Doktorsavhandlingar / Doctoral Theses - K2 (MedS): Recent submissions
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Exploring the genomic and transcriptomic landscape of immune cells in multiple sclerosis : towards better biomarkers, diagnosis and treatment
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2020-02-07)The overall aim of this thesis was to determine the changes in gene regulation taking place in immune cells during the course of Multiple Sclerosis. Over 200 MS-associated SNPs have been identified from GWAS studies. These ... -
Clinical epidemiological studies of the association between chronic inflammation, immune-modulatory therapies, and cancer
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-12-18)Rheumatic diseases are chronic conditions that affect a substantial proportion of the adult population. Likewise, cancer is a major threat to public health, and the leading cause of death worldwide. Chronic inflammation ... -
Regulation of vaccine immunity : from myeloid cell functions to antibody responses
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-12-05)The generation of vaccine-induced protection against infections relies on a well-coordinated network of innate immune responses, adaptive cellular responses, and humoral responses. Sufficient stimulation of the innate ... -
On the origin of ACPA : exploring the role of P. gingivalis in the development of rheumatoid arthritis
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-11-22)Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic synovial inflammation, joint destruction, and the presence of anti-citrullinated protein autoantibodies (ACPA) in a majority of patients. ... -
Web-based ECG education : utility and usage in undergraduate medical education
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-11-20)Investigating the heart with an electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important, frequent and noninvasive investigation. Failure to correctly interpret the ECG may harm the patient. Learning to interpret ECGs is difficult for many ... -
Consequences of multiple sclerosis for patients in Sweden
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-11-11)This study aimed to consider consequences of multiple sclerosis for patients in Sweden throughout various stages of the life course. The thesis was separated into four constituent papers, which dealt with different aspects ... -
From youth to adult : studies on chronic airway obstruction with special reference to events in the neonatal period
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-10-31)Introduction: In western countries, 6-12% of all pregnancies end preterm, i.e. before 37 weeks of gestation. After the introduction of antenatal corticosteroids and improvements of neonatal intensive care, survival rates ... -
Survival after different forms of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest : ‛to breathe or not to breathe?’
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-10-31)Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) affects more than 6000 people per year in Sweden and only one in ten survive. One of the most important modifiable factors determining survival is early cardiopulmonary ... -
Monocytes and dendritic cells : roles during human influenza and hantavirus infections
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-10-23)Viruses infect a vast majority of the other species on the planet and rarely leave the host undamaged. Most human viruses need to infect an individual to replicate and disseminate, and must contend with the full force of ... -
Trial of labour after caesarean
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-10-15)Background: Induction of labour and caesarean delivery are common interventions in obstetric care and over the last decades both have been steadily increasing in frequency worldwide. The two interventions are concatenated, ... -
Epidemiological perspective of chronic immune thrombocytopenia
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-10-04)This thesis deals with different aspects of immune thrombocytopenia disease (ITP), what happens before diagnosis, characteristics of patients at treatment start and outcomes potentially related to the disease and treatment, ... -
Innate lymphoid cells and cholesterol metabolism in intestinal barrier function
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-10-02)The intestinal mucosa represents one of the largest barrier sites of our body, having to withstand a constant exposure to a plethora of environmental insults (including dietary compounds, xenobiotics, metabolites and ... -
Angiogenetic and hereditary factors in endometrial disease
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-09-04)The endometrium is a unique tissue in the adult human body because it is the only site where physiological renewal of vessels, angiogenesis, occurs. The regulation of this process under normal conditions is not fully ... -
Mechanisms of resident T cell-driven tissue responses during the onset and recurrence of human skin inflammation
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-09-03)Long-lived tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) reside in nonlymphoid organs and can drive direct cytotoxicity, focal cytokine release and potent tissue-wide anti-infectious responses upon antigenic challenge. TRM cells ... -
Introduction of new medicines in Sweden
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-08-26)Payers and providers face challenges in enabling appropriate and sustainable access to new medicines. To help enable rational use of new medicines various policy options exist. In Sweden, horizon scanning, forecasting, ... -
Identification and functional characterization of proteins involved in hepatic triglyceride metabolism
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-08-19)Triglycerides are the main form of energy in the tissues and liver, along with the adipose tissue, is the main organ of triglyceride metabolism and storage in the lipid-droplet organelles. A number of proteins are involved ... -
Lineage stability and effector function of CD4+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-08-12)This work focuses on regulatory T (Treg) cell biology in the context of defining the role of forkhead box protein 3 (FOXP3) isoform expression and Treg mediated suppression via CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated ... -
Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular calcification
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-05-23)Cardiovascular calcification is a pathophysiological process characterized by the deposition of calcium-phosphate crystals in the arteries and the leaflets of the heart valves. In the arteries calcification causes arterial ... -
Inhibition of mPGES-1 as therapeutic strategy in inflammation and cancer
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-05-16)Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is an inflammatory and oncogenic lipid mediator. It is mainly formed via metabolism of arachidonic acid by cyclooxygenases (COX-1 and COX-2) and the terminal enzyme microsomal prostaglandin E ... -
Innate immune mechanisms of atherosclerosis
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-05-13)Atherosclerosis is a multi-factorial immune mediated disease in arterial wall characterized by lipid driven inflammation through activation of the immune system. Chronic vascular inflammation is an important component that ...