Rate of Circulation of the Body Fluid in Adult Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus, Anasa tristis (de Geer), and Murgantia histrionica (Hahn): Roderick Craig and N. A. Olson 648 An Instance of the Occurrence of Carcinogenic Substances in Certain Barnacles: Michael B. Shimkin, B. Kenneth Koe, and L. Zechmeister _ 650 An Analog of Histamne that Stimulates Gastric Acid Secretion without other Actions of His...

The values of life insurance and annuity liabilities move in opposite directions in response to a change in the underlying mortality. Natural hedging utilizes this to stabilize aggregate liability cash flows. Our study shows empirical evidence that insurers who utilize natural hedging also charge lower premiums than otherwise similar insurers. This indicates that insurers who are able to utiliz...

the prevalence of atopic dermatitis (ad) and obesity have been increasing considerably in korean school-children. ad is a chronic pruritic recurrent inflammatory skin disorder. leptin is secreted by adipocytes which has been suggested to be immunologically active; however, their role in ad has not yet been well understood. a total of 227 subjects out of 2,109 elementary school children were def...

Mohs micrographic surgery, which yields 100% clear tumor margins and smaller defect sizes compared to excision, has yet be implemented in Pakistan. Spearheading surgery Pakistan can lead lower recurrence rates, sizes, greater precision than excision. We present a clinical-epidemiologic descriptive analysis of the first surgeries conducted Clinical, epidemiologic, surgical data dates from Sept. ...

Tasidotin (ILX-651), an orally active synthetic microtubule-targeted derivative of the marine depsipeptide dolastatin-15, is currently undergoing clinical evaluation for cancer treatment. Tasidotin inhibited proliferation of MCF7/GFP breast cancer cells with an IC(50) of 63 nmol/L and inhibited mitosis with an IC(50) of 72 nmol/L in the absence of detectable effects on spindle microtubule polym...