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OR, does the use of these radionuclide tracers, themselves, add a significant risk of causing cancer in patients? The dose of ionizing-radiation from the tracer used in one PET scan, for example,...
02 January 2016 1,631 26 View
Some notable scientists have been claiming that amygdalin (Laetrile) is effective against cancer based on a cyanogenic compound specific for cancer cells. Please does any one have solid article...
01 January 2016 1,914 2 View
How do clinical decision aids used for shared-decision purposes affect change in the behavior of patients? I'm interested to find the link between the use of a decision support aid by patients and...
01 January 2016 2,877 3 View
32 year old women presented with 9 months history of rectal bleeding . No history of loss of appetite and loss of weight . She has no any urinary symptoms . History of two cesarean sections is...
01 January 2016 3,533 28 View
I have done a WGS of a special cancer and found many break points. I hope to find new chromosomal fragile points. How can I identify them?
01 January 2016 9,738 3 View
I want to test the potency and efficacy of a therapy against cancer in vivo and wish to use Rat-Sprague-Dawley. Please, any suggestions are welcome. Many thanks
01 January 2016 3,910 6 View
Dose someone knows the first paper to define cancer? I want to know how the scientist first define "cancer"? Why they named it as "cancer"? How they found this kind of healthy problem? Thanks in...
01 January 2016 10,020 4 View
Is EMT plasticity absent in such kind of cancer since osteosarcoma cell originate from mesenchyma ?
20 December 2015 380 5 View
If a gene is mutated in over 10% of patients with a particular type of cancer and many of these mutations have been predicted to affect the stability of the protein, is there still a chance they...
12 December 2015 3,310 3 View
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We are performing a systematic review regarding studies that validated administrative databases for ICD-9-CM or ICD-10 codes for different cancers. There could be events in which there are...
12 December 2015 5,716 3 View
I want to dissolve Paclitaxel(which is already dissolved in DMSO) in Cremophor EL and Dehydrated alcohol for my animal studies. I will be giving IP injections to nude mice.
17 November 2015 1,259 8 View
11 November 2015 9,753 6 View
Hello everyone, I would like to know the composition of migrating metastatic clusters generated by EMT. Any idea, please? Thanks in advance.
11 November 2015 1,742 2 View
Both AhR and HIF1-alpha form heterodimers with ARNT (HIF1-beta). There are many papers that indicate a possible use of drugs that determine an hyperactivity of AhR in the treatment of various...
05 November 2015 8,720 3 View
I'm looking for any articles/posters/papers that support this coping trajectories (non in the parents, only in the children/adolescence) in different serious illnesses In our studies we have found...
12 October 2015 8,544 6 View
For validation part of my study, I need a comparison between my model of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and ODE models of this area. But, I’m really confused because ordinary differential...
10 October 2015 3,904 10 View
I’m looking for the number of “tumor cells” and “effector cytotoxic T cells (CTLs)” at different time steps of “ductal carcinoma in situ”. I need these data to validate my model. I were wondering...
30 September 2015 4,117 8 View
we know that EMT is critical step for metastasis ,then these metastatic cell require MET in establishment and stabilization of distant metastases. but what about cell lines taken from...
25 September 2015 7,901 5 View
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Is 129 stain easy to develop testis tumor?
21 July 2015 4,761 2 View
Is there a method/protocol to stain nuclear actin by, e.g. phallodin? I cannot afford fused ABDs-fluorescent proteins now, is there an alternative?
07 July 2015 2,399 4 View
Trying to identify the different cell types within a primary tumour such as fibroblasts, endothelial, epithelial etc. Was wondering if anyone has had success using FGFR4 to identify fibroblasts?
07 July 2015 2,765 0 View
I'm running a mammosphere assay but am worried about aggregation of cells, I have read that you can add methylcellulose to the media to make it semi viscous but I'm worried that will defeat the...
07 July 2015 437 11 View