BACKGROUND Many veterans have dual Veterans Administration (VA) and Medicare healthcare coverage. We compared 3-year overall and cancer event-free survival (EFS) among patients with nonmetastatic colon cancer who obtained substantial portions of their care in both systems and those whose care was obtained predominantly in the VA or in the Medicare fee-for-service system. METHODS We conducted ...

NASICON (sodium (Na) superionic conductor) compounds have attracted considerable attention as promising solid electrolyte materials for advanced Na-based batteries. In this study, we investigated the improvement in ionic conductivities of von-Alpen-type (vA-NASICON) ceramic electrolytes by introducing a magnesium ion (Mg2+) heterogeneous element. The optimal Mg-doped vA-NASICON exhib...

Thirty female Sprague-Dawley rats (250 +/- 10 g) were divided randomly into five equal groups. After overnight fasting, a silastic catheter was placed in the jugular vein of each rat. Each group was intragastrically administered 0.25 mg F/250 g rat weight in 1 ml of one of the following forms of fluoride supplements: Pediaflor (Abbott/Ross, Columbus, OH), Tri-Vi-Flor, Tri-Vi-Flor + iron; Poly-V...

BACKGROUND The unconventional motor protein, myosin Va, is crucial for the development of the mouse neuromuscular junction (NMJ) in the early postnatal phase. Furthermore, the cooperative action of protein kinase A (PKA) and myosin Va is essential to maintain the adult NMJ. We here assessed the involvement of myosin Va and PKA in NMJ recovery during muscle regeneration. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL ...

Tax protein of the human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-I) is critical for viral replication and is a potent transcriptional activator of viral and cellular polymerase II (pol II) genes. We report here that Tax is able to transactivate a classical pol III promoter, VA-I. In cotransfection experiments, Tax is shown to increase transcription of the VA-I promoter approximately 25-fold. Mor...