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    • Better health-related quality of life (Mental component summary), having a higher level of education, and being less than 75 years of age are predictors of hospital admission among cognitively intact nursing home residents: A 5-year follow-up study 

      Drageset, Jorunn; Eide, Geir Egil; Ranhoff, Anette Hylen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03-07)
      Objective: To study whether health-related quality of life (HRQOL), activities of daily living (ADL), and anxiety and depression symptoms affect the risk of hospital admission and potential interactions with having a cancer ...

    • Better mental health in children of Vietnamese refugees compared with their Norwegian peers - a matter of cultural difference? 

      Vaage, Aina Basilier; Tingvold, Laila; Hauff, Edvard; Ta, Thong Van; Wentzel-Larsen, Tore; Clench-Aas, Jocelyne; Thomsen, Per Hove (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-10-21)
      Background: There are conflicting results on whether immigrant children are at a heightened risk of mental health problems compared with native youth in the resettlement country. The objective of the study: To compare the ...

    • Better survival of hybrid total knee arthroplasty compared to cemented arthroplasty. 

      Petursson, Gunnar; Fenstad, Anne Marie; Havelin, Leif Ivar; Gøthesen, Øystein; Lygre, Stein Håkon Låstad; Röhrl, Stephan Maximillian; Furnes, Ove (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      Background and purpose — There have been few comparative studies on total knee replacement (TKR) with cemented tibia and uncemented femur (hybrid TKR). Previous studies have not shown any difference in revision rate between ...

    • Betydning av pasientleie for tynntarmsdose ved strålebehandling av pasienter med rectumcancer 

      Frøseth, Trude Camilla Salvesen (Master thesis, 2010-11-29)
      Background: Irradiation is a standard adjuvant treatment for rectal cancer, but there is no standard concerning the most optimal treatment position. Different approaches have been carried out in which treatment position ...

    • Betydninger av brukerstyrt personlig assistanse i hverdagen; erfaringer og muligheter. En kvalitativ studie. 

      Eike, Karina Soltvedt (Master thesis, 2021-12-15)
      Bakgrunn: Tema for masteroppgaven er brukerstyrt personlig assistanse (BPA), som er et assistansetilbud for personer med funksjonsnedsettelse. Ordningen er sentral i debatten om likestilling og mulighet for samfunnsdeltagelse. ...

    • Bevacizumab treatment induces metabolic adaptation toward anaerobic metabolism in glioblastomas 

      Fack, Fred; Espedal, Heidi; Keunen, Olivier; Golebiewska, Anna; Obad, Nina; Harter, Patrick N.; Mittelbronn, Michel; Bähr, Oliver; Weyerbrock, Astrid; Stuhr, Linda Elin Birkhaug; Miletic, Hrvoje; Sakariassen, Per Øystein; Stieber, Daniel; Rygh, Cecilie Brekke; Lund-Johansen, Morten; Zheng, Liang; Gottlieb, Eyal; Niclou, Simone P.; Bjerkvig, Rolf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-01)
      Anti-angiogenic therapy in glioblastoma (GBM) has unfortunately not led to the anticipated improvement in patient prognosis. We here describe how human GBM adapts to bevacizumab treatment at the metabolic level. By performing ...

    • Beyond autonomy and care: Experiences of ambivalent abortion seekers 

      Kjelsvik, Marianne; Sekse, Ragnhild Johanne Tveit; Moi, Asgjerd Litleré; Aasen, Elin Margrethe; Nortvedt, Per; Gjengedal, Eva (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Background While being prepared for abortions, some women experience decisional ambivalence during their encounters with health personnel at the hospital. Women’s experiences with these encounters have rarely been examined. ...

    • Beyond sleep duration: Sleep timing as a risk factor for childhood obesity 

      Skjåkødegård, Hanna Flækøy; Danielsen, Yngvild Sørebø; Frisk, Bente; Hystad, Sigurd William; Roelants, Mathieu; Pallesen, Ståle; Conlon, Rachel; Wilfley, Denise E.; Juliusson, Petur Benedikt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background: Ample evidence attests to the relationship between short sleep duration, sleep problems and childhood obesity. However, few studies have examined the association between sleep timing and obesity in children. ...

    • Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics 

      Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-18)
      Every year, as many as 25 million women are estimated to resort to unsafe abortion worldwide. Many of these abortions lead to severe complications and death. Nevertheless, abortion remains a contentious issue that is ...

    • Beyond the law: Misoprostol and medical abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

      Solheim, Ingrid Holm; Kahabuka, Catherine; Pembe, Andrea; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)
      Misoprostol has during the past few years become an important obstetric drug used for different purposes both within and outside hospitals in Tanzania. In this paper, we analyze how misoprostol is perceived, accessed and ...

