Turk J Med Sci
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The present study proposes to investigate the effect of neuropeptide–S (NPS) on cognitive functions and depression-like behavior of MPTP-induced experimental model of Parkinson’s disease (PD). ⋯ NPS may be involved in the future treatment of cognitive impairments and depression-like behaviors in PD.
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The management of nodules with indeterminate cytology [atypia of undetermined significance (AUS), follicular lesion of undetermined significance (FLUS), follicular neoplasm (FN), suspicious for a follicular neoplasm (SFN), and suspicious for malignancy (SM)] results is controversial. To assess the role of the elastography technique in the diagnosis of malignancy in the subtypes of indeterminate thyroid nodules. ⋯ Thyroid elastography may reduce unnecessary surgery for both patients with AUS/FLUS and selected SFN cytology. Elastography appears to be helpful in follicular variants and other types of papillary thyroid cancer, however, not in follicular thyroid cancer.
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This study was conducted to compare the effects of conventional physiotherapy and two different ‘proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation’ (PNF) techniques on knee muscle strength, knee muscular endurance, and proprioception in knee osteoarthritis (KOA). ⋯ All methods were effective in patients with early-stage knee osteoarthritis; however, the most effective results were obtained by PNF using CIC technique.
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To evaluate benign and malignant cutaneous-subcutaneous lesions using real-time strain elastography (RTSE) and to compare the findings with histopathologic results. ⋯ RTSE is an important imaging tool to differentiate benign and malignant superficial soft tissue lesions. Our results suggest that RTSE can be used to predict malignancy since malignant lesions are more confidentially diagnosed than benign superficial soft tissue lesions on elastograms.