BACKGROUND Cancer is one of the highly virulent diseases known to humankind with a high mortality rate. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Sorghum is a principal cereal food in many parts of the world, and is critical in folk medicine of Asia and Africa. In the present study, we analyzed the effects of HSE in metastatic breast cancer. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Pr...

Many areas of the western United States have soils that have increased Se content, and ruminants grazing these rangelands may ingest increased quantities of Se. In addition, high-energy diets or increased Se intake may induce gut inflammation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of maternal plane of nutrition and increased dietary Se during gestation on inflammatory response...

BACKGROUND The UK Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Management Standards (MS) approach has been developed to help organizations manage potential sources of work-related stress. Although there is general support for the assessment model adopted by this approach, to date, there has been no empirical investigation of the relationship between the actual MS (as measured by the final revised versio...

This work assesses the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof HSE screened Coulomb hybrid density functional for the prediction of lattice constants and band gaps using a set of 40 simple and binary semiconductors. An extensive analysis of both basis set and relativistic effects is given. Results are compared with established pure density functionals. For lattice constants, HSE outperforms local spin-density ...

In Japan, herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) has historically been fatal in approximately 30% of all reported cases. After the induction of acyclovir (ACV), however, the mortality rate has decreased to 7.1% (1), and HSE is now regarded as a treatable disease. However, the rate of poor outcome including moderate or severe sequelae still remains at 30-40% of HSE patients, despite standard ACV trea...