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Arch Rheumatol 2018 Sep 9;33(3):251-271. Epub 2018 Jul 9.

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.

Objectives: This study aims to report the assessment of the Turkish League Against Rheumatism (TLAR) expert panel on the compliance and adaptation of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) 2016 recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Turkey.

Patients And Methods: The EULAR 2016 recommendations for the treatment of RA were voted by 27 specialists experienced in this field with regard to participation rate for each recommendation and significance of items. Afterwards, each recommendation was brought forward for discussion and any alteration gaining ≥70% approval was accepted. Read More

Brain Pathol 2018 Dec 26. Epub 2018 Dec 26.

Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), 20246, Hamburg, Germany.

Prion diseases continue to fascinate scientists from different disciplines since the discovery that a misfolded prion protein can act as an infectious agent. Infectious prions have caused epidemics, including kuru in humans, cervid chronic wasting disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease", and most recently, camel prion disease, which was identified in 2018 (1). In Kuru, spread of the disease occurred from the ingestion of prion-infected, dead relatives as part of mourning practices, whereas in chronic wasting disease, prions may be transmitted not only through ingesting prion-contaminated food, but also by exposure to a prion-contaminated environment(8, 9). Read More

Med Biol Eng Comput 2018 Dec 26. Epub 2018 Dec 26.

University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

Unsatisfactory cure rates for the treatment of nocturnal enuresis (NE), i.e. bed-wetting, have led to the need to explore alternative modalities. Read More

Niger J Clin Pract 2018 Dec;21(12):1656-1661

Bitlis Oral and Dental Health Hospital, Bitlis, Turkey.

Aim: Temporary cement can be applied for both permanent and temporary cementation of implant-supported fixed restorations. These cements must have certain physical and mechanical properties. Specifically, the film thickness directly affects the cement's clinical success. Read More

PLoS Pathog 2018 11 29;14(11):e1007424. Epub 2018 Nov 29.

Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich University, Zürich, Switzerland.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are caused by the prion, which consists essentially of PrPSc, an aggregated, conformationally modified form of the cellular prion protein (PrPC). Although TSEs can be experimentally transmitted by intracerebral inoculation, most instances of infection in the field occur through extracerebral routes. The epidemics of kuru and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were caused by dietary exposure to prions, and parenteral administration of prion-contaminated hormones has caused hundreds of iatrogenic TSEs. Read More

J Craniofac Surg 2019 Jan;30(1):e21-e24

Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey.

To explore a new surgical approach for impacted teeth extraction and cystectomy using piezosurgery that provides proper bone healing in normal anatomical structure without additional fixation and graft materials.In cases with intact and relatively thicker vestibular compact bone, a bone flap design was used with converging osteotomy lines made with piezosurgery tips which allow proper stabilization after enucleation or extraction.Procedure was performed in 10 patients with 9 to 36 months follow-up resulted in satisfactory healing without any complications. Read More

Oral Health Prev Dent 2018 ;16(5):431-438

Purpose: To understand the effect of the addition of hydroxyapatite (HA) and bioactive glass (BAG) to compomer restorative materials on the remineralisation capacity of the material.

Materials And Methods: 1%, 2%, 3% and 4% w/w HA and BAG particles were added mechanically to the compomers. To examine the resistance to demineralisation, Class V cavities were prepared in extracted teeth and restored with experimental filling materials. Read More

Clin Rheumatol 2018 Nov 17. Epub 2018 Nov 17.

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey.

Introduction/objective: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is usually seen in among younger person of working age and carries a significant economic burden. It was aimed to explore the relation of work instability with fatigue, depression, and anxiety in working AS patients comparing with healthy controls.

Method: This case-control study was conducted on working 61 AS patients and 40 sex-age-matched working healthy controls. Read More

J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil 2018 ;31(6):1005-1012

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of combination therapy with global postural reeducation exercise (GPR) and anti-TNF treatments on clinical parameters in patients with active Ankylosing spondylitis (AS).

