15th annual UCLA symposium. Abstracts: Interferons as cell growth inhibitors and antitumor factors.

Stem Cells and CAM

It is no exaggeration that stem cells are a hot topic in the international biomedical arena. In California we are particularly and actually aware of this fact. We started the new year on January 12 with a Stem Cell Technology Conference focusing on senescence. More than a year after California voters elected to give $3 billion in bonds to fund stem cell research, and with the measure stalled in...

JAK-STAT pathway and JAK inhibitors: a primer for dermatologists

Background: All cellular events depend upon the DNA synthesis and gene expression involving complex interplay between ligands such as interleukins and interferons, with various cell membrane receptors. These ligand-receptors interactions transmit signals within the cell via numerous signal transduction pathways to affect gene expression. Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcrip...

15th Annual Symposium: Your Veterinarian and Your Dog

The 17th congress of parenteral and enteral Nutrition society of Asia (PENSA) and the first symposium on fasting and health, 6th-8th December 2016, Tehran, Iran

The 17th Congress of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Asia (PENSA 2016) and the first Symposium on Fasting and Health will be held on 6th to 8th December 2016 at Olympic Hotel, Tehran, Iran. The congress is hosted by Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences and Scientific Committee of Iranian Nutrition Society. This congress is organized with the p...

A placental growth factor-positively charged peptide potentiates the antitumor activity of interferon-gamma in human brain glioblastoma U87 cells.

Interferons have been marketed to treat hematological malignancies, but their efficacy in the treatment of solid tumors has been significantly hindered by low antitumor efficacy and numerous side effects. We used a "cDNA in-frame fragment" library screening method to identify short cDNA peptides that potentiate the anti-tumor activity of interferons. In this study, we synthesized a hybrid molec...