the present treatment goals for inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) especially ulcerative colitis (uc) include rapid induction of clinical remission, steroid-free maintenance of clinical remission, mucosal healing and improvement of quality of life in uc patients. immunomodulators have been reserved for steroid- dependent or steroid- refractory uc patients. among these agents, azathioprine/6-merc...

INTRODUCTION It is difficult to evaluate the effect of drugs clinically used for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, mainly because its underlying mechanism remains unknown. OBJECTIVE This study assessed the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy or ozone therapy in the treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, when either therapy was included with steroid treatment....

The purpose of this study was to examine narrowing of the dental pulp cavity in patients undergoing long-term administration of steroids, by means of intraoral radiographs. The subjects were 20 patients under long-term steroid treatment (the steroid group), and 15 patients who were not receiving steroids (the non-steroid group), who visited the Clinic for Persons with Disabilities, University H...

The discovery of a plasma membrane ABC protein that exports steroids in yeast highlights the possibility that similar membrane sorting systems in mammalian cells may modulate the access of steroids to their receptors.

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of combined intratympanic and systemic steroid therapy compared with systemic steroid therapy alone in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (issnhl) patients with poor prognostic factors.     materials and methods: seventy-seven patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ssnhl) who had at least one poor prognostic fa...