Search for dissertations about: "CAG"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the word CAG.
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21. Testosterone : of importance in patients with dysglycemia and cardiovascular disease?
Abstract : Background: Testosterone has been associated with cardiovascular (CV) health in men and women with or without diabetes. There are however conflicting results which warrant further investigations to understand if testosterone is important for prognosis, in particular in relation to diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). READ MORE
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22. Trinucleotide repeats and neuropsychiatric phenotypes
Abstract : Genetic studies of affective disorders have yielded several chromosomal regions suggestive for linkage. Linkage analysis was performed in five families with unipolar affective disorder, collected from northern Sweden. Four candidate regions on chromosomes 16, 18, 21 and 4p were excluded. READ MORE
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23. Helicobacter pylori : cellular interactions and pathogenesis
Abstract : Helicobacter pylori colonizes the stomachs of about half of die world's population. It inevitably causes an inflammatory response in all its hosts, but in a subset of individuals the infection leads to severe gastric diseases such as peptic ulcers, gastric cancer or MALT lymphoma. READ MORE
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24. Genetic studies of neurological disorders : Rett syndrome and HD-like familial prion disease
Abstract : Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe childhood neurodevelopmental disorder, which almost exclusively affects females with a prevalence of 1 in 10 000-15 000, >99% of the cases are sporadic. It is commonly thought of as an X-linked dominant disorder lethal to males. READ MORE
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25. Study of molecular mechanism(s) underlying neurodegeneration in SCA7 disease : Role of NOX enzymes and oxidative stress
Abstract : Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG trinucleotide expansion in the SCA7/ATXN7 gene resulting in progressive ataxia and retinal dystrophy. SCA7 belongs to a group of neurodegenerative disorders called polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases, that share the common feature of glutamine tract expansions within otherwise unrelated proteins. READ MORE