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A prospective study of mental health among mass-evacuated Kosovo Albanians
(2006-02-17)
Mental health outcomes among traumatised refugees have been of interest to researchers for decades. However, so far little is known about specific refugee groups such as asylum seekers and temporary mass-evacuees although ...
Chemoattractants as causative agents, biomarkers and therapeutic targets in vascular pathology
(2006-09-22)
(SNP) in the CCL11 gene and related the presence of the former to the plasma CCL11 concentrations, measured by ELISA. There were no differences in CCL1 genotype frequencies between patients and controls. Patient G/G carriers had higher circulating CCL11...
The role of incretin peptides and ghrelin in upper gut motility and metabolic control
(2006-11-24)
and GLP-1 on gastric emptying, metabolic control and appetite after intake of a mixed meal in man. In addition, I (3) studied the effects of ghrelin on smooth muscle contractility in rat and (4) its effect on gastric emptying in humans after intake of a...
Studies on alcoholic liver disease
(2006-11-17)
of alcohol related liver disease. We found that rats had appearance of IgG against rat CYP3A 1 and CYP2E 1 during chronic ethanol feeding We found that patients had reactivity against CYP3A4 and CYP2E I in about 20 to 30% and 10 to 20% of the alcoholic sera...
Functional studies on the interaction of immunoglobulins with HIV-2 envelope
(2005-09-16)
Infection with HIV-2 has a much more limited geographic distribution than HIV-1, being less readily transmitted and is generally less pathogenic. The role of immunoglobulins in defence against pathogens in different body compartments is known, where...
Calcium dynamics and vesicle-release proteins in a prion-infected neuronal cell line
(2005-03-25)
dysfunction in prion diseases. For this purpose I used an immortalized gonadotropin-releasing neuronal cell line (GT1-1) that is susceptible to a mouse-adapted scrapie strain. This cell line represents a suitable system for my studies since the cells possess...
In vivo protein synthesis determinations in human immune cells
(2005-02-18)
, glucagon), as a human model of surgical trauma, given for 6 h to healthy volunteers decreased the in vivo protein synthesis rate in T lymphocytes by 34% from 13.0 ± 1.0 %/24 h to 8.6 ± 2.1 %/24 h. A more accentuated decrease by 53% was observed in the total...
Studies of lipolysis and neuroendocrine rhythms in cluster headache
(2006-09-08)
Cluster headache (CH) is characterised by excruciating, unilateral headache attacks, which in the episodic form appear in clusters for weeks or even months. The headache attacks are often accompanied by ipsilateral, cranial ...
Psoriasis : studies of phenotype at onset and of associated cardiovascular morbidity
(2005-08-12)
Cohort (SPC), comprising 400 adults (<15 yr) with first-time incidence (<1 yr) of psoriasis disease: 74 had guttate psoriasis and 326 primarily had plaque psoriasis. Different environmental factors were implicated in different phenotypes: guttate...
On obesity in acute pancreatitis
(2005-03-25)
Over-nutrition is one of today s most visible public health problems. Currently over 40% of the Swedish population is either overweight or obese. Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreas ...