[Compassionate Cities: Strengthening Social Resources in Communities for Mutual Support at the End of Life].

Compassionate Cities: Strengthening Social Resources in Communities for Mutual Support at the End of Life People at the end of life often wish to remain at home for as long as possible. To make this possible to a greater extent, not only health professionals who accompany those affected and their relatives are needed, but also educational programmes to strengthen health literacy at the end of life. Within the framework of the project "Compassionate City Lab of the Bernese People", experiences in dealing with the end of life were collected and published, and a course on advance care planning for elderly people was developed.

Analysis of the presence and abundance of GABAA receptors containing two different types of alpha subunits in murine brain using point-mutated alpha subunits.

Gamma-aminobutyric acid, type A (GABAA) receptors are pentameric proteins of which the majority is composed of two alpha subunits, two beta subunits and one gamma subunit. It is well documented that two different types of alpha subunits can exist in a singles GABAA receptor complex. However, information on the abundance of such GABAA receptors is rather limited.

Structure of GABAB receptors in rat retina.

In the search for yet unknown subtypes of GABAB receptors, the subunit architecture of GABAB receptors in the retina was analyzed using selective antisera. Immunopurification of the splice variants GABAB1a and GABAB1b demonstrated that both were associated with GABAB2. Quantitative immunoprecipitation experiments indicated that practical the entire GABAB receptor population in the retina consists of the receptor subtypes GABAB1a/GABAB2 and GABAB1b/GABAB2, although low levels of GABAB1c/GABAB2 cannot be excluded.