<i>Objectives</i> - Recent investigations in humans and mouse models with lupus have revealed evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction and production of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS) in T cells and neutrophils. This can provoke numerous cellular changes including oxidation of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and even induction of cell death. We have previously observed that in T cells ...

<p><i>Bakgrunn:</i> Det er sterke helsepolitiske føringer for at personer med demens skal bo hjemme så lenge som mulig, og det forventes at pårørende skal bidra i omsorgsarbeidet. Pårørendeskolen skal bidra til læring og mestring hos pårørende. <p><i>Metode:</i> Studien er basert på kvalitative intervju med 16 pårørende som hadde deltatt på pårørendeskoler i nordnorske kommuner i perioden 2010–2017. ...

The adenosine A_2A receptor (A_2AR) is regarded as a particularly appropriate target for non-dopaminergic treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD). An increased A_2AR availability has been found in the human striatum at early stages of PD and in patients with PD and dyskinesias. The aim of this small animal positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance (PET/MR) imaging ...

<p><i>Background - </i>The skin commensal <i>Staphylococcus haemolyticus</i> is an emerging nosocomial pathogen. Despite its clinical relevance, published information about <i>S. haemolyticus</i> virulence factors is scarce. In this study, the adhesive and biofilm forming properties of ten clinical and ten commensal <i>S. haemolyticus</i> strains were examined using standard adhesion and biofilm ...

<p><i>Background - </i>Family planning counseling is critical for women to make informed reproductive and sexual health decisions. Despite Ethiopia's success in expanding access to family planning services, information on the quality of family planning counseling is limited. The objectives of this study were to assess whether the quality of counseling from the female client´s perspective has changed ...

Short histidine-rich peptides could serve as novel activatable vectors for delivering cytotoxic payloads to tumor and neovasculature cells. This explorative study reports preliminary results showing that zinc ions, which are found in elevated levels at neovasculature sites, can trigger the intracellular delivery of a short antimicrobial peptide when conjugated to a histidine-rich peptide through a ...

Cells succumbing to stress via regulated cell death (RCD) can initiate an adaptive immune response associated with immunological memory, provided they display sufficient antigenicity and adjuvanticity. Moreover, multiple intracellular and microenvironmental features determine the propensity of RCD to drive adaptive immunity. Here, we provide an updated operational definition of immunogenic cell death ...

<i>Background</i>: Despite the prevalence of mobile health (mHealth) technologies and observations of their impacts on patients’ health, there is still no consensus on how best to evaluate these tools for patient self-management of chronic conditions. Researchers currently do not have guidelines on which qualitative or quantitative factors to measure or how to gather these reliable data.<p><p> ...

<i>Aims</i>: Complete restitution of neurologic function after 6 h of pre-hospital resuscitation and in-hospital rewarming has been reported in accidental hypothermia patients with cardiac arrest (CA). However, the level of restitution of circulatory function during long-lasting hypothermic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) remains largely unknown. We compared the effects of CPR in replacing ...

<p><i>Background:</i> Electronic health (eHealth) has been described as a silver bullet for addressing how challenges of the current health care system may be solved by technological solutions in future strategies and visions for modern health care. However, the evidence of its effects on service quality and cost effectiveness remains unclear. In addition, patients’ psychological and emotional ...