As the official historian of International Association for Scandinavian Studies, and one two authors The History Studies 1956–2006, I have been asked to tell story almost 70 years our association’s existence. whole thing began in Cambridge July 1956, as an informal meeting 65 academics, most them from Nordic countries or United Kingdom; on that occasion there was a grand total 13 lectures. Sinc...

Background: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic inflammatory disorders associated with a dysregulated adaptive and innate immune response to gut commensals in genetically susceptible individuals. The pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease is complex, and the disease is characterized by significant phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity. Summary: The introduction of anti-TNF b...

SUMMARY In a cross-sectional survey, the nutritionql status [on the basis of weight(Wt), height(Ht), body mass index(BMI) and mid-arm circumferences (MAC)] of 45 I women attending the health centers in Zabol city was investigated. The results showed that 14.4% of women were underweight and 2.2% stunted. On the basis of BMI 36.4% of women had wasting and 18.8% overweight. Also, 31.8% had amid-a...

T his is an account of two episodes of tertian fever separated by 51 years on two continents. The first was Plasmodium vivax malaria. The second may have been because of a long-delayed relapse, a new infection with P. simium, or not being malaria at all. First attack, Borneo 1956 I contracted malaria during a student expedition from Cambridge to British North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) in 195...

5-6 Papers included in this thesis 7 Introduction 8-9 Pancreas 10-12 Diabetes 12-15 The history of developmental biology 15-20 Early development of the mammalian embryo 20-28 Pancreas development in mouse 28-36 Human pancreatic development 36-38 Results and discussion Prologue 40-43 Summary and discussion of Paper 1 44-47 Summary and discussion of Paper 2 47-55 Summary and discussion of Paper 3...