The suggestion that smooth muscle cell proliferation contributes to hypertension, atherosclerosis, and restenosis after angioplasty has led to a growing interest in the use of drugs to inhibit this process. This review summarizes pharmacological studies of smooth muscle cell proliferation in vitro and in vivo and identifies specific mediators of proliferation that are implicated by drugs bindin...

Corresponding author: Sung-Moon Jeong, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 388-1, Pungnap-2 dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3010-3868, Fax: 82-2-3010-6790, E-mail: anesjsm@amc.seoul.kr This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercia...

It is not—unless it triggers feelings of envy. This study uses the framework of social rank theory of depression and conceptualizes Facebook envy as a possible link between Facebook surveillance use and depression among college students. Using a survey of 736 college students, we found that the effect of surveillance use of Facebook on depression is mediated by Facebook envy. However, when Face...

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Refer to: Magarian G J, Middaugh DA, Linz DH: Hyperventilation syndrome: A diagnosis begging for recognition (Topics in Primary Care Medicine). West J Med 1983 May; 138:733-736. From Ambulatory Care and Medical Services, Veterans Administration Medical Center, and the Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. Supported in part by HEW gran...

321 Received April 6, 2012; revision accepted for publication July 4, 2012. doi: 10.1620/tjem.227.321 *E.K. Kim and J.H. Lee contributed equally to this work. Correspondence: Sang-Do Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, 388-1 Poongnab-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Kor...

In order to investigate commonly disturbed genes and pathways in various brain regions of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), microarray datasets from previous studies were collected and systematically analyzed. Different normalization methods were applied to microarray datasets from different platforms. A strategy combining gene co‑expression networks and clinical information was adopted, ...

BACKGROUND Although many surgical strategies have been used to reduce the anastomotic leak (AL) rate after laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery, limited data are available on the risk factors for AL and the effective strategy to reduce AL. METHODS The present study enrolled 736 consecutive patients who underwent laparoscopic resection without a diverting stoma for rectal adenocarcinoma. A nomog...

background: although the relationship between foods and nutrients with metabolic syndrome is known to some extent, the study of dietary patterns and their relationship with metabolic syndrome have more benefits than the relationship is exclusively one or more micronutrients. so, this study was carried out to determine the relation between western dietary patterns with metabolic syndrome in khor...