Bcl2 Family Functions as Signaling Target in Nicotine-/NNK-Induced Survival of Human Lung Cancer Cells by Xingming Deng

“…Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and has a strong etiological association with cigarette smoking. …”
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Étude par absorptiométrie de la densité minérale osseuse dans une population médiévale (nécropole de Notre Dame du Bourg, Digne, Alpes de Haute-Provence France, XIe-XIIIe et XVIe-X... by Jean Fulpin, Bertrand Mafart, Pierre-Yves Chouc, Gabrielle Demians d'Archimbaud

“…The femurs of 18 women under the age of 30 years at death and 40 women over the age of 60 at death were collected from the Notre Dame du Bourg Necropolis in Digne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. …”
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The Life Course of 20th-Century Lyon Silk Workers. A Pilot Study by Elizabeth Wroten, Tamara Hareven

“… At the time of her death in October 2002, Dr. Tamara Hareven was in the process of completing a large cross-cultural examination of the global declines in the silk and textile industries. …”
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Desdemona’s changing voices: from the “Willow Song” to the “Canzona del Salice” by Chantal Schütz

“…The boy’s performance of Desdemona’s death left a lasting impression on early modern audiences, just as Barbary’s singing death did on the character of Desdemona – a detail which enables the dying Emilia to put a finishing touch on the mimetic process by comparing herself to Desdemona, and both of them to the swan, who only sings when she is about to die.The mimetic process was carried further in the 19th century, thanks to the operatic version written by Rossini in 1816. …”
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The Burden of Vibrio sp. Infections – A Scoping Review by Ke-Yan Loo, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Priyia Pusparajah, Sunny Hei Wong, Kok-Gan Chan, Learn-Han Lee, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…V. cholerae causes cholera which may result in severe dehydration and death without timely treatment, V. parahaemolyticus infection causes gastroenteritis while V. vulnificus infections typically manifest as wound or soft tissue infections with poor prognosis, including amputation or death. …”
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Looking for Pyroptosis-Modulating miRNAs as a Therapeutic Target for Improving Myocardium Survival by Seahyoung Lee, Eunhyun Choi, Min-Ji Cha, Ki-Chul Hwang

“…Pyroptosis is the most recently identified type of regulated cell death with inflammatory response and has characteristics distinct from those of apoptosis or necrosis. …”
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Poetyka naturalistyczna w literaturze fantasy na przykładzie „Pieśni Lodu i Ognia” George’a R.R. Martina by Joanna Płoszaj

“…Finally, the article presents examples of naturalist aesthetics in Martin’s work, i.e. brutal depictions of death and violence or the accentuation of biological and physiological aspects of death, agony or suffering. …”
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Investigation into Interactions between Accident Consequences and Traffic Signs: A Bayesian Bivariate Tobit Quantile Regression Approach by Xuecai Xu, Željko Šarić

“…Results revealed that (1) low visibility and the number of invalid traffic signs per km increased the accident rate of material damage, death, or injury; (2) average speed limit exhibited a close relation with accident rate; and (3) the number of mandatory signs was more likely to reduce the accident rate of material damage, while the number of warning signs was significant for accident rate of death or injury.…”
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Torsion-Induced Traumatic Optic Neuropathy (TITON): A physiologically relevant animal model of traumatic optic neuropathy. by Annie K Ryan, Brooke I Asemota, Tyler Heisler-Taylor, Claire Mello, Luis Rodriguez, William E Sponsel, Julie Racine, Tonia S Rex, Randolph D Glickman, Matthew A Reilly

“…TON is characterized by axon damage in the optic nerve followed by retinal ganglion cell death in the days and weeks following injury. At present, no therapeutic or surgical approach has been found to offer any benefit beyond observation alone. …”
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The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet by Ling-Wei Kung

“…After having been deceived by the Géluk government about the death of the Fifth Dalai Lama for almost 15 years, the Qing empire decided to strengthen its surveillance on Tibet by deploying espionage networks operated by spy lamas based in Xining and Dartsédo on Sino–Tibetan borderlands. …”
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Effect of Lorazepam on the Development of the Hairy Maggot Blow Fly, Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart): Implication for Forensic Entomology by Sarika Annasaheb Bansode, Vitthal Ramrao More

“…Entomotoxicology is based on using insect evidence recovered from a dead body to find out the cause and time of the death. Drugs can accumulate in fly larvae when they ingest the flesh of deceased persons and alter the normal development of the fly causing implications in calculating postmortem intervals. …”
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Motion - Colonoscopic Surveillance is more Cost Effective than Colectomy in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: Arguments Against the Motion by Anders Ekbom

“…Comparisons of the rates of neoplasia or death between surveyed and nonsurveyed patients are, therefore, of questionable validity. …”
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Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Arinpe Adejumo

“…The metaphysical beliefs of the Yoruba in death, destiny, and life after death, as well as the belief in the Supreme Being (Olodumare) are also discussed. …”
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Renal Tubular Cells from Hibernating Squirrels are Protected against Cisplatin Induced Apoptosis by Swati Jain, Alkesh Jani

“…To determine whether XIAP and Akt1 are necessary for RTEC protection against cisplatin induced apoptotic cell death, gene expression of Akt1 or XIAP was silenced in squirrel RTECs. …”
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Ferroptosis: mechanism and role in diabetes-related cardiovascular diseases by Ziyi Wang, Chao Wu, Dong Yin, Kefei Dou

“…Abstract Cardiovascular diseases represent the principal cause of death and comorbidity among people with diabetes. …”
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In Vitro Effect of Aqueous Extract and Fraction IV Portion of Ximenia americana Stem Bark on Trypanosoma congolense DNA by Victor Ambrose Maikai, Beatty Viv Maikai, Patricia Ishyaku Kobo

“…Subsequent isolation of the parasite DNA and agarose gel electrophoresis did not reveal that cell death was as a result of DNA fragmentation. This suggests that cell death was by another mechanism of action.…”
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Spatiotemporal complexity in a predator--prey model with weak Allee effects by Yongli Cai, Malay Banerjee, Yun Kang, Weiming Wang

“…One of the most interesting findings is that Turing instability in the model is induced by the density dependent death rate in predator.…”
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Interleukin-1 Modulation of Human Placental Trophoblast Proliferation

“…Analyzing the mode of action, IL-1<mml:math alttext="$eta$"> <mml:mi>&#x03B2;</mml:mi> </mml:math> was found to induce cell cycle arrest in the G0/G1 phase and triggered apoptotic cell death. These findings demonstrated that IL-1 regulates human trophoblast growth by induction of cell cycle delay and cell death.…”
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The Importance of the Monitoring of Resuscitation with Blood Transfusion for Uterine Inversion in Obstetrical Hemorrhage by Seishi Furukawa, Hiroshi Sameshima

“…All six patients successfully underwent uterine replacement soon after admission. One maternal death occurred due to inappropriate practices that included delay in diagnosis, delay in transfer, inadequate fluid replacement, and delayed transfusion. …”
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Outcome of primary closure following carotid endarterectomy with a novel technique: An 8-year multicenter cohort study by Amir Ahmad Arabzadeh, MD, Mohammadreza Kalantarmotamedi, MD, Babak Sabet, MD, Niki Tadayon, MD

“…Early complications (8.7%) included hematoma, transient ischemic attack, myocardial infarction, stroke, and death. Late complications involved myocardial infarction, death, transient ischemic attack, stroke, and reintervention. …”
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