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BMC Palliative CareBackground This case report from Scotland, UK illustrates how unresolved traumatic experiences across the life course can affect a patient’s engagement with palliative care and offers insights into the flexibility and adaptations necessary for taking a ...
Sam Quinn +3 more
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Social workers’ involvement in advance care planning: a systematic narrative review
BMC Palliative Care, 2017 Background Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity.
Chong-Wen Wang +2 more
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa +2 more
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End-of-life disposal in inclined geosynchronous orbits
, 2020 The first version (2002) of the Mitigation Guidelines issued by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) defined a toroidal Geosynchronous Protected Region, extending 200 km below and above the geosynchronous altitude of 35,786 km, and
Anselmo L, Pardini C
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Improving End-of-Life Communication and Decision-making in Ontario [PDF]
, 2013 Two-page overview of what was learned from a citizen panel on the topic of improving end-of-life communication and decision-making in ...
McMaster Health Forum
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Structural insights and therapeutic targets in Acinetobacter baumannii capsule biosynthesis
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Hypervirulent KL49 A. baumannii's capsular polysaccharide contains the nonulosonic acid 8‐epi‐Leg5,7Ac2, synthesized by epimerization via ElaA, ElaB, and ElaC. Crystal structures of ElaA, ElaB, and ElaC reveal their role in CMP‐Leg5,7Ac2 synthesis and regioselective C8 epimerization.
Woo Cheol Lee +7 more
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BMJ OpenIntroduction Older people who die with a serious chronic disease are at risk of experiencing extended periods (ie, months or years) of fluctuations and deterioration in their health and well-being.
Lieve Van den Block +7 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2019 Background Laws allowing assisted suicide and euthanasia have been implemented in many locations around the world but some individuals suffering with terminal illness receiving palliative care services are hastening death or die by suicide without ...
Sheri Mila Gerson +3 more
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Modelling stem cell differentiation related processes—A practical overview for biologists
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Stem cell differentiation is complex and difficult to control experimentally. This review introduces suitable computational modelling approaches that can support stem cell research, from mechanistic ODE and abstract models to multiscale and deep learning methods.
Ricco Zeegelaar +4 more
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