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2013 - Preeclampsia, Alzheimer's and Skellefte disease - cause and correlation? - Anders Olofsson - Umeå University
Amyloidosis is the result of a pathological phenomenon in which aggregating proteins are deposited in tissue. Today, 30 different diseases are associated with...
2013 - Harnessing the body's immune system to fight infection and inflammation - Artur Schmidtchen - Lund University
Infection and inflammation underlie many diseases. We can suffer from conditions such as chronic eczema of the skin, or chronic wounds,...
2013 - Innate lymphoid cells in inflammatory bowel disease - Jenny Mjösberg - Karolinska Institutet
Chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) dramatically increases the risk of colon cancer. It is likely that the chronic inflammation in IBD...
2013 - Establishment of an additional academic professorship in medicine - Staffan Normark - Kungl. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Torsten Söderberg Foundation and the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation currently fund five research professorships in medicine, and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation itself funds two...
2013 - Is WNT16 a key protein that reduces the risk of bone fractures? - Claes Ohlsson - Sahlgrenska Academy
Osteoporosis is one of our major diseases. Bone fractures caused by osteoporosis lead to great suffering and significant costs for...
2013 - New strategies to prevent vascular leak in acute inflammation - Lennart Lindbom - Karolinska Institutet
Sepsis is a dreaded complication of bacterial infections that can lead to circulatory collapse and organ failure despite advanced intensive care...
2013 - New treatment for severe recurrent depression: intranasal neuropeptide Y - Aleksander Mathé - Karolinska Institutet
Depression is a leading cause of disability and premature death, partly due to its comorbidity with cardiovascular disease and suicide...
2013 - ROR1 - novel tyrosine kinase receptor for targeting tumor diseases - Håkan Mellstedt - Karolinska Institutet
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) expresses the tyrosine kinase receptor ROR1, as do pancreatic and lung cancers. ROR1 is not found in normal adult cells....
2013 - New molecular targets for the treatment of age-related hearing loss - Anders Fridberger - Linköping University
Age-related hearing loss affects around 40% of older people. The disease causes many people great difficulty in understanding speech and it...
2013 - Neurophysiological markers for autism spectrum disorders - a MEG study - Christopher Gillberg - University of Gothenburg
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is an umbrella term for conditions characterized by problems with social interaction, language comprehension and flexibility. The direct...
2013 - Schizophrenia and its comorbidities - common pathophysiology? - Sophie Erhardt - Karolinska Institute
Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric illness that affects about one percent of the population. Patients with schizophrenia have around 30% shorter...
2013 - Bacterial proteins for harm and benefit - Lars Björck - Lund University
We humans live in close relationship with different microorganisms and bacteria are the most common cell types in the body, an adult human carries...
