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Ideas of cure related to psychotherapy outcome : young adults in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
(2005-11-18)
Background: Ideas of cure within the psychoanalytical movement have mainly focused on 'insight' or 'interpersonal relationship'. Patients' ideas of curative factors during and after therapy have been studied previously, ...
Physical activity in rheumatoid arthritis
(2006-04-28)
Physical activity confers health benefits in the general population and should also be applied to people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, there is a need for more research in this area. The aim of this thesis was ...
Study of serotonin, innervation and sensory neuropeptides in allergic contact dermatitis
(2005-08-17)
In a murine model of contact allergy, 24 h after challenge with antigen, increased axonal growth using an antibody to growth-associated protein-43 (GAP-43) was seen in the epidermis and dermis of eczematous skin. Protein ...
Gastroesophageal reflux disease in adults : the Kalixanda study : a population-based endoscopic study
(2006-12-21)
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common burden on health care
resources in the Western world and deteriorates the health-related
quality of life of those affected, but its manifestations in the general
population ...
Risk factors for haematological malignancies : immune-mediated diseases, body mass index and magnetic fields
(2006-11-03)
Haematological malignancies constitute approximately 7% of all cancer cases in Sweden, and leukaemia is in fact the most common malignancy among children. The few established risk factors, such as ionising radiation and ...
Protein mass spectrometry in the drug discovery process
(2005-04-22)
Most targets for drug discovery are proteins. Drug discovery includes target identification and validation, structural biology, lead generation, lead optimisation, pre-clinical development and clinical trials. The overall ...
Pituitary autoantibodies in endocrine disorders
(2005-09-30)
-kDa pituitary cytosolic autoantigen were more common in patients with ACTH-deficiency (12/65 (18.5%) compared to control subjects (2/57 3.5%) (p<0.0214). In addition, autoantibodies to thyroglobulin (M) were positively correlated to immunoreactivity...
Respiratory distress syndrome aspects of inhaled nitric oxide, surfactant and nasal CPAP
(2005-05-20)
Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) still represents one of the main problems in the treatment of premature infants. Despite the use of surfactant replacement therapy RDS adds to the need for endotracheal intubation and ...
Regulation of ongoing DNA synthesis in normal and neoplastic brain tissue
(2005-10-07)
antineoplastic drugs performed in normal rat cerebral cortex, human brain tumour specimens and RG2 gliomas, performed "in vitro" in order to 1) better understand factors controlling the cell cycle and DNA replication in normal and neoplastic brain tissue...
Gene expression in human skeletal muscle : effects of activity, fibre type and inheritance for diabetes
(2006-04-07)
One fundamental underlying risk factor for the development of non-insulin dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus is insulin resistance, which 80-90% of all type 2 diabetic patients suffer from. Risk factors for insulin resistance are for example...