Articles (Hospital del Mar Research Institute)

 

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  • Curto, Elena; Munteis-Olivas, Elvira; Balcells Vilarnau, Eva, 1967-; Domínguez Álvarez, Marisol (Medknow Publications, 2016)
    Natalizumab (Tysabri(®)) is a leukocytes chemotaxis inhibitor that decreases the leukocytes passage through the hematoencephalic barrier and it is currently used in relapsing-remitting forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). We ...
  • Levin, Ronnie; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina; Beene, Daniel; Cradock, Angie L.; Donat-Vargas, Carolina; Lewis, Johnnye; Martinez-Morata, Irene; Minovi, Darya; Nigra, Anne E.; Olson, Erik D.; Schaider, Laurel A.; Ward, Mary H.; Deziel, Nicole C. (Nature Research, 2023)
    Background: Advances in drinking water infrastructure and treatment throughout the 20th and early 21st century dramatically improved water reliability and quality in the United States (US) and other parts of the world. ...
  • Donat-Vargas, Carolina; Kogevinas, Manolis; Benavente, Yolanda; Costas, Laura; Campo, Elias; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Fernandez-Tardon, Guillermo; Llorca, Javier; Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Aragonés, Núria; Pollan, Marina; Casabonne, Delphine; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina (Nature Research, 2023)
    Background: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) etiology is poorly understood, and carcinogenic chemicals in drinking and recreational water are candidates. Objective: To evaluate the association between drinking-water ...
  • Collatuzzo, Giulia; Pelucchi, Claudio; Negri, Eva; Kogevinas, Manolis; Huerta, José María; Vioque, Jesus; García de la Hera, Manuela; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Hamada, Gerson Shigueaki; Hidaka, Akihisa; Zhang, Zuo-Feng; Camargo, M. Constanza; Curado, Maria Paula; Lunet, Nuno; La Vecchia, Carlo; Boffetta, Paolo (MDPI, 2023)
    The association between sleep and stress and cancer is underinvestigated. We evaluated these factors in association with gastric cancer (GC). Five case-control studies from the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project were ...
  • Arias-de la Torre, Jorge; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Ronaldson, Amy; Bakolis, Ioannis; Dregan, Alex; Martín, Vicente; Martinez-Alés, Gonzalo; Molina, Antonio J.; Serrano-Blanco, Antoni; Valderas Martínez, José María; Viana, Maria Carmen; Alonso Caballero, Jordi (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: Assessing the prevalence of clinically relevant depressive symptoms and their possible variation by country and over time could be a valuable resource to inform the development of public health policies and ...
  • Alegre Zurano, Laia; Cáceres-Rodriguez, Alba; Berbegal-Sáez, Paula; Lassalle, Olivier; Manzoni, Olivier; Valverde Granados, Olga (Nature Research, 2023)
    A single dose of cocaine abolishes endocannabinoid-mediated long-term depression (eCB-LTD) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) within 24 h of administration. However, it is uncertain whether this altered neuroplasticity entails ...
  • Williams, Kate; Tickler, Georgina; Valdivielso, Pedro; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Vera-Llonch, Montserrat; Cubells, Laia; Acaster, Sarah (BioMed Central, 2023)
    Background: Familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) is a rare, hereditary, metabolic disorder. FCS causes high levels of triglycerides in the blood, which can lead to abdominal pain, xanthomas, and acute pancreatitis (AP). ...
  • Miranda-Olivos, Romina; Baenas, Isabel; Steward, Trevor; Granero, Roser; Pastor, Antonio; Sánchez, Isabel; Juaneda-Seguí, Asier; Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo del; Fernández-Formoso, José A.; Vilarrasa, Nuria; Guerrero-Pérez, Fernando; Virgili, Núria; López-Urdiales, Rafael; Jiménez Murcia, Susana; Torre Fornell, Rafael de la; Soriano Mas, Carles; Fernández Aranda, Fernando (Nature Research, 2023)
    Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by a harmful persistence of self-imposed starvation resulting in significant weight loss. Research suggests that alterations in the nucleus accumbens ...
  • Torres, Marta; Serra-Sutton, Vicky; Soriano, Joan B.; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Trejo, Alex; Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García); Lumbreras, Blanca; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz; Pijoán, José Ignacio; Monguet, Josep M.; Barbé, Ferran; Pollán, Marina; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Espallargues, Mireia; Serrano-Blanco, Antoni (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: In 2021, the Spanish Ministry of Health launched the CIBERPOSTCOVID project to establish what post COVID was. The present study reports the level of agreement among stakeholders on post COVID and its clinical ...
  • Karachaliou, Marianna; Damianaki, Irene; Moudatsaki, Maria; Margetaki, Katerina; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Bempi, Vicky; Moudatsaki, Marina; Chatzi, Lida Vaia; Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Kogevinas, Manolis (MDPI, 2023)
