Daily Archives: Wednesday January 6th, 2016

Library Courses Spring 2016

The library offers courses in literature searching and handling of references. The courses are meant for employees and students at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital.  The courses are free of charge.

The following courses are offered this semester:
– EndNote – beginners course 13 January
– PubMed & EMBASE 20 January
– EndNote – beginners course 27 January Continue reading

Pubilc PhD Defence, Week 1

eli_kristin_aadlandEli Kristin Aadland will defend her PhD thesis on Friday January 8, 2016
Trial lecture: Friday January 8 2016, 10:15
Topic:“Dietary protein in prevention of metabolic disease”
Place: «Sildetønnen», NIFES, Nordnesboder 4
Public defense: Friday January 8 2016, 12:15
Place: «Sildetønnen», NIFES, Nordnesboder 4
Title of dissertation: “Ability of a lean -seafood diet to modulate lipid and glucose metabolism in healthy humans – a randomized controlled trial with a crossover design”
1st opponent:Professor Bente Kiens, Københavns Universitet
2nd opponent:Professor Elling Tufte Bere, Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand

Press release (in Norwegian)

Pubilc PhD Defense, Week 2

rettedal_sirenSiren Irene Rettedal will defend her PhD thesis on Friday January 15, 2016
Trial lecture: Friday January 15, 2016, 09:15
Topic: “Ethical considerations of offering intensive care to pre-term infants at the margins of viability”
Place: Auditoriet, 1. etasje, Vestbygget, Stavanger Universitetssykehus
Public defense: Friday January 15 2016, 10:30
Place: Auditoriet, 1. etasje, Vestbygget, Stavanger Universitetssykehus
Title of dissertation:“Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing. Enterobacteriaceae in neonates; hospital outbreak, colonization, transmission and persistence”
1st opponent Senior Clinical Lecturer, Colm O’Donnell, University College, Dublin, Irland
2nd opponent: Professor Claus Klingenberg, Universitetet i Tromsø

Press release (in Norwegian)

New Publications

Based on last 3 weeks’ search for “Department of Clinical Science AND Bergen”. If you have publications which are not covered by this search, send the reference to elin.opheim@uib.no.

A Loss-of-Function Variant in a Minor Isoform of ANK3 Protects Against Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.
-Hughes T, Hansson L, Sønderby IE, Athanasiu L, Zuber V, Tesli M, Song J, Hultman CM, Bergen SE, Landén M, Melle I, Andreassen OA, Djurovic S.
Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Nov 11.

Promoter SNPs rs116896264 and rs73933062 form a distinct haplotype and are associated with galectin-4 overexpression in colorectal cancer.
Helwa R, Ramadan M, Abdel-Wahab AA, Knappskog S, Bauer AS.
Mutagenesis. 2015 Dec 16.

Low protein A20 in minor salivary glands is associated with lymphoma development in primary Sjögren’s syndrome.
Johnsen SJ, Gudlaugsson E, Skaland I, Janssen EA, Jonsson MV, Helgeland L, Berget E, Jonsson R, Omdal R.
Scand J Immunol. 2015 Dec 18.

CXCR4, CXCL12 and the relative CXCL12-CXCR4 expression as prognostic factors in colon cancer.
Stanisavljević L, Aßmus J, Storli KE, Leh SM, Dahl O, Myklebust MP.
Tumour Biol. 2015 Dec 17.

Transcriptional, post-transcriptional and chromatin-associated regulation of pri-miRNAs, pre-miRNAs and moRNAs.
Nepal C, Coolen M, Hadzhiev Y, Cussigh D, Mydel P, Steen VM, Carninci P, Andersen JB, Bally-Cuif L, Müller F, Lenhard B.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Dec 15.

Mortality related to hospital-associated infections in a tertiary hospital; repeated cross-sectional studies between 2004-2011.
Koch AM, Nilsen RM, Eriksen HM, Cox RJ, Harthug S.
Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2015 Dec 29;4:57.

Krill oil reduces plasma triacylglycerol level and improves related lipoprotein particle concentration, fatty acid composition and redox status in healthy young adults – a pilot study.
Berge RK, Ramsvik MS, Bohov P, Svardal A, Nordrehaug JE, Rostrup E, Bruheim I, Bjørndal B.
Lipids Health Dis. 2015 Dec 15;14(1):163.

Borderline Values of Troponin-T and High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Did Not Predict 2-Year Mortality in TnT Positive Chest-Pain Patients, Whereas Brain Natriuretic Peptide Did.
Nilsen DW, Mjelva ØR, Leon de la Fuente RA, Naesgaard P, Pönitz V, Brügger-Andersen T, Grundt H, Staines H, Nilsen ST.
Front Cardiovasc Med. 2015 Apr 8;2:16.

