Zhang Qing

The treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer has improved markedly during the past 15 years. With the development of irinotecan, oxaliplatin, anti-EGFR antibodies, and anti-VEGF treatment, patients...

Further studies are required to elucidate these systems. During in vitro maturation of mount COCs, not FSH or precursors for hyaluronic acid synthesis affected the manifestation of connexin 43 mRNA in...

Type- A amino butyric acid receptors (GABARs) are the major players of rapid inhibitory synaptic transmission in the human brain. These receptors belong to a superfamily of pentameric ligand-gated ion...

Forbes has recently published an article talking about a small but promising biotechnology company called Agios, based in Cambridge, Mass., being on its path to development of a very effective...

Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is regulated by cellular O2 availability through O2-dependent hydroxylation reactions. Under hypoxic conditions, stability of HIF-1? increased, thus improving...

A study from University of California, Berkeley has indicated that the cytokine therapy could increase the capability of NK cell to kill MHC class?tumor cells. Their finding supports that cytokine...

Scientists studying the effects of the diabetes drug metformin on treating a variety of cancers in various clinical trials previously have cited the activation of a molecular regulator of cell...

Current research have shown that 5 hydroxymethylcytosine is abundant in mammalian brain cells and is converted from five methylcytosine by ten eleven translocation proteins. 5hmC could be an...

Adipose tissue plays a central role in whole body energy metabolism as an endocrine organ that coordinates energy intake and utilization. This study aims to examine molecular mechanisms underlying T2D...

Scientists from University of Oxford have indicated that a new-found anti-cancer protein named ASPPS could control and reverse epithelial cells' changes of shape and motion state. This finding would...

Erlotinib can be effective in the treatment of special gene changes in patients with advanced lung cancer, but when the same drugs for the treatment of early stage lung cancer patients, treatment...

Early life stress (ELS) is associated with increased susceptibility for diseases in later life. Animal models and human studies suggest that this effect is mediated by epigenetic mechanisms. The...

Last year, Dubai's government held launch the initiative that residents were paid in gold for losing those extra pounds as part of a government campaign to fight growing obesity in the Gulf Arab...

The ALS "Ice Bucket Challenge" social phenomenon is still going strong, have you taken the challenge? In such a hot summer, buckets of ice water pouring numerous celebrities all over the world is a...

Spring comes, can summer be far behind? After a winter, has your weight increased just as the rising temperature? Excess body fat has a negative effect on health, as well as the coming summer...