Dissertations Dissertation: Meruert Sarsenova

(This thesis for doctoral degree has been conducted between the University of Tartu and Karolinska Institutet within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Double Degree program - MATER.)

Principal Supervisor:

Docent Lalit Kumar Parameswaran Grace, PhD

Department of Women’s and Children’s Health,

Karolinska Institutet,

Stockholm, Sweden

Co-supervisor:

Professor Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, MD, PhD

Department of Women’s and Children’s Health,

Karolinska Institutet,

Stockholm, Sweden

Opponent:

Professor Tea Lanišnik Rižner, PhD

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Examination Board:

Professor Miroslava Rabajdová, PhD

Department of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry,

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

Professor Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD

Department of Women's and Children's Health,

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Professor Karin Sundfeldt, MD, PhD

Institute of Clinical Sciences,

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Defense Chairman:

Assistant Professor Twana Alkasalias

Department of Women’s and Children’s Health,

Karolinska Institutet,

Stockholm, Sweden