Chronic inflammation may contribute to the risk of colorectal cancer through the accumulation of specific products resulting from DNA damage. Previous studies reported that DNA damage and oxidative stress play a significant role in the pathophysiology of UC, but the results are inconsistent. OBJECTIVES In t...

OBJECTIVE Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a series of lifesaving actions that improve the chance of survival following cardiac arrest (CA). Many clinical and laboratory parameters, such as the presence of asystole, out-of-hospital CPR, and duration of cardiac arrest, are associated with failed CPR in patients with CA. Asystole is a state of no cardiac electrical activity, along with the ...

The increasing sophistication of telecommunications infrastructures and, in particular, the introduction of broadband transmission and switching technologies together with advanced services that exhibit guaranteed Quality of Service characteristics, have necessitated the use of sophisticated management facilities. The Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) is being developed by the ITU-T a...

Background. The aim of the study was to analyse the effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) on fluoxetine-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Materials and Methods. Group I served as control. Group II received CAPE intraperitoneally. Group III received fluoxetine per orally. Group IV received fluoxetine and CAPE. The total antioxidant capacity (TAC), total oxidant status (TOS), oxidative stre...