Search for dissertations about: "stress-associated genes"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words stress-associated genes.

  2. 1. Systems-level characterization of probiotic bifidobacteria - Towards rational optimization of industrial production

    Author : Marie Schöpping; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; genome-scale metabolic modeling; stability; robustness; industrial manufacturing; bifidobacteria; stress-associated genes; probiotics; nutritional requirement; interspecies variations;

    Abstract : Probiotic Bifidobacterium strains contribute to a healthy gut microbiota of their hosts. Increasing public awareness of this positive effect has resulted in a growing demand for these microorganisms. READ MORE

  4. 2. Expression of inflammatory and insulin signaling genes in acute and chronic stress

    Author : Anna Witasp; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The acute surgical stress response induces a short-term inflammatory and insulin resistant condition, commonly producing hyperglycemia, which is strongly associated to morbidity and mortality in postsurgical patients. The chronic state of renal insufficiency, on the other hand, represents a long-term stress associated with alarmingly high mortality rates, primarily due to cardiovascular complications, and is similarly related to chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and insulin resistance. READ MORE

  5. 3. Risk factors for autoimmune-mediated congenital heart block

    Author : Sabrina Meisgen; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Placental transfer of maternal Ro/SSA and La/SSB autoantibodies during pregnancy is associated with conduction disturbances and inflammation in the developing fetal heart, termed autoimmune-mediated congenital heart block (CHB). Maternal Ro/SSA and La/SSB autoantibodies are the main risk factors associated with the fetal cardiac manifestations to date, however, the low recurrence rate despite persisting autoantibodies in subsequent pregnancies indicates that additional factors determine fetal susceptibility. READ MORE

  6. 4. The role of liver myeloid cells in obesity and metabolic disease

    Author : Emelie Barreby; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Macrophages are tissue resident cells with diverse phenotypes and functions depending on their origin, localization and physiological context. In the liver, their main functions are to detoxify the blood from pathogens, debris and metabolic waste arriving to the liver through the systemic and portal circulation. READ MORE