Chronic renal failure (CRF) is a serious disease related to increasing incidence and prevalence as well as decline in quality of life. Bu-Shen-Huo-Xue formula (BSHX), one of traditional herbal formulations, has been clinically employed to treat CRF for decades, but the mechanisms involved have not been investigated. In the present study, we investigated the effects of BSHX on some closely relat...

As one of the final activities of the ESF-CONGEN Networking programme, a conference entitled 'Integrating Population Genetics and Conservation Biology' was held at Trondheim, Norway, from 23 to 26 May 2009. Conference speakers and poster presenters gave a display of the state-of-the-art developments in the field of conservation genetics. Over the five-year running period of the successful ESF-C...

Michael Remmert is project manager of the project "Making democratic institutions work" in the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe has been working since 2002 on a set of European standards on the legal, operational and technical aspects of electronic voting. This keynote gives insights on the progress and the work done so far. The Council of Europe is a pan-European inter-governmental org...

TAB-250 and BACH-250 are murine and human chimeric antibodies directed at the extracellular domain of the gp185c-erb-2 (HER2/neu) growth factor receptor overexpressed in a variety of tumor types, including ovarian and breast carcinoma. The ribosome-inhibiting plant toxin gelonin (rGel) was chemically coupled to both antibodies, and the resulting immunotoxins were purified and tested in vitro ag...

We present a detailed analysis of a high resolution spectrum of the damped Lyα system at zabs = 2.8112 toward PKS 0528-250. The absorption redshift is slighly larger than the emission redshift of the quasar. We estimate the column density of H2 molecules N (H2) ∼ 6×1016 cm−2 and the fractional abundance of H2, f = 5.4×10−5. The excitation temperature derived for different transitions suggests t...