Inhibition of mTOR is commonly considered a valid target in cancer treatment, but this assertion does not address effects on the immune microenvironment that may be detrimental to cancer treatment. Here we show how administration of the mTOR inhibitor RAD001 (everolimus) results in the occurrence of distant metastasis in a rat model of pancreatic cancer. RAD001 was administered twice weekly for...

Clinical trials on (177)Lu-(90)Y therapy used empirical activity ratios. Radionuclides (RN) with larger beta maximal range could favourably replace (90)Y. Our aim is to provide RN dose-deposition kernels and to compare the tumour control probability (TCP) of RN combinations. Dose kernels were derived by integration of the mono-energetic beta-ray dose distributions (computed using Monte Carlo) w...

the best-known Chinese traditional herbal medicines, which has been used as a tonic, sedative, antifatigue, or anti-gastric ulcer drug for thousands of years. Naturally occurring ginsenosides, isolated from ginseng, have been regarded as the principal components responsible for the pharmaceutical and biological activities of ginseng. There are more than 30 different known naturally occurring gi...

This memo considers some dynamic range issues resulting from limitations in the polarimetric calibration solutions used in typical observations. Whereas we focus on “traditional” radio interferometric telescopes such as the VLA, ATCA or ALMA, the analysis approach can be used for other interferometer arrays. The memo is mostly concerned with the principles: rather than addressing real data, thi...

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Radiolabeled antibodies (mAbs) provide efficient tools for cancer therapy. The combination of low energy β(-)-emissions (500 keVmax; 130 keVave) along with a γ-emission for imaging makes (177)Lu (T1/2 = 6.7 day) a suitable radionuclide for radioimmunotherapy (RIT) of tumor burdens possibly too large to treat with α-particle radiation. RIT with (177)Lu-trastuzumab has proven to be effective for ...

BACKGROUND Today's standard treatment of advanced-stage ovarian cancer, including surgery followed by a paclitaxel-platinum-based chemotherapy, is limited in efficacy. Recently, we could show that radioimmunotherapy (RIT) with (177)Lu-labelled anti-L1 cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM) monoclonal antibody chCE7 is effective in ovarian cancer therapy. We investigated if the efficacy of anti-L1CAM RI...

The SAS administrator exists in all types of organizations: small, medium, large, etc. This paper focuses on medium-to-large scale SAS ® System implementations. The SAS Administrator is not a position as much as it is a role. It can be a single individual or a team comprised of SAS-trained personnel, along with other IT staff within a company. While this role is very important, it is often not ...

In the past three decades, several methods have been reported for the growth of yeast spheroplasts in liquid culture. When spheroplasts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were inoculated in rich medium containing 0.4 M KCl as an osmotic stabilizer and cultured for 7‒8 h with occasional manual shaking, they entered the fi rst round of mitosis at low cell density. Spheroplasts inoculated at higher cell ...