background: beta-adrenergic blocking agents have been broadly used for treatment of many cardiovascular diseases such as arterial hypertension and ischemic heart failure. anti-tumoral, anti-inflammatory and anti-angiogenesis effects of propranolol (a non-selective beta-adrenergic blocker) have been shown. angiogenesis (replenish of the pre-existing vascular networks) plays a critical role in so...

there are emerging data on novel tumor markers such as matrix metalloproteinase-2 (mmp-2 or gelatinase-a), which play a key role in tissue invasion and metastasis. we designed an investigation to assess the usefulness of mmp-2 activity as compared to prostate specific antigen (psa) in cancer staging process. we have analyzed the circulating form of mmp-2 in serum samples of patients suffering f...

given four complex matrices a, b, c and d where a 2 cnn and d 2 cmm andlet the matrix(a bc d)be a normal matrix and assume that  is a given complex number that is not eigenvalue of matrix a. we present a method to calculate the distance norm (with respect to 2-norm) from d to the set of matrices x 2 cmm such that,  be a multiple eigenvalue of matrix(a bc x). we also nd the nearest matrix ...