Advances in Medical Sciences            Advances in Medical Sciences

Volume 64 (No.1), 2019

 

 Volume 64 (No.1), March 2019

 

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Pages 1-209

 

Editorial Board

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Review Articles
 

1. Metabolic pathways of L-arginine and therapeutic consequences in tumors.
Pages: 104-110
Authors: Jarosław Szefel, Aleksandra Danielak, Wiesław Janusz Kruszewski

2. Mast cells in mastocytosis and allergy - important player in metabolic and immunological homeostasis..
Pages: 124-130
Authors: Joanna Renke, Sabina Kędzierska – Mieszkowska, Magdalena Lange, Bogusław Nedoszytko, Eliza Wasilewska, Anna Liberek, Marcin Renke, Marek Niedoszytko , Jacek Witkowski, Joanna Skórko-Glonek, Barbara Lipińska

3. Cardiac troponins in chronic kidney disease patients with special emphasis on their importance in acute coronary syndrome..
Pages: 131-136
Authors: Joanna Szczykowska, Tomasz Hryszko, Beata Naumnik

 

 

Original Research Articles

4. Diagnostic power of VEGF, MMP-9 and TIMP-1 in patients with breast cancer. A multivariate statistical analysis with ROC curve.
Pages: 1-8
Authors: Monika Zajkowska, Ewa Gacuta, Sylwia Kozłowska, Emilia Lubowicka, Edyta K. Głażewska, Lech Chrostek, Maciej Szmitkowski, Przemysław Pawłowski, Monika Zbucka-Krętowska, Sławomir Ławicki

5. The combination of fecal calprotectin with ESR, CRP and albumin discriminates more accurately children with Crohn’s disease.
Pages: 9-14
Authors: Urszula Daniluk, Jaroslaw Daniluk, Milena Krasnodebska, Joanna Maria Lotowska, Maria Elzbieta Sobaniec-Lotowska, Dariusz Marek Lebensztejn

6. Long-term administration of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor (URB597) to rats with spontaneous hypertension disturbs liver redox balance and phospholipid metabolism.
Pages: 15-23
Authors: Michał Biernacki, Ewa Ambrożewicz, Agnieszka Gęgotek, Marek Toczek, Elżbieta Skrzydlewska

7. Activity of lysosomal exoglycosidases in the urine of healthy normotensive and pre-hypertensive children.
Pages: 24-31
Authors: Beata Zalewska-Szajda, Katarzyna Taranta-Janusz, Sylwia Chojnowska, Napoleon Waszkiewicz, Krzysztof Zwierz, Anna Wasilewska

8. Hypertension prevalence in early breast cancer patients undergoing primary surgery.
Pages: 32-36
Authors: Klaudia Kozłowska, Leszek Kozłowski, Jolanta Małyszko

9. Fluid therapy in non-septic, refractory acute decompensated heart failure patients – the cautious role of central venous pressure.
Pages: 37-43
Authors: Malgorzata Chlabicz, Remigiusz Kazimierczyk, Paulina Lopatowska, Monika Gil, Bartosz Kudlinski, Marcin Ligowski, Bozena Sobkowicz, Marek Gierlotka, Karol Kaminski, Agnieszka Tycińska

10. Association Between Gastric Myoelectric Activity Disturbances and Dyspeptic Symptoms in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients..
Pages: 44-53
Authors: Aneta L. Zygulska, Agata Furgala, Krzysztof Krzemieniecki, Beata Wlodarczyk, Piotr Thor

11. Effect of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Porphyromonas gingivalis on proliferation and apoptosis of gingival epithelial cells.
Pages: 54-57
Authors: Jun-jun Zhao, Long Jiang, Ya-qin Zhu, Xi-Ping Feng

12. Epilepsy identification based on EEG signal using RQA method.
Pages: 58-64
Authors: Iwona Gruszczyńska, Romuald Mosdorf, Piotr Sobaniec, Milena Żochowska-Sobaniec, Marta Borowska

13. Beneficial effect of ovocystatin on the cognitive decline in APP/PS1 transgenic mice.
Pages: 65-71
Authors: Bartłomiej Stańczykiewicz, Marta Jakubik-Witkowska, Maria Rutkowska, Antoni Polanowski, Jakub Gburek, Krzysztof Gołąb, Katarzyna Juszczyńska, Tadeusz Trziszka, Joanna Rymaszewska

14. 16 α-Hydroxyestrone induced adduct generate high affinity autoantibodies in SLE.
Pages: 72-78
Authors: Wahid Ali Khan

15. DNA variants in Helicobacter pylori infected patients with chronic gastritis, dysplasia and gastric cancer.
Pages: 79-84
Authors: Andrzej Hnatyszyn, Marlena Szalata, Marzena Skrzypczak-Zielinska, Karolina Wielgus, Jerzy Stanczyk, Ireneusz Dziuba, Adam Mikstacki, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Malgorzata Waszak, Piotr Tomasz Hnatyszyn, Ryszard Slomski

16. Serum levels and gene expression of pentraxin 3 are elevated in COPD.
Pages: 85-89
Authors: Michał Poznański, Ewa Brzeziańska-Lasota, Justyna Kiszałkiewicz, Ilona Kurnatowska, Jadwiga Kroczyńska-Bednarek, Anna Pękala-ojciechowska, Tadeusz Pietras, Adam Antczak

