Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet
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- Identification of novel secreted factor by expression profiling of hearts from mice with myocardial failure
- Significance of pulmonary monocyte/macrophage system in the pathophysiologic mechanisms of heart failure
- Notch signaling in atherosclerosis
- Mechanisms of elevated plasma endothelin-1 levels in heart failure
- Functional significance of CTGF-induced restrictive fibrosis of the heart in endurance training vs. heart failure
- Role of myocardial CTGF in the pathophysiologic mechanisms of heart failure
- Pulmonal hypoxia and pulmonary hypertension; Mechanisms involved in transition to heart failure
- The homeostatic chemokine CXCL13 and its receptor CXCR5 are regulated in experimental and human heart failure, and are involved in cardiac remodelling.
- Generation of transgenic mice with inducible, cardiac-restricted expression of CTGF
- Role of the innate immun system in the development and maintenance of cardiovascular disease
- Role of Neil3 in regulating stem cell recruitment following myocardial infarction
- Mitochondrial DNA - maker or marker of ischemic injury?
- Innate immunity and cardiac injury
- Role of Factor FVII activating protease (FSAP) in patients with acute myocardial infarction and heart failure
- Inflammation and ischemia/reperfusion injury in STEMI patients treated by PCI and ischemic postconditioning