Does the agreement of patient and physician assessments of health related quality of life in palliative care depend on patient characteristics?
Based on our findings physician assessments cannot be recommended as a substitute for patient self-assessment for any subgroups of palliative care patients.
Long term feeding of polyamine deficient diets resulted in a significant hypoplasia of small intestinal and colonic mucosa. Dietary, luminal polyamines are important local factors for growth and the development of small intestinal and colonic mucosa.