doi: 10.1111/cas.12571 Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death in women. Prolonged exposure to the ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone increases the risk of breast cancer. Although estrogen is known as a primary factor in mammary carcinogenesis, very few studies have investigated the role of progesterone. Receptor activator for nuclear factor-jB (NF-jB) ligand (RANKL) pl...

Living cells must be capable of rapidly responding to intrinsic and environmental cues to ensure normal development and homeostasis. The NF-jB transcription factor mediates a series of such rapid-response programs, serving as a master regulator of gene transcription in cells subjected to inflammation, irradiation, or other stress states (Karin, 2009). While cells must be able to rapidly respond...

We consider deterministic and disordered frustrated systems in which we can show some strict inequalities with respect to related ferromagnetic systems. A case particularly interesting is the Edwards-Anderson spin-glass model in which it is possible to determine a region of uniqueness of the Gibbs measure, which is strictly larger than the region of uniqueness for the related ferromagnetic syst...

let a be a banach algebra and e be a banach a-bimodule then s = a  e, the l1-direct sum of a and e becomes a module extension banach algebra when equipped with the algebras product (a; x):(a′; x′) = (aa′; a:x′ + x:a′). in this paper, we investigate △-amenability for these banach algebras and we show that for discrete inverse semigroup s with the set of idempotents es, the module extension bana...

Venous reflux in the internal jugular vein branches (JB) was found frequently in patients of certain neurologic disorders. We hypothesized that the retrograde-flow in JB is associated with retrograde hypertension transmitted from the internal jugular vein (IJV), which presumably underlies those neurologic disorders. In this study, we used color-Doppler imaging to evaluate the dynamic venous flo...

Invasive species' facilitation, or benefiting, of native species is rarely considered in biological invasion literature but could have serious economic consequences should a non-native herbivore facilitate injury by a native pest of high-value crops. Japanese beetle (JB), Popillia japonica, a polyphagous scarab, facilitates feeding by the obligate fruit-feeding native green June beetle (GJB), C...

Mounting evidence supports the influence of the gut microbiome on the local enteric nervous system and its effects on brain chemistry and relevant behavior. Vagal afferents are involved in some of these effects. We previously showed that ingestion of the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus rhamnosus (JB-1) caused extensive neurochemical changes in the brain and behavior that were abrogated by pri...