Reninangiotensinaldosterone axis

Chemokines chemotactic cytokines CXCR CXCL

Chemokines, or chemotactic cytokines, and their receptors have been discovered as essential and selective mediators in leukocyte migration to inflammatory sites and to secondary lymphoid organs. Besid...

PolyXen

PolyXen® is an enabling technology for protein drug delivery.  It uses the natural polymer polysialic acid (PSA) to prolong the active life and improve the stability of therapeutic peptides...

Axis-Shield Afinion system uses DSM VitroStealth coating

Axis-Shield is using DSM's VitroStealth non-biofouling coating in its new point-of-care cartridge Afinion system.

DSM’s VitroStealth® Coating Used in Axis-Shield’s Next Generation Afinion® Point-of-Care Cartridge

DSM, a global leader in biomedical materials, today announced that its VitroStealth® non-biofouling coating is used in Afinion®, Axis-Shield’s next generation po...

Research & Markets Announces the Release of STMicroelectronics LSM303D 6-Axis Electronic Compass - Reverse Costing Analysis

(PRWEB) February 28, 2013 System Plus Consulting is proud to publish the reverse costing report of the new 6-Axis electronic compass supplied by STMicroelectronics. The LSM303D is a system-in-pa...

Shield Therapeutics Selects OpenClinica Enterprise

Waltham, MA & Wollerau, Switzerland (PRWEB) January 04, 2013 OpenClinica, LLC and Shield Therapeutics announces that Shield Therapeutics has selected the OpenClinica Enterprise software for its...

Advising Canadians about Reed Diffusers

Health Canada is advising parents and caregivers to keep reed diffusers out of reach of children and to teach them about the potential hazards posed by these products.

Axis I disorder risk increased in youth with parental history of BD

Children with a parental history of bipolar disorder are at increased for DSM-IV axis I disorders, research shows.

WHO advising Saudis on virus ahead of Hajj

The UN health agency said Wednesday it knew of no more cases in the Gulf of a mystery illness from the same virus family as the deadly SARS but was advising Saudi Arabia ahead of the upcoming Hajj pil...

The GH/IGF-1 axis in ageing and longevity

This Review summarizes data on mouse strains with mutations that affect growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) action and their effects on lifespan. The outcome of corresponding...

Shield or not to shield? Postoperative protection after modern cataract surgery.

Efficacy of a Self-designed Protective Lead Shield in Reduction of Radiation Exposure Dose During Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography.

Background/Aims: The increasing use of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) calls for greater consideration of radiation exposure risk to endoscopists and a...

Synthesis of shield-like singly twinned high-index Au nanoparticles.

A new gold nanostructure-shield-like Au nanoparticles (NPs) with a single twin plane and high-index {hhl} facets-was discovered in a simple seed-mediated synthesis. The development of this new shape i...

The dosimetry of eye shields for kilovoltage X-ray beams.

The objective of this work was to evaluate the dosimetry of tungsten eye shields for use with kilovoltage X-ray beam treatments. The eye shields, originally designed for megavoltage electron beams, we...

Recent improvements in the SHIELD-HIT code.

Abstract Purpose: The SHIELD-HIT Monte Carlo particle transport code has previously been used to study a wide range of problems for heavy-ion treatment and has been benchmarked extensively against oth...