background: prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among men. new gene expressed in prostate (ngep), is a prostate-specific gene expressed only in normal prostate and prostate cancer tissue. because of its selective expression in prostate cancer cell surface, ngep is a potential immunotherapeutic target. to target the ngep in prostate cancer, it is essential to investigat...

A 43-year-old male with a history of hypertension and chronic kidney disease, stage 3, presented with chief complaints of fever, chills, lower extremity redness, and pain. On examination, he was hemodynamically stable with findings consistent with bilateral lower extremity cellulitis. A wrinkle-like line extending in the earlobes extending backward from the tragus at an angle of 458 was observe...

(1) Background: Because ecosystem degradation has become a global phenomenon which seriously affects the health of natural ecosystems and human well-being, restoration degraded attracted increasing attention. However, many methods used in current ecological work have rarely combined practices with quantitative goal restoring function. (2) Methods: In this study, based on conceptual framework re...

Drosophila RacGAP50C and its homologues act as part of a complex with a kinesin-like protein (Pavarotti/Zen-4) that is essential for the formation of the central spindle and completion of cytokinesis [Mishima, M., Kaitna, S. & Glotzer, M. (2002) Dev. Cell 2, 41-54; Somers, W. G. & Saint, R. (2003) Dev. Cell 4, 29-39; Jantsch-Plunger et al. (2000) J. Cell Biol. 149, 1391-1404]. We report here th...