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Ketogenic Diet as an Epigenetic Therapy in SETD1B‐Related Epilepsy

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Histone lysine methyltransferases such as SETD1B regulate chromatin structure and gene transcription. Ketone bodies, including butyrate, act as histone deacetylase inhibitors. We report a 4‐year‐old boy with SETD1B‐related absence epilepsy, refractory to conventional medications, who achieved sustained > 90% seizure reduction on the Modified ...
Erica Tsang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Death Cafe”

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
Well-coiffed and clad in pink, Lori is hoping to learn about legacy. What does it mean and how can she leave one? This grandmother of seven wants to be remembered well, and she intends to create some memories before it is too late.
Randi Belisomo
doaj   +1 more source

Ambiguous Bodies, Biopower and the Ideologies of Science Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Contemporary Hollywood film narrates the fear of monstrous science; attending to the modulations of medicine, capital and the body. The filmic body is employed to illustrate the power of the new biotechnologies to create and sustain life and the new ...
Flynn, Susan
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Sex Representation in US Stroke Clinical Trials: A Decade of Trends and Challenges

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke remains a major cause of disability and mortality in the US, with significant sex‐based disparities, and females remain underrepresented in stroke clinical trials. We aimed to examine sex representation in US‐based stroke clinical trials, identify trial characteristics associated with higher female enrollment (≥ 50%), and ...
Chaitali Dagli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preferences for post‐traumatic osteoarthritis prevention strategies in individuals with anterior cruciate ligament injury

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives There is growing interest in evaluating new strategies to delay or prevent post‐traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) in individuals who have sustained anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. This study sought to determine characteristics of potential treatments that are acceptable to patients with ACL injury.
Kevin Kennedy   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opposite Ends: widows' narratives of contemporary late life

open access: yesInternational Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2020
The life course perspective frames this study of contemporary late life. Thematic narrative analysis is employed to analyse the stories of 16 Finnish widows aged 79–89 (XX project, xx–xx).
Paula Vasara
doaj   +1 more source

Gold Teeth: Making Meaning through Narrative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
How do we create meaning in life through the telling of narratives? What do we have to gain by comparing stories from different cultures and times? By looking at two seemingly disparate stories - The Story of Kotikarna and Thomas Pynchon\u27s Inherent ...
Riesenman, Quinn
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A Rebel in the Trenches: Narratology and Intertextuality in Life Narratives about J. D. Salinger in World War II

open access: yesAtlantis
This essay offers a narratological and intertextual analysis of the experiences lived through by J. D. Salinger in World War II as portrayed in Danny Strong’s 2017 biographical film adaptation Rebel in the Rye, based on Kenneth Slawenski’s biography J.D.
Susana García Montosa
doaj   +1 more source

[Review of] Rakhmiel Peltz. From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Rakhmiel Peltz, in From Immigrants to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia, presents one of the few ethnographies available on spoken American Yiddish in his investigation of the elderly children of immigrant Jews in a Philadelphia ...
Fader, Ayala
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