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Medicine Story: Secret Life of the Arctic Willow
Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, 2023 The medicine story about the Arctic Willow told through the eyes of three little girls living in the Canadian Arctic.
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International Journal of Circumpolar HealthHearing disability constitutes a major health care issue especially among indigenous populations and in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The authors are engaged in organising audiological services in Greenland, where the geographical challenges ...
Katrine Rosenquist Kirk +2 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2020 Objectives The influence of physical activity (PA) on the immune system has emerged as a new field of research. Regular PA may promote an anti-inflammatory state in the body, thus contributing to the down-regulation of pro-inflammatory processes related ...
Karina Standahl Olsen +2 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018 BackgroundThe joint effect of atherosclerosis and CRP (C‐reactive protein) on risk of ischemic stroke (IS) and myocardial infarction (MI) has been sparsely studied.
Agnethe Eltoft +5 more
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BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2019 Background It is not clear how physical activity affects body composition in adolescents. Physical activity levels are often reduced during this period, and the relative proportion of body fat mass and lean mass undergo natural changes in growing ...
Nils Abel Aars +4 more
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Human infectious diseases and the changing climate in the Arctic
Environment International, 2018 Climatic factors, especially temperature, precipitation, and humidity play an important role in disease transmission. As the Arctic changes at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, understanding how climatic factors and climate change affect ...
Audrey Waits +4 more
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Bacterial genomics reveal the complex epidemiology of an emerging pathogen in Arctic and boreal ungulates [PDF]
, 2016 Northern ecosystems are currently experiencing unprecedented ecological change, largely driven by a rapidly changing climate. Pathogen range expansion, and emergence and altered patterns of infectious disease, are increasingly reported in wildlife at ...
Amanda Niptanatiak +18 more
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Centre for Arctic Medicine, Thule Institute, University of Oulu, Finland [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2004 Centre for Arctic Medicine (CAM) is part of Thule Institute, University of Oulu. The CAM has its origins in the Nordic Secretariat of Arctic Medicine founded in 1969, which was integrated into the structure of the University of Oulu in 1996 and became a part of the Thule Institute in 2001.
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Challenges of measuring body temperatures of free-ranging birds and mammals [PDF]
, 2015 The thermal physiology of most birds and mammals is characterised by considerable spatial and temporal variation in body temperature. Body temperature is, therefore, a key parameter in physiological, behavioural and ecological research.
Gallon, S., McCafferty, D.J., Nord, A.
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Occasional Publications on Northern Life, No. 04 [PDF]
, 1983 The need to exchange information on research in reindeer and caribou diseases became apparent to investigators attending the Second International Reindeer/Caribou Symposium in Roros, Norway, in 1979.
Dieterich, Robert A., Morton, Jamie K.
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