Moderated Posters 8: Prostate (Cancer/BPH)

Monday BP 8 : Posters : Proteins

BP 8.1 Mon 17:30 Poster B2 Effects of ligand binding on cyclophilin A: experimental and computational studies— ∙Jack Heal1, Stephen Wells2, Claudia Blindauer3, Rudolf Römer2, and Robert Freedman4 — 1MOAC Doctoral Training Center, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, CV4 7AL — 2Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, CV4 7AL — 3Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, ...

Oral and Posters, June 8

The roles of peritraumatic heart rate and acoustic startle reflex in predicting traumatic memory processing C. Chou, R. La Marca, A. Steptoe and C. Brewin Clinical Psychology, University College London, London, UK; Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, Lon...

Posters

Evaluation of Plasma Interleukin-8 Concentration in Patients with Prostate Cancer and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia

Background: Prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been used as a screening test for the early detection of prostate cancer (PC) for many years. Although the introduction of PSA test led to a considerable increase in reported prostate cancer cases, there is still some controversy over the sensitivity and specificity of this marker in distinguishing PC patients from those with benign prostate hyper...

Discussed posters

In the last decade many advances have been made in understanding how HIV-1 interacts with macrophages (MØ) and dendritic cells (DC). Based on the notion that HIV-2 is a more attenuate model of infection, we proposed to explore the mechanisms of HIV-2 interaction with MØ and DCs. With this aim, we studied the efficiency of cis-infection of MØ and DCs. A cohort of 7 HIV-1 and 7 HIV-2 primary isol...