Rapamycin (RAPA), an immunosuprpressive drug used extensively to prevent graft rejection
in transplant patients, has been reported to inhibit adipogenesis in vitro. In this study, we …

Rapamycin is an immunosuppressant drug used to prevent organ rejection in transplant
patients. In this study, we investigated the metabolic effects of rapamycin in an obese animal …

… Author links open overlay panel Te-Hsin Chao a b , Pin-Kuei Fu c d , Chiung-Hung Chang
e f , Shih-Ni Chang g , Frank Chiahung Mao b , Ching-Heng Lin g , Evidence-based Chinese …

Peritoneal dissemination is a major clinical obstacle in gastrointestinal cancer therapy, and it
accounts for the majority of cancer-related mortality. Calreticulin (CRT) is over-expressed in …

Previous studies have shown the advantages of using activity-based costing (ABC) methodology
in the health care industry. The potential values of ABC methodology in health care are …

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing and remitting inflammatory disease of the
gastrointestinal tract. CD is rare in Taiwan and other Asian countries, but its prevalence and …

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease characterized by chronic mucosal
inflammation of the colon, and the prevalence and incidence of UC have been steadily …

One of the mechanisms of chemotherapy is to increase the oxidative stress of cancer cells,
leading to their apoptosis. Glutathione (GSH) and its related antioxidant enzymes might be …

Cysteine might scavenge free radicals and is a limiting substrate for the cellular synthesis of
glutathione (GSH). We investigated the association of cysteine with oxidative stress and GSH…

Biseugenol (Eug) is known to antiproliferative of cancer cells; however, to date, the antiperitoneal
dissemination effects have not been studied in any mouse cancer model. In this study, …