Message Delivered

Message delivered: how myocytes control cAMP signaling.

Despite the vast array of specific receptors and ligands through which cells receive information from their outside environment, the first line of messengers that relay this onto internal signaling cascades is more limited. Yet, somehow, the purpose of the original message is conveyed (ie, we know who knocked on the front door), and the message ends up influencing just the right proteins to pro...

Behavior change interventions delivered by mobile telephone short-message service.

CONTEXT The expansion and adoption of new methods of communication provide new opportunities for delivering health behavior change interventions. This paper reviews the current research examining mobile telephone short-message service (SMS) for delivering health behavior change interventions via text messages. This service has wide population reach, can be individually tailored, and allows inst...

Thrombospondin-1: an extracellular message delivered by macrophages that promotes aortic aneurysms.

Welcoming Message to the JIRSS

It is a great honor to be invited to contribute to the first issue of the Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society. May the Journal and those associated with it have great success in attaining its goals and in furthering the progress of statistical science. While there has been worldwide recognition of the important role that statistics and statisticians play in producing progress in science ...

Delivered Electronically

The American Chemistry Council commends the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) for soliciting widespread review by the scientific community as a whole on the draft language under consideration for revision of the IARC Preamble to the IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. The IARC Monograph process is widely recognized for its contribution over the la...