B iological invasions occur when organisms are transported and become established in a new range in which they persist, proliferate, and spread (1). The negative consequences of invasions include loss of native biological diversity and community structure (and in extreme cases, the extinction of native species) (2); modification of ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling and productivity p...

The human growth factor receptor-bound protein 7 (Grb7) is an adaptor molecule and is related to cell invasion. In this present study, we investigated the clinical and biological significance of Grb7 expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We reviewed 64 consecutive patients who had undergone liver resection for HCC, and we investigated the correlation between Grb7 expression and cl...

Although biomedical applications of functionalized nanoparticles have taken significant strides, biological characterization of unmodified nanoparticles remains unclear. In the present study, we investigated the cell viability and invasion activity of gastric cancer cells after treatment with gold nanoparticles. The growth of SGC-7901 cells was inhibited significantly after treatment with 5-nm ...

We examined the population genetic structure of an extremely successful invasive wasp, Polistes dominulus. Although successful biological invasions of social insects have been associated with genetic bottlenecks, our research uncovered an unexpected level of genetic diversity in the northeastern U.S. invasion population. Compared with a previously studied European sample, the northeastern U.S. ...

The impact of invasion on diversity varies widely and remains elusive. Despite the considerable attempts to understand mechanisms of biological invasion, it is largely unknown whether some communities' characteristics promote biological invasion, or whether some inherent characteristics of invaders enable them to invade other communities. Our aims were to assess the impact of one of the massive...

Deterministic dynamic models for coupled resident and invader populations are considered with the purpose of finding quantities that are effective at predicting when the invasive population will become established asymptotically. A key feature of the models considered is the stage-structure, meaning that the populations are described by vectors of discrete developmental stage- or age-classes. T...

The paper develops a dynamic economic model of a controlled biological invasion. Such problems are inherently non-convex for two reasons. First, the invasion growth function and the set of feasible time paths may be non-convex. Second, non-convexities in the objective function may arise naturally from the fact that control costs depend on the invasion size. The goal of this paper is to characte...

background: colorectal adenocarcinoma is one of the most prevalent and treatable malignancies of the gastrointestinal tract. pattern of expression of the p53, p21, p16, e-cadherin and |î²|-catenin proteins are shown to be related to the prognosis of this malignancy. we aimed to compare the pattern of expression of these proteins in tumoral and nontumoral mucosal cells of cancer and on-cancer pa...