Materials And Method: Sixty patients with active AS were distributed into three groups. Group 1 was given anti-TNF therapy plus GPR program. Read More

World Neurosurg 2019 Feb 3;122:e989-e994. Epub 2018 Nov 3.

Department of Neurosurgery, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Turkish Ministry of Health, Istanbul, Turkey.

Background: Epidural fibrosis is a major problem after spine surgery, with some patients having recurrent symptoms secondary to excessive formation of scar tissue resulting in neurologic compression. We used a rat laminectomy model to determine if topical application of boric acid could be helpful in the prevention of epidural fibrosis.

Methods: Rats were randomly assigned to 2 control and 2 experimental groups (n = 8 for each group). Read More

Prion 2018 13;12(5-6):315-319. Epub 2018 Nov 13.

a Department of Neurology and Neurological Science , Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences , Yushima Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo , Japan.

Although colocalization of amyloid β (Aβ) with prion protein (PrP) in the kuru plaque has previously been observed in the brain of prion diseases patients, the participating Aβ species has not been identified. Here, we present an immunohistochemical assessment of the brain and spinal cord of a 69-year-old Japanese female patient with Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease with a P105L mutation on the PRNP gene (GSS-P105L). Immunohistochemical assessment of serial brain sections was performed using anti-PrP and -Aβ antibodies in the hippocampus, frontal and occipital lobes. Read More

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2018 Oct 24. Epub 2018 Oct 24.

IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Objective: To assess whether the involvement of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) belongs to the phenotypic spectrum of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD).

Methods: We examined medical records of 117 sCJDVV2 (ataxic type), 65 sCJDMV2K (kuru-plaque type) and 121 sCJDMM(V)1 (myoclonic type) subjects for clinical symptoms, objective signs and neurophysiological data. We reviewed two diagnostic nerve biopsies and looked for abnormal prion protein (PrP) by western blotting and real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) in postmortem PNS samples from 14 subjects. Read More

Annu Rev Pathol 2019 Jan 24;14:497-516. Epub 2018 Oct 24.

Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.

Prion diseases are rapidly progressive, incurable neurodegenerative disorders caused by misfolded, aggregated proteins known as prions, which are uniquely infectious. Remarkably, these infectious proteins have been responsible for widespread disease epidemics, including kuru in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and chronic wasting disease in cervids, the latter of which has spread across North America and recently appeared in Norway and Finland. The hallmark histopathological features include widespread spongiform encephalopathy, neuronal loss, gliosis, and deposits of variably sized aggregated prion protein, ranging from small, soluble oligomers to long, thin, unbranched fibrils, depending on the disease. Read More

Waste Manag Res 2018 Nov 15;36(11):1029-1036. Epub 2018 Oct 15.

2 Chemical Engineering Department, Gazi University, Gazi, Turkey.

Sustainable utilisation of solid waste has been influenced by the increasing population of the world. Benefits of using solid waste based on natural fibre in polymer material are biodegradability and cost effectiveness. In poultry farms, chicken poultry, one of the slaughterhouse wastes is confronted with 30 10 kg of waste per year in Turkey. Read More

Neurol Neurochir Pol 2018 Nov - Dec;52(6):670-676. Epub 2018 Sep 11.

Turkish Ministry of Health, University of Health Sciences, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Education and Research Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey.

Introduction: Liponeurocytomas are mostly localized in cerebellar hemispheres and the second most common location is the vermis. It is rarely observed within the intracranial ventricles. Here, we present a case of liponeurocytoma located in the right lateral ventricle and the systematic review of the literature. Read More

Turk Psikiyatri Derg 2018 ;29(2):122-130

Objective: The Dimensional Obsessive Compulsive Scale (DOCS) is a measurement tool that examines the severity of thematically distinct symptom domains of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In this study we assess psychometric properties of the Turkish version of DOCS.

Methods: Ninety-six patients who presented consecutively to the Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Teaching and Research Hospital outpatient unit and who were diagnosed with OCD according to the DSM-IV-TR criteria were enrolled in the study. Read More

Neuromuscul Disord 2018 Oct 31;28(10):857-862. Epub 2018 Jul 31.

Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address:

Caveolinopathies, caused by CAV3 mutations, can include several phenotypes such as rippling muscle disease, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C, distal myopathy, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and idiopathic hyperCKemia. Here we present characteristic skeletal muscle imaging findings in four patients with genetically defined childhood-onset RMD caused by CAV3 mutations and in one patient with congenital generalized lipodystrophy type 4 with muscular dystrophy due to polymerase I and transcript release factor (PTRF) mutations, which may have caused secondary deficiency of caveolin-3. Muscle MRI revealed that the rectus femoris and semitendinosus muscles were most commonly affected in the rippling muscle disease patients. Read More

Niger J Clin Pract 2018 Sep;21(9):1182-1189

Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.

Background: When examining the incidence of autism, however, children should not be considered independent of their parents, as this collection of disorders also affects the life of their family members. Having a disabled child affects the relationships with the family and friends, and the social and work life of families. The quality of life of these families is discussed in terms of financial aspects, health, support of family members, values, occupation, family relations, and individual support dimensions of developmental disabilities. Read More

Niger J Clin Pract 2018 Sep;21(9):1132-1138

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the ora-dental health and its relation with medication and dental fear in a group of Turkish children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Subjects And Methods: The levels of dental fear of children were determined with The Dental Subscale of Children's Fear Survey Schedule (CFSS-DS). The oral and dental health evaluation was performed. Read More

Nat Commun 2018 08 27;9(1):3452. Epub 2018 Aug 27.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, 34956, Istanbul, Turkey.

Combination therapies that produce synergistic growth inhibition are widely sought after for the pharmacotherapy of many pathological conditions. Therapeutic selectivity, however, depends on the difference between potency on disease-causing cells and potency on non-target cell types that cause toxic side effects. Here, we examine a model system of antimicrobial compound combinations applied to two highly diverged yeast species. Read More

Med Sci Monit 2018 Aug 22;24:5851-5859. Epub 2018 Aug 22.

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey.

BACKGROUND We aimed to determine the effects of exercise followed by detraining on systolic blood pressure (SBP), heme oxygenase 2 (HO-2) expression, and carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) concentration in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) to explain the role of carbon monoxide (CO) in this process. MATERIAL AND METHODS Animals were randomized into exercised and detrained groups. Corresponding sedentary rats were grouped as Time 1-2. Read More

Acta Cir Bras 2018 Jul;33(7):565-576

Full Professor, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Department of Pathology, Ankara, Turkey. Histopathological examinations.

Purpose: To investigate the possible effects of argan oil on the healing of colorectal anastomoses.

Methods: n Group 1 (sham), laparotomy was performed and the colon was mobilized. In the control (Group 2) and argan oil (Group 3) groups, colonic resection and anastomosis were applied. Read More

Lasers Surg Med 2018 Aug 10. Epub 2018 Aug 10.

Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Periodontology, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Objectives: Generalized aggressive periodontitis (GAgP) is a distinct type of periodontal disease characterized by rapid loss of attachment and alveolar bone occurring in young individuals. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) was introduced in periodontology as an adjunctive approach to non-surgical periodontal treatment (NPT) in periodontitis patients. In this trial, the aim was to evaluate the clinical and microbiological effects of adjunctive PDT to NPT in patients with GAgP. Read More

Neuropathology 2018 Oct 6;38(5):549-556. Epub 2018 Aug 6.

Department of Neuropathology, Institute for Medical Science of Aging, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan.

We present an autopsied case of non-plaque-type dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (dCJD) with extensive amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition in the brain. A 39-year-old Japanese woman presented with memory disturbance and abnormal behavior. The patient had a history of craniotomy with dura matter-graft transplant for a head injury which occurred when she was 19 years old. Read More

J Phys Condens Matter 2018 Sep 27;30(36):365502. Epub 2018 Jul 27.

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.

We characterize the confinement of massless Dirac electrons under axially symmetric magnetic fields in graphene, including zero energy modes and higher energy levels. In particular, we analyze in detail the Aharonov-Casher theorem, on the existence of zero modes produced by magnetic fields with finite flux in two dimensions. We apply techniques of supersymmetric quantum mechanics to determine the confined states by means of the quantum number j associated to isospin and angular momentum. Read More

Biomed Res Int 2018 28;2018:3874131. Epub 2018 Jun 28.

Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Hyaluronic acid (HA) constitutes one of the major components of the extracellular matrix domain in almost all mammals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the regenerative capacity of HA matrix in rat calvarial bone defects and compare with those of different combinations of resorbable collagen membrane (M) and bovine-derived xenograft (G). Twenty-four 3-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 200-250 g were included. Read More

Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova 2018;118(6):88-95

Institute of Medical and Social Technologies, Moscow State University of Food Production, Moscow, Russia.

Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are a group of neurodegenerative diseases with progressive dementia and movement disorders. There are three variants of prion diseases pathogenesis: direct contamination, genetic and sporadic forms. The following clinical forms are known: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (common type), variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy, fatal insomnia and fatal familial insomnia, kuru, prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy. Read More

Rev Esp Enferm Dig 2018 Nov;110(11):726-732

General Surgery Department, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Turkey.

Meckel's diverticulum is the most common anomalous development of the gastrointestinal system that results from an incomplete vitelline canal. A diagnosis is usually made during the clinical examination of presentations such as unexplained gastrointestinal bleeding, obstruction, inflammation or perforation. The purpose of this review is to provide an adequate level of knowledge of the clinical and diagnostic features as well as the management of Meckel's diverticulum. Read More

Eur Radiol 2019 Jan 25;29(1):299-308. Epub 2018 Jun 25.

Department of Radiology (E010), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.

Purpose: To quantitatively assess 12-month prostate volume (PV) reduction based on T2-weighted MRI and immediate post-treatment contrast-enhanced MRI non-perfused volume (NPV), and to compare measurements with predictions of acute and delayed ablation volumes based on MR-thermometry (MR-t), in a central radiology review of the Phase I clinical trial of MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) in patients with localized prostate cancer.

Materials And Methods: Treatment day MRI and 12-month follow-up MRI and biopsy were available for central radiology review in 29 of 30 patients from the published institutional review board-approved, prospective, multi-centre, single-arm Phase I clinical trial of TULSA. Viable PV at 12 months was measured as the remaining PV on T2-weighted MRI, less 12-month NPV, scaled by the fraction of fibrosis in 12-month biopsy cores. Read More

Psychiatr Danub 2018 Jun;30(2):227-229

Department of Psychiatry, Boylam Psychiatric Hospital, Ankara, Turkey,

Arch Rheumatol 2018 Mar 14;33(1):1-16. Epub 2018 Feb 14.

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Division of Rheumatology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

Objectives: This study aims to update 2011 Turkish League Against Rheumatism SpondyloArthritis Recommendations, and to compose a national expert opinion on management of axial spondyloArthritis under guidance of current guidelines, and implantation and dissemination of these international guidelines into our clinical practice.

Patients And Methods: A scientific committee of 28 experts consisting of 14 rheumatologists and 14 physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists (one of them also has an immunology PhD) was formed. The recommendations, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment were scrutinized paying special attention with convenient key words. Read More

Handb Clin Neurol 2018 ;153:1-17

Laboratory of Bacterial and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents, Division of Emerging and Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, United States.

The first of several pivotal moments leading to current understanding of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) occurred in 1959 when veterinary pathologist W.J. Hadlow first recognized several similarities between scrapie-a slow infection of sheep caused by an unusual infectious agent-and kuru, a fatal exotic neurodegenerative disease affecting only people of a single language group in the remote mountainous interior of New Guinea, described two years earlier by D. Read More

Eur J Breast Health 2018 Apr 1;14(2):93-99. Epub 2018 Apr 1.

Department of Medical Oncology, Oncology Institute, University of Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey.

Objective: The current rearrangement ratio of and genes is not known in the Turkish population. Rearrangements are not routinely investigated in many Turkish laboratories. This creates problems and contradictions between clinics. Read More

Eur J Breast Health 2018 Apr 1;14(2):72-73. Epub 2018 Apr 1.

