Actinidia callosa var. callosa suppresses metastatic potential of human hepatoma cell SK-Hep1 by inhibiting matrix metalloproteinase-2 through PI3K/Akt and MAPK signaling pathways.

Background: Cancer cell metastasis involving multi-step procedures and cytophysiological property changes may make difficult in the clinical management and death rate increasing.

Results: In this study, we first observed that ethyl acetate fraction of Actinidia callosa var. callosa (EAAC) carry out a dose-dependent inhibitory effect without cytotoxicity on the mobility and invasion of highly metastatic SK-Hep1 cells.

Analysis of national empirical data on the characteristics and trends of injury among Taiwan's victims of hospitalized child abuse between 1997 and 2009.

Objective: To investigate the characteristics and trends of injury among hospitalized child abuse children younger than 18 years between 1997 and 2009.

Methods: We selected hospitalized child abuse cases from the Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) Database in accordance with ICD-9-CM 995.5x or E967.

A population-based study of inpatients admitted due to suffocation in Taiwan during 2005-2007.

The objective of this study was to analyze the epidemiology and factors associated with prognoses (inpatient fatality) of patients hospitalized due to suffocation. Data from 2005 to 2007 were sourced from the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database. Suffocation was defined as E911-E915 according to the ICD-9-CM classification.