The nuclear receptor (NR) class of transcription factors controls critical regulatory events in key developmental processes, homeostasis maintenance, and medically important diseases and conditions. Identification of the members of a regulon controlled by a NR could provide an accelerated understanding of development and disease. New bioinformatics methods for the analysis of regulatory sequenc...

Since the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib, the first targeted cancer therapy, survival of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) patients has approached that of the normal population [1]. Treatment with TKI leads to reduction of malignant cells by several orders of magnitude, sometimes even below the level of detection of very sensitive molecular assays. Thus, in recent years ach...

Responses to hallucinogenic drugs, such as psilocybin, are believed to be critically dependent on the user's personality, current mood state, drug pre-experiences, expectancies, and social and environmental variables. However, little is known about the order of importance of these variables and their effect sizes in comparison to drug dose. Hence, this study investigated the effects of 24 predi...

PURPOSE In locally advanced (uT(3), N(+)) adenocarcinomas of the esophagus, neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves patient outcome. However, only a subgroup of patients responds. Therefore, in the present study, we evaluated whether the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be predicted by a pretreatment tumor biopsy analysis. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Biopsies of 47 patients with locally advanced (u...