Department of General Surgery, Ondokuz Mayis University School of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.

The Annual San Antonio Symposium was held on 5-9, December, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, USA (1). As expected, many new studies were presented for the first time at the sessions. The unofficial opening lecture in my point of view was given on locoregional recurrence by Monica Morrow from MSKCC, New York. Read More

Nephron 2018 17;139(4):299-304. Epub 2018 May 17.

Department of Physiology, Akdeniz University, Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.

Background/aims: Temporary proteinuria post-exercise is common and is caused predominantly by renal haemodynamic alterations. One reason is up-regulation of angiotensin II (Ang II) due to the reducing effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. However, another, ignored, reason could be the kininase effect of ACE inhibition. Read More

Sci Rep 2018 May 10;8(1):7477. Epub 2018 May 10.

Section of Molecular Urooncology, Department of Urology, University of Heidelberg School of Medicine, Im Neuenheimer Feld 517, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany.

A venous tumor thrombus (VTT) is a potentially lethal complication of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) but virtually nothing is known about the underlying natural history. Based on our observation that venous thrombi contain significant numbers of viable tumor cells, we applied multiregion whole exome sequencing to a total of 37 primary tumor and VTT samples including normal tissue specimens from five consecutive patients. Our findings demonstrate mutational heterogeneity between primary tumor and VTT with 106 of 483 genes (22%) harboring functional SNVs and/or indels altered in either primary tumor or thrombus. Read More

Wien Klin Wochenschr 2018 May 7. Epub 2018 May 7.

Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey.

Correction to: Wien Klin Wochenschr 2015 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-015-0854-z The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Read More

Int J Radiat Biol 2018 06 27;94(6):542-550. Epub 2018 Apr 27.

b Department of Nuclear Medicine , University of Health Sciences, Ankara Training and Research Hospital , Ankara , Turkey.

Purpose: Radioactive I131 (RAI) therapy is a standard method to ablate the remnant thyroidal tissue after total thyroidectomy and its metastases in differentiated thyroid carcinomas; however, I131 also accumulates in nonthyroidal tissue, which may cause adverse effects and limit the I131 dose required for treatment. We hypothesized that montelukast, a known agent with anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, would ameliorate the radiation-induced histopathological characteristics such as pneumonitis and fibrosis in rat lungs after RAI.

Methods: Fifty female Wistar albino rats were randomly separated into five groups of 10. Read More

Biol Trace Elem Res 2019 Jan 14;187(1):1-8. Epub 2018 Apr 14.

Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.

The boron content was determined in 42 different foods consumed in Istanbul, Turkey. Eleven species of fruit, ten species of vegetable, eight species of food of animal origin, four species of grain, two species of nuts, two species of legume, and five other kinds of foods were included to this study. They were analyzed by two methods: Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) technique and carminic acid assay, and the results of two methods were also compared. Read More

Curr Biol 2018 Apr 22;28(7):1039-1051.e5. Epub 2018 Mar 22.

University of Vienna, Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Archaeal Biology and Ecogenomics Division, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address:

To determine the fundamentals of cell growth, we must extend cell biological studies to non-model organisms. Here, we investigated the growth modes of the only two rods known to widen instead of elongating, Candidatus Thiosymbion oneisti and Thiosymbion hypermnestrae. These bacteria are attached by one pole to the surface of their respective nematode hosts. Read More

Diagn Cytopathol 2018 Jun 10;46(6):489-494. Epub 2018 Mar 10.

Department of Pathology, Ondokuz Mayis University School of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.

Background: Thyroid nodules diagnosed as Bethesda category IV [follicular neoplasm/suspicious for follicular neoplasm (FN/SFN)] are recommended for surgery. However, only 10%-40% of these nodules turn out to be malignant on histopathological examination. Therefore, selection for surgery of nodules diagnosed as Bethesda category IV is important. Read More

Psychiatry Investig 2018 Feb 14;15(2):226-229. Epub 2017 Dec 14.

