We previously identified novel biomarker candidates in biliary tract cancer (BTC) using serum proteome analysis. Among several candidates, we focused on thrombin light chain which is a 4204 Da peptide as the most promising biomarker for BTC. To move thrombin light chain toward potential diagnostic use, we developed an enzyme immunoassay that enables to measure serum thrombin light chain levels....

In this paper a colour image data compression method using block truncation coding (BTC) and genetic Algorithm (GA) is presented. This compression technique reduces the computational complexity and provides acceptable visual quality reconstructed images. BTC acts as the basic compression technique but it exhibits two disadvantages such as the false contour and blocking effect. Hence error diffu...

INTRODUCTION The worldwide incidence of biliary tract carcinoma (BTC, tumours of the bile ducts and gall-bladder) continues to rise, with the only potentially curative treatment remaining surgical resection or transplantation, possible in only a minority of patients. Late presentation and a paucity of effective treatments mandate the development of techniques for early lesion detection. AREAS...

Reversible data hiding is an efficient way for embedding additional data into cover media, which can reversibly recover the original cover media when the additional data is extracted. It has been widely utilized in secure communication and copyright protection. A reversible data hiding scheme imposed on the quantized coefficients of compressed images based on block truncation coding (BTC) is pr...

Abstract Zeolitic imidazolate framework‐67 (ZIF67) or copper(II)‐benzene‐1,3,5‐tricarboxylate (CuBTC)‐based chitosan fibers grown in situ on can be used the development of effective air filters. In this context, herein, metal–organic frameworks (ZIF67 CuBTC) are (denoted as C‐ZIF67 C‐CuBTC), and NO gas adsorption performance, particular matter filtration efficiency, antibacterial properties fab...

Organic anion (OA) transport mediates accumulation of the zwitterionic nephrotoxic cysteine S-conjugates S-dichlorovinylcysteine (DCVC) and S-chlorotrifluoroethylcysteine (CTFC) in the rabbit renal proximal tubule (RPT). Although these cysteine conjugates are nephrotoxic to the human RPT, neither the role of OA transport nor the specific OA transport pathway(s) involved in cysteine conjugate ac...

Biliary tract cancer (BTC) is often difficult to diagnose definitively, even through histological examination. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate a variety of physiological processes. In recent years, it has been suggested that profiles for circulating miRNAs, as well as those for tissue miRNAs, have the potential to be used as diagnostic biomarkers for cancer. The aim of this study was to confirm the...