Do kittens instinctively kill mice?

Thiazides: do they kill?

In 2000 and 2002 after the ALLHAT-study had been published [1,2] there was a paradigm shift in the use of thiazides. ALLHAT was a study of cardiovascular endpoints in relation to different antihypertensive treatments in 33 357 hypertensive patients observed over an average of 4.9 years. The study [1,2] found no differences between the three treatment groups [diuretics in the form of chlorthalid...

Do Not Kill Unfeasible Individuals

Any implementation of an evolutionary algorithm for a particular problem must address several important issues; these include genetic representation of solutions to the problem and genetic operators that would alter the genetic composition of offspring during the reproduction process. However, very often (in the presence of nontrivial, problem-specific constraints) it is also necessary to devel...

Do genes allow inflammation to kill or not to kill?

How do lymphocytes kill tumor cells?

837 Phase II Study of Docetaxel in Patients with Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma Refractory to Platinum. John J. Kavanagh. Andrzej P. Kudelka, Cesar Gonzalez de Leon, Damrong Tresukosol. Mary Hord, M. Beth Finnegan, E. Edmund Kim, Datla Varma, Arthur Forman, Paul Cohen, Creighton L. Edwards, Ralph S. Freedman, and Claire F. Verschraegen. 855 Differential Induction of Apoptosis by all-trans-Retinoi...

How Do Cytotoxic Lymphocytes Kill Cancer Cells?

In the past few years, cancer immunotherapy has emerged as a safe and effective alternative for treatment of cancers that do not respond to classical treatments, including those types with high aggressiveness. New immune modulators, such as cytokines, blockers of CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4) and PD-1(programmed cell death protein 1)/PD-L1 (programmed death-ligand 1), and...