Usefulness of the automatic qua ...
Objective AQCEL enables automatic reconstruction of single-photon emission computed tomogram (SPECT) without image degradation and quantitative anal ...
Is contrast material needed aft ...
Purpose Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose is widely used for post-therapeutic surveillance of ...
Prediction of lack of response ...
The authors report a case of a 47-year-old female with a malignant lump in the right breast and ipsilateral axillary nodal involvement. She was path ...
OxLDL and macrophage survival: ...
Atherosclerotic plaques are characterized by hypoxic even anoxic areas and by high concentrations of oxidized lipoproteins. Moreover, unstable plaqu ...
A high fat diet increases mitoc ...
Elevated levels of cardiac mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) and decreased cardiac efficiency (hydraulic power/oxygen consumption) with abn ...
Effects of high thoracic epidur ...
High thoracic epidural anesthesia (HTEA) blocks the afferent and efferent cardiac sympathetic nerve fibers and may affect atrial electrophysiologica ...
MGMT promoter methylation and t ...
Choroid plexus carcinoma (CPC) is a malignant tumor with a strong tendency to spread along the cerebrospinal fluid pathway. There is no standardized ...
Hypoglossal nerve schwannoma wi ...
Intratumoral hemorrhage of hypoglossal schwannoma is very rare. A 37-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with severe headache and gait disturb ...
Are we missing the mTOR target ...
Abnormalities in the PI3K/Akt/mTOR intracellular signalling pathway have been implicated in several forms of human cancer. The central component of ...
The b2-adrenergic receptor and ...
In this study, b2-AR level was found to be up-regulated in MCF-7 cells overexpressing Her2 (MCF-7/ Her2). Correlation of b2-AR level with Her2 statu ...
Ep-CAM RNA expression predicts ...
Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (Ep-CAM) recently received increased attention as a prognostic factor in breast cancer.We aimed to validate the in ...
Estrogen receptor beta decrease ...
Estrogen receptor beta (ERb) inhibits proliferation in different cellular systems by regulating components of the cell cycle machinery. Eukaryotic c ...
Young age, increased tumor prol ...
It is unclear if earlier onset (\40 years) and greater proliferative capacity confer an equally poor prognosis to endocrine-dependent and endocrine- ...
Bone metastasis in a novel brea ...
In practice, investigations for bone metastasis of breast cancer rely heavily on models in vivo. Lacking of such ideal model makes it difficult to s ...
Mothers’ pre-pregnancy BMI and ...
Previous studies have established that higher birthweight is associated with increased risk of breast cancer. However, the mechanisms underlying thi ...
The influence of removal of pri ...
Recent studies have shown that the detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) pre and postoperatively in the peripheral blood of primary breast canc ...
The association of reproductive ...
Reproductive factors that influence breast cancer risk may also have an impact on survival, once the disease is diagnosed. In this study, 2,640 wome ...
Membrane localization of insuli ...
Recent studies have identified a role for insulin receptor substrate-2 (IRS-2) in promoting motility and metastasis in breast cancer. However, no pu ...
Traditional breast cancer risk ...
At least four major categories of invasive breast cancer have been reproducibly identified by gene expression profiling: luminal A, luminal B, HER2- ...
Common genetic polymorphisms of ...
Recent compelling evidence indicates that mutation, aberrant expression, and dysregulation of microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis are implicated in cancer ...
A long AAAG repeat allele in th ...
We sequenced the 50 UTR of the estrogenrelated receptor gamma gene (ERR-c) in *500 patient and volunteer samples and found that longer alleles of th ...
Frondoside A inhibits breast ca ...
Frondoside A, derived from the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa has demonstrable anticancer activity in several models, however, the ability of Frond ...
Androgen receptor expression in ...
The androgen receptor (AR) has been shown to be of potential prognostic importance in retrospective cohorts. We evaluated immunohistochemical AR exp ...
Mixed epithelial/mesenchymal me ...
This case report describes a 35-year-old woman who was diagnosed with mixed epithelial/mesenchymal metaplastic carcinoma (carcinosarcoma) of the bre ...
High incidence and frequency of ...
Background Basal-like and HER2-overexpressing breast carcinomas are histologically undifferentiated, high-grade tumors with a high proliferation rat ...