2010.6 The National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) formed a special task force to make recommendations to address the problem.7 Binge drinking has even received global attention from the World Health Organization, which convened a conference to address the topic.8 Several prominent organizations and key leaders have accepted this call to action. Mothers Against Drunk Driving ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently emerged as regulators of metastasis. We provide insight into the behavior of miR-221 in colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis by showing that miR-221 is significantly upregulated in metastatic CRC cell lines and tissues. miR-221 overexpression enhances, whereas miR-221 depletion reduces CRC cell migration and invasion in vitro and metastasis in vivo. We identify RE...

The overexpression of microRNA-221 (miR-221) is reported in several human cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma, and its targeting by tailored treatments has been proposed. The evidence supporting the role ofmiR-221 in cancer is growing and has been mainly focused on the discovery of miR-221 targets as well as on its possible therapeutic exploitations. However, the mechanism sustaining miR...

Increasing evidence has demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) are involved in cancer initiation and progression. Previous studies have indicated that miR-221 is one of the most consistently overexpressed miRNAs in multiple types of cancer. However, the role of miR-221 in osteosarcoma carcinogenesis and progression is not yet fully understood. Thus, the aim of the present study was to exa...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we developed a model of presymptomatic treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD) after a screening diagnostic evaluation and explored the circumstances required for an AD prevention treatment to produce aggregate net population benefit. METHODS Monte Carlo simulation methods were used to estimate outcomes in a simulated population derived from data on AD incidence and mort...

UNLABELLED Deregulated cell proliferation and apoptosis play a major role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). MicroRNAs participate in the modulation of key molecules linked to hepatocarcinogenesis. PURPOSE This study aims to investigate the role of miR-221 in the modulation of Bmf, a proapoptotic BH3-only protein, and to characterize miR-221 contribution to hepatocarcinogenesis through modula...

BACKGROUND & AIM The miR-221/222 cluster is upregulated in malignant plasma cells from multiple myeloma (MM) patients harboring the t(4;14) translocation. We previously reported that silencing of miR-221/222 by an antisense oligonucleotide induces anti-MM activity and upregulates canonical miR-221/222 targets. The in vivo anti-tumor activity occurred when miR-221/222 inhibitors were delivered d...

1 The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 2 CogState Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA 4 Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, St. Vincent’s Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Kew, Victoria, Australia 5 National Ageing Research Insti...

may be many years in the past. The accuracy of reporting on sensitive matters relating to sexual behavior can also shift as the culture changes, and that accuracy may vary with age. Because, by definition, self-reports of the initiation of sexual activity cannot be externally validated, the scientific literature has necessarily focused on the consistency and reliability of reporting, through tw...