Doctor Herbert L. Fred[1], an associate editor of the Texas Heart Institute Journal, pointed out five crucial components that make a successful medical journal: 1) financial security; 2) an ample, competent, and experienced editorial staff; 3) reliable manuscript reviewers; 4) equality of submissions, and; 5) responsive readers. In addition, one more fundamental component could be added, which ...

Conflicts of interest between the community and its members are at the core of human social dilemmas. If observed selfishness has future costs, individuals may hide selfish acts but display altruistic ones, and peers aim at identifying the most selfish persons to avoid them as future social partners. An interaction involving hiding and seeking information may be inevitable. We staged an experim...

This study was designed to examine the metabolic fate of exogenous lauric acid in cultured rat hepatocytes, in terms of both lipid metabolism and acylation of proteins. Radiolabeled [14C]-lauric acid at 0.1 mM in the culture medium was rapidly taken up by the cells (94.8 +/- 2.2% of the initial radioactivity was cleared from the medium after a 4 h incubation) but its incorporation into cellular...