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Sexual life after childbirth and aspects of midwives’ counselling at the postnatal check-up
(2009-02-27)
The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe how sexual
life after childbirth is communicated, addressed and reflected upon among
new mothers, fathers and midwives and the impact of leaving first and
minor ...
Chest wall sarcomas
(2010-03-05)
Aim: To evaluate initial symptoms and clinical features, diagnosis and delay
in osteosarcoma (OS), Ewing sarcoma (EWS) and chest wall chondrosarcoma
(CS). To assess treatment and identify prognostic factors in chest ...
Mammalian sperm flagella and cilia
(2009-04-17)
epithelium, DNAJB13 was first detectable in step2-3 spermatids, peaked at step9-10 and then gradually decreased afterwards. In a mature spermatozoon, DNAJB13 was present in the flagellum throughout the length. Its presence in normal sperm flagellum...
Transcriptional profiling of the kidney glomerulus
(2010-05-20)
The kidney glomerulus plays a crucial role in ultraltration of the blood through the glomerular capillary wall. Glomerulus injury may occur in many systemic and primary kidney diseases or as secondary eects to drugs and ...
Wrist ligaments : innervation patterns and ligamento-muscular reflexes
(2008-09-19)
Objectives: The principal role of wrist stability is to facilitate the
dexterous hand in a multitude of functions. To achieve joint stability,
in general, a fine interaction of both static and dynamic elements is ...
Brain volume reduction over four decades in multiple sclerosis
(2010-05-07)
at baseline in 1995-1996 and evaluated by MRI over a mean period of 9.25 years (range 7.3-10 years) from 1995-2005. Serial brain atrophy measurements (1D and 2D) were analyzed by one radiologist on a routine PACS workstation, and these results were compared...
Biomarkers of suicide risk in psychosis
(2009-11-27)
.5 %) and women (6.9 %) died by suicide. Eighteen percent of suicide attempters and 2% of the non-attempters died by suicide. The suicide risk was almost three times higher in male attempters than in females. Thus, attempted suicide and male gender were...
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 ...
NotI genome scanning to identify unknown cancer associated genes in major human epithelial malignancies
(2010-05-11)
analyzed further with more accurate methods; bisulfitesequencing of cloned PCR products was the method used to control and verify methylation status. NotI loci that were found to have relevant changes include genes MINT24, BHLHB2, RPL15, RARbeta1, ITGA9...
Register-based studies of delivery outcome after maternal use of some common drugs
(2008-11-07)
This thesis aimed to study neonatal outcome including the presence of
congenital malformations and to describe maternal characteristics for
women using some common drugs during pregnancy. Drugs used in one benign
condition ...