Risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and death following MI in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jennifer K Quint, Liam Smeeth, Kieran J Rothnie, Ruoling Yan

“…Meta-analysis showed weak evidence for increased risk of death for patients with COPD in hospital after MI (OR 1.13, 0.97 to 1.31). …”
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Neuroprotective Effect of Taurine against Cell Death, Glial Changes, and Neuronal Loss in the Cerebellum of Rats Exposed to Chronic-Recurrent Neuroinflammation Induced by LPS by Samara P. Silva, Adriana M. Zago, Fabiano B. Carvalho, Lucas Germann, Gabriela de M. Colombo, Francine L. Rahmeier, Jessié M. Gutierres, Cristina R. Reschke, Margarete D. Bagatini, Charles E. Assmann, Marilda da C. Fernandes

“…Here, a potential neuroprotective role of taurine can be seen since this amino acid was effective in protecting the cerebellum of rats against cell death and changes in glial and neuronal cells in the face of chronic-recurrent neuroinflammation.…”
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Liver Fibrosis Scores and Hospitalization, Mechanical Ventilation, Severity, and Death in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis by Menglu Liu, Kaibo Mei, Ziqi Tan, Shan Huang, Fuwei Liu, Chao Deng, Jianyong Ma, Peng Yu, Xiao Liu

“…Regarding other liver scores, one unit elevation in APRI increased the risk of death by 178% (RR: 2.78, 95% CI: 1.10–6.99, P=0.03). …”
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Magnolol induces cell death through PI3K/Akt‐mediated epigenetic modifications boosting treatment of BRAF‐ and NRAS‐mutant melanoma by Abdullah Al Emran, Brinda Reddy Chinna Chowdary, Farzana Ahmed, Heinz Hammerlindl, Antje Huefner, Nikolas K. Haass, Wolfgang Schuehly, Helmut Schaider

“…Here, we show that magnolol, a constituent of Magnolia officinalis, induced G1 arrest, apoptosis and cell death in BRAF‐ and NRAS‐mutant melanoma cells at low concentration, with no effect in BRAF‐ and NRAS wild‐type melanoma cells and human keratinocytes. …”
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Risk of renal complications and death in young and middle-aged Swedes with parental type 1 diabetes: a nation-wide, prospective cohort study by Torbjörn Lind, Marie Fredriksson, Emma Persson, Anna Möllsten

“…Women in the parental diabetes group had a higher risk of early death (HR 1.79, 95% CI 1.17 to 2.72) compared with the sporadic diabetes group.Conclusions Individuals with parental diabetes had slightly higher HbA1c and elevated risks of renal failure and death compared with those with sporadic diabetes, especially pronounced in women. …”
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Ethical Issues in Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death: A Scoping Review to Reveal Areas of Broad Consensus, and Those for Future Research by Anastasia Georgiou, Weiyi Tan, Mihnea I. Ionescu, Isla L. Kuhn, Zoe Fritz

“…Uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death (uDCD) protocols are established in several countries with good outcomes. …”
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Ionizing radiation and photodynamic therapy lead to multimodal tumor cell death, synergistic cytotoxicity and immune cell invasion in human bladder cancer organoids by Annabell Reinhold, Annegret Glasow, Sandra Nürnberger, Annett Weimann, Lucie Telemann, Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Jochen Neuhaus, Mandy Berndt-Paetz

“…Cytotoxicity was determined by microscopy, cell-based assays and histology. The cell death mode was analyzed by applying specific inhibitors followed by immunofluorescence or qPCR analyses of cell death markers. …”
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A case report of an early neonatal death accompanied by disseminated intravascular coagulation caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 infection by Mitić Gorana P., Spasić Igor G., Panjković Milana D., Vučković Biljana A.

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Association of extreme high temperature weather with non-accidental deaths among residents of Yichang city: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis by Xiaoyan MING, Yang HAN, Zhongcheng YANG, Zaoxia WANG, Shuguang XIE, Chuangang FAN

Subjects: “…non-accidental death…”
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Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study by Monique Maqungo, Nadine Nannan, Beatrice Nojilana, Erin Nichols, Diane Morof, Mireille Cheyip, Chalapati Rao, Carl Lombard, Jessica Price, Kathleen Kahn, Lorna J. Martin, Francois Bezuidenhout, Ria Laubscher, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Tracy Glass, Oluwatoyin Awotiwon, Nesbert Zinyakatira, Noluntu Funani, Jané Joubert, Debbie Bradshaw, Pamela Groenewald

