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... Replacement of cisplatin with nedaplatin in a definitive 5-fluorouracil/ cisplatin- based chemoradiotherapy in Japanese patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma Akiko Kuwahara 1, Motohiro Yamamori ... toxicity of nedaplatin and 5-FU with radiation treatment for advanced esophageal carcinomas. Anticancer Res. 2003; 23: 3493-8. 15. Yamada H, Maki H, Takeda Y, et al. Evaluation of combined nedaplatin ... chemoradiotherapy for eso-phageal squamous cell carcinoma. J Gastroenterol. 2006; 41: 425-32. 10. Sakaeda T, Yamamori M, Kuwahara A, et al. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics in esophageal cancer...

... con-cepts of systems, complexity, and chaos with features of stability and instability, linearity and nonlinearity, bifurcation, attractor, etc., each constituting an impor-tant feature of one of ... et al [12] demonstrated the need for a degree of chaos in a healthy heart. An electrocardiogram without a degree of chaos actually reflects an underlying cardiac ab-normality, especially the ... lack of adaptability. These observations support to view that a perfect order is a non-physiological and a non-healthy state. A degree of variability is essential to maintain a complex adaptive...

... franca in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A case study of native Chinese teachers in Beijing. In Language alternation, language choice and language encounter in international education, ... English as a lingua franca in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages. The International Journal of Learning 17(6): 257-272. Wang, Danping. 2012. (in press). The use of English as a lingua ... franca in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A case study of native Chinese teachers in Beijing”) suggested that CFL teachers need to become bilingual in Chinese and English in today’s increasingly...

... medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Primary researchSubtyping patients with heroin addiction at treatment entry: factor derived from the Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SCL-90)Icro ... resulting from factorial analysis, in the form of panic anxiety-related symptoms. Anxiety and panic anxiety may belinked with the withdrawal syndrome. The pathophysiol-ogy of withdrawal actually overlaps ... with heroin addic-tion at treatment entry: factor derived from the Self-Report Symptom Inven-tory (SCL-90) Annals of General Psychiatry 2010, 9:15 Maremmani et al. Annals of General Psychiatry...

... intimately involved in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis and complete our model (the rheumatoid arthritis cycle) for the development and chronic nature of this disease. Rheumatoid arthritis ... synovial proteins like fibrin(ogen).EditorialAn important step towards completing the rheumatoid arthritis cycleWalther J van Venrooij and Ger JM PruijnDepartment of Biomolecular Chemistry, ... deiminase (PAD)enzymes. These enzymes are activated by the elevation ofcytosolic Ca2+-concentrations, for example when cells under-go apoptosis. Step 2When the dying inflammatory cells are not...

... Corresponding author AbstractBackground: Endovascular therapy for vascular malformations is one of the treatment optionsfor limb vascular malformations.Case presentation: A patient with a vascular malformation ... reportSciatic neuropathy following endovascular treatment of a limb vascular malformationJohn P Ney*1, William Shih2 and Mark E Landau3Address: 1Madigan Army Medical Center, Neurology Service, ... Chan SC, Wong WK, Chan MK,Chu WS: Neurologic injury after endovascular stent-graft andbilateral internal iliac artery embolization for infrarenalabdominal aortic aneurysm. J Vasc Interv Radiol...

... tosusceptibility of asthma in infants (Chinese) . Hua Zhong Yi Xue Za Zhi2004, 28(3):201-202, 154.52. Tan EC, Lee BW, Tay AW, Chew FT, Tay AH: Asthma and TNF variants in Chinese and Malays. Allergy 1999, ... Open Access Asthma susceptible genes in Chinese population: A meta-analysisXiaobo Li1,2†, Yonggang Zhang2†, Jie Zhang3†, Yuling Xiao4†, Jin Huang5,6, Can Tian1, Chao He4, Yao Deng4,Yingying ... promotergene polymorphisms and asthma in Chinese, Malay and Indian (Chinese) . Yi Xue Lin Chuang Yan Jiu 2005, 22(3):293-296.48. Gao JM, Lin YG, Qiu CC, Liu YW, Ma Y, Liu Y: The association betweentumor...

... examination including palpation of thyroidglands, breast and lymph nodes will assist in the earlydetection of occult cancers. Mammography, breast ultra-sonography and the Papanicolaou test are ... Personal information, including family history,lifestyle and habits such as smoking and alcohol use, wasnot available from the National Health InsuranceResearch Database. Study subjectsAll ... based on data from the NationalHealth Insurance Research Database released by theNational Health Research Institute. Taiwan began itsNational Health Insurance program in 1995 to financehealthcare...

... remodeling and polycythemia in old animals butalso induced severe weight loss, trembling behavior and high mortality (p < 0.001, median survival: 38 days). Under hypoxia however, dehydroepiandrosterone ... use hypoxia, up to death in mice,starting at an age when they naturally start dying, in orderto evaluate long-term positive or negative survival effectsof hypoxic PH and a potential therapy. ... Circulation 2001,104:424-428.22. Nakanishi K, Tajima F, Osada H, Nakamura A, Yagura S, Kawai T,Suzuki M, Torikata C: Pulmonary, vascular responses in ratsexposed to chronic hypobaric hypoxia at...

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... purposes) Chinese Medicine Open AccessCommentaryProbing the mystery of Chinese medicine meridian channels with special emphasis on the connective tissue interstitial fluid system, mechanotransduction, cells ... the connective tissues and the connective tissue intersti-tial fluid (CTIF) system [2-9]. Based on interdisciplinaryanalysis of certain characteristics of the CTIF system, and integration of ... applied to connective tissue causes cytoskel-etal remodeling of mechanically connected cells. A pull by the connective tissue to the mechanically connected distal cells would apply stress to the surface...

... Chun-key Law3, Xianzhang Huang1 and Zhaoxiang Bian*1Address: 1School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China, 2Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist ... Broffman M, Kramer A, Fan WY, Gao J,Lieb W, Shieh K, Colford JM Jr: Astragalus-based Chinese herbsand platinum-based chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: meta-analysis of randomized ... New cancer cases in Hong Kong has been rising at a annual rate of 2% [1]. While sur-gery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy remained to be con-ventional cancer treatments, 80% of the cancer patientsaround...

... time.Sadaka et al. Critical Care 2011, 15:R89http://ccforum.com/content/15/2/R89Page 3 of 7 RESEARCH Open Access Activated protein C in septic shock: a propensity-matched analysisFarid Sadaka*, ... Chest Physicians;American College of Emergency Physicians; Canadian Critical Care Society;European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; EuropeanSociety of Intensive Care ... Steingrub JS: Activated protein C and hospital mortality in septic shock: a propensity-matched analysis. Crit Care Med 2010, 38:1101-1107.doi:10.1186/cc10089Cite this article as: Sadaka et al.:...

... (Piwi/Argonaute/Zwille) domain, tandem RNase IIIdomains and a carboxy-terminal dsRNA binding domain. A single Dicer protein is involved in both the siRNA and miRNApathways in C. elegans [67-69]. ... pathway and miRNA path-way are essentially parallel, using related but distinct proteinsat each step. For instance, in Drosophila, Dicer2, R2D2 andArgonaute2 are involved in the RNAi pathway, ... [8]). In the RNAi pathway, small RNAs are calledshort interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and are loaded into RNA- induced silencing complexes (RISC) for post-transcriptionalsilencing, or RNA- induced initiation...