Defense mechanisms are rooted in Freud’s theory of personality.According to his model, the mind has three dueling forces: the id (unconscious and primitive urges for food, comfort, and sex), the ...

A multifactorial approach should be used to account for all the factors involved-that is, the internal and external risk factors as well as the inciting event (the injury mechanism). Although such ...

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Structural and cellular assays and molecular dynamics simulations reveal the mechanism of action of γ-glutamyl carboxylase, which involves cholesterol and vitamin K. Protein kinase R-like ...

Large, well-controlled clinical studies have established the efficacy and safety of initial adjuvant therapy with letrozole or anastrozole versus the previous standard of 5 years of adjuvant ...

This study presents fundamental insights into overcoming resistance in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer by demonstrating that sustained CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment, either alone or in ...

Reaction formation is a defense mechanism in which people express the opposite of their true feelings, sometimes to an exaggerated extent. For instance, a man who feels insecure about his ...

New York-headquartered Stemline, which licensed global rights to elacestrant from Radius Health in July 2020, said the new drug is the first hormonal therapy with a novel mechanism of action in ...

Cancer cells sometimes have strategic ways of hiding from your immune system, but immunotherapies block these mechanisms. Immunotherapy is available as an infusion or orally as a pill or capsule.

A panelist discusses how she carefully transitions patients to neurokinin-targeted therapies by establishing realistic timelines for symptom improvement and actively monitoring patient response while ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. The gut microbiome, or the community of ...