Tetraspanins are cell-surface glycoproteins and have received attention recently as both suppressors and promoters of metastasis. CO-029 is a member of the tetraspanin family and is implicated to be a metastasis-promoting tetraspanin in some cancers. However, the role of CO-029 in gastric cancer remains unexplored. The present study aimed to investigate the expression of CO-029 in gastric cance...

Activators of the CFTR Cl- channel may be useful for therapy of cystic fibrosis. Short-circuit current (Isc) measurements were done on human bronchial epithelial cells to characterize the best flavone and benzimidazolone CFTR activators identified by lead-based combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput screening. The 7,8-benzoflavone UCcf-029 was a potent activator of Cl- transport, with acti...

Suppression of the myostatin (GDF-8) pathway has emerged as an important therapeutic paradigm for muscle-wasting disorders. In this study, we conducted a translational pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) analysis of MYO-029, an anti-myostatin monoclonal antibody, using PK data in mice, rats, monkeys, humans, mouse tissue distribution data with 125 I-labeled MYO-029, muscle weight increase i...

The coccoid cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis dominates microbial communities in the most extreme arid hot and cold deserts. These communities withstand constraints that result from multiple cycles of drying and wetting and/or prolonged desiccation, through mechanisms which remain poorly understood. Here we describe the first system for genetic manipulation of Chroococcidiopsis. Plasmids pDUCA7 ...

when applied to cichlid fishes it reliably causes spectacular evolutionary radiations of hundreds of new species. Generalist riverine cichlids have given rise to flocks of highly specialized fishes in each of the major lakes in East Africa. Now, on page 90 of this issue, Joyce and colleagues describe a previously unrecognized radiation of cichlids in the extinct Lake Makgadikgadi, whose descend...

Case Report The patient became ill when she was 3 years old. She had fever, rash and artralgia and pericarditis. After examination in hospital she was diagnosed sJIA. She took glucocorticosteroids 1 mg/kg daily per os, methylprednisolone 10 mg/kg IV, No3, and MTX 10mg/m2/week with positive results. She took that therapy during 2 years. When the dose of GC decreased she had flares (fever, rash, ...