Terminally unique

Terminally differentiated astrocytes

The impact and consequences of damage generation into genomic DNA, especially in the form of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB), and of the DNA damage response (DDR) pathways that are promptly activated have been elucidated in great detail 1-2. Most of this research, however, has been performed on proliferating, often cancerous, cell lines. In a mammalian body, the majority of cells is terminally d...

Influenza: A Unique Disease

Dear Editor-in-Chief, Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus (1). Symptoms can be mild to severe (2). The most common symptoms include: high fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, coughing, sneezing, and feeling tired (1). Three of the four types of influenza viruses affect people, Type A, Type B, and Type C (3, 4). Type D ha...

Palliative sedation of terminally ill patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although there is extensive discussion on the subject in medical literature, most of the questions still unanswered due to the lack of clear definitions and guidelines, in addition to a large number of contradictions in literature. The aim of this review is to try to determine the best form of sedation for patients with cancer. CONTENT The following data on sedation ...

Fostering hope in terminally ill patients.

Aim To investigate the meaning of hope, identify strategies that terminally ill patients use in maintaining and fostering hope during the final stage of life, explore changes in hope during the dying trajectory and investigate whether the results of a North American study by Herth ( 1990a ), that explored the meaning of hope and identified strategies to promote it, could be replicated in Englan...

Expression in Terminally Differentiating Induces CCR 1031