[Metaphors at the end of life: Resilience as resistance or acceptance].

The article provides an overview of the research project "Metaphor in end-of-life care", which was conducted at Lancaster University (UK) between 2011 and 2014. The goals of the project were to show a) how patients, family members and healthcare professionals use metaphors to talk about their experiences with and expectations of end-of-life care, b) what experiences and needs are suggested by the use of metaphors by these groups and c) what contribution the results can make to communication in the healthcare system. A corpus consisting of interviews with the various groups of people and their postings in online fora were subject to both manual and semi-automated analyses.

TGFβ activity released from platelet-rich fibrin adsorbs to titanium surface and collagen membranes.

Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) contains a broad spectrum of bioactive molecules that can trigger several cellular responses. However, these molecules along with their upstream responses remain mostly uninvestigated. By means of proteomics we revealed that PRF lysates contain more than 650 proteins, being TGF-β one of the few growth factors found.

The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study.

Objective: To compare the frequencies with which patients with cancer and health professionals use Violence and Journey metaphors when writing online; and to investigate the use of these metaphors by patients with cancer, in view of critiques of war-related metaphors for cancer and the adoption of the notion of the 'cancer journey' in UK policy documents.

Design: Computer-assisted quantitative and qualitative study of two data sets totalling 753 302 words.

Setting: A UK-based online forum for patients with cancer (500 134 words) and a UK-based website for health professionals (253 168 words).