Mehmet Aşık1, Faruk Özkul2, Hüseyin Toman3, Ahmet Durmuş4, İnan Anaforoğlu5, Fahri Güneş6, Erdem Akbal7 1Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Çanakkale, Turkey 2Numune Education and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Trabzon, Turkey 3Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia and ...

BACKGROUND Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) amplification of melanoma cell-specific mRNA can detect melanoma cells in the peripheral blood of patients with malignant melanoma. We present a method to quantify mRNA coding for the melanoma-specific melanoma antigen recognized by T cells #1 (MART-1) in RNA isolated from peripheral blood. METHODS To establish a calibration curve, we measured the...

Dendritic cells (DC) can achieve cross-presentation of naturally-occurring tumor-associated antigens after phagocytosis and processing of dying tumor cells. They have been used in different clinical settings to vaccinate cancer patients. We have previously used gamma-irradiated MART-1 expressing melanoma cells as a source of antigens to vaccinate melanoma patients by injecting irradiated cells ...

Design of data marts is a fundamental task when preparing data destined for implementation of a Decision Support System (DSS). To answer questions on the underlying users information needs, a data-mart designer is challenged to distill the relevant information from various data sources, enable in-depth data analysis and provide ease of access of information to targeted DSS users. This paper pre...

A new algorithm for reconstruction of 3D particle fields from plenoptic image data is presented. The algorithm is based on the well-known technique of computational refocusing with the addition of a post reconstruction filter to remove the out of focus particles. This new algorithm is compared to the MART algorithm in terms of reconstruction quality on synthetic particle fields as well as veloc...

Data warehousing is an important part of the enterprise information system. Business intelligence (BI) relies on data warehouses to improve business performance. Data quality plays a key role in BI. Source data is extracted, transformed, and loaded (ETL) into the data warehouses periodically. The ETL operations have the most crucial impact on the data quality of the data warehouse. ETL-related ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a devastating disease due to no effective treatments available. Since the non-mineral functions of vitamin D emerges, 1α,25(OH)2D3, the active form of vitamin D, has been applied in anti-cancer researches. In this study, we demonstrated that both the 1α,25(OH)2D3 analog, MART-10, and 1α,25(OH)2D3 possessed anti-growth effect on human CCA cells with MART-10 much more ...

This paper introduces Sharing-Mart (S-Mart), an online digital trading platform developed at Princeton University to perform social file sharing experiments on top of technological networks as overlays. It describes the S-Mart system, the experiments conducted, and incentivization aspects associated with certain experiment types that might run on S-Mart. In the first part of the paper, the S-Ma...