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Acute kidney injury, outcome studies
(2008-05-09)
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome for which no effective treatment exists, and our understanding of this condition is limited. If the acute kidney injury is severe enough to require renal replacement therapy, ...
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 ...
Exploring a national practice-based register for the management of rheumatoid arthritis
(2008-10-17)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory, auto-immune disease with an unpredictable and debilitating course. From diagnosis and onward, RA patients who need treatment with anti-rheumatic drugs will require ...
Isoforms of mammalian glutaredoxin 2
(2009-05-05)
Iron-sulfur proteins are characterized by the presence of iron-sulfur clusters containing sulfide linked iron centers in variable oxidation states. Glutaredoxins (Grx) are, among other redoxins, increasingly recognized to ...
Studies of histone modification systems in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
(2010-05-26)
), heterochromatin protein Swi6 and cohesin Rad21, which is the cause of lagging chromosomes and defects in chromosome segregation in rpb7-G150D. Analysis of centromeric forward and reverse pre-siRNA transcripts showed accumulation in the dcr1delta mutant. In rpb7-G...
Physiotherapeutic rehabilitation and lumbar fusion surgery
(2010-05-14)
Over the last two decades, the economic costs and rates of lumbar fusion surgery for chronic low back pain has risen dramatically in western industrialized countries. Data from the Swedish National Spine Register suggest ...
Brain MRI and CT morphology in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease
(2010-02-05)
Background: The brain atrophy in individual Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients includes not only specific atrophy from AD pathology, but also atrophy induced by normal aging and cerebral vascular diseases. Although medial ...
Epidemiological and recovery facilitating studies of an urban population of stroke patients in Iran
(2010-05-28)
Introduction: Approximately 15 million people have a stroke annually in the world, of whom one third will die within one year and one third will suffer permanent disability. Over 85% of these deaths happen in people living ...
Studies on hereditary spastic paraplegia proteins
(2010-05-14)
The hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) are a clinically and genetically diverse group of inherited neurological disorders that primarily cause progressive spasticity and weakness in the lower limbs due to a length-dependent, ...
Proteomics in neurological disease
(2009-11-06)
Neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases are conditions affecting the central nervous system that in the end have dramatic impacts on the affected individuals and their families. Today, large efforts are made to ...