Calanus finmarchicus is a vast resource that until recently have been exploited to a minimal degree only. In the last few years harvesting and processing methods have been developed. There is a large market and great interest in products derived from marine oils. Most of the products today are derived from organisms at a high trophic level, i.e. products derived from cod liver oil. One disadvantage ...

From previous work, it was identified two analytes of interest, produced by Lacinutrix sp. The two analytes are iso-branched lyso-ornithine lipids with only one CH2 group differing between the two compounds, in the hydrocarbon chain (lysoC15:0 and C16:0). The bacterium was isolated from the marine sponge Halicondria sp. that was collected beside Bjørnøya, on a research cruise in 2009. The analytes ...

Antibakteriell aktivitet mot Gram positive og Gram negative bakterier er påvist i ekstrakter av celler og plasma fra Solaster endeca, Crossaster papposus og Urasterias Linckii. Det har også blitt påvist antibakteriell aktivitet mot Gram negative bakterier i ekstrakter av hel kropp fra Solaster endeca og Croassaster papposus. Materialet ble grovekstrahert med 60 % Acetonitril, videre ble vannfase og ...

Invariable Natural Killer T (iNKT) celler er en undergruppe av T-lymfocytter som interagerer med det non-polymorfe CD1d-molekylet og aktiveres av glykosphingolipid-antigener (som αGalCer ). iNKT celler kan produsere rikelige mengder immunoregulerende cytokiner som påvirker nivået av aktivering til mange typer celler og kan også drepe andre celler. Målet for denne oppgaven var å undersøke om iNKT-celler ...

The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) is a scientific organization that encourages sound clinical practice, teaching and research related to diagnostic imaging in women's healthcare. The ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee (CSC) has a remit to develop Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements as educational recommendations that provide healthcare practitioners ...

Introduction: Our aim is to explore the ways in which a patient and a general practitioner (GP) negotiate knowledge-claims stemming from different epistemic domains while dealing with a mismatch between experiential and biomedical knowledge during a clinical consultation. We interpret their interaction in relation to the sociocultural context in which their negotiation is embedded, and identify ...

Background - In South-Eastern Norway, genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 is offered to breast cancer patients by their treating surgeon or oncologist. Genetic counselling from a geneticist or a genetic counsellor is offered only to those who test positive for a pathogenic variant or have a family history of cancer. This practice is termed “mainstreamed genetic testing”. The aim of this study was ...

The study investigates if the job-demands resources (JD-R) model could be improved by including workaholism in its health impairment process. Salient predictors and antecedents of workaholism and work engagement are identified in a sample of 12170 employees at Norwegian universities and university colleges. Structural equation modeling suggested that job demands and job resources relate to workaholism ...

The distribution limit of Ixodes ricinus ticks in northwestern Europe (Brønnøy, Norway, 1◦ south of the Arctic Circle), has been known since the 1930s. To reconfirm this finding and extend studies in the areas adjacent to the Arctic Circle (66◦33 N), ticks were collected from dogs and cats in 8 districts in northern Norway from 64◦56 N to 68◦48 N. We detected 549 I. ricinus, 244 (44%) of them ...

The main objective of this study is to gain knowledge about interactional factors that support and obstruct mutual risk-assessments and shared decision-making (SDM) in clinical consultations. Through a narrative analysis of verbatim tran- scripts of 28 naturally occurring consultations performed in English National Health Service practices, we explore the ways in which patients and general practitioners ...