Clostridium difficileisa binding warm-positive rod and anaerobic organism, which was first described in 1935 as Bacillus difficile. Epidemiology of CDI has changed considerably on 2000. Occurrence and severity of the disease  including ulcerative colitis(inflammation of the colon), colectomy(colon section) and mortality had increased. Recent studies have reported Clostridium difficile prevalenc...

Turkey hens can rapidly shift from a laying condition to one characterized by ovarian regression, incubation behavior, and hyperprolactinemia. Although remarkable changes occur in hormonal profiles as turkey hens pass from a laying to an incubating state, studies have not been undertaken to examine histochemical alterations of functionally relevant pituicytes in the adenohypophysis. The objecti...

Fatih Demircioğlu1, Şule Çağlayan Sözmen3, Şebnem Yılmaz2, Hale Ören2, Nur Arslan4, Abdullah Kumral5, Erdener Özer6, Gülersu İrken2 1Dörtçelik Children’s Hospital, Bursa, Turkey 2Department of Pediatric Hematology, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey 3Department of Pediatrics, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey 4Department of Pediatric Gastroenterolo...

Süheyla DOĞAN BULUT1, Serdar BULUT2, Verda TÜZER3, Mehmet AK4, Emine AK5, Cebrail KISA3, Çiğdem AYDEMİR3, Erol GÖKA6 1Clinic of Psychiatry, Gazi Mustafa Kemal State Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2Clinic of Psychiatry, Etimesgut Military Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 3Clinic of Psychiatry, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 4Clinic of Psychiatry, Gülhane Military Medical Academy,...

OBJECTIVE Growth charts are essential tools used to assess children's health status. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of environmental factors on the growth of children of a common geographic background. We constructed growth charts for children living in the East of Turkey and compared them with those for Turkish children living in other regions or countries. METHODS ...

1Ozone therapist and Pain Specialist, Medipol University, Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Medipol Mega University Hospital Bagcilar, Istanbul, Turkey. 2Histology and Embryology, Acibadem University, Vocational School of Health Services, Istanbul, Turkey 3Acibadem University Medical School, Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology, Istanbul, Turkey 4Acibadem Univer...

a Istanbul Aydın University, Vocational School of Health Services, Department of Anesthesiology, Istanbul, Turkey b University of Beykent, School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey c Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Trabzon, Turkey d Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Histolog...

Clinic of Cardiology, Bağcılar Education and Research Hospital; İstanbul-Turkey 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University; Konya-Turkey 2Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University; Sivas-Turkey 3Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul University; İstanbul-Turkey 4Vocational School, İstanbul AREL Universi...

in tuberculous meningitis: Results of multinational Haydarpasa-2 Study Hakan Erdem; Derya Ozturk-Engin; Hulya Tireli; Gamze Kilicoglu; Oral Oncul; Haluk Vahaboglu; Gata Haydarpasa Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Haydarpasa Numume Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Neurology, Haydarpasa Numune Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Radiology, Haydarpasa Numun...

We evaluated the innate immune response to various synthetic CpG-containing oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs) by measuring nitric oxide production in the peripheral blood monocytes from turkey poults. The results indicate that the presence of the CpG dinucleotide in ODNs was a prerequisite for activation of turkey monocytes and induction of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis. CpG motifs and sequence st...