Post.Doc og PhD-Projects

Tormod Bjørkkjær is studying relief of joint pain with seal oil and whale oil in patients with inflammatory bowel disease or psoriatric arthritis.

Jørgen Valeur has discovered low levels of chromogranin A in patients with food hypersensitivity and tries to find out whether this finding indicates that something is wrong with the serotonin-producing EC cells in the small intestine.

Kristine Lillestøl has discovered increased number of IgE-armed mast cells in the small intestine of patients with food hypersensitivity. Se also finds a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders, especially anxiety and depression among these patients, and she tries to find out whether there is a relationship between these indications of central and peripheral sensitisation.

Mette Helvik Morken has discovered increased carbohydrate intolerance among patients with post-giardiasis IBS and is currently investigating short chain fatty acids in the colon, the main product of carbohydrate fermentation, to see whether alterations in colonic fermentation is involved in the pathogenesis of postinfectious IBS.

Ragna Lind is studying life style, health related quality of life and subjective health complaints in patients with food hypersensitivity. Current understanding is that stress plays a central role in the pathogenesis of multiple subjective health complaints. But this might not be the case for patients with food hypersensitivity!

Kine Gregersen has established a new method for analysis serotonin in gut lavage fluid and is currently applying the method in our patients with food hypersensitivity.

Gunnar Nysæter is studying the effect of a typhoid vaccine in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. There is a growing interest in the flagellin antigen from intestinal bacteria in the pathogenesis of IBD.

Roald Flesland Havre is working with the project: Tissue characterisation by ultrasound elasticity imaging.

Gülen Arslan Lied, postdoc, is studying gut immunology in patients with IBD and food hypersensitivity.

Kirsi Vaali, postdoc from Finland has established a mouse model for food allergy and is currently studying sensitisation of pholcodein.

Dag Arne Lihaug Hoff is working with the project: Biomechanics of the Oesophagus in Patients with Functional Chest Pain studied by High Frequency Intraluminal Ultrasound, Laser Doppler Flowmetry and a Multi-modal Pressure and Distension Probe.