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An Introduction to Cell Death
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2023
Necrosis, apoptosis, and autophagic cell death are all manners in which cells can die, and these mechanisms can be induced by different stimuli, such as cell injury, low nutrient levels, or signaling proteins. Whereas necrosis is considered to be an “accidental” or unexpected form of cell death, evidence exists that apoptosis and autophagy are both programmed and “planned” by cells.In this introductory video, JoVE highlights key discoveries pertaining to cell death, including recent work done...
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Kubler Ross's Stages of Dying
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2025
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross significantly advanced psychology's understanding of the process of dying with her influential book, On Death and Dying (1969). She focused on studying terminally ill individuals and outlined five stages commonly experienced when coping with death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In denial, individuals reject the reality of their condition, often thinking, "This isn't true; I feel fine," as a way to protect themselves from emotional distress. Anger...
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Neuronal Death Assay to Evaluate Cell Death in Ex Vivo Epilepsy Model
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2025
This video demonstrates the technique of assessing neuronal death in rhinal cortex-hippocampus organotypic slices. Neuronal death occurs via evolving epileptic seizures — resembling in vivo epilepsy — and is detected through dual-staining of the dead cells using propidium iodide and immunofluorescence.
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Laser-induced Forward Transfer for Flip-chip Packaging of Single Dies
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2015
We demonstrate the use of the Laser-induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) technique for flip-chip assembly of optoelectronic components. This approach provides a simple, cost-effective, low-temperature, fast and flexible solution for fine-pitch bumping and bonding on chip-scale for achieving high-density circuits for optoelectronic applications.
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Use of LysoTracker to Detect Programmed Cell Death in Embryos and Differentiating Embryonic Stem Cells
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2012
We present a simple protocol to visualize regions of programmed cell death (PCD) in mouse embryos and differentiating embryonic stem (ES) cell cultures using a highly soluble dye called LysoTracker.
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Appraisal shapes how individuals interpret threats to life and influences the distress they experience. Psychological responses may include efforts to regulate difficult emotions, draw on coping strategies, and seek meaning in what is happening. In research and care, examining appraisal helps clarify why people facing comparable circumstances may show different levels of vulnerability, distress, or resilience.
Meaning-making helps individuals interpret mortality, illness, loss, or the prospect of death within a broader personal framework. Personal beliefs can influence how people understand suffering, relationships, and what has happened, while also shaping coping and adjustment. Considering these beliefs is therefore important when supporting psychological adaptation rather than assuming that everyone responds to death in the same way.
Attachment and social support affect how individuals manage distress and adapt during bereavement. Close relationships may provide emotional support, communication, and continuity when a person is coping with loss, while the quality of those relationships can shape vulnerability or resilience. Psychological assessment therefore considers both the individual's responses and the interpersonal context surrounding the death.
Responses to death and dying are shaped by development, culture, relationships, and personal beliefs. Development influences how mortality and loss are understood, while cultural and relational contexts affect communication, coping, and the meaning assigned to events. These differences make it important to interpret grief and distress within the person's social and developmental context rather than applying one universal pattern.
Anticipatory grief occurs before a death, whereas continuing adjustment follows the loss. This distinction helps psychological and supportive services recognize that distress may begin while someone is still alive and may continue afterward. Counseling and family support can respond to these different points in the experience by addressing coping, communication, meaning, and changing emotional needs over time.
Psychological knowledge informs counseling as well as palliative and hospice care by identifying processes that affect distress, coping, communication, and adjustment. It can help professionals and families attend to the emotional and relational dimensions of end-of-life experiences alongside other forms of care. This contribution supports people who are dying and those adapting to impending or completed loss.
Research in this area helps examine resilience and vulnerability, including the psychological conditions that influence end-of-life experiences and bereavement. It also contributes to ethical decision-making and support for families by clarifying how people appraise threats, regulate distress, construct meaning, and use relationships. These findings connect psychological theory with practical care and broader social understanding of loss.