The management of occult cervical lymph node metastasis in well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) is controversial. Given the risks of hypocalcemia, recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, and increased operative time with a central compartment neck dissection (CCND), a routine adoption of prophylactic lymph node dissection has not been accepted by many as a standard management for occult metastas...

Inhibition to repair DNA metabolism to respond to damaged DNA can lead to genetic instability, resulting in cancer cell death (Audeh et al., 2010; Bryant et al., 2005; Farmer et al., 2005; Lukas et al., 2003; Tutt et al., 2010) [1], [2], [6], [8], [11]. Despite of various studies demonstrating efficiency of combination therapy through down-regulation of DNA repair pathway, the suppression effec...

Current estimates of global biodiversity are diffi cult to obtain (Wilson 2003a), but range between 3 and 100 million species (May 2010). Wilson (2003b) places this number closer to ten million, with fewer than 20% of these, considered by some a generous estimate (Mora et al. 2011), having been described. Yet, we are currently faced with a biodiversity crisis stemming from anthropogenic sources...

Cancer immunotherapies have shown considerable promise in pre-clinical studies, but the potency of these interventions has often proved disappointing in vivo. This is in part due to tumor infiltration by myeloid cells, which are usually associated with less favorable clinical outcomes. In the past decade, several distinct subsets of tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells have been described (Movahedi...

An urgent task of modern biological science is the development of efficient, reliable and safe methods of body physiological correction in changing environment. This problem covers almost all living things, including humans and farm animals, which in turn affect environment and the humans through animal products. This is the most characteristic of modern industrial animal husbandry being compli...

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Cervical dystonia is the most common form of focal dystonia (Dashtipour et al., 2007). It is characterized by involuntary movement of the neck resulting in abnormal neck posture (Brin & Benabou, 1999; Dent, 2002). Cervicalgia and headache sometimes occur in patients suffering from the disease (Albanese, 2005; Brashear, 2004, Schim, 2006). A critical long-term sequelae of this kind of movement d...

Fractional calculus (FC) generalizes standard integrals and derivatives to non-integer or even to complex order [Diethelm, 2010], [Kilbas et al., 2006], [Klimek, 2009], [Miller & Ross, 1993], [Oldham & Spanier, 1974], [Podlubny, 1999], [Samko et al., 1993]. During the last decade it was found that FC plays a fundamental role in the modelling of a considerable number of phenomena characterized b...

Here we provide an illustrated key to lepidopteran larvae that occur as pests on rice (Oryza) in Malaysia. We are unaware of a published key for this region for this vital commercial crop, and hence provide one based on easily observable features that could be useful for identification, early detection, and pest management by specialists and non-specialists alike (see discussion in Mukerji & Si...