• Amyloid-β PET—Correlation with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and prediction of Alzheimer´s disease diagnosis in a memory clinic 

      Müller, Ebba Gløersen; Edwin, Trine Holt; Stokke, Caroline; Navelsaker, Sigrid Stensby; Babovic, Almira; Bogdanovic, Nenad; Knapskog, Anne Brita; Revheim, Mona-Elisabeth (PLoS ONE;14(8): e0221365, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-05)
      Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains a clinical diagnosis but biomarkers from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and more lately amyloid imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), are important to support a diagnosis ...
    • Regional performance variation in external validation of four prediction models for severity of COVID-19 at hospital admission: An observational multi-centre cohort study 

      Wickstrøm, Kristin E.; Vitelli, Valeria; Carr, Ewan; Holten, Aleksander R.; Bendayan, Rebecca; Reiner, Andrew H.; Bean, Daniel; Searle, Tom; Shek, Anthony; Kraljevic, Zeljko; Teo, James; Dobson, Richard; Tonby, Kristian; Köhn-Luque, Alvaro; Amundsen, Erik K. (PLOS ONE;16 (8): e0255748, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-25)
      Background: Prediction models should be externally validated to assess their performance before implementation. Several prediction models for coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) have been published. This observational cohort ...
    • Self-collected and clinician-collected anal swabs show modest agreement for HPV genotyping 

      Mandishora, Racheal S. Dube; Rounge, Trine Ballestad; Fitzpatrick, Megan; Christiansen, Hanne Irene Kraus; Ambur, Ole Herman; Lagström, Sonja; Stray-Pedersen, Babill; Tommasino, Massimo; Palefsky, Joel; Chirenje, Zvavahera M. (PLOS ONE;16 (4): e0250426, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-26)
      Background & aim: Women with HIV/HPV coinfection and cervical lesions are at increased risk of developing HPV related anal cancer. Self-collection of anal swabs may facilitate HPV molecular testing in anal cancer screening, ...
    • Stem cell function is conserved during shortterm storage of cultured epidermal cell sheets at 12°C 

      Ringstad, Håkon; Reppe, Sjur; Schøyen, Tine Hiorth; Tønseth, Kim Alexander; Utheim, Tor Paaske; Jackson, Catherine (PLOS ONE;15 (5): e0232270, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-20)
      Transplantation of cultured epidermal cell sheets (CES) can be life-saving for patients with large area burns. CES have also been successfully used to regenerate eye and urethral epithelia in animal models. Short-term ...