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    Assessment of the Effect of Psoriasis and Methotrexate Treatment on Liver Stiffness by ARFI Imaging
    (Duzce Univ, Fac Medicine, 2023) Guclu, Derya; Karagun, Ebru; Unlu, Elif Nisa; Oktay, Mehtap; Pasin, Ozge
    Objective: To investigate whether psoriasis and methotrexate used in its treatment cause liver fibrosis and eventually to evaluate the safety of methotrexate in treatment.Methods: 44 cases were included in the study. Methotrexate-using (group 1, n=14) and methotrexate-not-using (group 2, n=13) psoriasis patients were compared retrospectively with a healthy control group (group 3, n=17) according to mean shear wave rates obtainedResults: Mean shear wave velocities were calculated as 2.57 & PLUSMN; 1.13 m/sec in the patients using methotrexate, 2.31 & PLUSMN; 1.16 m/sec in the patients who did not use methotrexate, and 1.56 & PLUSMN; 0.62 m/sec in the healthy control group. While the average shear wave velocity of the 3rd group was found to be significantly lower than that of the 1st and 2nd groups (p=0.032; p=0.012), no significant difference was observed between the 1st and 2nd groups (p=0.755).Conclusions: Shear wave imaging with ARFI quantification findings revealed no evidence that methotrexate therapy is associated with liver fibrosis in psoriasis patients and we think that the increase in liver tissue stiffness in patients using methotrexate for psoriasis is secondary to the inflammatory process caused by psoriasis itself rather than methotrexate.
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    Beneficial effects of adipose-derived stromal vascular fraction on testicular injury caused by busulfan
    (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Hekimoglu, E. Rumeysa; Esrefoglu, Mukaddes; Karakaya Cimen, Fatma Bedia; Elibol, Birsen; Dedeakayogullari, Huri; Pasin, Ozge
    The use of stem cells can attenuate testicular injury and promote sperm production. The adipose-derived stromal vascular fraction (SVF) has become an attractive cell source for cell-based therapies. In this study, we aimed to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of SVF on busulfan-induced testicular damage in rats. Twenty-four male rats were randomly divided into control, busulfan, SVF, and busulfan + SVF groups. Testicular damage was induced by intraperitoneal administration of busulfan (35 mg/kg). SVF obtained from human adipose tissue using Lipocube SVF (TM) was injected into rats 5 weeks after busulfan administration. At the end of the 8th week, rats were sacrificed, and histopathological, biochemical, and western blotting analyses were performed. No harmful effects of SVF on healthy testis tissue and sperm parameters were detected. SVF improved busulfan-induced oxidative stress in both testis tissue and serum. SVF injection to damaged testicular tissue resulted in increases in the healthy spermatozoon numbers and decreases in the abnormal tail numbers. Additionally, SVF increased bax/Bcl, DAZL, and TGF-beta 1 levels whereas decreased ATG5 and NF-kB levels. According to the results we obtained in this study, we suggest that SVF is beneficial in restoring damaged tissue by primarily being a multipotent cell source, by inhibiting oxidative stress and converting necrotic cell death to apoptotic cell death. In the future, clinical applications should bring higher benefits. Since SVF is the patient's own tissue, being harmless, it will offer an advantageous supportive treatment option for patients already weakened by cancer and anticancer therapy.