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Pressing issues of environmental health and medical challenges in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions
Health Risk Analysis, 2022 The paper concentrates on reviewing results of studies that address the influence exerted by climate change in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions on local population health, ecological situation and ongoing sanitary-epidemiological processes. The systemic
J. Reis, N. Zaitseva, P. Spencer
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The Seventh Nordic Workshop on Reindeer Research 1993
Rangifer, 1995 The meeting was arranged in Tromsø and it was hosted jointly by the Department of Arctic Biology, University of Tromsø and the Centre of Veterinary Medicine in Tromsø.
Rolf Egil Haugerud (ed.)
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Dataset of fitness trackers and smartwatches to measuring physical activity in research
BMC Research Notes, 2022 Objectives Accelerometer-based wrist-worn fitness trackers and smartwatches (wearables) appeared on the consumer market in 2011. Many wearable devices have been released since.
André Henriksen +5 more
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Medicine of Extreme Situations, 2023 There is an inextricable link between exploration and development of the Arctic territories and emergence of associated problems of medical and biological nature.
MV Volkova, S. Biryukov
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Alcohol and suicide in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2016 Background: High suicide rates in the Russian North are coupled with high alcohol consumption in the described populations. Objective: To investigate the potential role of alcohol consumption on suicides in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) in 2002–2012 ...
Yury A. Sumarokov +4 more
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Molecules, 2021 Though numerous valuable compounds from red algae already experience high demand in medicine, nutrition, and different branches of industry, these organisms are still recognized as an underexploited resource.
Nikolay Yanshin +4 more
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Ecosystem size predicts eco-morphological variability in a postglacial diversification [PDF]
, 2017 Identifying the processes by which new phenotypes and species emerge has been a long-standing effort in evolutionary biology. Young adaptive radiations provide a model to study patterns of morphological and ecological diversification in environmental ...
Adams, Colin E. +3 more
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Genetic predictors of oxidative stress in the indigenous ethnous of the Arctic
Ekologiya cheloveka (Human Ecology), 2022 BACKGROUND: Fundamental scientific research and practical medicine indicate that certain genes are potentially involved in the pathogenesis of oxidative stress.
N. Vorobyeva +2 more
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Biological activities of ethanolic extracts from deep-sea antarctic marine sponges [PDF]
, 2013 We report on the screening of ethanolic extracts from 33 deep-sea Antarctic marine sponges for different biological activities. We monitored hemolysis, inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, cytotoxicity towards normal and transformed cells and growth ...
Ambrožič Avguštin, Jerneja +9 more
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Molecules, 2021 Traditionally, arctic Finnish Angelica (Angelica archangelica L.), marsh Labrador tea (Rhododendron tomentosum, syn. Ledum palustre) and common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) have been used as medicinal herbs in folklore medicine. However, these underutilised
R. Korpinen +3 more
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