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The ENCCA-WP7/EuroSarc/EEC/PROVABES/EURAMOS 3rd European Bone Sarcoma Networking Meeting/Joint Workshop of EU Bone Sarcoma Translational Research Networks; Vienna, Austria, September 24–25, 2015. Workshop Report
(Journal article, 2016-03-16)This report summarizes the results of the 3rd Joint ENCCA-WP7, EuroSarc, EEC, PROVABES, and EURAMOS European Bone Sarcoma Network Meeting, which was held at the Children’s Cancer Research Institute in Vienna, Austria on ... -
End of life care in nursing homes: Palliative drug prescribing and doctors' existential vulnerability
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-11-03)Nursing homes are the main arena for end-of-life (EOL) care in Norway. Patients, their informal caregivers and academics alike have called for doctors more involved in EOL care, but the nursing home doctor’s role has been ... -
End Stage Renal Disease Predicts Increased Risk of Death in First Degree Relatives in the Norwegian Population
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-11-09)Background: Increased risk of end stage renal disease (ESRD) and death in Norwegian living kidney donors has been reported, most of the donors were related to the recipient. The present study investigates risk of death in ... -
End-of-life care: Patients’ preferences and relatives’ experiences : with focus on communication and advance care planning
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-10)Background and aim: Advance care planning (ACP) is a communication process for mapping patients’ priorities for end-of-life care. Preparing for an introduction of ACP in Norwegian hospitals, we wanted to explore patients’ ... -
End-of-life practices and experiences of health professionals and family members of terminally-ill patients in intensive care units in Macedonia: a qualitative research
(Master thesis, 2010-08-27)Objective To understand the end-of-life phenomenon in the intensive care setting in Macedonia through the experiences of health professionals and family members of terminally-ill patients in its social and cultural context. ... -
End-of-life priorities in complex settings - An ethical analysis of decisions in Indian neonatal units
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-07)Background: In India, 1.2 million of the 26 million infants born annually die during the neonatal period. The National Neonatal Forum in India estimated that the need for intensive care beds in India is 72,000, but only ... -
End-stage renal disease: incidence and prediction by coronary heart disease, and educational level. Follow-up from diagnosis of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes throughout Norway 1973–2017
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Purpose To investigate incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and the association of education and coronary heart disease (CHD) with ESRD, in subjects throughout Norway followed from the diagnosis of childhood-onset ... -
Endeavouring interplay: a grounded theory study of how nurse educators’ work with simulation-based learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Simulation-based learning is frequently used as a teaching and learning strategy in nursing and other health professions educations, and educators have a key role as facilitators. This facilitator role provides ... -
Endocan in Acute Leukemia: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Endocan is a soluble dermatan sulfate proteoglycan expressed by endothelial cells and detected in serum/plasma. Its expression is increased in tumors/tumor vessels in several human malignancies, and high expression (high ... -
Endochondral Ossification Induced by Cell Transplantation of Endothelial Cells and Bone Marrow Stromal Cells with Copolymer Scaffold Using a Rat Calvarial Defect Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)It has been recently reported that, in a rat calvarial defect model, adding endothelial cells (ECs) to a culture of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) significantly enhanced bone formation. The aim of this study is to further ... -
Endocrine cells in the ileum of patients with irritable bowel syndrome
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-07)AIM: To study the ileal endocrine cell types in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients. METHODS: Ninety-eight patients with IBS (77 females and 21 males; mean age 35 years, range 18-66 years) were included, of which 35 ... -
Endocrine cells in the oxyntic mucosa of the stomach in patients with irritable bowel syndrome
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-05)AIM: To study the different endocrine cell types in the oxyntic mucosa of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). METHODS: Seventy-six patients with IBS were included in the study (62 females and 14 males; mean age ... -
Endocrine-related adverse conditions in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibition: an ESE clinical practice guideline
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized cancer treatment but are associated with significant autoimmune endocrinopathies that pose both diagnostic and treatment challenges. The aim of this guideline is to ... -
The endogenous hallucinogen and trace amine N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) displays potent protective effects against hypoxia via sigma-1 receptor activation in human primary iPSC-derived cortical neurons and microglia-like immune cells
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent endogenous hallucinogen present in the brain of humans and other mammals. Despite extensive research, its physiological role remains largely unknown. Recently, DMT has been found ... -
Endometrial ablation; less is more? Historical cohort study comparing long-term outcomes from two time periods and two treatment modalities for 854 women
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-10)Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding needs surgical treatment if medical therapy fails. After introduction of non-hysteroscopic endometrial ablation as alternative to hysteroscopic endometrial resection, we aimed to compare ... -
Endometrial carcinoma: a step closer to individualized therapy? Exploring transcriptional alterations in relation to prognostic biomarkers
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-09-30)Background: Endometrial cancer is diagnosed early and has in general a good prognosis. The more important it is to diagnose and treat the poor-prognosis cases. Therapy of endometrial carcinoma patients per today is to a ... -
Endometrial carcinoma; can biomarkers aid in the prediction of aggressive disease? A study with focus on preoperative tumour markers
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-05-04)Background: Although endometrial cancer in general has a good prognosis, 15-20% recurs. Surgery is the main treatment with lymph node sampling increasingly advocated as compulsory for adequate staging. In metastatic disease, ... -
Endoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Pumps and Tumor Cell Differentiation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) calcium homeostasis plays an essential role in cellular calcium signaling, intra-ER protein chaperoning and maturation, as well as in the interaction of the ER with other organelles. Calcium is ... -
Endorectal ultrasonography, strain elastography and MRI differentiation of rectal adenomas and adenocarcinomas.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02)Aim Strain elastography is a method for recording tissue hardness. Strain in different areas may be compared using strain ratio (SR). The aims of this study were to validate a previously proposed SR cut-off value of 1.25 ... -
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in Norway: Patterns of activity and undesired events
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-03-21)Background: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the gold standard for the treatment of common bile duct stones (CBDS) and palliative decompression of malignant strictures. However, concerns remain ...