• Bladder cancer and reproductive factors among women in Spain

  Huang, An-Tsun; Kogevinas, Manolis; Silverman, Debra T.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Rothman, Nathaniel; Tardón, Adonina; Serra, Consol; García Closas, Reina; Carrato, Alfredo; Cantor, Kenneth P (Springer, 2009)

  Hormonal factors, possibly related to reproductive characteristics, may play a role in the risk of bladder cancer among women. To study this, we investigated the effects of reproductive factors on female bladder cancer ...
• Association of perceived stigma and mood and anxiety disorders: results from the World Mental Health Surveys

  Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Buron Pust, Andrea; The World Mental Health Consortium (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

  Objective: We assessed the prevalence of perceived stigma among persons with mental disorders and chronic physical conditions in an international study. Method: Perceived stigma (reporting health‐related embarrassment and ...
• Formación en comunicación en los estudios de grado: análisis en las áreas de ciencias de la salud y la vida, ciencias ambientales y ciencias naturales

  Revuelta, Gemma (2018)
• Estimation of cell proliferation dynamics using CFSE data

  Banks, H.T.; Sutton, Karyn L.; Thompson, W. Clayton; Bocharov, Gennady A.; Roose, Dirk; Schenkel, Tim; Meyerhans, Andreas (Springer, 2011)

  Advances in fluorescent labeling of cells as measured by flow cytometry have allowed for quantitative studies of proliferating populations of cells. The investigations (Luzyanina et al. in J. Math. Biol. 54:57-89, 2007; ...
• Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

  The ENCODE Project Consortium (Nature Research, 2007)

  We report the generation and analysis of functional data from multiple, diverse experiments performed on a targeted 1% of the human genome as part of the pilot phase of the ENCODE Project. These data have been further ...
• NAT2 slow acetylation, GSTM1 null genotype, and risk of bladder cancer: results from the Spanish Bladder Cancer Study and meta-analyses

  García Closas, Montserrat; Malats i Riera, Núria; Kogevinas, Manolis; Serra, Consol; Lloreta Trull, Josep, 1958-; Real, Francisco X.; Rothman, Nathaniel (Elsevier, 2005)

  Background: Many reported associations between common genetic polymorphisms and complex diseases have not been confirmed in subsequent studies. An exception could be the association between NAT2 slow acetylation, GSTM1 ...
• Sequence inversion and phenylalanine surrogates at the beta-turn enhance the antibiotic activity of gramicidin S

  Solanas, Concepción; Torre, Beatriz G. de la; Fernández Reyes, María; Santiveri, Clara M.; Jiménez, M. Ángeles; Rivas, Luis; Jiménez, Ana I.; Andreu Martínez, David; Cativiela, Carlos (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2010)

  A series of gramicidin S (GS) analogues have been synthesized where the Phe (i + 1) and Pro (i + 2) residues of the beta-turn have been swapped while the respective chiralities (D-, L-) at each position are preserved, and ...
• La investigación responsable en los estudios de audiencia y recepción

  Figueras Maz, Mònica; Gómez Puertas, Lorena, 1978-; Revuelta, Gemma (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 2019)

  La investigación responsable incluye, más allá de la ética en el contenido y el proceso, la implicación de múltiples actores y público, un acceso más fácil a los resultados científicos, la perspectiva de género, y la ...
• Impact of the Spanish smoking legislation among smokers: a longitudinal study with biomarkers in Barcelona (Spain)

  Lidón-Moyano, Cristina; Fu, Marcela; Pérez-Ortuño, Raúl; Ballbé, Montse; Feliu, Ariadna; Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Pascual Esteban, José A.; Fernández, Esteve; Martínez-Sánchez, Jose M. (Elsevier, 2018)

  BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the Spanish tobacco control legislation on smoking behavior and salivary cotinine concentration among smokers. METHODS: We used data from a longitudinal study, ...
• Stress response, behavior, and development are shaped by transposable element-induced mutations in Drosophila

  Rech, Gabriel E.; Bogaerts Márquez, María; Barrón, Maite G.; Merenciano, Miriam; Villanueva Cañas, José Luis, 1984-; Horváth, Vivien; Fiston Lavier, Anna Sophie; Luyten, Isabelle; Venkataram, Sandeep; Quesneville, Hadi; Petrov, Dmitri A.; González, Josefa (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)

  Most of the current knowledge on the genetic basis of adaptive evolution is based on the analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Despite increasing evidence for their causal role, the contribution of structural ...
• Skeletal anomalies in the neandertal family of El Sidrón (Spain) support a role of inbreeding in neandertal extinction.

  Ríos, Luis; Kivell, Tracy L.; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Estalrrich, Almudena; García-Tabernero, Antonio; Huguet, Rosa; Quintino, Yuliet; Rosas, Antonio (Nature Research, 2019)

  Neandertals disappeared from the fossil record around 40,000 bp, after a demographic history of small and isolated groups with high but variable levels of inbreeding, and episodes of interbreeding with other Paleolithic ...
• The longitudinal association between natural outdoor environments and mortality in 9218 older men from Perth, Western Australia

  Zijlema, Wilma; Stasinska, Ania; Blake, David; Dirgawati, Mila; Flicker, Leon; Yeap, Bu B.; Golledge, Jonathan; Hankey, Graeme J.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Heyworth, Jane (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background/Aim: Natural outdoor environments may mitigate harmful environmental factors associated with city living. We studied the longitudinal relationship between natural (‘green and blue’) outdoor environments and ...
• Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

  Voerman, Ellis; Vrijheid, Martine; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)

  Background: Maternal obesity and excessive gestational weight gain may have persistent effects on offspring fat development. However, it remains unclear whether these effects differ by severity of obesity, and whether these ...
• Early-life exposome and lung function in children in Europe: an analysis of data from the longitudinal, population-based HELIX cohort

  Agier, Lydiane; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Maitre, Léa; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; de Castro, Montserrat; Donaire González, David; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Robinson, Oliver; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Tamayo-Uria, Ibon; Urquiza, José M.; Valentín, Antònia; Vrijheid, Martine; Siroux, Valérie (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Several single-exposure studies have documented possible effects of environmental factors on lung function, but none has relied on an exposome approach. We aimed to evaluate the association between a broad range ...
• People from Ibiza: an unexpected isolate in the Western Mediterranean

  Biagini, Simone Andrea; Solé Morata, Neus, 1988-; Matisso-Smith, Elizabeth; Zalloua, Pierre A.; Comas, David, 1969-; Calafell i Majó, Francesc (Springer, 2019)

  In this study, we seek to understand and to correlate the genetic patterns observed in the population of the island of Ibiza in the Western Mediterranean basin with past events. Genome-wide genotypes of 189 samples ...
• Oral fluid testing: promises and pitfalls

  Huestis, Marylin A.; Verstraete, Alain; Kwong, Tai C.; Morland, Jorg; Vincent, Michael J.; Torre Fornell, Rafael de la (American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2011)

  Oral fluid is a promising new matrix for drug-testing programs for drug treatment, the workplace, pain management, and driving under the influence of drugs (DUID)7. As with any new technology, there are strengths and ...
• High and low suicidality in Europe: a fine-grained comparison of France and Spain within the ESEMeD surveys

  Kovess, Viviane; Boyd, Anders; Haro Abad, Josep Maria; Bruffaerts, Ronny; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Lépine, Jean-Pierre; Gasquet, Isabelle; Alonso Caballero, Jordi (Elsevier, 2011)

  BACKGROUND: Suicidality risk-factors between countries with similar economic and religious background have been rarely compared, especially within genders. METHODS: Lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation, plans, and ...
• Comorbidity and disease burden in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)

  Gadermann, Anne M.; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald C. (Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2012)

  BACKGROUND: Disease burden estimates rarely consider comorbidity. Using a recently developed methodology for integrating information about comorbidity into disease burden estimates, we examined the comparative burdens of ...
• A SNAIL1-SMAD3/4 transcriptional repressor complex promotes TGF-beta mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition

  Vincent, Theresa; Neve, Etienne P.A.; Johnson, Jill R.; Kukalev, Alexander; Rojo, Federico; Albanell Mestres, Joan; Pietras, Kristian; Virtanen, Ismo; Philipson, Lennart; Leopold, Philip L.; Crystal, Ronald G.; García de Herreros, Antonio; Moustakas, Aristidis; Petterson, Ralf F.; Fuxe, Jonas (Nature Research, 2009)

  Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is essential for organogenesis and is triggered during carcinoma progression to an invasive state. Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) cooperates with signalling pathways, ...
• Neurobiological mechanisms involved in nicotine dependence and reward: participation of the endogenous opioid system

  Berrendero Díaz, Fernando, 1971-; Robledo, Patricia, 1958-; Trigo i Rodríguez, Josep M.; Martín García, Elena, 1975-; Maldonado, Rafael, 1961- (Elsevier, 2010)

  Nicotine is the primary component of tobacco that maintains the smoking habit and develops addiction. The adaptive changes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors produced by repeated exposure to nicotine play a crucial role ...

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