History and the Study of Religion. Prophecy, Imagination and Religion in the Granadan Lead Books, the Works of Jacobus Palaeologus and of Nicholas of Cusa.

This article challenges the observation that historians and the discipline of History have not been helpful in addressing some of the important challenges in the Study of Religion by concentrating on "the local" and on deconstruction rather than on construction and "the global." By undertaking a cross-cultural case study - Medieval and Early Modern prophecies in the Muslim world and Europe - and focusing on the role and significance of the Granadan Sacromonte Lead Books (1588-1606) and the work of the radical Antitrinitarian Jacobus Paleologus (1520-1585), this paper argues that global and connected microhistorical approaches have been of great value to developing the promising trend of a relational approach in the Study of Religion.

Muslim Jurisprudence on Withdrawing Treatment from Incurable Patients: A Directed Content Analysis of the Papers of the Islamic Fiqh Council of the Muslim World League.

This study investigates the views of contemporary Muslim jurists about withdrawing treatment of the terminally ill. Its aim is threefold. Firstly, it analyses jurists' views concerning core themes within the process of withdrawing treatment.

Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 cell surface expression marks an abundant adipose stem/progenitor cell population with high stemness in human white adipose tissue.

The capacity of adipose stem/progenitor cells (ASCs) to undergo self-renewal and differentiation is crucial for adipose tissue homoeostasis, regeneration and expansion. However, the heterogeneous ASC populations of the adipose lineage constituting adipose tissue are not precisely known. In the present study, we demonstrate that cell surface expression of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4)/cluster of differentiation 26 (CD26) subdivides the DLK1/CD34/CD45/CD31 ASC pool of human white adipose tissues (WATs) into two large populations.

Cell-Specific Immune Regulation by Glucocorticoids in Murine Models of Infection and Inflammation.

Glucocorticoids (GC) are highly potent negative regulators of immune and inflammatory responses. Effects of GC are primarily mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) which is expressed by all cell types of the immune system. It is, therefore, difficult to elucidate how endogenous GC mediate their effects on immune responses that involve multiple cellular interactions between various immune cell subsets.

Turkish imams and their role in decision-making in palliative care: A Directed Content and Narrative analysis.

Background: Muslims are the largest religious minority in Europe. When confronted with life-threatening illness, they turn to their local imams for religious guidance.

Aim: To gain knowledge about how imams shape their roles in decision-making in palliative care.