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The central cervical nucleus in the rat : studies on connectivity, function and chemical transmission
(1998-02-27)
The central cervical nucleus (CCN) is a spinocerebellar cell group in the upper cervical spinal cord (rat: Cl-C3), that is known to receive a powerful primary afferent input from, the upper cervical spinal nerves (C 1-C4), ...
Promoting physical activity in rheumatoid arthritis : aspects of coaching in physical therapy
(2013-03-01)
. Demographics, assessments of disease activity, body function, activity limitation, personal factors, physical activity and perceived health were collected. In Study IV, 25 physical therapists, 24 women and 1 man, aged 28-66 years, median age 44 years, were...
Flexible parametric models for cancer patient survival : loss in expectation of life and further developments
(2018-03-01)
Population-based cancer studies can contribute to a better understanding of cancer patient survival. The general aim of this thesis was to develop and apply statistical methods for population-based cancer studies to ensure ...
Renal Klotho in mineral metabolism
(2014-02-27)
Calcium and phosphorous are critical elements in a number of physiological processes, including maintenance of bone structure, cell signaling and energy metabolism. Their endocrine regulation is tightly controlled through ...
Depression and cardiovascular diseases
(2018-09-28)
included. Depression was assessed using the Major Depression Inventory (MDI). Severity of depression was assessed using MDI and additionally measuring anxious distress according to DSM-5 (paper I). Neuroticism was assessed by the Swedish Scale...
Preparing midwives as a human resource for maternal health : pre-service education and scope of practice in Gujarat, India
(2014-09-08)
One key strategy to achieve reduction in maternal and neonatal mortality is to scale up the availability of
skilled birth attendants (SBAs). The staff nurses (i.e., registered nurse and midwives) are skilled birth
attendants ...
Ready to pull : force transmission during vascular development
(2019-12-17)
” of Fn-binding sites is experimentally confirmed, and an engineered scFv named H5 is developed, which specifically binds to that force-induced conformational change of Fn. We provide further experimental evidence both in vitro and ex vivo for the H5...
Getting in and out of shape : relevance for organ formation and cancer
(2014-09-11)
A central question during development is how single cells form functional multi-cellular organ structures. The high reproducibility indicates intricate synchronization of cellular behaviors such as migration, proliferation ...
Integrated assessment of environmental and human health risks of antibiotic residues and resistance for environmental and health policy
(2021-04-27)
, and the highest risk was observed for ciprofloxacin (62.5%) (Study III). A list of priority antibiotics from different classes for China was developed by ranking antibiotics in descending order, based on their a) overall risk, b) resistance risk on environment, c...
Studies on HIV-1 core assembly
(2007-11-02)
The main objective of this thesis was to define the roles of Gag (p55), in particular, the capsid (CA, p24) protein in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) particle assembly. More specifically, i) to determine the ...