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Amoebiasis : diagnosis and prevalence in León Nicaragua
(2009-05-04)
About ten yearly cases of liver abscess are presented in University
Hospital, León, Nicaragua. Based on serology most of them have been shown
to be amoebiasis cases. This raised the question of Entameoba histolytica
prevalence ...
Teleost retina : a model to study neurogenesis and angiogenesis
(2009-03-09)
Teleost models, zebrafish and medaka have become popular models to study
various aspects of developmental biology and genetics. The rapid
embryonic development, transparent embryos and the availability of many
mutants ...
Structural enzymology of dormancy related proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(2009-01-09)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, is one of the most lethal infectious agents affecting humans. The World Health Organisation estimates that about one-third of the world s population is ...
Alternative splicing of interleukin-7
(2009-04-03)
to function as either agonists or as antagonists of the wildtype cytokine. Interleukin-7 (IL-7) plays a non-redundant role in early stages of normal B and T-cell development; IL-7-receptor signaling is required for the maintenance of T-cell homeostasis...
Dermal exposure determinants : a pesticide exposure assessment approach for developing countries
(2008-11-26)
Background: We know little about the levels of exposure to pesticide in
subsistence farmers mainly because of lack of easy to use and low cost
pesticide exposure assessment methods.
Aim: This thesis aimed to develop ...
Mechanism of pure glucose-dependent insulinotropic activity of a novel imidazoline compound BL11282
(2008-05-01)
We developed a novel, pure glucose-dependent, insulinotropic imidazoline compound, BL11282, which directly affects the insulin exocytotic machinery and does not block the KATP channel activity. BL11282 does not induce ...
Tobacco smoking, high body mass index and the outcome after surgery : the role of intervention
(2008-11-07)
The negative effects of smoking and obesity on public health are
well-known. Despite this knowledge, the smoking-attributable morbidity
and mortality is estimated to rise rapidly in the forthcoming years, and
obesity ...
Platelet dysfunction in diabetes mellitus : impact of hyperglycemia and glycoprotein GPIIb/IIIa inhibition
(2009-02-06)
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with increased cardiovascular
morbidity and mortality, due to diabetic angiopathy. Hyperglycemia is one
of the factors that may cause platelet dysfunction in diabetic patients.
This ...
Cultural competence in primary child health care services : interaction between primary child health care nurses parents of foreign origin and their children
(2010-04-16)
Background and aim: Every third child assigned to the Primary Child
Health Care services in Stockholm County is of foreign origin. The aim of
this thesis was to explore aspects that might risk an optimal and high
quality ...
The rehabilitation process after breast cancer diagnosis : factors of importance for return to work
(2008-10-24)
The most common female cancer in Western countries is breast cancer and
women diagnosed with this disease are often under 65 years old. With
increasing prevalence of survivors it is important to shed light on
problems ...