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Nasal and bronchial airway reactivity in allergic and non allergic airway inflammation
(2003-01-24)
In allergic or asthmatic airways disease, upper and lower airways show a uniform eosinophilic inflammation of the mucosa, and bronchial hyperreactivity is a common finding. To study the co- variation of mucosal reactivity ...
Experimental studies on the role of the gastrointestinal microflora in postsurgical adhesion formation
(2002-05-16)
Introduction: Adhesions occurring after any kind of surgery is a common phenomenon and cause a great deal of morbidity and mortality, incurring a considerable burden on health care systems. Adhesions are especially prominent ...
A comparative study of estrogen receptors a and b in the female reproductive tract
(2001-11-23)
Estrogens have a pronounced influence on the function of the female reproductive system. The regulation of biological processes by estrogens is mediated via specific intracellular receptors (ERs), ERalpha and ERbeta, which ...
Experienced physical functioning and effects of resistance training in patients with chronic kidney disease
(2004-04-15)
Physical fitness declines as chronic kidney disease progresses, and is approximately 50% of the expected norm when starting dialysis therapy This means that physical fitness in these patients is so reduced that it impinge ...
Risk characterization of familial cancer using the Swedish family-cancer database with a special reference to breast cancer
(2003-11-07)
relative risk was about 1.8, but is likely to decrease to about 1.5 or less in the aging population. The higher familial relative risks were evident in young women, being 4.0 when both the mothers and their daughters were diagnosed at ages before 40 years...
Magnetic resonance imaging in chronic Achilles tendinopathy
(2004-03-05)
The main objective of this thesis was to evaluate and monitor the morphological response following treatment interventions in patients with chronic Achilles tendinopathy by using different MRI-techniques. For this purpose. ...
Local recurrence after breast conserving surgery in breast cancer
(2002-08-30)
age, large tumour size and minor or no axillary surgery, while radiotherapy to the breast reduced the risk of axillary recurrence. The breast cancer-specific survival after axillary recurrence was poor, 59.2% and 43.5% at five and ten years...
Angiostatic mechanisms of endogenous angiogenesis inhibitors
(2003-05-02)
. The structure of angiostatin consists of the first three/four kringle (K1-3/K1-4) domains of plasminogen. However, plasminogen contains five kringle structures and it has been shown that kringle 5 (K5) displays at least as potent inhibitory activity...
Life without thyroid hormone receptors
(2003-08-08)
Thyroid hormone (TH) has many important functions during development and in the adult individual. It reaches its target cells via the blood system and binds its receptor (TR) located within the cell nucleus where the ...
Cat and dog allergens : dispersal, exposure and health effects in childhood
(2002-11-21)
kept in families with parental asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, pet or pollen allergy (3.5-5.8%) than in families without any parental allergic disease (10.8-11.8%). Dogs were less common in families with (3.3%) than without (5.9%) parental atopic eczema...