Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Cannabis is one of the world's most widely used recreational drugs and the second most commonly smoked substance. Research on cannabis and the lungs has been limited by its illegal status, the variability in strength and size of cannabis cigarettes (joints), and the fact that most cannabis users also smoke tobacco, making the effects difficult to s...
Published in International journal of molecular sciences
High-density lipoproteins (HDLs) display endothelial protective effects. We tested the role of SR-BI, an HDL receptor expressed by endothelial cells, in the neuroprotective effects of HDLs using an experimental model of acute ischemic stroke. After transient intraluminal middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO), control and endothelial SR-BI defici...
Published in Turkish journal of medical sciences
Pneumonia is the most serious clinical presentation of COVID-19. This study aimed to determine the demographic, clinical, and laboratory findings that can properly predict COVID-19 pneumonia. This study was conducted in the Gazi University hospital. All hospitalized patients with confirmed and suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection between 16 March 2020 an...
Published in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
The goal was to evaluate the association of dynamic retinal vessel analysis (DVA) with echocardiographic parameters assessing systolic and diastolic function of the left ventricle in hypertension (HT) patients with preserved left ventricle ejection fraction. This observational retrospective study recruited 36 patients with HT and 28 healthy control...
Published in Pharmaceutics
Exogenously administered 17β-estradiol (E2) can improve spatial learning and memory, although E2 also exerts undesired effects on peripheral organs. Clinically, E2 has been solubilized in cyclodextrin for intranasal administration, which enhances brain-specific delivery. Prior work shows that the cyclodextrin structure impacts region-specific brain...
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
This work presents the development of tin oxide nanofibers (NFs) and nanoribbons (NRs) sensors with graphene as a dopant for the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) corresponding to different chronic diseases (asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis or diabetes). This research aims to determine the ability of these...
BackgroundAspiration pneumonia (AP) and bronchopneumonia (BP) are poorly characterized diseases in cats that share clinical similarities to inflammatory airway disease (IAD).ObjectivesDescribe clinicopathologic, radiographic, and microbiologic features in cats with AP and BP and compare findings to those in cats with IAD.AnimalsThirty-three cats wi...
Published in Schizophrenia bulletin
An association between antipsychotic drugs and pneumonia has been demonstrated in several studies; however, the risk for pneumonia caused by specific antipsychotics has not been extensively studied. The underlying mechanism is still unknown, and several receptor mechanisms have been proposed. Therefore, using a combined pharmacovigilance-pharmacody...
Published in Expert review of respiratory medicine
Objective: To assess the patterns and trends of influenza and pneumonia-attributed deaths among cancer patients in the United States. Methods: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database was accessed and cancer patients diagnosed 1975-2016 who have been included in the SEER-9 registries were included. The primary endpoint of the stud...
Published in COPD
International Classification of Disease 10 (ICD-10) codes record hospital admissions. We aimed to measure the accuracy of COPD exacerbation (ECOPD) codes and examine coding practices for COPD exacerbation.Prospective screening and ICD-10 codes were used to identify potential ECOPD within the DECAF internal validation cohort. Two coding searches wer...
