Breast Cancer: a Preliminary Clinical Study 3 Chuanming Li[ , Shan Meng[ , Xinhua Yang, Daiquan Zhou, Jian Wang, Jiani 4 Hu 5 6 1 Department of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, 7 30 Gaotanyan Road, Chongqing 400038, China; 8 2 Department of Breast Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical 9 University, 30 Gaotanyan Road, Chongqing 400038, China; 10 3 D...

There is increasing evidence that androgens play a significant role in the development and progression of breast cancer. 5alpha-Reductase (SRD5A2) is an enzyme that is expressed in androgen-dependent tissues, and it catalyzes the reduction of testosterone to its more bioactive form, dihydrotestosterone, which then transactivates a number of genes. One of these genes encodes for prostate-specifi...

Human JL-calpain is activated maximally by 100-200 JLM Ca2+. Both the 80 kDa and 29 kDa subunits of JL-calpain have a EF-hand type calcium-binding domain. It is known that trivalent terbium ion (Tb3+) mimics Ca2+ in many biological systems. We found that Tb3+ alone transiently activated calpain. However, in the presence of Ca2+ , Tb3+ inhibited JL-calpain with an IC5o of about loo JLM. As high ...

Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan* School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan** Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan*** School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan**** Received: April, 2009 Revised: May, 2009 Accepted: June, 2009 Correspondenc...

Authenticating multi-species original raw materials in commercial formulations is difficult. Jin Yin Hua and Shan Yin Hua, both classified as raw honeysuckle materials in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, are used in various medicines. Differentiating one variety from another is difficult based on chemical analysis. We developed molecular authentication of multi-species original honeysuckle in 3 brand...

The work presents simulations with the multirange Shan–Chen model developed by Sbragaglia et al. (2007) [18], which improved the Shan–Chen model for the proper surface tension term. Also, by introducing the matrix collision operator and extended equilibrium density distribution function, the density ratio is increased from 100 to 160. The MultiRelaxation Time (MRT) method attracted the attentio...

Several transfer RNA precursors which accumulate in a strain of Escherichia coli temperature-sensitive for RNase P have been described. These precursors range from 135 to 690 nucleotides in length. Their tRNA content has been determined by digestion of the precursors to 4 S RNA, followed by Sanger fingerprint analysis of the purified 4 S material. Identification of some of these tRNAs, as well ...

Tenax-TA, a solid-phase sorbent, was used as an alternative to hexadecane for continuous delivery of tetrachloroethene (PCE) to Desulfuromonas strain BB1, a chloro-respiring microorganism. In both batch and bioreactor configurations, Tenax not only maintained low, steady-state concentrations of PCE in an active culture for several months but also adsorbed the product of dechlorination, cis-1,2-...