BACKGROUND Shorter estrogen exposure from puberty onset to peak bone mass attainment may explain how late menarche is a risk factor for osteoporosis. The influence of menarcheal age (MENA) on peak bone mass, cortical, and trabecular microstructure was studied in 124 healthy women aged 20.4 +/- 0.6 (sd) yr. METHODS At distal radius, areal bone mineral density (aBMD) was measured by dual-energy...

Metastasis is a complex, multistep process of cancer progression that has few treatment options. A critical event is the invasion of cancer cells into blood vessels (intravasation), through which cancer cells disseminate to distant organs. Breast cancer cells with increased abundance of Mena [an epidermal growth factor (EGF)-responsive cell migration protein] are present with macrophages at sit...

The importance of an inclusive financial system is considered a priority all over the world. inclusion raised from problem exclusion were most Middle east and North Africa (MENA) region countries didn’t have enough formal services population access to bank accounts. Financial not only helps individuals families, but collectively it develops entire communities can help drive economic development...

The members of the actin regulatory family of Ena/VASP proteins form stable tetramers. The vertebrate members of the Ena/VASP family, VASP, Mena and EVL, have many overlapping properties and expression patterns, but functional and regulatory differences between paralogues have been observed. The formation of mixed oligomers may serve a regulatory role to refine Ena/VASP activity. While it has b...

Against the context of consecutive world financial crisis, this paper aims to evaluates merits market-based against bank-based financing by analyzing correlation between structure and systemic risk eleven countries within MENA region. Within study three hypotheses are tested; first, if significantly related, second, relation is non-linear relationship third one bank doesn’t contribute above thr...