Kategori "Kitap Bölümü - Uluslararası" Uluslararası Tıp Fakültesi İçin Listeleme
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BCG and autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)The nonspecific effects of BCG are not fully understood nevertheless, “trained immunity” and “heterologous lymphocyte responses” have been suggested. For instance, intravesical BCG therapy used for the treatment of bladder ... -
Flexible ureteroscopy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma
(Springer Nature, 2022)Flexible ureteroscopy (fURS) is an essential tool for the diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). fURS should actually be performed in case of uncertainty, for kidney-sparing ... -
Functional and anatomical dissection of feeding circuits
(Wiley, 2016)This chapter reviews the application of new genetically encoded tools in feeding circuits that regulate appetite. Rapid activation and inhibition of agouti related peptide (AgRP) neurons conclusively established a causal ... -
Hypertension in family medicine
(Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2022)According to the literature, blood pressure control can only be achieved in about a quarter of patients receiving medical treatment. Poor compliance to the treatment and not seeing a family medicine specialist regularly ... -
Infection and autoimmune liver diseases
(Academic Press, 2024)Autoimmune liver diseases (AiLD) comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders inflicting damage to the liver. Those diseases are characterized by an immune-mediated destruction of the hepatocytes (autoimmune hepatitis, AIH) ... -
Infection and autoimmunity – an ıntroductory note
(Academic Press, 2024)Almost every infectious agent was linked in one way or another to various responses from the immune system. The responses range from normal reaction to a vast majority of autoimmune manifestations. Led by molecular mimicry, ... -
Infection and guillain–barre syndrome – a lifelong relation
(Elsevier, 2024)Guillain–Barre syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune neurological disease considered as the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis worldwide. In terms of etiology and pathogenesis, upper respiratory infection, gastroenteritis, ... -
Infections and Behçet Disease
(Academic Press, 2024)Behçet disease (BD) is a chronic multisystem disorder of unknown etiology characterized by various degrees of vasculitis affecting all sizes of blood vessels (Davatchi, 2018 [1]). BD is thought to be an autoinflammatory ... -
Infections and celiac disease
(Academic Press, 2024)Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a global prevalence of 1%. It is known to develop after ingestion of gluten-rich foods in genetically susceptible individuals. Variants in HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 genes ... -
Infections in the immune interplay of inflammatory bowel disease
(Academic Press, 2024)Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), namely ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), is a chronic, relapsing, multi-factorial disease characterized by inflammation of the intestine. While the etiology of IBD is still ... -
Malaria and autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)Malaria is a vector-borne parasitic disease. In 2020, there were 241 million cases of malaria and 627,000 deaths worldwide. The first connection between Malaria and autoimmunity was documented in 1968 by Brian Greenwood. ... -
Newer advances in access
(Springer Nature, 2022)This chapter starts with an overview of the commonly used access direction technologies namely fluoroscopy and ultrasonography. Then an overview of the main novel technologies for access has been provided starting from ... -
Parvovirus and autoimmune diseases
(Academic Press, 2024)For decades, the role of viruses in the initiation and exacerbation of autoimmune disorders have been widely documented. Recently, a growing number of studies have been questioning the relationship between human parvovirus ... -
Renal autoimmunity: the role of bacterial and viral infections – an extensive review
(Academic Press, 2024)Autoimmunity is a process by which the loss of self-tolerance results in an immune attack against the body own tissues and organs. For autoimmunity to occur, various elements serving as triggers were described by which ... -
Rheumatoid arthritis and infections: not only a coincidence
(Academic Press, 2024)Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease affecting the synovial membrane damaging the cartilage and bone and leading to destructive arthritis, if left untreated [1]. In fact, RA is not a joint ... -
Streptococcus pneumoniae and autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)The genus Streptococcus includes 49 species, 35 of which have been identified as a cause of infections in humans. Species of Streptococcus are divided into groups based on the antigenic structure of the cell wall alongside ... -
Tobacco use in breastfeeding mothers
(Springer International Publishing, 2023)Smoking is a major health hazard that remains very common worldwide. Nicotine is a highly addictive substance. There are in excess of 250 million female smokers globally. When expectant mothers continue to smoke, they not ... -
Transformation of acinetobacter baumannii: Electroporation
(Humana Press Inc., 2019)Although the pan and the core genome of Acinetobacter baumannii and its essential genes are relatively well characterized, functional characterization of these genes has not paralleled the genome-level studies. However, ... -
Vaccinations in patients with autoimmune diseases
(Wiley, 2024)The introduction of vaccinations provided one of the most efficient solutions to combating morbidity and mortality associated with infections. They have proven efficiency in protecting both healthy patients and patients ... -
Viral infections and type 1 diabetes mellitus – guilty viruses in the court of autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), previously known as insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes, is a chronic disease characterized by an autoimmune-induced pancreatic damage resulting in the destruction of beta cells. Although ...