Oxytocin i kampen mot Huntingtonssjukdom Huntingtonssjukdom (HS), även kallad danssjukan, är en obotlig sjukdom som successivt bryter ner nervsystemet. Sjukdomen orsakas av en förändring (mutation) i arvsmassan hos Huntington-genen, där vi får en förlängning av en kod som kallas för CAG-repetitioner. Huntington-genen bär vi alla på. Om man har en förälder som har Huntingtonssjukdom är det 50% ri

Bakgrund: Varje år skördar fysiskt trauma 4,4 – 5 miljoner dödsfall och i Sverige vårdas närmare 9 000 patienter årligen för fysiskt trauma. Konsekvenser av ett trauma kan vara fysiska och även psykiska beroende på allvarlighetsgraden av händelsen. Under vårdtiden är det vanligt att oro och osäkerhet uppstår hos patienten som kan befinna sig i ett utsatt tillstånd, därmed är det kritiskt att sjuks

1 BACKGROUNDWeak expression of ABO antigens is encountered in the clinical laboratory occasionally, and subgroups of A are more commonly observed in Europeans than subgroups of B. To date, weakly expressing B variant phenotypes have been associated with 38 different alleles according to ISBT (https://www.isbtweb.org/resource/001aboalleles.html). This number is an underrepresentation since there ha

The purpose of my article is to highlight the development and activities of the Catholic traditionalist minority groups and discuss their importance in today’s Catholic Church. The traditionalist movement started as a reaction to the reforms implemented as a result of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), which for many conservative minded Catholics appeared as a departure from Catholic faith anThe purpose of my article is to highlight the development and activities of the Catholic traditionalist minority groups and discuss their importance in today’s Catholic Church. The traditionalist movement started as a reaction to the reforms implemented as a result of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), which for many conservative-minded Catholics appeared as a departure from Catholic faith an

Motivated by a need to characterize transient behaviors in large network systems in terms of relevant signal norms and worst-case input scenarios, we propose a novel approach based on existing theory for matrix pseudospectra. We extend pseudospectral theorems, pertaining to matrix exponentials, to an input-output setting, where matrix exponentials are pre- and post-multiplied by input and output m

As part of aiming towards a non-smoking hospital environment, staff at a Copenhagen university hospital were offered participation in a differentiated smoking cessation programme. This consisted of lectures, group therapy, follow-up visits and individually tailored nicotine replacement therapy free-of-charge for six weeks. Three hundred and seventy-four employees started the programme, with 353 co

On the basis of the theory that malnutrition leads to zinc deficiency, 36 severe alcohol addicts were investigated in a large clinic for alcoholism in Copenhagen. The serum zinc levels were registered on commencement/recommencement of treatment with disulphiram and one month later. A total of 16 patients completed the entire investigation. All of the participants in the trial were without clinical

Birds occupy habitats ranging from Antarctic ice shelves and Arctic tundra to low-latitude deserts and lowland rainforests, and so are exposed to the full range of climates present on Earth. Cold, hot, or variable (on a variety of temporal scales) thermal conditions can present significant thermoregulatory challenges to birds, which typically must maintain body temperatures within narrow physiolog

This study performs a descriptive analysis of the potential effects of intermarriage on children of the immigrants arrived to the US in the Age of Mass Migration. To do this, we use a novel dataset, the Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel Project from IPUMS, that uses US full-count Census data to link people across censuses. This allows us to estimate the effect of intermarriage on children in a

Bakgrund: Autism är ett tillstånd som yttrar sig genom bland annat svårigheter med det sociala samspelet, kommunikation och att tolka sin omgivning och tecken på autism är ofta tydliga redan under de första levnadsåren. Tidig diagnos och tidiga interventioner kan ge bättre förutsättningar för barnet att möta de svårigheter som diagnosen innebär. I Sverige utgör barnhälsovården första instans som r

Pharmaceutical industry funding of patient organizations raises ethical challenges related to patient engagement in healthcare due to fears of commercial agendas influencing patient advocacy and creating industry-driven inequalities across patient organizations. We contribute to an international body of knowledge on patient organization–industry relations by analyzing all payments reported by comp

The relative effect of combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharge into receiving waters has increased during the last decades due to improved efficiency at treatment plants. In association with the rapid urbanization in the sixties and early seventies, new areas were connected to old sewer networks with limited capacity, leading to an increase in overflow volumes and, thus to an increase in pollution

This book focuses on vocal expressions in the borderland between song and speech. It spans across several linguistic and musical milieus in societies where oral transmission of culture dominates. ‘Vocal expression’ is an alternative word for ‘song’ which is free from bias based on cultural and research-related traditions. The borderland between song and speech is a segment of the larger continuum

Background and purposeDiagnostic information about cell density variations and microscopic tissue anisotropy can be gained from tensor-valued diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These properties of tissue microstructure have the potential to become novel imaging biomarkers for radiotherapy response. However, tensor-valued diffusion encoding is more demanding than conventional encoding, and

Artikeln undersöker, med blicken fäst på mat och äckel, mötet mellan de överlevande som kom till Sverige från nazistiska koncentrationsläger 1945 och de lägerinstitutioner som tog emot dem. Syftet är att genom utsagor om mat undersöka lägerlivets vardagliga förhandlingar och maktrelationer. De sätt varpå ätande knutits till äckel åskådliggör den villkorade relationen mellan ”värd” och ”gäst” och fWith a focus on food and disgust, this article examines the meeting between survivors who came to Sweden from Nazi concentration camps in 1945 so called “repatriates”, and the camp institutions that received them. The purpose is to examine the everyday negotiations and power relations of camp life through statements about food. The ways in which eating is linked to disgust illustrate the unequal a