Esophageal cancer (EC) is the 8th most common cancer worldwide, with 482,000 new cases in 2008, and the 6th most common cause of death from cancer, with 406,000 deaths (Ferlay et al., 2010). According to the GLOBOCAN project in 2008, China was estimated to account for 53.6% of the new cases and 51.7% of the deaths worldwide respectively (Ferlay et al., 2010). Thus, China still suffers a great d...

MTC accounts around 5%-10% of thyroid cancer, and the death rate is more than 10%. It has a poor capability of iodine uptake which limits the way of therapy. Furthermore, many people believe that MTCSCs may play significant roles in metastasis and recurrence of MTC. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been reported in several solid tumors and in cancer cell lines (Reya et al., 2001; Reya et al., 2001...

Peptaibiotics are a group of membrane active peptides of fungal origin. They typically contain α-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib; 1-letter code, U) and other non-coded residues (Toniolo and Brückner, 2009; Neumann et al., 2015; Benedett et al., 1982) [1], [2], [3] stabilizing their helical structure. Peptaibols are peptaibiotics carrying a 1, 2-aminoalcohol at the C-terminus. When a fatty acid chain ...

This commentary is about (Chiang et al., 2012b). This paper is the result of a merge between two papers, (Yang et al., 2012) and (Chiang et al., 2012a). Both papers address the same question: is it possible to obtain regret bounds in various online learning settings that depend on some notion of variation in the costs, rather than the number of periods? Both papers give remarkably similar algor...

Mast cell were initially studied mostly for their implication in type I hypersensitivity and allergies (Blank and Rivera, 2004; Galli et al., 2008b). However, research over the last 20 years has made clear that they do more than just causing a runny nose or asthma attacks. In fact, they have emerged as prime actors of immune and inflammatory responses. As such they sense their environment via n...

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and the burden of this devastating cancer is expected to increase further in coming years (Nguyen et al., 2009; Venook et al., 2010). In Asian region, the incidence of HCC exceeds 30 cases per 100, 000 residents annually, which is due to the high prevalence of chronic viral hepatitis, mainly chronic hepatitis B...

During year 2008–11, some infected leaves of eucalypt trees (Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.) having blight and spot symptoms were collected in Golestan province (N Iran). The necrotic spots were appeared on both surfaces of the leaves and were circular to irregular, single to confluent, medium brown to light brown with red brown margin (Fig. 1A & B). In some cases, young leaves have been sever...

Volume 47 of Advances in Ecological Research is the second in a series of three that address awide-ranging theme in contemporary ecology: global change in multispecies systems. In the previous volume, the ecological consequences of various environmental stressorswere explored ( JacobandWoodward, 2012), including several of the different components of climate change (Ledger et al., 2012; Meerhof...