title: Dynamic thiol/disulphide homeostasis in patients with basal cell carcinoma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of this study is to measure and compare the dynamic thiol/disulphide homeostasis of patients with basal cell carcinoma and healthy subjects with a newly developed and original method.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Thirty four patients attending our outpatient clinic and clinically and histopathologically diagnosed as nodular basal cell carcinoma, and age and gender matched 30 healthy individuals have been involved in the study. Thiol/disulphide homeostasis tests have been measured with a novel automatic spectrophotometric method developed and the results have been compared statistically.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Serum native thiol and disulphide levels in the patient and control group show a considerable variance statistically (p = 0.028, 0.039, respectively). Total thiol levels do not reveal a considerable variation (p = 0.094). Disulphide/native thiol ratios and native thiol/total thiol ratios also show a considerable variance statistically (p = 0.012, 0.013, 0.010, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Thiol disulphide homeostasis in patients with basal cell carcinoma alters in the way that disulphide gets lower and thiols get higher. Thiol/disulphide level is likely to have a role in basal cell carcinoma pathogenesis.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Dermatology , Ataturk Training and Research Hospital (Yildirim Beyazit University) , Ankara , Turkey.
authors.forename: Duriye Deniz
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Demirseren
authors.affiliation: b Department of Plastic , Esthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital (Yildirim Beyazit University) , Ankara , Turkey , and.
authors.forename: Cagla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cicek
authors.affiliation: c Department of Biochemistry , Ataturk Training and Research Hospital (Yıldırım Beyazit University) , Ankara , Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alisik
authors.affiliation: b Department of Plastic , Esthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital (Yildirim Beyazit University) , Ankara , Turkey , and.
authors.forename: Mustafa Erol
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Demirseren
authors.affiliation: a Department of Dermatology , Ataturk Training and Research Hospital (Yildirim Beyazit University) , Ankara , Turkey.
authors.forename: Akın
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aktaş
authors.affiliation: c Department of Biochemistry , Ataturk Training and Research Hospital (Yıldırım Beyazit University) , Ankara , Turkey.
authors.forename: Ozcan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Erel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000097:blood*; D004220:Disulfides / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D004220:Disulfides; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds
keywords: Basal cell carcinoma; disulphide; thiol