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- Ahlström, Petter, et al.
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Why space is not enough : Service innovation and service delivery in senior housing
- 2022. - 1
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In: Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation. - Abingdon and New York : Routledge. - 9780367612764 - 9780367628789 - 9781003111245 ; , s. 72-80
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter discusses senior housing to support the well-being of older individuals through the provision of physical and social resources. The authors show how digital services contribute to these developments by increasing the resources available and the capacity of older people to integrate resources and take advantage of the value-creating opportunities offered by senior housing solutions. They point out that senior users play a crucial role as active co-creators of their own well-being and contributors to both service innovation and service delivery. As digital services become essential for how older people manage their daily lives, they need to be more integrated in the physical spaces where the actions and memories that shape the lives of seniors take place. Digital services have the potential to both create and deliver new services that will enhance these experiences, which makes their integration with the physical space an important and inseparable component of service innovation and delivery in the context of senior housing.
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- Khramova, Alina, 1989, et al.
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Proteoglycans contribute to the functional integrity of the glomerular endothelial cell surface layer and are regulated in diabetic kidney disease
- 2021
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In: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322. ; 11:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- All capillary endothelia, including those of the glomeruli, have a luminal cell surface layer (ESL) consisting of glycoproteins, glycolipids, proteoglycans (PGs) and glycosaminoglycans. Previous results have demonstrated that an intact ESL is necessary for a normal filtration barrier and damage to the ESL coupled to proteinuria is seen for example in diabetic kidney disease (DKD). We used the principles of ion exchange chromatography in vivo to elute the highly negatively charged components of the ESL with a 1M NaCl solution in rats. Ultrastructural morphology and renal function were analyzed and 17 PGs and hyaluronan were identified in the ESL. The high salt solution reduced the glomerular ESL thickness, led to albuminuria and reduced GFR. To assess the relevance of ESL in renal disease the expression of PGs in glomeruli from DKD patients in a next generation sequencing cohort was investigated. We found that seven of the homologues of the PGs identified in the ESL from rats were differently regulated in patients with DKD compared to healthy subjects. The results show that proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans are essential components of the ESL, maintaining the permselective properties of the glomerular barrier and thus preventing proteinuria. © 2021, The Author(s).
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- Nilsson Broberg, Malin, et al.
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A multivariate data analysis approach for the investigation of in vitro derived metabolites of ACP-105 in comparison with human in vivo metabolites
- 2023
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In: Journal of chromatography. B. - : Elsevier. - 1570-0232 .- 1873-376X. ; 1231
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) such as ACP-105 are prohibited in sports due to their anabolic properties. ACP-105 has in previous equine studies shown to undergo extensive metabolism, which makes its metabolite profile important to investigate in humans, since the metabolism is unknown in this species. The aims of the study were to systematically optimize in vitro microsome incubations for improved metabolite yield and to utilize a multivariate data analysis (MVDA) approach to aid the metabolite discovery. Microsomes together with S9 fractions were used at optimal conditions, both with and without phase II additives. Furthermore, the relevance of the in vitro derived metabolites was evaluated as analytical targets in doping control by comparison with results from a human post-administration urine sample collected after a single dose of 100 µg ACP-105. All samples were analyzed with liquid chromatography - Orbitrap mass spectrometry.The use of the systematical optimization and MVDA greatly simplified the search and a total of 18 in vitro metabolites were tentatively identified. The yield of the two main monohydroxylated isomers increased by 24 and 10 times, respectively. In the human urine sample, a total of seven metabolites of ACP-105, formed by a combination of hydroxylations and glucuronic acid conjugations, were tentatively identified. The main metabolites were two monohydroxylated forms that are suggested as analytical targets for human doping control after hydrolysis. All the in vivo metabolites could be detected with the MVDA approach on the in vitro models, demonstrating its usefulness for prediction of the in vivo metabolite profile.