17. Twenty years of growth hormone treatment in dialyzed children in Poland – results of national multicenter study.
Pages: 90-99
Authors: Dominika Adamczuk, Beata Leszczyńska, Piotr Skrzypczyk, Agnieszka Turczyn, Agnieszka Antonowicz, Anna Majcher, Maria Szczepańska, Piotr Adamczyk, Ilona Zagożdżon, Aleksandra Żurowska, Marcin Tkaczyk, Anna Jander, Przemysław Sikora, Anna Wasilewska, Alfred Warzywoda, Katarzyna Kiliś-Pstrusińska, Danuta Zwolińska, Katarzyna Zachwieja, Dorota Drożdż, Roman Stankiewicz, Ryszard Grenda, Małgorzata Pańczyk-Tomaszewska

18. Implantation of a scleralfixated posterior chamber intraocular lens with 9-0 polypropylene sutures: long-term visual outcomes and complications.
Pages: 100-103
Authors: Ewa Wasiluk, Pawel Krasnicki, Diana A Dmuchowska, Ewa Proniewska-Skretek, Zofia Mariak

19. The concentration-dependent effect of anethole on collagen, MMP-2 and GAG in human skin fibroblasts cultures.
Pages: 111-116
Authors: Edyta Andrulewicz-Botulińska, Iwona Kuźmicz, Jolanta Nazaruk, Joanna Woseka, Anna Galicka

20. Combination therapy profoundly improved skin flap survival by modulating KATP channels and nitric oxide.
Pages: 117-123
Authors: Mahtab Farrokhi, Mehdi Zekriyapanah Gashti, Mahmood Hoormand, Azam Bakhtiarian, Rohalah Habibi

21. Association of 18bp insertion/deletion polymorphism, at −2549 position of VEGF gene, with diabetic vascular complications in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Pages: 137-143
Authors: Agnieszka Gala-Błądzińska, Joanna Czech, Marcin Braun, Marzena Skrzypa, Krzysztof Gargasz, Artur Mazur, Izabela Zawlik

22. Pleiotrophin: analysis of the endothelialisation potential.
Pages: 144-151
Authors: Francesco Copes, Martina Ramella, Luca Fusaro, Diego Mantovani, Mario Cannas, Francesca Boccafoschi

23. An Endoscopic Training And Assessment Model for Argon Plasma Coagulation.
Pages: 152-156
Authors: Vinay Chandrasekhara, Daniel Rhoades, Pavlos Z. Kaimakliotis, Sun-Chuan Dai, Michael L. Kochman

24. Personal mobile device-based pocket echocardiograph - the diagnostic value and clinical utility.
Pages: 157-161
Authors: Paulina Wejner-Mik, Jarosław D. Kasprzak, Dominika Filipiak-Strzecka, Dawid Miśkowiec, Adrianna Lorens, Piotr Lipiec

25. Comparison of left side or right side vagotomy in the rat subjected to acute pancreatitis.
Pages: 162-168
Authors: Joanna Szklarczyk, Michalina Kot, Joanna Bonior, Zbigniew Śliwowski, Romana Tomaszewska, Jolanta Jaworek

26. Serotonin transporter gene linked polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) determines progredience of alcohol dependence in Belarusian young males..
Pages: 169-173
Authors: Andrei Kapitau, Inessa Goloenko, Victor Obyedkov, Kirill Pavlov, Sławomir D. Szajda, Napoleon Waszkiewicz

27. Evaluation of the serum prooxidant-antioxidant balance before and after vitamin D supplementation in adolescent Iranian girls.
Pages: 174-180
Authors: Ameneh Timar, Maryam Saberi-Karimianb, Hamideh Ghazizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Reza Parizadeh, Reihaneh Sabbaghzadeh, Maryam Emadzadeh, Fatemeh Eshaghi, Shima Tavallaie, Gordon A. Ferns, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan

28. Ensembling rules in automatic analysis of pressure on plantar surface in children with pes planovalgus.
Pages: 181-188
Authors: Marcin Derlatka, Mikhail Ihnatouski, Marek Jałbrzykowski, Vladimir Lashkovski, Lukasz Minarowski

29. Urinary procollagen III aminoterminal propeptide and β-catenin - new diagnostic biomarkers in solitary functioning kidney?.
Pages: 189-194
Authors: Katarzyna Taranta-Janusz, Anna Moczulska, Hanna Nosek, Joanna Michaluk-Skutnik, Mark Klukowski, Anna Wasilewska

30. Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7 (IGFBP 7) as a new biomarker in coronary heart disease.
Pages: 195-201
Authors: Anna Lisowska, Przemysław Święcki, Małgorzata Knapp, Monika Gil, Włodzimierz J Musiał, Karol Kamiński, Tomasz Hirnle, Agnieszka Tycińska

31. Influence of Copper (I) Nicotinate Complex and Autophagy Modulation on Doxorubicin-Induced Cytotoxicity in HCC1806 Breast Cancer Cells.
Pages: 202-209
Authors: Mohamed A. Abdel-Mohsen, Camelia A. Abdel Malak, Eman S. El- Shafey