AIM: To show causes of dural tear in isolated lumbar disc surgery, and to investigate the risk factors. MATERIAL and METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 1159 cases (532 females and 627 males) involving patients who ...

A new paste technique was established for making boronising coatings. This method gave iron boride coatings a unique wear and tear property something that was tested as a microstructural feature. The coats were acquired ...

Mechanical alloying (MA) is a powder metallurgy processing technique involving cold welding, fracturing and rewelding of powder particles in a high-energy ball mill. In the present study, the intermetallic matrix composites ...

In this paper, we established some Ostrowski like integral inequalities for functions whose derivatives of absolute values are GG-convex and GA-convex functions via a new integral identity. General results are obtained ...

p21 and p27 are members of cyclin-dependent kinase family, which function as tumor suppressors and they are involved in development and progression of several malignancies. We investigated their expression in upper urinary ...

Objective: Gastrointestinal parasitosis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Definitive diagnosis is usually made by stool tests and/or serology but may require tissue evaluation. Although pathologists are ...

Cataract is considered to be the primary reason for curable blindness that is caused by progressive loss of lens transparency and affects millions of people around the world. This study aims to analyze the changes in ...

The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is to promote and modulate neuronal responses across neurotransmitter systems in the brain. Therefore, abnormal BDNF signaling may be associated with the pathophysiology ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of diclofenac sodium (DS) exposure on the prenatal development of female rat arteries. STUDY DESIGN: Pregnant rats were separated into control, saline-injected, and drug-treated (DS) ...