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Disorders of the Orofacial and Gastrointestinal Tract
(2014-11-24)
Orofacial granulomatosis (OFG) is a rare granulomatous disease primarily affecting children and adolescences causing lesions in the oral and facial regions such as lip/facial swelling, angular cheilitis, tag formation, ...
Population Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modelling of Antimalarial Treatment
(2014-11-28)
Malaria is one of the most important tropical diseases, with hundreds of millions of cases every year. The current recommended treatment is an artemisinin based combination therapy (ACT), which has shown good efficacy. ...
Force, falls and fear of falls in myotonic dystrophy type 1. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies
(2014-09-26)
ABSTRACT
Background: Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a neuromuscular multisystemic
disorder with slowly progressive muscle weakness. The overall
purpose of this thesis was, in adult patients with DM1, to investigate ...
Therapy of neuroendocrine tumors with 177Lu-octreotate - Human tumor cell types and models and optimization of treatment
(2014-04-11)
Neuroendocrine (NE) tumors (NET) have often metastasized at the time of diagnose, which makes it hard to cure patients with NET. Radiolabeled hormone analogues (especially somatostatin analogues, SS) can be used for ...
Studies on interactions of norovirus capsid protein with fucosylated glycans and galactosylceramide as soluble and membrane bound ligands
(2014-05-19)
Noroviruses (NVs) are among the most common viral pathogens which target the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and cause severe diarrhea, vomiting and episodes of abdominal cramps with fever. Millions of people around the world ...
Utmattningssyndrom, identifikation, karakteristika och förlopp
(2014-05-09)
Aim. The overall aim of the thesis was to study exhaustion disorder (ED) with respect to identification, characterisation and course of illness, as well as some properties of an instrument of self-rated ED (s-ED).
Method. ...
Neural stam cells, TLX, and Neuroblastoma
(2014-09-19)
Neuroblastoma (NB) is one of the most commonly diagnosed extracranial tumors in children below five years of age. Moreover, NB accounts for almost 12-15% of all childhood cancer related fatalities. To date, the origin of ...
Progesterone's effect on factors that influence gamete transport in the fallopian tube
(2014-11-21)
ABSTRACT
The fallopian tube plays an important role for successful female reproduction as it transport gametes to the fertilization site, nourish the developing embryo and transport it to the uterus at the suitable time ...
The osteogenic potential of human mesenchymal stem cells: Novel markers and key factors for differentiation
(2014-05-14)
Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotent stem cells with ability to differentiate into cells of the connective tissue lineage, such as adipocytes, osteoblasts and chondrocytes, both in vitro and in vivo. The main objective ...
Autism Spectrum Disorders in preschool children: cognitive aspects and interventions
(2014-10-30)
Aim: The overarching aims of this thesis were to (a) gain further insight into the developmental/cognitive aspects of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in young children, and (b) assess outcome after interventions of varying ...