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Healing Traditions in Coptic Magical Texts

Trends in Classics, 2021
Abstract Within the ‘market of healing’ of Christian Egypt (here broadly considered as the fourth through twelfth centuries CE), ‘magical’ practitioners represent an elusive yet recurrent category. This article explores the evidence for magical healing from three perspectives – first, literary texts which situate ‘magicians’ in ...
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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
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Ubungoma and Izangoma Online: Debating Authenticity and Authority on Social Media

African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR)
Ubungoma is a calling or a gift that enables communication with ancestors and the divine and the healing of illness through traditional methods. Historically, it has been a respected practice requiring commitment and discipline. In recent years, however,
Lindiwe Khuzwayo, Cherry Muslim
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Liver organoids: modelling complexity in homeostasis and disease

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Studying liver in vitro has been challenging because simple 2D cell cultures fail to capture liver's cellular and architectural complexity. To bridge this gap, scientists increasingly use organoids, 3D liver models which better mimic liver composition and function. This review examines recent advances in liver organoid complexity and realism, discusses
Anna M. Dowbaj, Meritxell Huch
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Autophagy and mitophagy in pancreatic β‐cell homeostasis and their involvement in diabetes pathophysiology

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This review focuses on the role of autophagy and mitophagy in maintaining pancreatic β‐cell function and homeostasis. We discuss how genetic defects affecting these pathways contribute to the development of type 1, type 2, monogenic, and gestational diabetes. We further explore their potential as therapeutic targets. Created in BioRender.
Yunkyeong Lee, Mingming Tong, Anna L. Gloyn   +2 more
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Adapted Traditions: The Case of Traditional Palestinian Women Healers in Israel

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2009
This article examines transformations in the roles and treatment practices of traditional Palestinian women healers in Israel. Comparing narratives of women healers residing in Jewish-Arab mixed cities in central Israel with those of their counterparts ...
Ariela Popper-Giveon
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Karanga Traditional Medicine And Healing

African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines, 2008
En este documento presentamos el sistema tradicional de Karanga de terapia de la enfermedad y la enfermedad manifiesta en los tratamientos administrados por los médicos. Con el fin de establecer el sistema tradicional de terapia de la enfermedad y la enfermedad, se llevaron a cabo numerosas entrevistas con curanderos, herbolarios y ancianos en el área ...
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Partial depletion of plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 decreases subcutaneous fat cell hypertrophy and liver cholesterol in high‐fat‐fed female mice

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
Claudia E. Ramirez Bustamante, Robert Sharp, Pradip K. Saha, Elizabeth S. Anaya, Elizabeth L. Lieu, Evelyn L. de Groot, Pooja Patel, Mi Jeong Heo, Aaron R. Cox, Kang Ho Kim, Sean M. Hartig   +10 more
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Navigating care across cultures: A narrative literature review of the influence of cultural worldviews on the uptake, delivery, and acceptance of Palliative Care services in South African communities [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Palliative care in South Africa exists at the intersection of modern biomedical approaches and deeply rooted cultural beliefs surrounding death and dying.
Buyiswa Swartbooi
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Emerging experimental and computational methods for studying redox‐regulated structural transitions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Redox reactions can reshape proteins and alter how they behave in cells, with important consequences for health and disease. This review explores emerging experimental and computational approaches for discovering these redox‐sensitive protein switches, revealing their structural effects, and predicting their behavior, opening new opportunities to ...
Tasneem Rass, Dana Reichmann, Gábor Erdős   +2 more
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