Subjects: “…cause of death…”
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Experience on postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling to ascertain the cause of death determination in South African children: A case for implementing as standard of care by J du Toit, K Storath, I Dunn, P Makekeng, M Moosa, K Mothibi, N Umuneza, C A Rees, D Blau, S Lala, Y Adam, S Velaphi, M Hale, P Swart, J Wadula, L Mothibi, A Wise, V Baba, P Jaglal, S Mahtab, S Madhi, Z Dangor

“… Determining the death burden for prioritising public health interventions necessitates detailed data on the causal pathways to death. …”
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Increased Death of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells after TLR4 Inhibition in Sepsis Is Not via TNF/TNF Receptor-Mediated Apoptotic Pathway by Chien-Ming Chu, Li-Chung Chiu, Chung-Chieh Yu, Li-Pang Chuang, Kuo-Chin Kao, Li-Fu Li, Huang-Pin Wu

“…The cell death of CD4 lymphocytes was unchanged. Conclusion. …”
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Calcium hydroxide nanoparticles induce cell death, genomic instability, oxidative stress and apoptotic gene dysregulation on human HepG2 cells by Hanan R. H. Mohamed, Esraa H. Ibrahim, Shahd E. E. Shaheen, Nesma O. E. Hussein, Ayman Diab, Gehan Safwat

“…The SRB cytotoxicity assay revealed that a 48-hour exposure to Ca(OH)2NPs caused concentration-dependent cell death and proliferation inhibition in both HSF and HepG2 cells, with IC50 values of 271.93 µg/mL for HSF and 291.8 µg/mL for HepG2 cells. …”
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Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Transmitochondrial Cybrids Protected from Cellular Damage and Death by Human Retinal Progenitor Cells (hRPCs) by Jeffrey J. Yu, Daniel B. Azzam, Marilyn Chwa, Kevin Schneider, Jang-Hyeon Cho, Chinhui Hsiang, Henry Klassen, M. Cristina Kenney, Jing Yang

“…Mounting evidence suggests that mitochondrial damage and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell death are linked to the pathogenesis of AMD. Human retinal progenitor cells (hRPCs) have been studied as a potential restorative therapy for degenerative conditions of the retina; however, the effects of hRPC treatment on retinal cell survival in AMD have not been elucidated. …”
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Anticancer Potential of Fruit Extracts from Vatica diospyroides Symington Type SS and Their Effect on Program Cell Death of Cervical Cancer Cell Lines by Atchara Chothiphirat, Kesara Nittayaboon, Kanyanatt Kanokwiroon, Theera Srisawat, Raphatphorn Navakanitworakul

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Both Low and High Postprocedural hsCRP Associate with Increased Risk of Death in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Treated by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Runzhen Chen, Chen Liu, Peng Zhou, Yu Tan, Zhaoxue Sheng, Jiannan Li, Jinying Zhou, Yi Chen, Li Song, Hanjun Zhao, Hongbing Yan

“…The primary outcome was all-cause death. Results. During a median follow-up of 727 days, mortality occurred in 207 (5.3%) patients. …”
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T. P. N. Against "Spebo medical" healthcare institution: Woman's right to continue with the procedure of biomedically assisted fertilization after the death of her husband by Rusić Nikola

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TRAF2 and RIPK1 redundantly mediate classical NFκB signaling by TNFR1 and CD95-type death receptors by Jennifer Wagner, David Vredevoogd, Xin Yu, Dong Lu, Daniel S. Peeper, Heike M. Hermanns, Jin Wang, Harald Wajant, Daniela Siegmund

“…Cell Death and Disease…”
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NMDA Receptor-Mediated Neuroprotective Effect of the Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Extract on the Excitotoxic Neuronal Cell Death in Primary Rat Cortical Cell Cultures by Jinsong Yang, Xiaohong Wu, Haogang Yu, Xinbiao Liao, Lisong Teng

“…The objective of the current research work was to evaluate the neuroprotective effect of the ethanol extract of Scutellaria baicalensis (S.B.) on the excitotoxic neuronal cell death in primary rat cortical cell cultures. The inhibitory effects of the extract were qualitatively and quantitatively estimated by phase-contrast microscopy and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assays. …”
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Anti-programmed death-1 inhibitors and nimotuzumab in combination with induction chemotherapy for locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a propensity score-matched analysis by Ya-Ni Zhang, Yu-Pei Chen, Pu-Yun OuYang, Tai-Xiang Lu, Fang-Yun Xie, Fei Han, Chun-Yan Chen

“…Synergistic effects have been observed when anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibitors are combined with chemotherapy or targeted therapy. …”
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