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A Methylome and Transcriptome Analysis of Normal Human Scar Cells Reveals a Role for FOXF2 in Scar Maintenance

Scars are maintained for life and increase in size during periods of growth such as puberty. Epigenetic changes in fibroblasts after injury may underpin the maintenance and growth of scars. In this study, we combined methylome and transcriptome data from normotrophic mature scar and contralateral uninjured normal skin fibroblasts to identify potential regulators of scar maintenance.

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Promoting Mental Health in New Zealand: Building Resilience in Teenage Children

There has been concerns about the increasing incidence of youth depression and anxiety, with school teachers seeking out ways to better equip youth with skills to help them deal with daily life. A resilience training programme for youth was implemented in one region of New Zealand.

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Telehealth for Audiological Management

This chapter focuses on the management of those with hearing impairment, and how tele-audiological tools and approaches may assist to improve service delivery

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Relationship between the neighbourhood built environment and early child development

The relationship between features of the neighbourhood built environment and early child development was investigated

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Integrative CAGE and DNA Methylation Profiling Identify Epigenetically Regulated Genes in NSCLC

Epigenetically regulated genes have a great theranostic potential, especially in tumors with no apparent driver mutations.

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Influenza-Associated Encephalitis/Encephalopathy Identified by the Australian Childhood Encephalitis Study 2013-2015

We aimed to describe case of Influenza associated encephalitis/encephalopathy identified by the Australian Childhood Encephalitis study

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Pediatric hospital admissions in Indigenous children: A population-based study in remote Australia

We analysed hospital admissions of a predominantly Aboriginal cohort of children in the remote Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia during their first 7 years.

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Migration and work in postwar Australia: mortality profile comparisons between Australian and Italian workers exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom

330,000 Italians arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1966, many on assisted passage schemes where the worker agreed to a 2 year unskilled employment contract.

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Quantitative assessment of airway dimensions in young children with cystic fibrosis lung disease using chest computed tomography

To evaluate lung disease progression using AA dimensions on chest CT over 2-years in young CF patients longitudinally and compare to disease controls.

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A review of structural brain abnormalities in Pallister-Killian syndrome

PKS is a rare multisystem developmental syndrome usually caused by mosaic tetrasomy of chromosome 12p that is known to be associate with neurological defects.