Uşak State Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic, Uşak, Turkey.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an uncommon but potentially lethal idiosyncratic reaction which may emerge in the aftermath of the treatments with neuroleptics demonstrating itself with the symptoms of altered consciousness, high fever, impaired autonomic functions, and muscle rigidity. Although various risk factors have been identified for NMS, its etiology is not completely known. The mortality and morbidity related with NMS could be reduced by early diagnosis, interruption of the neuroleptics used within a short period and aggressive treatment. Read More

Nord J Psychiatry 2018 May 9;72(4):273-280. Epub 2018 Feb 9.

f Department of Psychiatry , Tavşanlı State Hospital , Tavşanlı, Kütahya , Turkey.

Background: It is known that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients with poor insight display more severe neuropsychological impairments than other patients with OCD. There are limited studies of OCD and theory of mind (ToM).

Aim: To investigate ToM skills in patients with OCD and the relationship between insight and ToM skills by comparing OCD patients with good and poor insight. Read More

Neurosci Lett 2018 03 9;668:43-47. Epub 2018 Jan 9.

Laboratory of Comparative Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 18 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0818, Japan. Electronic address:

Evaluation of transmission properties is important for the differential diagnosis of a subgroup of acquired Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) with methionine homozygosity at polymorphic codon 129 of the PRNP gene, an intermediate type abnormal prion protein (PrP), and kuru plaques, denoted as acquired CJD-MMiK. The present study aimed to develop a quick evaluation system of the transmission properties of acquired CJD-MMiK. In the PrP-humanized mice intraperitoneally inoculated with brain homogenates from an acquired CJD-MMiK patient, accumulation of abnormal PrP was observed in follicular dendritic cells of the spleen at 75 days post-inoculation. Read More

J Cancer Educ 2018 Jan 8. Epub 2018 Jan 8.

Department of Urology, University Hospital Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.

A growing number of patients search for health information online. An early investigation of websites about bladder cancer (BCa) revealed mostly incomplete and particularly inaccurate information. We analyzed the quality, readability, and popularity of the most frequented websites on BCa. Read More

Nat Microbiol 2018 Feb;3(2):254

Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.

In the original version of this Article, a grant number and acknowledgement were omitted. The Acknowledgements section should have stated that one of the 3D SIM microscopes used for this research was supported by Medical Research Council UK grant (MR/K015753/1) to S. Foster, University of Sheffield, UK, and that the authors thank C. Read More

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018 01 4;115(3):619-624. Epub 2018 Jan 4.

Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115;

Incorporation of nonstandard amino acids (nsAAs) leads to chemical diversification of proteins, which is an important tool for the investigation and engineering of biological processes. However, the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases crucial for this process are polyspecific in regard to nsAAs and standard amino acids. Here, we develop a quality control system called "posttranslational proofreading" to more accurately and rapidly evaluate nsAA incorporation. Read More

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2018 05 18;301(5):932-938. Epub 2018 Jan 18.

Department of Surgical, Veterinary Faculty, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.

This study was conducted to reveal the morphometric and morphological features of foot pads in the Anatolian bobcat (Lynx lynx). To achieve this objective, dissection, histological, and radiography techniques were applied to two dead materials obtained from the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forest and Water Works Sivas Branch Manager. Digit I is radiographically rudimentary in the forepaw. Read More

Zootaxa 2017 Oct 24;4338(2):263-291. Epub 2017 Oct 24.

División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina..

A new genus of gnaphosid spiders, Almafuerte, gen. nov., is described for seven species from Southern South America. Read More

J Biomater Sci Polym Ed 2018 03 20;29(4):344-359. Epub 2017 Dec 20.

e Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science , Ege University , Izmir , Turkey.

Herein we describe the synthesis of Concanavalin A-poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-ethylene dimethacrylate) hydrogel membranes (via photopolymerization technique) for antibody separation from aqueous solutions. Different characterization techniques including Scanning Electron Microscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Elemental Analysis and swelling tests revealed the highly rough morphology and spherical shape of the synthetized membranes. Attached amount of IMEO (salinization agent) onto polymeric structure and Con A binding capacity were found to be 10. Read More