Exploring how to tell the truth and preserve hope: can a balance between communication and empathy be calculated?
A caring gastroenterologist trying to optimize his/her patient's well-being should try to assess the potential influence of truth on the patient's psyche and dispense it accordingly.
These experiments show that protamine does not alter the responses of the intracellular second messengers, cGMP and cAMP, to the vasodilators sodium nitroprusside, atrial natriuretic peptide, isoproterenol, and forskolin. These results do not support the hypothesis that protamine sensitizes vascular smooth muscle cells to the endothelium-derived relaxing factor, nitric oxide.