    Background: In Greece, influenza vaccination is currently recommended for children with high-risk conditions. There are limited data on influenza vaccination uptake among Greek children with and without high-risk conditions. ...
  • Velázquez-Cortés, Daniel; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Jerrett, Michael; Rojas Rueda, David, 1979- (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: To improve physical activity in Latin American cities, several interventions have been promoted, such as Open Streets programmes. Our study aims to quantify the health and economic effects of Open Streets-related ...
  • Mayoral, Karina; Lizano-Barrantes, Catalina; Zamora, Víctor; Pont Acuña, Àngels; Miret, Carme; Barrufet González, Cristina; Caballero-Rabasco, María Araceli; Praena-Crespo, Manuel; Bercedo, Alberto; Valdesoiro-Navarrete, Laura; Guerra, María Teresa; Pardo Cladellas, Yolanda; Martínez Zapata, María José; Garin Boronat, Olatz, 1979-; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; ARCA Group (European Respiratory Society, 2023)
    Background: We aim to assess the impact of montelukast on paediatric patients with asthma/allergic rhinitis, measured using patient-reported outcome measures, compared with other treatments or placebo. Methods: Protocol ...
  • Castano-Vinyals, Gemma; Aragonés, Núria; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz; Martín, Vicente; Llorca, Javier; Moreno, Víctor; Altzibar, Jone Miren; Ardanaz, Eva; Sanjosé Llongueras, Silvia de; Jiménez-Moleón, José Juan; Tardón, Adonina; Alguacil, Juan; Peiró, Rosana; Marcos-Gragera, Rafael; Navarro, Carmen; Pollán, Marina; Kogevinas, Manolis; MCC-Spain Study Group (Elsevier, 2015)
    Introduction. We present the protocol of a large population-based case-control study of 5 common tumors in Spain (MCC-Spain) that evaluates environmental exposures and genetic factors. Methods. Between 2008-2013, 10,183 ...
  • Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Martínez, David; Kogevinas, Manolis; García, Ana María; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Vrijheid, Martine (NOROSH, 2015)
    Objectives. We assessed whether maternal employment during pregnancy – overall and in selected occupational sectors – is associated with birth weight, small for gestational age (SGA), term low birth weight (LBW), length ...
  • Carrión, Sílvia; Torres-Collado, Laura; Castañer, Olga (CSIC, 2016)
    This review highlights the human studies that explore the benefits of the Mediterranean diet and olive oil, based on gene expression analysis. We summarized consistent human transcriptomic studies on cardiovascular risk, ...
  • Cano-Plazas, Sara; Lacueva-Pérez, Laia; Cabrera Torres, Esther; Zabalegui, Adelaida (Universidad de La Sabana - Palabra clave, 2017)
    Objetivo: evaluar la validez y la fiabilidad de la versión española del instrumento Expectativas y conocimiento recibido del paciente hospitalizado (ECPH/CRPH) en pacientes con osteoartritis intervenidos de artroplastia ...
  • Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Hernandez-Ferrer, Carles, 1987-; Sarria-Trujillo, Yaris; Harrison, Graham I.; Nonell Mazelón, Lara; Kang, Wenjing; Friedländer, Marc R.; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; González, Juan Ramón; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Young, Antony R. (Elsevier, 2017)
    The molecular basis of many health outcomes attributed to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that they may originate from transcriptional changes in blood cells. This was determined by ...
  • Osorio Yáñez, Citlalli; Clemente Batalha Pardal, Diana, 1990-; Maitre, Léa; Vives Usano, Marta, 1990-; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Martínez, David; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Urquiza, José M.; Tamayo-Uria, Ibon; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2020)
    Telomere length and mitochondrial DNA content are considered biomarkers of cellular aging, oxidative stress, and inflammation, but there is almost no information on their association with tobacco smoke exposure in fetal ...
  • Alemany, Silvia; Vilor-Tejedor, Natàlia; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar, 1981-; Rivas, Ioar; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Querol, Xavier; Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2017)
    Recent research indicates that airborne copper exposure in scholar children negatively affects brain functioning. These effects are likely to be influenced by the efficiency of copper metabolism, which is partly regulated ...
  • López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Tiemeier, Henning; Wildeboer, Andrea; Muetzel, Ryan L.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; White, Tonya (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    We studied cortical morphology in relation to sports participation and type of sport using a large sample of healthy children (n = 911). Sports participation data was collected through a parent-reported questionnaire. ...

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