GATA3, a member of the GATA zinc finger transcription factor family, has been widely investigated for its role in cancer. Although a recent report has found that GATA3 is downregulated in gastric cancer (GC), the detailed mechanism of GATA3 in GC is still unknown. Here, we investigated whether GATA3 was downregulated in GC patients' tissue samples and cell lines using quantitative real time pol...

finger vein is one of the most fitting biometric for identifying individuals. in this paper a new method for finger vein recognition is proposed. first the veins are extracted from finger vein images by using entropy based thresholding. in finger vein images the veins are appeared as dark lines. the method extracts veins as well, but the images are noisy, that means in addition to the veins the...

finger reckoning is one of the five types of signification(dalala),which al – jahiz mentioned in his book, al–bayan wa al–tabyin . by this he meant a particular representing numbers by means of the outstretched or bent fingers and their various positions .finger reckoning can be traced in some prose and verse writings and traditional(hadith) sources; for example, in a recorded speech through wh...

Morphoea is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin and underlying tissues, characterised by fibrosis subcutaneous tissue without systemic involvement. Radiation-induced morphoea rare, often unrecognised, chronically progressive form radiation-associated localised scleroderma skin, infrequently progressing to scleroderma. Systemic widespread along with features, leading an increased risk mal...

The present study compared the thermal responses of the finger to 0 and 8°C water immersion, two commonly used temperatures for cold-induced vasodilation (CIVD) research. On two separate and counterbalanced occasions 15 male and 15 female participants immersed their index finger in 20°C water for 5 min followed by either 0 or 8°C water for 30 min. Skin temperature, cardiovascular and perceptual...

PURPOSE To characterize the gene expression profiles of endometrioid endometrial cancers associated with lymph node metastasis in an effort to identify genes associated with metastatic spread. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Tumors from 41 patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer grossly confined to the uterine cavity were evaluated. Positive lymph nodes were noted in 12 of 41 patients. RNA was anal...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of finger sucking habit among three-six-year-old children from kindergartens of Kerman, Iran. METHODS: This descriptive, cross-sectional study used census sampling to select 1000 children from 40 kindergartens. Data was collected by a checklist and clinical examination.  Chi-square test in SPSS16 was used for statisti...

Human lung cancer is a disease with high incidence and accounts for most cancer-related deaths in both men and women. Metastasis is a common event in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), diminishing the survival chance of the patients with this type of tumor. It has been shown that MYC is involved in the development of metastasis from NSCLC, but the mechanism underlying this switch remained t...

ZBRK1, a zinc finger protein that interacts with breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) and KRAB-ZFP-associated protein 1 (KAP1), has been suggested to serve as a tumor suppressor via repression of tumor metastasis/invasion. To date, the detailed molecular mechanisms for how BRCA1 and KAP1 participate in ZBRK1-mediated transcriptional repression, metastasis and invasion as well as the associated clinical rele...

OBJECTIVE The mechanisms of cancer metastasis have been intensely studied recently and may provide vital therapeutic targets for metastasis prevention. We sought to review the contribution of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and the tumor microenvironment to cancer metastasis. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Epithelial-mesenchymal transition is the process by which epithelial cells lose cell-cell ju...