Browsing by Author "Üstek, Duran"
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The antifungal activity and cytotoxicity of silver containing denture base material
Kurt, Ayşegül; Erköse Genç, Gonca; Uzun, Meltem; Emrence, Zeliha; Üstek, Duran; Işık Özkol, Gülbahar (Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd., 2017)Objective: Denture base materials are susceptible to fungal adhesion, which is an important etiological issue in the pathogenesis of denture stomatitis. The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the antifungal ... -
Association of Enteric Protist Blastocystis spp. and gut microbiota with hepatic encephalopathy
Yıldız, Sedat; Doğan, İbrahim; Doğruman Al, Funda; Nalbantoğlu, Ufuk; Üstek, Duran; Sarzhanov, Fakhriddin; Yıldırım, Süleyman (Medical Univ Press, 2016)Background & Aims: Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious neuropsychiatric sequela emerging in the advanced stages of cirrhosis. The gut microbiota plays an important role in the development of HE. The aim of the study ... -
Determination of a new mutation in MT-ND1 gene of a patient with dextrocardia, ventriculoarterial discordance, and tricuspid atresia
Hatemi, Ali Can; Ceyran, Hakan; Üstek, Duran (Blackwell Publishing, 2015)Tricuspid atresia, a congenital heart defect (CHD) with unknown etiology, occurs 0.056 per 100 live births and is invariably associated with right ventricular hypoplasia, and atrial/ventricular septal defects (1). Recently, ... -
Genomic analysis reveals the biotechnological and industrial potential of levan producing halophilic extremophile, Halomonas smyrnensis AAD6T
Diken, Elif; Özer, Tuğba; Arıkan, Muzaffer; Emrence, Zeliha; Toksoy Öner, Ebru; Üstek, Duran; Arğa, Kazım Yalçın (Springer International Publishing, 2015)Halomonas smyrnensis AAD6T is a gram negative, aerobic, and moderately halophilic bacterium, and is known to produce high levels of levan with many potential uses in foods, feeds, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and chemical ... -
Hereditary spherocytosis associated with defects of human red blood cell membrane
Albeniz, Işıl; Türker Şener, Leyla; Albeniz, Gürcan; Aktan, Melih; Üstek, Duran (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)... -
A homozygous nonsense thyroid peroxidase mutation (R540X) consistently causes congenital hypothyroidism in two siblings born to a consanguineous family
Cangül, Hakan; Doğan, Murat; Üstek, Duran (Galenos Publishing, 2015)Objective: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most common neonatal endocrine disorder, and mutations in the thyroid peroxidase (TPO) gene have been reported to cause the disease. Our aim in this study was to determine ... -
Identification of red blood cell membrane defects in a patient with hereditary spherocytosis using next-generation sequencing technology and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Türker Şener, Leyla; Aktan, Melih; Albeniz, Gürcan; Şener, Aziz; Üstek, Duran; Albeniz, Işıl (Spandidos Publ Ltd, 2019)Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is characterized by the morphological transformation of erythrocytes into a spherical shape due to a hereditary defect in cell membrane proteins (ghosts) associated with disruption of erythrocyte ... -
The immunostimulatory effect of lactic acid bacteria in a rat model
Karameşe, Murat; Aydın, Hakan; Şengül, Emin; Gelen, Volkan; Sevim, Çiğdem; Üstek, Duran; Karakuş, Emre (Shiraz Inst Cancer Res, 2016)Background: Probiotics are "live", beneficial microbes that provide important health benefits in their hosts. There is significant interest in the modulation and regulation of the immune function by probiotics. Objective: ... -
Improving genome assemblies using multi-platform sequence data
Kavak, Pınar; Ergüner, Bekir; Üstek, Duran; Yüksel, Bayram; Sağıroglu, Mahmut Şamil; Güngör, Tunga; Alkan, Can (Springer Verlag, 2016)Accurate de novo assembly using short reads generated by next generation sequencing technologies is still an open problem. Although there are several assembly algorithms developed for data generated with different sequencing ... -
Lack of association between increased mitochondrial DNA(4977) deletion and ATP levels of sputum cells from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients versus healthy smokers
