Giant cell arteritis (GCA), also known as temporal arteritis (TA) is a relatively frequent primary systemic vasculitis affecting large and medium-sized arteries, in particular aorta and its main branches (Hunder, 2000). It occurs, by definition, in patients older than fifty with a peak between 70 and 80 years. The disease primarily affects whites, specifically those of northern European descent...

14 habits, and the potential but unevaluated impacts of climate change on the distribution, abundance and competence of vectors, the disease now threatens North and East African countries that share borders with infected countries, and European countries where potential vectors are present (Chevalier et al., 2010; Moutailler et al., 2008). Given the lack of knowledge about factors triggering em...

1.1 Epidemiology In the last 80 years, the incidence of gastric cancer and gastric cancer-related mortality has decreased significantly. However, gastric cancer is the 4th most common cancer and the 2nd common cause of cancer associated mortality in the world (Crew, K.D. Neugut, A.I., 2006, Ferlay, J., et al., 2010, Ferlay, J., et al., 2010, Jemal, A., et al., 2010, Krejs, G.J., 2010, Malvezzi,...

INTRODUCTION Dynein is a minus-end-directed microtubule motor that exists in two forms. Axonemal dynein promotes microtubule sliding for beating of cilia and flagella. Cytoplasmic dynein moves processively along microtubules and, in addition to organelle positioning and transport, plays key roles in cell cycle events, including nucleus-centrosome coupling, nuclear envelope breakdown, spindle as...

The present paper by Krawczyk et al. (2010) adds to a growing list of studies that have shown analogical reasoning to be critically dependent on what is known as executive functioning in the neuropsychological literature, and working memory in the cognitive (neuro)science literature. Specifically, analogy requires the maintenance, manipulation, and selective activation (or inhibition) of mental...

We read with interest the recent publications by Ariyoshi et al. (2011) and Raccor et al. (2011). The role of a number of cytochrome P450 (P450) isozymes in the 4-hydroxylation of cyclophosphamide has been debated for several years. There is evidence that both CYP2B6 and CYP2C19 are important in the biotransformation and activation of this prodrug in vitro (Chang et al., 1993, 1997; Huang et al...

Over the last decade, vehicle localization has been attracting attention in a wide range of applications. A number of localization techniques have been developed to serve a variety of applications Al-Bayari & Sadoun (2005); Aono et al. (1998); Bouju et al. (2002); Cramer (1997); Dao et al. (2002); Drawil & Basir (2010); Jabbour, Cherfaoui & Bonnifait (2006); Lai & Tsai (2003); Nishimura et al. ...

This subject is of interest as asthma has increased over the last two decades. Despite therapeutic advances, morbidity and mortality are increasing (Global Initiative for Asthma [GINA], 2010), particularly due to the development of western standards of living, where psychological factors have regained notability (Busse et al., 2000). This brings about a worsening in psychological factors and qu...