Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a novel form of external beam radiation therapy.It is used to treat early and locally recurrent nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSLC) in medically inoperable patients.It uses high dose, hypofractionated radiotherapy, with targeting of the Arm Chairs tumor by precise spatial localization, thus minimizing inju
The rise in metabolic surgeries for obesity has increased concerns regarding post-surgical alcohol use disorder Console Base (AUD).We present a case of a 51-year-old woman who developed AUD and subsequent alcohol-related cirrhosis after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.Her sensitivity to alcohol heightened after surgery, leading to addiction.Despit
Expression from the HIV-1 LTR can be repressed in a small population of cells, which contributes to the latent reservoir.The factors mediating this repression 336 have not been clearly elucidated.We have identified a network of nuclear RNA surveillance factors that act as effectors of HIV-1 silencing.RRP6, MTR4, ZCCHC8 and ZFC3H1 physically associa
Abstract Background The implementation and utilization of programmes for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in most low income countries has been described as sub-optimal.As planners and service providers, the views of health workers are important in generating priorities to improve the effectiveness of the PMTCT programm
Abstract Cooperative behaviour can evolve through conditional strategies that direct cooperation towards interaction partners who have themselves been cooperative in the past.Such strategies are common in human cooperation, but they can be vulnerable to manipulation: individuals may try to exaggerate their past cooperation to elicit reciprocal cont