Karimova, Ayla; Müşteri Oltulu, Yasemin; Azaklı, Hülya; Kara, Murat; Üstek, Duran; Tutluoğlu, Bülent; Onaran, İlhan (Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2017)In this study we looked at smokers with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients in order to evaluate the incidence of 4977 base pair (bp) mtDNA (mtDNA(4977)) deletion and mtDNA copy number in ... -
Microfluidics and nanoparticles based amperometric biosensor for the detection of cyanobacteria (Planktothrix agardhii NIVA-CYA 116) DNA
Ölçer, Zehra; Esen, Elif; Ersoy, Aylin; Budak, Sinan; Sever Kaya, Dilek; Yağmur Gök, Mehmet; Barut, Serkan; Üstek, Duran; Uludaǧ, Yıldız (Elsevier, 2015)Some of the cyanobacteria produce protease inhibitor oligopeptides such as cyanopeptolins and cause drinking water contamination; hence, their detection has great importance to monitor the well-being of water sources that ... -
Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7
Sahakyan, Hovhannes; Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar; Tamang, Rakesh; Kushniarevich, Alena; Francis, Amirtharaj; Costa, Marta D.; Pathak, Ajai Kumar; Khachatryan, Zaruhi; Sharma, Indu; Van Oven, Mannis; Parik, Juri; Hovhannisyan, Hrant; Metspalu, Ene; Pennarun, Erwan; Karmin, Monika; Tamm, Erika; Tambets, Kristiina; Bahmanimehr, Ardeshir; Reisberg, Tuuli; Reidla, Maere; Achilli, Alessandro; Olivieri, Anna; Gandini, Francesca; Perego, Ugo A.; Al-Zahery, Nadia; Houshmand, Massoud; Sanati, Mohammad Hossein; Soares, Pedro; Rai, Ekta; Sarac, Jelena; Saric, Tena; Sharma, Varun; Pereira, Luisa; Fernandes, Veronica; Cerny, Viktor; Farjadian, Shirin; Singh, Deepankar Pratap; Azaklı, Hülya; Üstek, Duran; Ekomasova (Trofimova), Natalia; Kutuev, Ildus; Litvinov, Sergei; Bermisheva, Marina; Khusnutdinova, Elza K.; Singh, Niraj Rai Manvendra; Singh, Vijay Kumar; Reddy, Alla G.; Tolk, Helle-Viivi; Cvjetan, Svjetlana; Lauc, Lovorka Barac; Rudan, Pavao; Michalodimitrakis, Emmanuel N.; Anagnou, Nicholas P.; Pappa, Kalliopi I.; Golubenko, Maria V.; Orekhov, Vladimir; Borinskaya, Svetlana A.; Kaldma, Katrin; Schauer, Monica A.; Simionescu, Maya; Gusar, Vladislava; Grechanina, Elena; Govindaraj, Periyasamy; Voevoda, Mikhail; Damba, Larissa; Sharma, Swarkar; Singh, Lalji; Semino, Ornella; Behar, Doron M.; Yepiskoposyan, Levon; Richards, Martin B.; Metspalu, Mait; Kivisild, Toomas; Thangaraj, Kumarasamy; Endicott, Phillip; Chaubey, Gyaneshwer; Torroni, Antonio; Villems, Richard (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U is among the initial maternal founders in Southwest Asia and Europe and one that best indicates matrilineal genetic continuity between late Pleistocene huntergatherer groups and present-day ... -
Performance comparison of Next Generation sequencing platforms
Ergüner, Bekir; Üstek, Duran; Sağıroğlu, Mahmut Şamil (37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society (EMBC), 2015)Next Generation DNA Sequencing technologies offer ultra high sequencing throughput for very low prices. The increase in throughput and diminished costs open up new research areas. Moreover, number of clinicians utilizing ... -
Recombinant plasmid-based quantitative Real-Time PCR analysis of salmonella enterica serotypes and its application to milk samples
Gökduman, Kurtuluş; Avşaroğlu, Dilek; Çakiriş, Aris; Üstek, Duran; Gürakan, Candan (Elsevier Science Bv, 2016)The aim of the current study was to develop, a new, rapid, sensitive and quantitative Salmonella detection method using a Real-Time PCR technique based on an inexpensive, easy to produce, convenient and standardized ... -
Topical single-dose vascular endothelial growth factor has no effect on soft tissue healing
Bölükbaşı, Nilüfer; Balcıoğlu, Hüseyin Avni; Özkan, Birkan T.; Soluk Tekkesin, Merva; Üstek, Duran (North American Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014)Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production in dermal wounds has been evaluated for evidence that it plays a probable role in wound healing. Events such as increased vascular permeability and concentration ... -
Water as source of Francisella tularensis infection in humans, Turkey
Kılıç, Selçuk Sirri; Birdsell, Dawn; Karagöz, Alper; Çelebi, Bekir; Bakkaloǧlu, Zekiye; Arıkan, Muzaffer; Sahl, Jason; Mitchell, Cedar; Rivera, Andrew; Maltinsky, Sara; Keim, Paul; Üstek, Duran; Durmaz, Rıza; Wagner, David (Centers Disease Control, 2015)Francisella tularensis DNA extractions and isolates from the environment and humans were genetically characterized to elucidate environmental sources that cause human tularemia in Turkey. Extensive genetic diversity ...
