Suhyun Kim, Young Tae Byun, Doo-Gun Kim, Nadir Dagli, and Youngchul Chung* Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 139-701, Korea Intelligent System Research Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 136-791, Korea Photonic Device Team, Korea Photonics Technology Institute, Gwangju 500-779, Korea Electrical and Computer Engineering D...

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Advertising is a leading strategy for drug promotion. We analysed 779 advertisements in 24 medical journals, 25% of which featured antibiotics. Antibiotic advertisements showed differences compared to those of other drugs. None addressed the issue of antibiotic resistance. Efforts to prevent antibiotic resistance should take antibiotic advertising into consideration.

Pendrin (PDS) and sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) are transmembrane proteins that are located in numerous tissue types, particularly thyroid follicular epithelial cells, where they are entrusted with the regulation of iodine molecules. In the present study, we aimed to clarify changes in PDS and NIS protein expression, in the testicular tissue of prepubertal and <span la...

BACKGROUND The enhanced cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex (CSAR) is involved in the sympathetic activation that contributes to the pathogenesis and progression of hypertension. Activation of AT(1) receptors by angiotension (Ang) II in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) augments the enhanced CSAR and sympathetic outflow in hypertension. The present study is designed to determine whether Ang-(1-...

The serine/threonine kinase AKT and its downstream mediator mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) are activated in lung adenocarcinoma, and clinical trials are under way to test whether inhibition of mTOR is useful in treating lung cancer. Here, we report that mTOR inhibition blocked malignant progression in K-ras(LA1) mice, which undergo somatic activation of the K-ras oncogene and display morp...

Enhancement of the cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex (CSAR) contributes to sympathetic excitation in hypertension. The aim of the present study was to determine whether angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7) in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) modulated the enhanced CSAR and sympathetic activation, and the signaling pathways that mediated these effects in the 2-kidney, 1-clip renovascular hypertensi...

INTRODUCTION Cholecystokinin (CCK) belongs to a group of endogenous molecules known as brain-gut neuropeptides and functions as a neuropeptide as well as a gut hormone. It remains unclear whether genetic variation of the CCK receptor plays a role in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The aim of this study was to determine and compare the allele and genotype frequencies of the CCK(1) receptor polym...