Is canalization more than just a beautiful idea?

More than just vanilla.

“swine flu”: when thinking globally and acting locally is more than just a slogan

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Metabolic endotoxaemia: is it more than just a gut feeling?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews the evidence linking gut bacteria, endotoxin, and its circulating levels with inflammatory induced obesity and metabolic disease (metabolic endotoxaemia). RECENT FINDINGS Gut flora analyses have allowed gut microbiota signatures (GMS) to be observed in animal studies of obesity/metabolic disease. In these studies, specific GMS result in a change in obesi...

Erythropoietin is more than just a promoter of erythropoiesis.

The red cell production is continuously adjusted to cope with the loss of aged blood cells and to guarantee optimal oxygen supply to tissues and cells. Erythropoietin (EPO) is the critical growth factor that is produced either in the fetal liver or the adult kidney and acts on erythroid progenitor cells in the bone marrow to prevent them from undergoing programmed cell death. In turn, EPO produ...

Is circulating HER-2 more than just a tumor marker?

HER2/neu (also known as neu and as c-erbB-2) is a protooncogene of the EGF receptor family of receptor tyrosine kinases (1). HER2/neu encodes a Mr185,000 transmembrane glycoprotein receptor (HER2, or c-erbB-2) that has partial homology with the other members of the EGF receptor family, and which also includes the EGF receptor (also called HER1), HER3, and HER4. These receptors are composed of a...