RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF INTESTINAL PROTOZOA PARASITES IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO KAFKAS UNIVERSITY HEALTH RESEARCH AND APPLICATION HOSPITAL BETWEEN 2019-2022

Retrospective Evaluation of Intestinal Protozoa Parasites in Patients Presenting to Kafkas University Health Research and Application Hospital Between 2019-2022

Objective: This study aimed to retrospectively evaluate the prevalence of protozoan parasites in stool samples collected from patients presenting with various gastrointestinal complaints to the Medical Parasitology trikes Laboratory of Kafkas University Research and Application Hospital between 2019 and 2022.Methods: Stool samples were initially ex

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Mate Choice Contributes to the Maintenance of Shell Color Polymorphism in a Marine Snail via Frequency-Dependent Sexual Selection

Natural color polymorphisms are widespread across animal species and usually have a simple genetic basis.This makes them an ideal Table Top Game Accessories system to study the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for maintaining biodiversity.In some populations of the intertidal snail Littorina fabalis, variation in shell color has remained stable

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SMAD5 Gene Expression, Rearrangements, Copy Number, Amplification at Fragile Site FRA5C in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Signaling by the transforming growth factor (TGF)family members is transduced from the cell surface to the nucleus by the Smad group of intracellular proteins.Because we detected alterations on the long arm of chromosome 5, we examined the status of the SMAD5 gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines and primary HCC.In 16 cell lines,

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