Early neural cell death: dying to become neurons

“death Primarily Belongs to the Dying”: a Contribution to the Anthropology of Death and Dying

Through ethnography of the particular –– by analysis of the experience of dying parents and the experience lived through by offspring during the process of their dying –– this paper opens up certain issues regarding the contemporary stance towards illness, death, and the treatment and care of the sick. Within the framework of anthropological, historical and psychological literature, the author ...

Talking to patients about death and dying.

INTRODUCTION Talking about death and dying, either with patients terminally ill or well, presents challenges for the general practitioner. There are few Australian educational resources and little Australian research into this area. METHODS We undertook two focus groups, an interview process, and a final consultation with palliative care experts and GPs. RESULTS General practitioners felt t...

Cell death in early neural development: beyond the neurotrophic theory.

The important effect of cell death on projecting neurons during development is well established. However, this mainstream research might have diverted recognition of the cell death that occurs at earlier stages of neural development, affecting proliferating neural precursor cells and young neuroblasts. In this article, we briefly present observations supporting the occurrence of programmed cell...

XNGNR1-dependent neurogenesis mediates early neural cell death

Early neural cell death is programmed cell death occurring within proliferating and undifferentiated neural progenitors. Little is known about the regulation and role of early neural cell death. In Xenopus embryos, primary neurogenesis is disrupted following the inhibition of early neural cell death, indicating that it is required for normal primary neurogenesis. Here we show that early neural ...

Doctors, death and dying.