Tzu Chi University

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Cancer Research

Forecasting Hepatocellular Carcinoma Mortality using a Weighted Regression Model to Estimate Cohort Effects in Taiwan

I-Shiang Tzeng^*1, Chan-Yen Kuo¹, Chia-Chi Wang^*2

¹Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, ²Department of Gastroenterology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation and School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University

We depict a multistage method to measure a cohort effect with age data, thereby allowing data to be eliminated in many situations without sacrificing data quality. The protocol demonstrates the strategy and provides a weighted regression model for analyzing the hepatocellular carcinoma data.

Medicine

Studying Copper Nanoparticle-Induced Programmed Cell Death in Bacteria

Meng-Jiun Lai¹, Jonathan Wijaya^1,2, Yue-Wern Huang³, Holly Liu¹, Betty Revon Liu¹

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, ²Graduate Institute of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, ³Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Copper nanoparticles act as antimicrobial agents by generating reactive oxygen species. Here, procedures are presented demonstrating that copper nanoparticles are effective against three clinically relevant pathogens and that certain programmed cell death pathways are involved in this bactericidal process.