Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a fatal malignancy that accounts for 10-25% of primary hepatobiliary cancers (Anderson et al., 2012). Although the incidence was only 0.58-0.88 per 100,000 people in the USA, some particular endemic areas in Southeast Asia, especially northeastern Thailand, reported incidences as high as 39.4 and 94.8 per 100,000 people for females and males, respectively (Ruys et al...

Dear Editor in Chief, With a great interest, we read a recently published paper in Frontier in Endocrinology journal by Vuolo et al., entitled “Vitamin D and Cancer” (Vuolo et al., 2012). They skillfully reviewed the role of vitamin D in all aspects of cancer such as cancer prevention, immune system and cancer, reverse effect of cancer on vitamin D, and vitamin D status in some important type o...

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The orphan nuclear receptor estrogen-related receptor b (Esrrb) is a vital component of the core pluripotency network in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). However, its function is not clear and the identity of potential upstream regulators has remained elusive. Three elegant reports (Festuccia et al, 2012; Martello et al, 2012; Percharde et al, 2012) have now elucidated the role of Esrrb in ESC self...

Salivary gland cancers are uncommon malignancies of the head and neck region. Their site of origin can be major (parotid, submandibular and sublingual) or minor salivary gland (palate, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, trachea and lacrimal gland). Of all the salivary gland neoplasms, 85% are benign and 15% are malignant. Salivary gland malignancies comprise 3-6% of all head and neck cancers (Pin...

Recently, Schmidt and colleagues reported that immunoglobulin Kappa C (IGKC) predicts a favourable response to chemotherapy and better metastasis-free survival in breast cancer patients (Schmidt et al., 2012). The authors validated the prognostic and predictive role of IGKC in 1,810 breast cancer, 1,056 non-small cell lung cancer and 513 colorectal cancer patient samples. The identification of ...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-137, Tehran, Iran Abstract In (Hamzeh et al. in Stud. Univ. Babeş-Bolyai, Chem., 4:73-85, 2012), we introduced a generalization of a degree distance of graphs as a new topological index. In this paper, we characterize the n-vertex tricyclic graphs whi...

how to cite this article: mansouri nejad se, yazdan panah mj, tayyebi meibodi n, ashrafzadeh f, akhondian j, beiraghi toosi m, eslamieh h. griscelli syndrome: a case report. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn;8(4): 72-75. objective griscelli syndrome (gs) is a rare autosomal recessive immune deficiency disorder that presents with pigmentary dilution of the skin and hair, recurrent skin and pulmon...

We consider losses in collisions of ultracold molecules described by a simple statistical short-range model that explicitly accounts for the limited lifetime classically chaotic collision complexes. This confirms thermally sampling many isolated resonances leads to loss cross section equal elastic derived Mayle et al. [Phys. Rev. A 85, 062712 (2012)] and this makes precise conditions under whic...

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