    • Bi-specific TCR-anti CD3 redirected T-cell targeting of NY-ESO-1- and LAGE-1-positive tumors 

      McCormack, Emmet; Adams, Katherine J.; Hassan, Namir J.; Kotian, Akhil; Lissin, Nikolai M.; Sami, Malkit; Mujic, Maja; Osdal, Tereza; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Baker, Deborah; Powlesland, Alex S.; Aleksic, Milos; Vuidepot, Annelise; Morteau, Olivier; Sutton, Deborah H.; June, Carl H.; Kalos, Michael; Ashfield, Rebecca; Jakobsen, Bent K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-12)
      NY-ESO-1 and LAGE-1 are cancer testis antigens with an ideal profile for tumor immunotherapy, combining up-regulation in many cancer types with highly restricted expression in normal tissues and sharing a common HLA-A*0201 ...

    • Bi-specific tenascin-C and fibronectin targeted peptide for solid tumor delivery 

      Lingasamy, Prakash; Tobi, Allan; Haugas, Maarja; Hunt, Hedi; Paiste, Paarn; Asser, Toomas; Ratsep, Tonu; Kotamraju, Venkata Ramana; Bjerkvig, Rolf; Teesalu, Tambet (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Oncofetal fibronectin (FN-EDB) and tenascin-C C domain (TNC-C) are nearly absent in extracellular matrix of normal adult tissues but upregulated in malignant tissues. Both FN-EDB and TNC-C are developed as targets of ...

    • A Bibliography on the River Nile, Vol. I 

      Tvedt, Terje (Book, 2000)
      An Annotated bibliography on the River Nile and its Economic, Political, Social and Cultural Role.

    • A Bibliography on the River Nile, Vol. II 

      Tvedt, Terje; Hovden, Eirik (Book, 2008)

    • A Bibliography on the River Nile, Vol. III 

      Tvedt, Terje; Hovden, Eirik (Book, 2008)

    • A bibliometric review of oncolytic virus research as a novel approach for cancer therapy 

      Nejad, Amir Sasan Mozaffari; Noor, Tehjeeb; Munim, Ziaul Haque; Alikhani, Mohammad Yousef; Ghaemi, Amir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background In recent years, oncolytic viruses (OVs) have drawn attention as a novel therapy to various types of cancers, both in clinical and preclinical cancer studies all around the world. Consequently, researchers have ...

    • Bidirectional Dysregulation of AMPA Receptor-Mediated Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in Brain Disorders 

      Zhang, Hongyu; Bramham, Clive R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-10)
      AMPA receptors (AMPARs) are glutamate-gated ion channels that mediate the majority of fast excitatory synaptic transmission throughout the brain. Changes in the properties and postsynaptic abundance of AMPARs are pivotal ...

    • Bidirectional genetic overlap between autism spectrum disorder and cognitive traits 

      Hope, Sigrun; Shadrin, Alexey; Lin, Aihua; Bahrami, Shahram; Rødevand, Linn; Frei, Oleksandr; Hübenette, Saira Jameela; Cheng, Weiqiu; Hindley, Guy; Nag, Heidi Elisabeth; Ulstein, Line; Efrim-Budisteanu, Magdalena; O’Connell, Kevin; Dale, Anders; Djurovic, Srdjan; Nærland, Terje; Andreassen, Ole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable condition with a large variation in cognitive function. Here we investigated the shared genetic architecture between cognitive traits (intelligence (INT) and educational ...

    • Bile Acid Profiles in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and their Ability to Predict Hepatic Decompensation 

      Mousa, Omar Y; Juran, Brian D; McCauley, Bryan M.; Vesterhus, Mette; Folseraas, Trine; Turgeon, Coleman T.; Ali, Ahmad; Schlicht, Erik M; Atkinson, Elizabeth J; Hu, Chang; Harnois, Denise; Carey, Elizabeth J; Gossard, Andrea A; Oglesbee, Devin; Eaton, John E; LaRusso, Nicholas F.; Gores, Gregory J.; Karlsen, Tom Hemming; Lazaridis, Konstantinos N. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background and Aims: Altered bile acid (BA) homeostasis is an intrinsic facet of cholestatic liver diseases, but clinical usefulness of plasma BA assessment in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) remains understudied. We ...

    • Bimodal expression of potential drug target CLL-1 (CLEC12A) on CD34+ blasts of AML patients 

      Ngai, Lok Lam; Ma, Connie Y.; Maguire, Orla; Do, An D.; Robert, Alberto; Logan, Aaron C.; Griffiths, Elizabeth A.; Nemeth, Michael J.; Green, Cherie; Pourmohamad, Tony; van Kuijk, Bo J.; Snel, Alexander N.; Kwidama, Zinia W.; Venniker-Punt, Bianca; Cooper, James; Manz, Markus G.; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Smit, Linda; Ossenkoppele, Gert J.; Janssen, Jeroen J. W. M.; Cloos, Jacqueline; Sumiyoshi, Teiko (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Objectives This study aims to retrospectively assess C-lectin-like molecule 1 (CLL-1) bimodal expression on CD34+ blasts in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients (total N = 306) and explore potential CLL-1 bimodal ...