BACKGROUND: Toll-like receptor 2 and 4 (TLR2/4) may play important roles in ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) can prevent the genera
BACKGROUND:Interferon-alpha (IFN-α) is an important cytokine with multiple functions, but the target genes transactivated by IFN-αremain largely unknown. A st
BACKGROUND:Most pancreatic carcinomas are clinically insensitive to chemotherapeutics. The exact mechanisms of their apoptosis and multiple drug resistance are
BACKGROUND:In a multidisciplinary conference patients with advanced non-resectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were stratiifed according to their clinical st
BACKGROUND:Telomerase activity is reported to be speciifc and frequent in human pancreatic cancer. We conducted this study to assess the usefulness of monitorin