Search for dissertations about: "VGF"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word VGF.
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1. Proteomics Studies of Subjects with Alzheimer’s Disease and Chronic Pain
Abstract : Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the major cause of dementia, affecting more than 50 million people worldwide. Chronic pain is long-lasting, persistent pain that affects more than 1.5 billion of the world population. READ MORE
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2. Dementia Proteomics
Abstract : The term dementia encompass a number of conditions arising as a consequence of tissue degeneration in the brain. This degeneration is caused by molecular events occurring on a cellular level including inflammation, defective waste disposal and accumulation of insoluble proteins and peptides. READ MORE
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3. Isolation and characterization of lipid-associated and neurosecretory polypeptides
Abstract : Lipid-interacting proteins play important roles in all living organisms. This thesis focuses on isolation and characterization of an enzyme in the triacylglycerol biosynthesis (phosphatidic acid phosphatase, PAP), hydrophobic polypeptides in bile, and polypeptides in cerebrospinal fluid. READ MORE
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4. Neural growth : with special emphasis on adult neurogenesis and the effect of antiepileptic drugs
Abstract : Neurons were for a long time thought to not renew themselves. In the 1960ies the phenomenon of neurogenesis was discovered, but it was not until 1998 that neurogenesis was demonstrated in humans. READ MORE