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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Aim The loss of insulin‐secreting β‐cells, ultimately characterizing most diabetes forms, demands the development of cell replacement therapies. The common endpoint for all ex vivo strategies is transplantation into ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2007)Background Progressive encephalopathy (PE) in children is a heterogeneous group of diseases mainly composed of metabolic diseases, but it consists also of neurodegenerative disorders where neither metabolic ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Importance With increasing prevalence of atopic dermatitis (AD) and its manifestation in most countries, together with the supporting evidence of the progression to other atopic phenotypes, AD has developed into a worldwide ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background To examine whether delirium in hip fracture patients was associated with changes in the levels of amino acids and/or monoamine metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Adequate protein intake among older adults is associated with better health outcomes such as immune function and metabolic regulation of skeletal muscle, but conflicting results make it difficult ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. The prevalence increases with increasing age. In middle-aged men, endurance sport practice is associated with increased risk of AF but there are few studies ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Objective How and to what extent electrical brain activity is affected in pharmacologically altered states of consciousness, where it is mainly the phenomenological content rather than the level of consciousness that is ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2008)Det er store forskjeller i kronisk underernæring og spedbarnsdødelighet mellom barn av urfolk og andre barn på det amerikanske kontinentet. Både underernæring og kroniske ernæringsrelaterte sykdommer rammer urfolk spesielt ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)In cancer, genes may have indirect effects on patient survival, mediated through interactions with other genes. Methods to study the indirect effects that contribute significantly to survival are not available. We propose ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Many studies have investigated the perception of tactile pleasantness over a range of stroking velocities. On average, pleasantness is low at slow (e.g. 0.3 cm/s) and fast (e.g. 30 cm/s) stroking velocities, but is rated ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Heritability is often estimated by decomposing the variance of a trait into genetic and other factors. Interpreting such variance decompositions, however, is not straightforward. In particular, there is an ongoing debate ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Aim: Elevated total cholesterol (TC) and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) are risk factors for cardiovascular disease however little is known about their determinants in infants. We aimed to describe TC and HbA1c concentrations ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)Adequate nutrition during the first year of life is essential for optimal growth and health. Previous studies from various countries have shown disparities in infant feeding practices among subgroups in a population. In ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)Nearly everybody is infected with varicella zoster virus (VZV), which causes varicella (chickenpox) and herpes zoster (shingles) (HZ). Varicella is usually a benign, but very itchy skin disease, predominantly occurring in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background The aquatic birnavirus infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) causes infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN), a severe disease in farmed salmonid fish. IPNV has a very broad host range and ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)This thesis focuses on the association between inflammation and body composition and consists of one cross sectional study in healthy overweight and in lean subjects (paper I), and one prospective study in patients with ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Aortic valve calcification is an active proliferative process, where interstitial cells of the valve transform into either myofibroblasts or osteoblast-like cells causing valve deformation, thickening of cusps ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background and purpose Cellular debris causes sterile inflammation after myocardial infarction. Mitochondria constitute about 30 percent of the human heart. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a damage‐associated‐molecular‐pattern ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Aims/hypothesis Inflammatory signals and increased prostaglandin synthesis play a role during the development of diabetes. The prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) receptor, GPR44/DP2, is highly expressed in human islets and activation ...