Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025.180225
Alperen Vural, Marco Ferrari
{"title":"Advances and the Future of Skull Base Surgery.","authors":"Alperen Vural, Marco Ferrari","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025.180225","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025.180225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"90-91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11881544/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143539928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-9-53
Sónia Barros, Margarida Portugal, Luís Miguel Relvas, Ana Margarida Vaz, Bruno Peixe
{"title":"Effective Management of Buried Bumper Syndrome with the Balloon Dilation Pull Technique.","authors":"Sónia Barros, Margarida Portugal, Luís Miguel Relvas, Ana Margarida Vaz, Bruno Peixe","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-9-53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-9-53","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143062888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-01-17DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-11-27
Seher Bostancı, Bengü Nisa Akay, Devrim Deniz Kuşçu, Ayşe Öktem
{"title":"Imiquimod and Lentigo Maligna: Can Severe Inflammation Be the Endpoint in Short-Term Use?","authors":"Seher Bostancı, Bengü Nisa Akay, Devrim Deniz Kuşçu, Ayşe Öktem","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-11-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-11-27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142999154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-12-20
Slobodan Todorovic, Nikola Tesic, Filip Lukic, Jasna Gacic, Borislav Toskovic
{"title":"Trans-visceral Migration of Retained Gauze: A Rare Cause of Intestinal Obstruction.","authors":"Slobodan Todorovic, Nikola Tesic, Filip Lukic, Jasna Gacic, Borislav Toskovic","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-12-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-12-20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142982528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-105
Manahil Mubeen, Hafsa Ali, Syeda Sabika Zehra, Aman Khan
{"title":"Harnessing the Power of Vitexin as a Vitamin D Receptor Agonist in Colorectal Cancer: A New Frontier.","authors":"Manahil Mubeen, Hafsa Ali, Syeda Sabika Zehra, Aman Khan","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142982526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-100
Kaan Can Demirbaş, Cem Çakmak, Seha Saygılı, Nur Canpolat, Özgür Kasapçopur
{"title":"Who Will Care for Our Children? Understanding the Lower Preference Rates for Pediatrics in Türkiye.","authors":"Kaan Can Demirbaş, Cem Çakmak, Seha Saygılı, Nur Canpolat, Özgür Kasapçopur","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142943469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-08-28DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-5-86
Wei Yang, Chendong He
{"title":"Intraventricular Peritoneal Shunt for Obstructive Hydrocephalus Caused by Cavernous Hemangioma of the Aqueduct of Sylvius","authors":"Wei Yang, Chendong He","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-5-86","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-5-86","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":"75-76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11725672/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142079021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quercetin Alleviates Hyperglycemic-Generated Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Contacted Apoptosis of Rat Nucleus Pulposus Cells.","authors":"Zhen Yu, Xianfeng Wang, Yusen Hu, Xinfa Wang, Zhenghuan Zhu, Xu Xu, Yiming Wang, Ailiang Zhang","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-7-92","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-7-92","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous research has shown that apoptosis of nucleus pulposus (NP) cells contributes to intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) progression. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is a reaction to diverse stimuli in eukaryotes and is tightly contacted with apoptosis. Quercetin, a naturally occurring flavonoid, exerts protective effects against degenerative diseases via ER stress. However, the effect of quercetin on NP cell apoptosis remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To investigate the influences of quercetin on apoptosis and ER stress in a high-glucose-generated primary NP cell model.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>In vivo animal experimental study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To investigate the influence of quercetin in a high-glucose-generated NP cell apoptosis model, control, glucose, and glucose + quercetin groups adopted with Sprague-Dawley rats primary NP cells. In the glucose group, cell apoptosis was generated by 200 mm high glucose. In the glucose + quercetin group, 60 μm quercetin was pretreated with NP cells for 2 h before glucose administration. In this research, we examined the change effect of quercetin on NP cell apoptosis, ER stress, and the protein kinase R-like ER kinase (PERK)-eukaryotic translation initiation element 2α (eIF2α)-activating transcription element 4 (ATF4).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>High glucose decreased the viability and induced ER stress-related apoptosis in NP cells. Quercetin modulated ER stress through the PERK-eIF2α-ATF4 pathway, thereby alleviating the apoptosis rank in NP cells.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Quercetin exerts antiapoptotic effects on NP cells, probably through ER stress, thereby showcasing potential as a therapeutic method for treating IDD.</p>","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"27-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11725678/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142930537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}