Alcohol consumption is one of the most important, and potentially avoidable, risk factors of human cancer, accounting for 3.6% of all types of cancer worldwide. In a recent meta-analysis, a 20% increased risk of melanoma was linked with regular alcohol consumption. In the present study, the effect of ethanol exposure on the expression of the nerve growth factor receptor, CD271, in human FEMX-I ...

Purpose: The aim of this research forum article was to describe a feasible web-based solution for improving the quality of life of persons with hearing problems, such as hearing loss or tinnitus. The online platform was developed at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping University, Sweden, and has been running for a number of years and used in numerous studies and tre...

The number of people suffering from metabolic diseases is dramatically increasing worldwide. This stresses the need for new therapeutic strategies to combat this growing epidemic of metabolic diseases. A reduced mitochondrial function is one of the characteristics of metabolic diseases and therefore a target for intervention. Here we review the evidence that mitochondrial function may act as a ...

c) (The advantage of the statistical formulation is that makes the assumptions explicit. We will now challenge some of these.) Assume that instead of a fixed variance σ we now have a variance that depends on the sample point, i.e. zi = f(xi, θ) + ǫi, (3) where ǫi ∼ N (0, σ i ). This means that our sample is independent but no longer identically distributed. It also means that we have different ...

BACKGROUND We assessed the impact of complications on recurrence and survival after curative gastric cancer resection. METHODS Patients undergoing R0 resections between 1990 and 2009 were identified in a prospectively maintained database and were categorized by presence of any complication Clavien-Dindo (CD) ≥ II, sepsis or intra-abdominal sepsis. Cox regression analyses to relate complicatio...

DNA polymerase beta (pol beta) from rat brain, overexpressed in Escherichia coli, was used as a model to study the factors responsible for substrate specificity [kpol, Kd(app) and kpol/Kd(app)] and fidelity during DNA synthesis. The roles of two active-site residues, Asn-279 and Tyr-271, were examined by construction of N279A, N279Q, Y271A, Y271F and Y271S mutants followed by structural analyse...

BACKGROUND Glycoprotein 2 (GP2) was discovered as the major autoantigen of Crohn's disease (CD)-specific pancreatic autoantibodies (PAB). We investigated anti-GP2 IgA and IgG antibodies as novel serological parameters in CD and assessed their association with distinct disease phenotypes. METHODS Anti-GP2 and anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ASCA) IgA and IgG were detected by ELISA employing rec...

down by Ridley and Jopling. There was male preponderance in the study with majority of patients (35.7%) in the age goup of 21-30 years. The overall concordance between the clinical and histopathological diagnosis was 57.3%. Maximum concordance was seen in the polar ends of the spectrum with 76.9% in LL and 75.0% in TT. The concordance rate was lower in the borderline groups with 57.3% in BT, 40...

We utilized recombinant fibronectin polypeptides with cell-binding domain and heparin-binding domains (referred to as C-274 and H-271, respectively) and their fusion polypeptide (CH-271) to examine the role of sulfated polysaccharide heparin and/or the functional domains of fibronectin in modulating tumor cell behavior. Both C-274 and CH-271 polypeptides with cell-binding domains promoted the a...