It is well-known that asthma patients show compromised production of antiviral interferons and lower expression of ACE-2, most likely owing to ACE-2 expression is inversely correlated with type 2 (Th2: T helper 2) cytokine ...

Introduction: The remarkable efficacy and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines have been described in healthy individuals, but kidney transplant recipients have been excluded from these studies. Therefore, real-world evidence ...

Conclusion: Elevated levels of pentraxin-3, fetuin-A, CRP, ESR might play a role in the pathogenesis of RA. Levels of fetuin-A, insulin HOMA-IR, pentraxin-3, CRP and ESR were not associated with clinical severity of the ...

We aimed to evaluate the impact of hormone replacement, melatonin, or exercise alone or their combination on oxidative damage and functional status of heart, brain, and aorta of ovariectomized (OVX) rats and to determine ...

MK was significantly elevated in vitamin D deficiency and associated with ASCA positivity which was significantly increased in vitamin D deficiency. These findings suggested that molecular mechanism of vitamin D deficiency ...

Background. Traversing the stricture with a guidewire is a prerequisite for the endoscopic treatment of biliary strictures after living donor liver transplantation. We aimed to evaluate the effect of variations in the ...

Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors (PARPi) induce cell death by inhibiting the repair of DNA strand breaks binding to PARP and regulate immune cells functions. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) mediate the tumor ...