Exposure of Escherichia coli to a subminimal inhibitory concentration (25% below MIC) of benzalkonium chloride (BC), an antimicrobial membrane-active agent commonly used in medical and food-processing environments, resulted in cell death and changes in cell morphology (filamentation). A small subpopulation (1-5% of the initial population) survived and regained similar morphology and growth rate...

Systemic cancer therapies take into account breast cancer (BC) heterogeneity by targeting pathways specifically involved in some BC subtypes. On the other hand, BC intrinsic radiosensitivity is poorly understood and studied. Hence, radiotherapy personalization in BC is still “work in progress”. In this review, we will summarize the existing data on the management of axillary lymph nodes in BC, ...

Aims: Soil black carbon (BC) has been shown to possess large amounts of cation exchange sites and surface charge, and is viewed as a potential soil amendment to improve nutrient retention and for pollutant remediation. This study investigated the nanoscale distribution of reactive functional groups and the binding of cations on the surface of micron-size BC particles, identified the key process...

W e read with great interest the article by Torres-Mejía et al. (1) showing that moderate-intensity physical activity can substantially ameliorate the increased risk of breast cancer (BC) in diabetic women. In addition, higher serum levels of C-peptide, IGF-1, and IGF-1 binding protein 3 (IGFBP3) were found to increase BC risk in premenopausal women. The finding is important because there is li...

corticosterone in male and female virgin and breeder rats. Acta Endocrinol 62: 411-424, 1969 14. lams SG, Wexler BC: Aldosterone, deoxycorticosterone and corticosterone differences between arteriosclerotic breeder vs nonarteriosclerotic virgin rats. Atherosclerosis 24: 63-73, 1976 15. Wexler BC, True CW: Carotid and cerebral arteriosclerosis. Circ Res 12: 659-666, 1963 16. Wexler BC: Spontaneou...

The role of black carbon (BC) aerosols in climate change is important because of its strong capability in causing extinction of solar radiation. A three-dimensional interactive aerosol-climate model has been used to study the climatic impact of BC. The interannual variations of BC solar forcing derived from 20-year transient integrations are up to 4 times as large as the means mainly related to...

The present paper investigates the essentialist perception of social categories and differentiates it from two closely related concepts, namely entitativity and natural kind-ness. We argued that lay perceptions of social categories vary along three dimensions: natural kind-ness, entitativity, and essentialism. Depending on whether membership in social categories is forced or chosen, people deve...

Deficiency of the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)/interleukin-3 (IL-3)/IL-5 receptors common b chain (bc) is a cause of fatal respiratory failure. bc deficiency manifests as pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). PAP has heterogenous etiologies that may be genetic or aquired. Some cases of PAP have been reported to be associated with hematologic malignancies such as acu...

We have derived ambient black carbon (BC) concentrations and estimated emission factors for on-road diesel vehicles from archived coefficient of haze (COH) data that was routinely collected beginning in 1967 at 11 locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. COH values are a measure of the attenuation of light by particles collected on a white filter, and available data indicate they are proportion...

PURPOSE To assess breast cancer (BC) risk after Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) and compare characteristics, risk of second BC, and prognosis of patients with these BCs with patients with first primary BC. PATIENTS AND METHODS We considered all 9,620 women with HL recorded in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results dataset in 1973-2007. We calculated age-period standardized incidence ratios of...