Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health: Recent submissions
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Inference of systems-level behaviors in the immune system from single-cell data
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2020-03-27)Understanding the systems-level behaviours of the immune system requires profiling many parameters of its constituents as well as identifying environmental factors influencing the time evolution of immune response. Recent ... -
Estrogen actions in the growth plate cartilage
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2020-03-24)Estrogens may influence bone growth locally or systemically via the estrogen receptors alpha (ERα), beta (ERβ) and G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1 (GPER-1). In Paper I, our study showed that the treatment of ... -
Awareness of fetal movements and pregnancy outcomes
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2020-03-03)Fetal movements are one, among others, of the measurable factors indicating wellbeing of the fetus. Decreased fetal movements are associated with intrauterine growth restriction and stillbirth. Women with experience of ... -
Treating postpartum emotional distress by a short-term psychodynamic infant-parent intervention integrated with child health center care
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2020-02-24)Objective: The thesis had two aims. (1) To qualitatively explore the perspectives of CHC nurses’ (study I) parents’ (II) and psychotherapists’ (III) in receiving/offering SPIPIC (Short-term Psychodynamic Infant-Parent ... -
Mindfulness based childbirth and parenting program : supporting a good beginning
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2020-02-19)Introduction: Considering the scale of population mental health problems and the risk of transmission of mental health vulnerability within families, it is urgent to find and implement efficient preventive interventions ... -
Exploring paths to youth suicide and sudden violent death : a multimethod case-control investigation
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2020-01-16)Suicide and other forms of sudden violent death are the most common causes of death among young people worldwide. Both suicide and other forms of sudden violent death are more frequent among males than females. Risk factors, ... -
Ultrasound assessment and risk prediction in women with endometrial cancer
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2020-01-09)Background: Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in the industrialized world, constituting 4.5% of all cancer in Swedish women. Standard surgery is hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, ... -
Microglia in the juvenile brain after cranial irradiation
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-12-19)Radiotherapy is used to treat pediatric brain tumors and is often accompanied with debilitating late effects, such as cognitive decline. However, the mechanisms are poorly understood, and consequently there is still no ... -
Hormonal and metabolic effects of diet and physical exercise in overweight/obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-11-22)Background: Overweight/obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) often have hormonal problems characterized by irregular menses and decreased fertility. In addition, the overweight/obese women carry metabolic ... -
Pelvic floor complications after vaginal birth : short- and long-term consequenses for primiparous women in Sweden
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-11-15)Women giving birth to their first baby often sustain some form of perineal injury. These injuries can cause short- and long-term pelvic floor dysfunction symptoms and may affect their health. This thesis focuses on a sample ... -
Increasing uptake of long-acting reversible contraception : LARC
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-11-12)BACKGROUND: Unintended pregnancies are an inexhaustible source to life-changing decisions and events for individuals and result in enormous costs for societies having to deal with maternal health services, deliveries, ... -
Unprovoked seizures in children : incidence, neurodevelopmental comorbidities and treatment
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-11-07)Epilepsy is considered to be the neurological disease that gives the largest burden of disease in children. It is a heterogeneous disease with very diverse consequences in the lives of the patient. Comorbidities with other ... -
Antiapoptotic effect of ouabain in renal cells exposed to toxic glucose levels
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-11-06)Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases that causes enormous social and economic burden. The kidney is the filtration organ that produces urine and is the primary target of diabetic complications, a condition ... -
Morphological variants in neurodevelopmental disorders
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-10-25)Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are diagnosed in a significant minority of children, adolescents, and adults worldwide. ... -
Prevention of growth failure caused by glucocorticoids and inflammation
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-10-24)Longitudinal bone growth is a complex process that takes place in the growth plate, and normal growth is dependent on a precise balance of several endocrine and paracrine factors. Growth impairment is common in children ... -
Perinatal mental health among young women in urban China
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-10-18)In order to reach the WHO’s Sustainable Development Goals relating to maternal and infant health, maternal mental health preconditional needs to be addressed. The purpose of the thesis project was to explore how Shanghai ... -
Laminins in stemness and germ cell development in human
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-10-04)Stem cell niches regulate the fine balance between self-renewal and differentiation of various stem cells. Although crucial hallmarks of stem cell niches, such as the mechanical signalling, neural inputs communicating ... -
Effects of inhaled corticosteroids on DNA methylation in peripheral blood cells in children with asthma
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Metabolic effects and long-term safety of childhood growth hormone treatment
(Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2019-09-16)The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the metabolic effects and long-term safety of childhood growth hormone (GH) treatment. In order to achieve this aim, the different projects consist of a two-part clinical ... -
Cesarean delivery, preterm birth and risk of food allergy : nationwide Swedish cohort study of over 1 million children
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2019-08-06)Background & Objectives: Little is known about early life risk factors for food allergy in children. We examined the association between perinatal characteristics and future risk of food allergy in offspring. Methods: ...