NU Research Week - 2018

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Periostin in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) development and synergistic effects mediated via CCL5

Riethmacher, Eva; Vangelista, Luca; Mukanova, Saida; Riethmacher, Dieter (Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18)

The incidence of IBD is rising all over the world and is affecting 1 in 4000 people in Europe and 1 in 16.000 in Asia. [1] Welldocumented, reliable numbers for Kazakhstan are currently not available but observations ...
Assessment of unmet needs and barriers to end-of-life care provision in Kazakhstan

Toleubekova, Lyazzat; Crape, Byron; Dauyey, Kaisar; Argandykov, Dias; Bekenova, Aigerim; Madikenova, Meruyert (Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18)

Palliative care, a holistic multidisciplinary approach for those persons with terminal diseases, providing relief for physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual suffering of both the patients and their families and ...
Influence of CYP2C9 and VKORC1 gene variants on warfarin response in Kazakhstani patients with left ventricular assist devices

Akilzhanova, А.; Rakhimova, S.; Andosova, S.; Kalkamanova, Inkar; Tokanova, Aruzhan; Zhumadilov, Zh.; Bekbossynova, M. (Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18)

Heart failure is a worldwide epidemic affecting approximately 23 million people globally and is a major burden for the healthcare system [1,2]. Despite advances in medical therapy, the disease is progressive and a significant ...
Whole genome sequencing of m. Tuberculosis strains in kazakhstan reveal genomic variants in genes coding pe/ppe protein family specific for mdr/xdr isolates

Kozhamkulov, U.; Kairov, U.; Molkenov, A.; Steins, M.; Akhmetova, А.; Akilzhanova, A (Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18)

Worldwide in 2016, around 10.4 million people were diagnosed with TB among which 1.7 million died [1]. Despite the progress in decreasing the global incidence of drug-susceptible TB, multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively ...
De Novo Assembly And Bioinformatics Analysis Of M.Tuberculosis Mdr Strains Sequenced On Next-Generation Sequencing Platform

Daniyarov, A.; Kairov, U.; Molkenov, A.; Kozhamkulov, U.; Akhmetova, A.; Akilzhanova, A; Zhumadilov, Zh. (Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18)

Tuberculosis remains one of the major problems in public health (1). During the last 10 years the tuberculosis incidence and mortality rate in Kazakhstan decreased by 2.4 times and 6 times, respectively. Despite the ...
Genotyping Of M. Tuberculosis Clinical Isolates From New Cases Of Tuberculosis In Kazakhstan

Akhmetova, А.; Akilzhanova, A.; Assatova, B.; Moldakhmetova, N.; Toksanbaeva, B.; Bismilda, V.; Chingissova, L.; Kozhamkulov, U. (Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18)

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem in Kazakhstan. Despite of that the rates of TB disease and mortality decreased from 58,5/100000 and 4,1/100000 in 2015 to 52,7/100000 and 3,4/100000 in 2016 respectively, ...
Tracking the use of libguides: a content and usage study applying return on investment

Yap, Joseph M. (Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18)

Introduction Library collections and information products are valuable assets that need to be assessed based on their usage and effectiveness. The services rendered of a library which can be expressed by acquiring numerous ...