Abstract Background The microenvironment and stress factors like glucocorticoids have a strong influence on breast cancer progression but their role in the first stages of breast cancer and, particularly, in myoepithelial cell regulation remains unclear.Consequently, we investigated the role of glucocorticoids in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common and highly malignant tumor with poor outcomes, especially when it metastasizes.In this report, we present the case of a 64-year-old male patient diagnosed with recurrence and multiple metastases of HCC 7 years after surgery.As the tumor invaded the spinal canal and pressed on the spinal cord, the patient e
In ophthalmology, the registration problem consists of finding a geometric transformation that aligns a pair of images, supporting eye-care specialists who need to record and compare images of the same patient.Considering the registration methods for handling eye fundus images, the literature offers only a limited number of proposals based on deep
Dictyostelium amoebae faced with starvation trigger a developmental program during which many cells aggregate and form fruiting bodies that consist of a ball of spores held aloft by a thin stalk.This developmental strategy is open to several forms of exploitation, including the remarkable case of door kit Dictyostelium caveatum, which, even when it