Background The pharmacological manipulation of the interaction between the immune system, fibroblasts and cancer cells has been proven to be a key target for cancer therapy. Based on our previously developed co-culture system, this work aims to develop an innovative 3D cell culture system consisting of immune cells, fibroblasts and cancer cells and to investigate then influence of the tumor mic...

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

Teachers have many roles to fulfill. One of the most important roles is that of expert in the subject field they teach. Teachers should master the contents of the subject and should be able to deepen understanding and insight in these contents. Language teachers do not only teach the foreign language. They are also responsible for the teaching of the culture of the language. This article report...

Experiments in isolated ventricular cardiomyocytes have greatly facilitated the study of cellular and subcellular physiology in the heart. However, the isolation and culture of high-quality adult murine ventricular cardiomyocytes can be technically challenging. In most experimental protocols, the culture of viable adult murine cardiomyocytes for prolonged time periods is achieved with the addit...

Nearly all commentators agree on several fundamental arguments of our target article: (a) Cultural and evolutionary views of behavior are complementary and integratable, not necessarily opposing, explanations; (b) cultural phenomena are produced by psychological adaptations; and (c) cultural variation results from an evolved psychology interacting with environments that humans both encounter an...

BACKGROUND Kirsten ras (Ki-ras) mutations are common in gastrointestinal cancer and one codon 12 mutation, glycine to valine, is particularly aggressive in colorectal cancer. AIMS To investigate if this valine point mutation could be targeted with antisense oligonucleotides and to determine the efficacy of any antisense/mRNA interaction. METHODS Twenty nine antisense oligonucleotides were s...

BACKGROUND Strongyloidiasis is mostly an asymptomatic infection and diagnosis of latent infections is difficult due to limitations of current parasitological and serological methods. This study was conducted to set up a PCR-based method for molecular diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis infection by detection of copro-DNA in stool samples. METHODS A total of 782 fresh stool samples were col...

Chinese classical poetry involves abundant information about traditional culture, playing an important role in the publicity of culture and history. The proper Chinese-English translation will help eliminate barriers to target readers’ comprehension, promoting conveyance cultural connotation aesthetic value poetry. Based on Eco-translatology, this paper takes five representative English version...

This paper deals with the interchangeability of culture, and seeks to answer the question of whether there are situations in which culture is interchangeable, whether one item of culture could be substituted for another. On a pretheoretic level, the answer would probably be ‘no’. If you have your mind set on watching the Royal Shakespeare Company perform The Merchant of Venice, you are not like...

A cluster of arrays “provid[ing] principles order within the unstructured simultaneity everyday-worlds”* in Egypt and Tunisia 2016, forming part two countries’ “culture” during In 2016 project’s target year.
 *H. U. Gumbrecht, 1926: Living at Edge Time (1997), 443.