The shareholder value and the customer lifetime value approach are conceptually and methodically analogous. Both concepts calculate the value of a particular decision unit by discounting the forecasted net cash flows by the risk-adjusted cost of capital. However, virtually no scholarly attention has been devoted to the question if any of the components of the shareholder value could be determin...

BACKGROUND Macrophages are highly versatile cells that play an important role in tumour microenvironment. Tumour associated macrophages (TAMs) have been linked to both, good or bad prognosis of several cancer types depending on their number, composition and polarization. Viscum album lipophilic extract (VALE) contains several pentacyclic triterpenes known to modulate the activity of monocytes a...

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel b Laboratory of Biomedical Nanotechnology (Nanobio), Institute of Research and Development, University of Vale do Paraiba, Av. ShishimaHifumi, 2911, São Jose dos Campos 12244-000, SP, Brazil c Laboratory of Energy Storage & Supply (ES&S), Institute of Research and Development, University...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.200809136 Cite by DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200809136 JCB 1 of 14 Correspondence to Ronald D. Vale: [email protected] Abbreviations used in this paper: APC, antigen-presenting cell; cSMAC, central SMAC; CTB, cholera toxin subunit B; GPI, glycosylphosphatidylinositol; ITAM, immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif...