Publications by authors named "L E Eriksson"

Patient-Initiated Brief Admission (PIBA) is perceived as a constructive intervention. It remains uncertain whether PIBA contributes to healthier behaviors among its users. To comprehend patients' motivation to engage in health-promoting behaviors, it is essential to understand how various nursing interventions influence the behavior-specific thoughts and feelings that lead to healthy behaviors.

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Forensic mental health services (FMHS) involve restricting certain individual rights to uphold or promote other ethical values - the restriction of liberty in various forms is justified with reference to health and safety of the individual and the community. The tension that arises from this has been construed as a hallmark of the practice and an ever-present quandary for practitioners. Stating this ethical dilemma upfront is a common point of departure for many texts discussing FMHS.

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Objective: Composite primary outcomes (CPO) (incorporating both mortality and non-mortality outcomes) offer several advantages over mortality as an outcome for critical care research. Our objective was to explore and map the literature to report on CPO evaluated in critical care research.

Data Sources: PubMed, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Scopus, and Cochrane Library from January 2000 to January 2024.

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The multifactorial nature of cancer requires treatment that involves simultaneous targeting of associated overexpressed proteins and cell signaling pathways, possibly leading to synergistic effects. Herein, we present a systematic study that involves the simultaneous inhibition of human topoisomerases (hTopos) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) by multitargeted quinoline-bridged hydroxamic acid derivatives. These compounds were rationally designed considering pharmacophoric features and catalytic sites of the cross-talk proteins, synthesized, and assessed for their anticancer potential.

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Article Synopsis
  • The apoptosome plays a crucial role in regulating apoptosis through specific interactions between proteins with Caspase Activation and Recruitment Domain (CARD).
  • This study conducted a detailed computational analysis to identify key residues involved in the interaction between the CARD domains of Apaf-1 and Caspase-9, highlighting their importance for apoptosome function.
  • The findings also revealed that native interactions are more stable than those predicted between different complexes, emphasizing the specificity needed for effective protein interactions in apoptosis regulation.
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