Rectal cancer accounts for over 35% of the worldwide colorectal cancer burden representing a distinctive subset of cancers from those arising in the colon. Colorectal cancers exhibit a continuum of traits that differ with their location in the large intestine. Due to anatomical and molecular differen...
Byline: By Jade BeecroftDaily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
In 2015, about 90.5 million people had cancer. As of 2019, about 18 million new cases occur annually. Annually, it caused about 8.8 million deaths (15.7% of deaths). 全球新冠累计死亡6,049,118。 The most common types of cancer in males are lung cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer,...
In most animals, males and females show marked differences in their mortality patterns. Whether females outlive males or vice versa differs among taxa. In this section, we present a brief overview of the sex differences in aging and longevity patterns across the tree of life by focusing on the...
From this population of midlife and older adults, we will also focus on recruiting individuals who are low-income and experience mobility impairments. We selected this focus as these are two problems that co-occur with aging [41,67] yet are minimally studied [68,69,70]. Furthermore, there ...
Women often assume that an erection is an erection and it means a man is sexually aroused. Yet there are two different kinds of erections: the kind that result from feeling sexually aroused, and the not-aroused kind that occur during REM sleep and can also happen during the day, especially...
Pro-IL-1b can also be processed into biologically active molecules by some bacterial proteases41, suggesting that extracellu- lar processing may also occur at inflammatory lesions caused by infection. It is likely that autophagy plays an important role in limiting pro-IL-1β processing and ...
Fill in the blank: Lack of vitamin D in the diet can result in ___ in growing children. Importance of Fat-soluble Vitamins The fat-soluble vitamins are present in the system which plays an important role in most of the cellular organs. The fat-soluble vitamins ca...
In the US, every infant is tested for sickle cell at birth, so that treatment can begin right away if necessary. The illness is most common in people of African descent, though it can occur in people from other racial groups, and it's estimated that between 70,000 and...
Larvae which hatch from the egg continue development, paralleling the various stages of organogenesis and remodeling that occur in embryos of all species. After hatching, Drosophila larvae consume food and grow through three instar stages, each lasting approximately 24 hours. At the end of the ...