Adding more portion-size options to a menu: A means to nudge consumers to choose larger portions of healthy food items.

We propose and find that the extremeness aversion bias when choosing portion-sizes is stronger for healthy food as compared to unhealthy food items. In two studies (and a follow-up) we find that adding an extra-large option to a standard menu of small, medium, and large portions increases the choice share of the larger portion-sizes; but more so for healthy food than for unhealthy food. Furthermore, we find evidence for the lay belief that larger portions of healthy food do not have incremental health costs.

Helping fellow beings: anthropomorphized social causes and the role of anticipatory guilt.

People are often reluctant to comply with social causes because doing so may involve personal sacrifices of time, money, and effort for benefits that are shared by other members of society. In an effort to increase compliance, government agencies and public institutions sometimes employ financial tools to promote social causes. However, employing financial tools to induce prosocial behavior is expensive and often ineffective.

Dual action of apolipoprotein E-interacting HCCR-1 oncoprotein and its implication for breast cancer and obesity.

Obese women have an increased risk for post-menopausal breast cancer. The physiological mechanism by which obesity contributes to breast tumourigenesis is not understood. We previously showed that HCCR-1 oncogene contributes to breast tumourigenesis as a negative regulator of p53 and detection of HCCR-1 serological level was useful for the diagnosis of breast cancer(.

Minichromosome maintenance protein 3 is a candidate proliferation marker in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

The proliferative capacity of tumor cells is a characteristic feature in the whole growing tumors. Many pathologists and clinicians have used the estimation of cell proliferation for prognostic information. Minichromosome maintenance protein 3 (MCM3) is known to have a role on the initiation and regulation of DNA replication during cell cycle.

New quantitative method for bone tracer uptake of temporomandibular joint using Tc-99m MDP skull SPECT.

Objectives: Quantitative bone SPECT studies have several advantages over qualitative studies for evaluating a temporomandibular joint (TMJ), yet in certain cases additional images are still needed. Accordingly, the current study developed a new easy SPECT quantification method for the bone tracer uptake in a TMJ and evaluated its usefulness and inter-observer variability in patients with TMJ pain.

Methods: Sixty-six adult patients (11 males, 55 females) with a mean age of 31 years (range 22-79 years) suffering from TMJ pain were questioned regarding the history of their condition, and then subjected to an oromaxillofacial examination and bone SPECT.

Oncoprotein HCCR-1 expression in breast cancer is well correlated with known breast cancer prognostic factors including the HER2 overexpression, p53 mutation, and ER/PR status.

Background: Oncoprotein HCCR-1 functions as a negative regulator of the p53 and contributes breast tumorigenesis. The serum HCCR-1 assay is useful in diagnosing breast cancer and mice transgenic for HCCR developed breast cancers. But it is unknown how HCCR-1 contributes to human breast tumorigenesis.