Multisensory integration (MSI) and spatial attention are both mechanisms through which the processing of sensory information can be facilitated. Studies on the interaction between spatial attention and MSI have mainly focused on the interaction between endogenous spatial attention and MSI. Most of these studies have shown that endogenously attending a multisensory target enhances MSI. It is cur...

Instability of microsatellite repeat sequences has been observed in colorectal carcinomas and in extracolonic malignancies, predominantly endometrial tumours, occurring in the context of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Microsatellite instability (MSI) as a feature of human DNA mismatch repair (MMR)-driven tumourigenesis of the uterine mucosa has been studied primarily in spo...

Microsatellite instability (MSI) occurs frequently in sporadic gastric cancer (GC) and may define a distinctive molecular pathway of carcinogenesis. We evaluated the role of dietary risk factors in GC according to MSI status. A large series of 382 GC cases and 561 controls were originally identified in a population-based case-control study carried out in the high-risk area around Florence, Ital...

BACKGROUND Hypomethylation in long interspersed nucleotide element-1 (LINE-1) and high-degree microsatellite instability (MSI-high) in colorectal cancer (CRC) have been associated with inferior and superior survival, respectively; however, it remains uncertain whether the prognostic association of LINE-1 hypomethylation differs by MSI status. We hypothesized that the adverse prognostic associat...

aim : the aim of the current investigation was to examine the profile of kras mutations accompanied with msi (microsattelite instability) status in polyps and colorectal carcinoma tissues in an iranian population. background : kras mutations in colorectal cancer cause resistance to anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (egfr). so it can be considered as a true indicator of egfr pathway activati...

MSI analysis is becoming increasingly important for the detection of both hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer and sporadic primary colorectal tumours with MSI high phenotype. The Bethesda panel of five microsatellite markers has been proposed to provide uniform criteria for MSI analysis. Here we report on an MSI analysis approach using quasimonomorphic mononucleotide repeats and denatura...

BACKGROUND Accurate information on the prevalence and causes of musculoskeletal impairment (MSI) is lacking in low income countries. We present a new survey methodology that is based on sound epidemiological principles and is linked to the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Functioning. METHODS Clusters were selected with probability proportionate to size. Households ...

INTRODUCTION Successful processing of multisensory stimuli increases the likelihood of detection or identification of salient, biologically significant events faster and more efficiently than unisensory inputs. Schizophrenia (SZ) patients show deficits in unisensory processing, but it is unclear whether impairments are seen to multisensory stimuli, a process known as multisensory integration (M...

AIM To determine the frequency of tumour budding and somatic APC mutation in a series of colorectal cancers stratified according to DNA microsatellite instability (MSI) status. MATERIAL/METHODS Ninety five colorectal cancers were genotyped for APC mutation in the mutation cluster region (exon 15) and scored for the presence of tumour budding at the invasive margin in haematoxylin and eosin st...

Microsatellite instability (MSI) is caused mainly by dysfunction of hMLH1, where aberrant hypermethylation (HM) of its promoter region is involved. Previously, we suggested that HM in the proximal region of the hMLH1 promoter plays a critical role in progression of gastric cancer with MSI and this specific region should be analyzed for diagnostic use of hMLH1 HM. We expanded the analyses of hML...