Regular physical activity has beneficial effects on health. The relations between exercise and health are not fully understood. Myokines are secretory peptides of skeletal muscle origin with auto-, para- or endocrine ...

I fire vitenskaplige arbeider, har vi studert data fra det Norske mammografi programmet (brystkreft screening programmet), med moderne statistiske metoder og kraftige datamaskiner. I det første arbeidet ser vi at risikoen ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disabling disease with unknown pathophysiology, but recent evidence suggests autonomic dysfunction. We have therefore explored cardiovascular and thermoregulatory autonomic responses. ...

RNA interference (RNAi) has become an invaluable tool for functional genomics. A critical use of this tool depends on an understanding of the factors that determine the specificity and activity of the active agent, small ...

Background This is a six-year prospective follow-up of a former cross sectional study of suicide attempters in a sample of treatment-seeking substance-dependent patients. The aims were to explore the frequency ...

Background Communication training builds on the assumption that understanding of the concepts related to professional communication facilitates the training. We know little about whether students' knowledge ...

Vaccines using dendritic cells (DCs) harboring leukemic antigens to stimulate T cells is a possible treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Limitations of breaking tolerance to leukemic cells and lack of specific ...

It is well established that exercise protect againsts chronic disorders such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes (DM2), dementia and depression. It is unclear how contracting skeletal muscles mediate metabolic ...

Organotypic cultures from the ventral mesencephalon (VM) are widely used to model Parkinson’s disease (PD). In this method, neurotoxic compounds have traditionally been applied to the media to induce a uniform dopaminergic ...

TIDLIG OPPDAGELSE OG BEHANDLING AV PSYKOSELIDELSER (TIPS) Evidence-based, kunnskapsbasert, vitenbasert utvikling av helsetjenestene generelt, og av psykiatrihelsetjenestene spesielt, er sjeldnere enn vi liker å tro. Utformingen ...