Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been suggested to play a role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, reports on detailed EBV transcript analyses in HCCs are limited. It was shown recently that expression of the transforming BARF1 (BamHI A rightward open reading frame 1) gene of EBV is restricted to latently EBV-infected epithelial malignancies, i.e. nasopharyngeal carcinoma and gastric carcin...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous B-cell trophic herpesvirus associated with a variety of histologically diverse B-cell lymphomas, each associated with specific viral-latency gene expression programs. Initial infection drives resting B-cells to differentiate via an atypical germinal centre reaction into memory B-cells, where the virus resides in a latent state. The mechanisms that underp...

Thirty-four blood samples of neonates in Dubai, UAE, with an MCV below 90 fL were checked by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for hemoglobin variants to confirm a previous study carried out in Western Province of Saudi Arabia which showed a very high predictive index of such MCV for alpha (α-) thalassemia minor (ATM). MCH below 30 pg was an additional factor which supported such a ...

Over a 6-year period, we collected data from 256 keloid lesions from 192 patients. The patients were collected from the Barts and The London National Health Service Trust catchment area in East London and the City of London, United Kingdom, and all 192 patients were referred from hospital-based surgical specialties and dermatology to our specialist keloid clinic. In our keloid clinic, we treat ...

1 General Hospital of Giannitsa, Greece 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, “St Paul” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece 3 SEGAS National Centre Sports and Exercise Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece 4 Department of Neurosurgery, “G. Papanikolaou” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece 5 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Ioannina, Greece 6 Centre Lead and Professor of Sports...

1Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; 2Department of Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 3Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom; 4Department I of Internal Medicine, Center of Integrated Oncology Köln Bonn...

1. prIME Oncology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2. prIME Oncology, The Hague, Netherlands; University of Sheffield, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, UK 3. Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France 4. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 5. Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands 6. Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy 7. Ludwig Center...

From the Centre for Endocrine and Diabetes Sciences, Cardiff School of Medicine (J.H.L., R.R., A.B.P.); the Department of Child Psychology, St. David’s Hospital (S.C., R.P.); and the Department of Medical Biochemistry, University Hospital of Wales (R.J.) — all in Cardiff, United Kingdom; Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary ...

1 Department of Imaging (MRU), Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (NHLI), Royal Brompton Hospital, London SW3 6NP, UK 2 Department of Radiology, Barts and The London NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK 3 Institute for Systems Dynamics, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 4 Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial...