• Assessment of the role of Wolbachia in mtDNA paraphyly and the evolution of unisexuality in Calligrapha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

  Gómez Zurita, Jesús (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)

  Calligrapha is a New World leaf beetle genus that includes several unisexual species in northeastern North America. Each unisexual species had an independent hybrid origin involving different combinations of bisexual ...
• Upregulation of E93 gene expression acts as the trigger for metamorphosis independently of the threshold size in the beetle tribolium castaneum

  Chafino Aixa, Silvia, 1991-; Ureña, Enric; Casanova, Jordi; Casacuberta Suñer, Elena, 1972-; Franch i Marro, Xavier; Martín, David (Elsevier, 2019)

  Body size in holometabolous insects is determined by the size at which the juvenile larva undergoes metamorphosis to the pupal stage. To undergo larva-pupa transition, larva must reach a critical developmental checkpoint, ...
• Socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality in Barcelona during the economic crisis (2006–2016): a time trend study

  López Contreras, Natalia; Rodríguez Sanz, Maica, 1974-; Novoa Pardo, Ana María; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Medallo Muñiz, Jordi; Gotsens Miquel, Mercè, 1983- (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)

  Objectives: This study aimed to analyse trends in socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality in Barcelona before and after the start of the economic crisis that started at the end of 2008, including both individual ...
• Cohort profile: the MCC-Spain follow-up on colorectal, breast and prostate cancers: study design and initial results

  Alonso-Molero, Jéssica; Molina, Antonio J.; Jiménez-Moleón, José Juan; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz; Martín, Vicente; Moreno, Víctor; Amiano, Pilar; Ardanaz Aicua, Eva; Sanjosé Llongueras, Silvia de; Salcedo-Bellido, Inmaculada; Fernández-Tardón, Guillermo; Alguacil, Juan; Salas, Dolores; Marcos-Gragera, Rafael; Chirlaque, María Dolores; Aragonés, Núria; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Pollan, Marina; Kogevinas, Manolis; Llorca, Javier (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)

  Purpose: Since 2016, the multicase-control study in Spain (MCC-Spain) has focused towards the identification of factors associated with cancer prognosis. Inception cohorts of patients with colorectal, breast and prostate ...
• Rationale and population-based prospective cohort protocol for the disadvantaged populations at risk of decline in eGFR (CO-DEGREE)

  González Quiroz, Marvin; Nitsch, Dorothea; Hamilton, Sophie; O'Callaghan Gordo, Cristina; Saran, Rajiv; Glaser, Jason; Correa Rotter, Ricardo; Jakobsson, Kristina; Singh, Ajay; Gunawardena, Nalika; Levin, Adeera; Remuzzi, Giuseppe; Caplin, Ben; Pearce, Neil E.; DEGREE Study Steering Committee (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)

  Introduction: A recently recognised form of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown origin (CKDu) is afflicting communities, mostly in rural areas in several regions of the world. Prevalence studies are being conducted in ...
• Prevalence of and risk factors for chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology in India: secondary data analysis of three population-based cross-sectional studies

  O'Callaghan Gordo, Cristina; Shivashankar, Roopa; Anand, Schuchi; Ghosh, Shreeparna; Glaser, Jason; Gupta, Ruby; Jakobsson, Kristina; Kondal, Dimple; Krishnan, Anand; Mohan, Sailesh; Mohan, Viswanathan; Nitsch, Dorothea; Praveen, P. A.; Tandon, Nikhil; Narayan, K. M. Venkat; Pearce, Neil E.; Caplin, Ben; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)

  Objectives: To assess whether chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) is present in India and to identify risk factors for it using population-based data and standardised methods. Design: Secondary data analysis ...
• Factors associated with readmissions in women participating in screening programs and treated for breast cancer: a retrospective cohort study

  Miret, Carme; Domingo, Laia; Louro, Javier; Barata, Teresa; Baré, Marisa; Ferrer, Joana; Carmona-Garcia, Maria Carmen; Castells, Xavier; Sala, Maria (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: We aimed to identify the risk factors associated with early, late and long-term readmissions in women diagnosed with breast cancer participating in screening programs. Methods: We performed a multicenter cohort ...
• Genome-wide data from the Bubi of Bioko Island clarifies the Atlantic fringe of the Bantu dispersal

  Gelabert Xirinachs, Pere, 1991-; Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel; de Dios, Toni; Mattorre, Benedetta; Campoy, Elena; Gorostiza, Amaya; Patin, Etienne; González Martín, Antonio; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: Bioko is one of the few islands that exist around Africa, the most genetically diverse continent on the planet. The native Bantu-speaking inhabitants of Bioko, the Bubi, are believed to have colonized the island ...
• Prevalence of abnormal Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in patients with subjective cognitive decline: cross-sectional comparison of three European memory clinic samples

  Wolfsgruber, Steffen; Molinuevo, José Luis; Euro-SCD working group (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Introduction: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) in cognitively unimpaired older individuals has been recognized as an early clinical at-risk state for Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and as a target population for future ...
• Tumour characteristics and survivorship in a cohort of breast cancer: the MCC-Spain study

  Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Domingo, Laia; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kogevinas, Manolis; Llorca, Javier (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  Purpose: The objective of this study is to analyse the relative survival with breast cancer in women diagnosed after new treatments were generalised and to ascertain the current effect that tumour characteristics such as ...
• Earliest amyloid and tau deposition modulate the influence of limbic networks during closed-loop hippocampal downregulation

  Skouras, Stavros; Torner, Jordi; Andersson, Patrik; Koush, Yury; Falcon, Carles; Minguillón, Carolina; Fauria, Karine; Alpiste, Francesc; Blenow, Kaj; Zetterberg, Henrik; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; Molinuevo, José Luis; ALFA Study (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Research into hippocampal self-regulation abilities may help determine the clinical significance of hippocampal hyperactivity throughout the pathophysiological continuum of Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we aimed to ...
• Spatial patterns of white matter hyperintensities associated with Alzheimer’s disease risk factors in a cognitively healthy middle-aged cohort

  Salvadó, Gemma; Brugulat Serrat, Anna, 1986-; Sudre, Carole H.; Grau-Rivera, Oriol; Suárez-Calvet, Marc; Falcón, Carles; Fauria, Karine; Cardoso, M. Jorge; Barkhof, Frederik; Molinuevo, José Luis; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; ALFA Study (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: White matter hyperintensities (WMH) of presumed vascular origin have been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study aims to describe the patterns of WMH associated with dementia ...
• Prediction of amyloid pathology in cognitively unimpaired individuals using voxel-wise analysis of longitudinal structural brain MRI

  Petrone, Paula M.; Casamitjana, Adrià; Falcón, Carles; Artigues, Miquel; Operto, Grégory; Cacciaglia, Raffaele; Molinuevo, José Luis; Vilaplana, Verónica; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has unveiled specific alterations at different stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiologic continuum constituting what has been established as "AD signature". To what ...
• Centiloid cut-off values for optimal agreement between PET and CSF core AD biomarkers

  Salvadó, Gemma; Molinuevo, José Luis; Brugulat Serrat, Anna, 1986-; Falcón, Carles; Grau-Rivera, Oriol; Suárez-Calvet, Marc; Pavía Segura, Javier; Niñerola-Baizán, Aida; Perissinotti, Andrés; Lomeña, Francisco; Minguillón, Carolina; Fauria, Karine; Zetterberg, Henrik; Blennow, Kaj; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: The Centiloid scale has been developed to standardize measurements of amyloid PET imaging. Reference cut-off values of this continuous measurement enable the consistent operationalization of decision-making for ...
• Changes in Individual and Contextual Socio-Economic Level Influence on Reproductive Behavior in Spanish Women in the MCC-Spain Study

  Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Sala Serra, Maria; Kogevinas, Manolis; Llorca, Javier (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: The association between socioeconomic level and reproductive factors has been widely studied. For example, it is well known that women with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have more children, the age ...
• Benchmarking single-cell RNA sequencing protocols for cell atlas projects

  Mereu, Elisabetta; Lafzi, Atefeh; Moutinho, Catia; Gut, Marta; Gut, Ivo Glynne; Heyn, Holger (Nature Research, 2020)

  Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is the leading technique for characterizing the transcriptomes of individual cells in a sample. The latest protocols are scalable to thousands of cells and are being used to compile ...
• The senotherapeutic drug ABT-737 disrupts aberrant p21 expression to restore liver regeneration in adult mice

  Ritschka, Birgit,1985-; Knauer-Meyer, Tania; Sampaio Gonçalves, Daniel; Mas, Alba; Plassat, Jean-Luc; Durik, Matej; Jacobs, Hugues; Pedone, Elisa, 1985-; Di Vicino, Umberto; Cosma, Maria Pia, 1970-; Keyes, William M., 1973- (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2020)

  Young mammals possess a limited regenerative capacity in some tissues, which is lost upon maturation. We investigated whether cellular senescence might play a role in such loss during liver regeneration. We found that ...
• The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: expanding computational biology capacity worldwide

  Anupama, Jigisha; Francescatto, Margherita; Rahman, Farzana; Fatima, Nazeefa; DeBlasio, Dan; Shanmugam, Avinash Kumar; Satagopam, Venkata; Santos, Alberto; Kolekar, Pandurang; Michaut, Magali; Guney, Emre (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  Education and training are two essential ingredients for a successful career. On one hand, universities provide students a curriculum for specializing in one's field of study, and on the other, internships complement ...
• Identifying human diamine sensors for death related putrescine and cadaverine molecules

  Izquierdo, Cristina; Gómez-Tamayo, José C.; Nebel, Jean-Christophe; Pardo Carrasco, Leonardo; Gonzalez, Angel (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  Pungent chemical compounds originating from decaying tissue are strong drivers of animal behavior. Two of the best-characterized death smell components are putrescine (PUT) and cadaverine (CAD), foul-smelling molecules ...
• Fungal evolution: cellular, genomic and metabolic complexity

  Naranjo Ortiz, Miguel Ángel, 1989-; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Wiley, 2020)

  The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter-related and how they are shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been approached from the perspective of animals and ...

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