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- Nilsson Broberg, Malin
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Metabolite Profiling of Drugs using Mass Spectrometry : Identification of analytical targets for doping control and improvements of the metabolite search process
- 2024
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Doping is defined as the use of prohibited substances or methods by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the aim with doping control analysis is to detect the use of these illicit substances or methods. Substances that are prohibited in human or equine sports have either a positive or negative impact on the performance. Since administered drugs generally are metabolized to a varying degree and thereby not only excreted in their original form, their metabolite profiles are of high interest because drug metabolites may be present in the body for a longer time than the administered drug itself. Thereby detection of metabolites can improve the window of detection. Unfortunately, the metabolite profiles of non-approved drugs that are mainly available on the Internet, such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are often unknown. This thesis consists of four papers that all encompass drug metabolite profiling either in vivo, in vitro or in a combination, utilizing separation with liquid chromatography and detection with high resolution mass spectrometry. In paper I and II, the equine in vivo metabolite profiles of the two SARMs ACP-105 and LGD-3303 were investigated and the results showed that using drug metabolites as analytical targets can prolong the detection time. For ACP-105, the in vivo metabolite profile was compared with different incubation models such as liver microsomes, S9 fractions and the fungus Cunninghamella elegans. The in vivo and in vitro metabolite profiles showed an interesting overlap for several metabolites, demonstrating the importance and usefulness for in vitro methods in doping control, especially since microsome incubates are allowed as reference material. An optimization of microsome incubation conditions utilizing experimental design was presented in paper III and IV, showing that the optimized conditions greatly impacted the yield of drug metabolites, but also that the optimal conditions are substance dependent. In paper III, a multivariate data analysis search tool utilizing OPLS-DA was presented, which greatly simplified the in vitro drug metabolite identification process of ACP-105 and the results showed relevance in comparison with human in vivo metabolites.In conclusion, several new analytical targets with improved detectability for equine and human doping control have been presented, where the drug metabolite profile showed to be of great importance. All together, these new analytical targets, the optimized microsome incubation conditions for improved metabolite yield and the search tool that aids the metabolite investigation through multivariate data analysis, have made a positive contribution to the doping control area.
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- Weis, Franz, et al.
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Absence of hydrothermal oxygen isotope variations in host rocks supports magmatic origin of the giant Grängesberg iron oxide–apatite (IOA) deposit, Central Sweden
- 2022
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In: International journal of earth sciences. - : Springer Nature. - 1437-3254 .- 1437-3262. ; 111:2, s. 425-437
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The origin of Kiruna-type iron oxide–apatite ores is controversial, and debate presently centres on a ‘magmatic’ versus a ‘hydrothermal’ mode of formation. To complement recent investigations on the Grängesberg iron oxide–apatite ore deposit in the northwestern part of the Palaeoproterozoic Bergslagen ore province in central Sweden, we investigated the oxygen isotope composition of the host rocks of this large iron oxide–apatite ore body. As the metavolcanic and metagranitoid country rocks around the Grängesberg ore body either pre-date or are coeval with ore formation, they would be expected to record an extensive isotopic imprint if the ore body had formed by large-scale hydrothermal processes involving an externally sourced fluid. A direct magmatic formation process, in turn, would have produced localized alteration only, concentrated on the immediate vicinity of the ore body. Here, we test these two hypotheses by assessing the oxygen isotope variations in the host rocks around the main Grängesberg iron oxide–apatite ore body. We analysed oxygen isotopes in quartz from metavolcanic (n = 17) and metagranitoid host rocks (n = 14) from the vicinity of the ore body, and up to 2 km distance along and across the strike of the ore body. Remarkably, we find no significant variation in δ18O values with distance from the ore body, or any deviations in country rock δ18O from common magmatic and/or regional values. Only two samples show shifts to values more negative than the common magmatic range, indicating highly localized hydrothermal overprint only. As a large-scale, low-temperature hydrothermal origin of the ore body through voluminous fluid percolation would be expected to have left a distinct imprint on the oxygen isotope values of the country rocks, our results are more consistent with an ortho-magmatic origin for the Grängesberg iron oxide–apatite ore.
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