• Impaired Thiol-Disulfide Balance In Acute Brucellosis 

      Kolgelier, Servet; Ergin, Merve; Demir, Lutfi Saltuk; İnkaya, Ahmet Çağkan; Aktuğ Demir, Nazlım; Alışık, Murat; Erel, Özcan (Natl Inst Infectious Diseases, 2017)
      The objective of this study was to examine a novel profile: thiol-disulfide homeostasis in acute brucellosis. The study included 90 patients with acute brucellosis, and 27 healthy controls. Thiol-disulfide profile tests ...
    • Is Serum High-Mobility Group Box 1 (Hmgb-1) Level Correlated with Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis B? 

      Inkaya, Ahmet Cagkan; Aktug, Nazlim; Kolgelier, Servet; Sumer, Sua; Demir, Lutfi Saltuk; Ural, Onur; Pehlivan, Fatma Seher; Aslan, Mahmure; Arpaci, Abdullah (Wolters Kluwer, 2017)
      Background: High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), identified as an alarmin molecule, was shown to have a role in virus-triggered liver injury. We aimed to evaluate the association between serum levels of HMGB1 and liver ...
    • Preliminary Evaluation of an Immunochromatographic Strip Test for Specific Treponema Pallidum Antibodies 

      Zarakolu Köşker, Işkın Pınar; Buchanan, I.; Tam, M.; Smith, K.; Hook, E.W. (Amer Soc Microbiology, 2002)
      We evaluated a prototype immunochromatographic strip (ICS) test for qualitative detection of Treponema pallidum antibodies in 353 sera from 157 patients. For sera from 43 syphilis patients, the ICSs were reactive, while ...