Depression is a major health problem, especially for elderly people. According to the “homocysteine hypothesis of depression”, high homocysteine levels may cause depression of mood via cerebrovascular diseases. Whil...
Background: Plasmodium falciparum has developed elaborate strategies to survive in the hostile intracellular environment of the infected host cell, including resistance to oxidative stress. Cysteine is a metabolic pro...
The three major issues in L-DOPA therapy for Parkinson are: 1) rapid tolerance;2) induced dyskinesia;3) hyperhomocysteinemia. The newly synthesized molecule, which is an amide bond molecule composed of L-tyrosine and ...
AIM: To evaluate determinants of infammatory mark-ers in chronic renal failure patients according to the level of glomerular fltration rate. METHODS: One hundred ffty four patients (Age: 44 ± 06 years; male/femal...
Objective To review the association of methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T mutant with coronary artery disease, as well as to highlight the results of some of these studies and to emphasize the need to ...
AIM: To assess the hypercoagulability in PBC and its relationship with homocysteine (HCY) and various components of the haemostatic system. METHODS: We investigated 51 PBC patients (43F/8M; mean age: 63±13.9 yr...