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Identification of functional and diverse circulating cancer‐associated fibroblasts in metastatic castration‐naïve prostate cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Avatar Communication Provides More Efficient Online Social Support Than Text Communication [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Online communication via avatars provides a richer online social experience than text communication. This reinforces the importance of online social support. Online social support is effective for people who lack social resources because of the anonymity of online communities.
arxiv  

Social Security Reform and Childcare Support [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines how social security reform and childcare support affect fertility and social welfare, based on a simple overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility.
Oshio, Takashi
core  

Psychotherapy and social support - Integrating research on psychological helping [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Psychotherapy interactions and social support conversations have many similarities, as well as some important differences. Researchers studying these two manifestations of psychological helping - often known as formal and informal helping - usually apply
Barker, C, Pistrang, N
core  

Collectivize Social Support? Elements for Reconsidering the Social Dimension in the Study of Social Support

open access: yesThe Spanish Journal of Psychology, 2004
Psychological models of mental disorders play an important role in the explanation of psychological deterioration. Researchers from this area usually study several cognitive and behavioral variables to account for the onset and maintenance of depression.
openaire   +4 more sources

Surfaceome: a new era in the discovery of immune evasion mechanisms of circulating tumor cells

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In the era of immunotherapies, many patients either do not respond or eventually develop resistance. We propose to pave the way for proteomic analysis of surface‐expressed proteins called surfaceome, of circulating tumor cells. This approach seeks to identify immune evasion mechanisms and discover potential therapeutic targets. Circulating tumor cells (
Doryan Masmoudi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A novel Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for enhancing and informing holistic palliative care in Asia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesTrials, 2017
Background The lack of a holistic approach to palliative care can lead to a fractured sense of dignity at the end of life, resulting in depression, hopelessness, feelings of being a burden to others, and the loss of the will to live among terminally ill ...
Andy Hau Yan Ho   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical applications of next‐generation sequencing‐based ctDNA analyses in breast cancer: defining treatment targets and dynamic changes during disease progression

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers a possibility for different applications in early and late stage breast cancer management. In early breast cancer tumor informed approaches are increasingly used for detecting molecular residual disease (MRD) and early recurrence. In advanced stage, ctDNA provides a possibility for monitoring disease progression and
Eva Valentina Klocker   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the mortality caused by the H1N1 influenza virus during the 2009 pandemic in Mexico

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014
Introduction: The frequency and mortality of the pandemic caused by influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 might have been underestimated, especially in developing countries.
Eusebio Perez-Flores   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Support, Social Networks, and Schizophrenia [PDF]

open access: yesSchizophrenia Bulletin, 1981
This article considers the meaning of "social support" and its relationship to social networks, and discusses a structural approach to analysis of social connections in the study of schizophrenia. The concept of social supports is seen as methodologically more problematic and less strategic than the more structurally oriented concepts of social ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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