I løpet av de siste årene har det blitt mer og mer fokus på hva vi spiser og hva mat har å si for kroppen og psyken vår. Mange studier tyder på at noen grupper mennesker har en mer permeabel tarm og en tilstand der ...

Background: Important efforts are made to organise sustainable, efficient and safe blood transfusion services in sub-Saharan Africa. Still, the adequate supply of safe blood products remains largely insufficient in this ...

ABSTRACT The correct use of blood products in massively bleeding patients remains a controversial topic even today. Hemorrhage is the leading cause of death in the trauma population (40%). Trauma induced coagulopathy ...

BACKGROUND: The uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase B17 is important for the excretion and thereby inactivation of testosterone. Testosterone is important for the bone growth in puberty. Low values of this hormone ...

ABSTRACT Subcellular localization of the metastasis-promoting protein S100A4 The S100A4 protein has been associated with increased metastatic capacity of cancer cells, and several studies have suggested a correlation ...

De siste årene har gitt mye ny kunnskap om et omfattende samspill mellom hjernen og immunforsvaret. Denne oversiktsartikkelen fokuserer på rollen vagusnerven (CN X) spiller i denne interaksjonen. Vagusnerven sanser ...

TYPE 2 DIABETES – PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICAMENTAL TREATMENT Background: Diabetes mellitus, especially type 2, is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world today, and its prevalence is still increasing strongly. ...

Abstract In breast cancer radiation has a central role in the treatment of brain metastasis, even though tumor sensitivity might be limited. The tumor cell defense response to ionizing radiation involves activation of cell ...

Summary DNA damage responses are the basis for conventional cancer treatments like ã-irradiation and chemotherapy, and the p53 protein is a key mediator in this process. Our lab has recently demonstrated that elevation ...

Background Since 1993, the Research and Development Group (R&D), at the Department of Clinical Chemistry, Ullevaal University Hospital, has had a routine for isolation (elutriation, centrifugation) and cryopreservation of ...

Background: Ca2+ is without question the most versatile intracellular second messenger in cellular processes initiated by growth factors and hormones and involved in diverse cellular and organ functions such as cell cycle ...

Leptin is a 167-amino-acid product of the ob gene, which is produced primarily by adipocytes. Although originally associated with the central regulation of satiety and energy metabolism, there is now increasing evidence ...

In most experimental gene therapy protocols involving stem/progenitor cells, only a small fraction of cells, often therapeutically inadequate, can be transduced and express the therapeutic gene. A promising strategy for ...