Publications

The Impact of a Workplace Terrorist Attack on the Psychosocial Work Environment: A Longitudinal Study From Pre- to Post-disaster

The psychosocial work environment is of great importance for regaining health and productivity after a workplace disaster. Still, there i...

Mona Berthelsen; Marianne Bang Hansen; Alexander Nissen; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Stein Knardahl; Trond Heir

Metal additive manufacturing and possible clinical markers for the monitoring of exposure-related health effects

Additive manufacturing (AM) includes a series of techniques used to create products, in several different materials, such as metal, polym...

Stefan A. Ljunggren; Liam J. Ward; Pål Graff; Anders Persson; Malin Leijon Lind; Helen Karlsson

Hand-arm vibration exposure in rock drill workers. A comparison between measurements with hand-attached and tool-attached accelerometers

Objectives To assess the hazard of tool vibrations, we need valid exposure measurements. The use of hand-attached accelerometers (vibrat...

Thomas Clemm; Karl-Christian Nordby; Lars-Kristian Lunde; Bente Ulvestad; Magne Bråtveit

Workplace bullying increases the risk of anxiety through a stress-induced β2-adrenergic receptor mechanism: a multisource study employing an animal model, cell culture experiments and human data

Objectives Several studies show that severe social stressors, e.g., in the form of exposure to workplace bullying in humans, is associat...

Dhaksshaginy Rajalingam; Ingeborg Nymoen; Henriette Nyberg; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Ståle Valvatne Einarsen; Johannes Gjerstad

Universitetene må rekruttere flere leger til basalmedisinske fag

Erik Sveberg Dietrichs; Bendik Christian Brinchmann

Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Women’s Serum in the European Arctic Russia

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are heterogeneous carbon-based compounds that can seriously affect human health. The aim of this stu...

Yulia Varakina; Dmitry Lahmanov; Andrey Aksenov; Anna Trofimova; Rimma Korobitsyna; Natalia Belova; Nikita Sobolev; Dmitry Kotsur; Tatiana Sorokina; Andrej Grjibovski; Valery Chashchin ...

The airborne mycobiome and associations with mycotoxins and inflammatory markers in the Norwegian grain industry

Grain dust exposure is associated with respiratory symptoms among grain industry workers. However, the fungal assemblage that contribute ...

Anne Straumfors; Sunil Mundra; Oda Astrid Haarr Foss; Steen Kristen Mollerup; Håvard Kauserud

Perinatal exposure to a human relevant mixture of persistent organic pollutants: Effects on mammary gland development, ovarian folliculogenesis and liver in CD-1 mice

The ability of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with endocrine disrupting properties to interfere with the developing reproductive sy...

Silje Modahl Johanson; Erik Ropstad; Gunn Charlotte Østby; Mona Aleksandersen; Galia Zamaratskaia; Gudrun Seeberg Boge; Ruth Halsne; Cathrine Trangerud; Jan Ludvig Lyche; Hanne Friis Berntsen; Karin Elisabeth Zimmer ...

Accelerated atherosclerosis caused by serum amyloid A response in lungs of ApoE−/− mice

Airway exposure to eg particulate matter is associated with cardiovascular disease including atherosclerosis. Acute phase genes, especial...

Daniel Vest Christophersen; Peter Møller; Morten Bækgaard Thomsen; Jens Lykkesfeldt; Steffen Loft; Håkan Wallin; Ulla Vogel; Nicklas Raun Jacobsen

Novel methods for cold exposure of skeletal muscle in vivo and in vitro show temperature-dependent myokine production

Proteins secreted from skeletal muscle serving a signalling role have been termed myokines. Many of the myokines are exercise factors, pr...

Solveig Astrid Krapf; Tiril Schjølberg; Lucia Asoawe; Susanna Kyllikki Honkanen; Eili Tranheim Kase; G. Hege Thoresen; Fred Haugen