THE ROLE OF FGF21 AND ITS ANALOGS ON LIVER ASSOCIATED DISEASES

The role of FGF21 and its analogs on liver associated diseases

Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), a member of fibroblast growth factor family, is a hormone-like growth factor that is synthesized mainly in the liver and adipose tissue.FGF21 regulates lipid and glucose metabolism and has substantial roles in decreasing lipogenesis and increasing hepatic insulin sensitivity which causing lipid profile improveme

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Radiological and pathological findings of a metastatic composite paraganglioma with neuroblastoma in a man: a case report

Abstract Introduction Composite tumors of the adrenal medulla or paraganglia are extremely rare and present a diagnostic dilemma.These tumors consist of a neuroendocrine component mixed with a neural component.We describe the imaging characteristics together with the corresponding pathological findings of a composite tumor.Apart from any component-

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Evangelical women in politics: stress between public and private

The low representation of women in the Brazilian National Congress has been recurrently criticized by the feminist movements, international agencies and the parliament representatives themselves.From the 513 parliament representatives elected for the 55th legislation, 51 are women representatives, and only 10 of these are evangelical Christians.The

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Erratum to: Cutkosky rules for superstring field theory

Superstring field theory expresses the perturbative S-matrix of superstring theory as a sum of Feynman diagrams 2.5" Squares (Mini Charms) each of which is manifestly free from ultraviolet divergences.The interaction vertices fall off exponentially for large space-like external momenta making the ultraviolet finiteness property manifest, but blow u

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