Prediction of adverse neonatal outcomes using size centiles and conditional growth centiles.
Karlsen HO, Johnsen SL, Rasmussen S, Kiserud T.
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Dec 10.

Controlled release metoprolol for aortic regurgitation: a randomised clinical trial.
Broch K, Urheim S, Lønnebakken MT, Stueflotten W, Massey R, Fosså K, Hopp E, Aakhus S, Gullestad L.
Heart. 2015 Dec 9.

Biomarkers and echocardiographic predictors of myocardial dysfunction in patients with hypertension.
Bielecka-Dabrowa A, Michalska-Kasiczak M, Gluba A, Ahmed A, Gerdts E, von Haehling S, Rysz J, Banach M.
Sci Rep. 2015 Mar 9;5:8916.

Interactions of the natural product (+)-avrainvillamide with nucleophosmin and exportin-1 Mediate the cellular localization of nucleophosmin and its AML-associated mutants.
Mukherjee H, Chan KP, Andresen V, Hanley ML, Gjertsen BT, Myers AG.
ACS Chem Biol. 2015 Mar 20;10(3):855-63.

Systemic Analysis of Regulated Functional Networks.
Hernández Sánchez LF, Aasebø E, Selheim F, Berven FS, Ræder H, Barsnes H, Vaudel M.
Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1394:287-310.

Interpretation of Quantitative Shotgun Proteomic Data.
Aasebø E, Berven FS, Selheim F, Barsnes H, Vaudel M.
Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1394:261-73.

Defective PITRM1 mitochondrial peptidase is associated with Aβ amyloidotic neurodegeneration.
Brunetti D, Torsvik J, Dallabona C, Teixeira P, Sztromwasser P, Fernandez-Vizarra E, Cerutti R, Reyes A, Preziuso C, D’Amati G, Baruffini E, Goffrini P, Viscomi C, Ferrero I, Boman H, Telstad W, Johansson S, Glaser E, Knappskog PM, Zeviani M, Bindoff LA.
EMBO Mol Med. 2015 Dec 23.

Approaching a diagnostic point-of-care test for pediatric tuberculosis through evaluation of immune biomarkers across the clinical disease spectrum.
Jenum S, Dhanasekaran S, Lodha R, Mukherjee A, Kumar Saini D, Singh S, Singh V, Medigeshi G, Haks MC, Ottenhoff TH, Doherty TM, Kabra SK, Ritz C, Grewal HM.
Sci Rep. 2016 Jan 4;6:18520.

Plasma Glycine and Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Suspected Stable Angina Pectoris.
Ding Y, Svingen GF, Pedersen ER, Gregory JF, Ueland PM, Tell GS, Nygård OK.
J Am Heart Assoc. 2015 Dec 31;5(1).

X Chromosome Dose and Sex Bias in Autoimmune Diseases: Increased 47,XXX in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Sjögren’s Syndrome.
Liu K, Kurien BT, Zimmerman SL, Kaufman KM, Taft DH, Kottyan LC, Lazaro S, Weaver CA, Ice JA, Adler AJ, Chodosh J, Radfar L, Rasmussen A, Stone DU, Lewis DM, Li S, Koelsch KA, Igoe A, Talsania M, Kumar J, Maier-Moore JS, Harris VM, Gopalakrishnan R, Jonsson R, Lessard JA, Lu X, Gottenberg JE, Anaya JM, Cunninghame-Graham DS, Huang AJ, Brennan MT, Hughes P, Illei GG, Miceli-Richard C, Keystone EC, Bykerk VP, Hirschfield G, Xie G, Ng WF, Nordmark G, Eriksson P, Omdal R, Rhodus NL, Rischmueller M, Rohrer M, Segal BM, Vyse TJ, Wahren-Herlenius M, Witte T, Pons-Estel B, Alarcon-Riquelme ME, Guthridge JM, James JA, Lessard CJ, Kelly JA, Thompson SD, Gaffney PM, Montgomery CG, Edberg JC, Kimberly RP, Alarcón GS, Langefeld CL, Gilkeson GS, Kamen DL, Tsao BP, McCune WJ, Salmon JE, Merrill JT, Weisman MH, Wallace DJ, Utset TO, Bottinger EP, Amos CI, Siminovitch KA, Mariette X, Sivils KL, Harley JB, Scofield RH.
Arthritis Rheumatol. 2015 Dec 29.