Advantages and disadvantages of coronary drug-eluting stent: a 23-year journey of randomized clinical trials by Alfredo E. Rodriguez, Juan Mieres, Juan M. Rokos

“… Introducing drug-eluting stents (DES2) significantly reduced target vessel revascularization (TVR), TVR-myocardial infarction (MI), and definitive stent thrombosis. Cardiac death in high-risk subgroups of lesions was also significantly reduced, and all of this is out of the discussion for the authors. …”
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1 Thessalonians 4:13 and grief management in Nigerian churches by Solomon O. Ademiluka

“…1 Thessalonians 4:13 indicates that the Thessalonian Christians were deeply grieved about the death of their loved ones because they were not sure of the status of the deceased in the supposedly imminent parousia. …”
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Prognostic Models of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis by A. I. Dolgushina, A. A. Selyanina, V. V. Dubrovina, G. A. Isyangildina, E. R. Olevskaya

“…The new predictive model UK-PSC Score showed advantages in predicting death in PSC patients compared to other scales.…”
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Inhibition of IGF-1R-Dependent PI3K Activation Sensitizes Colon Cancer Cells Specifically to DR5-Mediated Apoptosis But Not to rhTRAIL by Bodvael Pennarun, Jan H. Kleibeuker, Tjitske Oenema, Janet H. Stegehuis, Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, Steven de Jong

“…We hypothesized that inhibiting the IGF-1 receptor (IGF-1R) using NVP-AEW541, a small molecular weight tyrosine kinase inhibitor of the IGF-1R, could increase death receptor (DR)-mediated apoptosis in colon cancer cells.…”
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A Retrospective Study on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Adolescent Pregnancies at a Referral Hospital in Bengaluru by Ramegowda Chethana, Divyarajan Vinitha Kiruffi, K. S. Seema, Anwith Huluvadi Shivalingaiah

“…Adolescent pregnancy has shown association with preterm birth, low birth weight, perinatal death, miscarriage, puerperal sepsis, mental illness, and maternal death. …”
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« Moments of Vision » : l'écriture de Thomas Hardy by Stéphanie Bernard

“…In his poems, he went on exploring the limbos of life, death and loss while shaping words into lyrical veils shading an unbearable truth.…”
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Type B non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency virus with no detected viral load. Case report by Edwin Marcelo Miranda Solìs, Juan Fernando Orozco Herrera

“…Cancer is a common presentation in people living with this virus and represents the main cause of death in this population in most Latin American countries. …”
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Effects of Cisplatin in Neuroblastoma Rat Cells: Damage to Cellular Organelles by Giada Santin, Luigi Scietti, Paola Veneroni, Sergio Barni, Graziella Bernocchi, Maria Grazia Bottone

“…The results obtained show that the cellular organelles are the target of cisPt, so their damage can induce cell death.…”
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Demographic modeling of transient amplifying cell population growth by Shinji Nakaoka, Hisashi Inaba

“…Quantitative measurement for the timings of cell division and death with the application of mathematical models is a standard way to estimate kinetic parameters of cellular proliferation. …”
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STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF MUTANTS OF THE SOD1 PROTEIN ASSOCIATED WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS by N. A. Alemasov, N. V. Ivanisenko, V. A. Ivanisenko

“…Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease, which affects motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord and leads to patients’ death. One of the causes of motor neuron degeneration and death is the formation of intracellular protein aggregates formed by a mutant SOD1 protein. …”
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Advances and Challenges in Islet Transplantation: Islet Procurement Rates and Lessons Learned from Suboptimal Islet Transplantation by Annette Plesner, C. Bruce Verchere

“…Once the islets are engrafted, both prompt revascularization and protection from beta-cell death and graft rejection are key to secure long-term survival and function. …”
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In vitro cytotoxicity (irritant potency) of toothpaste ingredients. by Shaira R Kasi, Sanne Roffel, Mutlu Özcan, Susan Gibbs, Albert J Feilzer

“…The compound concentration resulting in 50% cell death (EC50) and 10% cell death (EC10) was determined by the MTT assay. …”
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Determination of Calliphoridae (Insecta: Diptera) Succession on Pig Carcasses in Central Anatolia, Turkey by Cenk Önsoy, Ferhat Altunsoy

“…Insects function as a biological clock in determining the time elapsed after death which is also called minimum postmortem interval (PMImin). …”
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Alternative models for cyclic lemming dynamics by Hao Wang, Yang Kuang

“…This, together with ourbifurcation analysis, indicates that neither seasonal factors(expressed by time-dependent moss growth rate and lemming death ratein the Barrow model) nor the moss growth rate and lemming death rateare the main culprits of the observed multi-year lemming cycles. …”
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Rethinking maternal healthcare for the 21st century in the United States by Vishwani PERSAUD-SHARMA

“…Health outcomes like postpartum hemorrhage, hypertension, and maternal infection during pregnancy are now important causes of maternal death across the U.S., conditions that were once sustai- nably treated and, therefore, preventable. …”
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“The Road of War” and “The Path of Peace”: William Morris’s Representation of Violence by Eleonora Sasso

“…Mill’s comment on war, described as “an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things”, as well as Freud’s theory of war neuroses in his “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” (1915), and uses both these concepts to advance a new reading of William Morris’s literary writings focusing on violence, one which sees it as not “the road of war” but “the path of peace”. …”
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Characterization and prognosis factors of cerebro-vascular disease in Cienfuegos province. by Rubén Bembibre Taboada, José Cabrera Gómez, Roberto Suárez Suri, Eduardo Concepción Morales

“…<strong>Fundaments: </strong>Cerebrovascular disease constitutes the third cause of death and the first cause of severe discapacity in adults in those countries that have a developed health system like ours. …”
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Pathogenic role of lipids in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by Yu. O. Shulpekova

“…Lipoapoptosis is considered as cardinal marker of NAFLD, and free fatty acids – as activators of the programmed death of hepatocytes. The further studying molecular events at lipotoxic stress will, probably, open new era in the treatment of fatty liver disease.…”
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Management recommendations to reduce cardiac risk in chronic epilepsy by Trudy D. Pang, Richard L. Verrier, Steven C. Schachter

“…The ultimate goals of the proposed management recommendations are to mitigate cardiac risk and reduce premature cardiac death in individuals with chronic epilepsy.…”
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Excerpt from Moore’s Mugabe’s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore

“… After an attempt at a theoretical and contextual introduction to Mugabe’s Legacy, I dug into the main menu with something akin to the mainstay of Joost Fontein’s nearly simultaneously published book on the politics of death in Zimbabwe: a death. I am sure Joost would agree that such a denouement hardly means ‘the end’. …”
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