Paraneoplastic syndromes (PNPs) refer to cancer-associated signs and symptoms arising in organs and tissues that are remote from the cancer and unrelated to metastasis. Currently the best described PNPs are attributed to tumor secretion of functional peptides and hormones or immune cross-reactivity between tumor and normal host tissues. Paraneoplastic hematologic syndromes are observed more rar...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion injury induces a systemic response and releases harmful substances that may affect distant organs such as the lung, liver and kidney. We designed this study to determine if curcumin has protective effects against mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion injury and mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion-induced intestinal and distant organ injury. METHODS Forty ...

Ischemic preconditioning (IPC), a strategy used to attenuate ischemia-reperfusion injury, consists of brief ischemic periods, each followed by reperfusion, prior to a sustained ischemic insult. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the local and systemic anti-inflammatory effects of hind limb IPC in male Wistar rat (200-250 g) models of acute inflammation. IPC was induced with right ...

Adult tissue stem cells (SCs) play an important role in homeostasis and regeneration multicellular organisms. With aging, these decline their capacities such as regeneration, proliferation, differentiation, leading to disruption of systemic organs. The senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), that is, senescent secrete various inflammatory factors, has been implicated the promotion chr...

Stressor-induced tolerance is a central mechanism in the response of bacteria, plants, and animals to potentially harmful environmental challenges. This response is characterized by immediate changes in cellular metabolism and by the delayed transcriptional activation or inhibition of genetic programs that are not generally stressor specific (cross-tolerance). These programs are aimed at counte...

A willing seller and buyer voluntarily agree upon the price for exchange of X dollars one Y widget. The trade satisfies some their human wants. Both parties are better off having made profitable or they would not have transacted. Once widget becomes a life-saving organ, like kidney, all bets according to present prohibition on trades between two seeking themselves through an exchange. We conten...

Insufficient oxygen delivery to organs leads to tissue dysfunction and cell death. Reperfusion, although vital to organ survival, initiates an inflammatory response that may both aggravate local tissue injury and elicit remote organ damage. Polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) trafficking to remote organs following ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) is associated with the release of lipid mediators, inc...