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  • Soto Araya, Milena; Baños i Díez, Josep Eladi; Moyano Claramunt, Elisabet; Pérez, Jorge (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2023)
    Se ha argumentado que la presencia de materias humanísticas permite una formación integral de los alumnos, lo que fomentaría en última instancia una mejor relación con los futuros pacientes y, por tanto, contribuiría a ...
  • Pujades Corbi, Cristina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023)
    Open Science focuses on spreading knowledge generated by scientific research as soon as it is available using digital and collaborative technology. The aim is to make science more accessible, inclusive, and equitable for ...
  • Carrera-Aubesart, Adam; Gallo, María, 1989-; Defaus, Sira; Todorovski, Toni; Andreu Martínez, David (MDPI, 2023)
    In recent decades, bioactive peptides have been gaining recognition in various biomedical areas, such as intracellular drug delivery (cell-penetrating peptides, CPPs) or anti-infective action (antimicrobial peptides, AMPs), ...
  • 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 ...
  • Torregrosa-Cortés, Gabriel; Oriola, David; Trivedi, Vikas; García Ojalvo, Jordi (Elsevier, 2023)
    Individual cells exhibit substantial heterogeneity in protein abundance and activity, which is frequently reflected in broad distributions of fluorescently labeled reporters. Since all cellular components are intrinsically ...
  • Garrido Martín, Diego, 1992-; Calvo, Miquel (Calvo Llorca); Reverter, Ferran; Guigó Serra, Roderic (BioMed Central, 2023)
    The increasing availability of multidimensional phenotypic data in large cohorts of genotyped individuals requires efficient methods to identify genetic effects on multiple traits. Permutational multivariate analysis of ...
  • Morales, Juan I.; Cebrià, Artur; Soto, María; Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Antonio; Hernando, Raquel; Moreno-Ribas, Elena; Lombao, Diego; Rabuñal, José R.; Martín-Perea, David M.; García-Tabernero, Antonio; Allué, Ethel; García Basanta, Andrea; Lizano González, Esther, 1974-; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Talamo, Sahra; Tassoni, Laura; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Fullola, Josep M.; Rosas, Antonio (Frontiers, 2023)
    This study presents an exceptional collection of 54 Late Pleistocene human remains that correspond to at least three Neanderthal individuals from Simanya Gran, the main gallery of Cova Simanya, located in the northeastern ...
  • Santoyo-Garcia, Jorge H.; Valdivia-Cabrera, Marissa; Ochoa-Villarreal, Marisol; Casasola-Zamora, Samuel; Ripoll, Magdalena; Escrich Montañana, Ainoa; Moyano Claramunt, Elisabet; Betancor, Lorena; Halliday, Karen J.; Loake, Gary J.; Rios-Solis, Leonardo (Springer, 2023)
    In this study, several approaches were tested to optimise the production and recovery of the widely used anticancer drug Taxol® (paclitaxel) from culturable vascular stem cells (VSCs) of Taxus baccata, which is currently ...
  • Rodríguez-Gómez, Francisco D.; Penon, Oriol; Monferrer, Dominique; Rivera Gil, Pilar, 1976- (Frontiers, 2023)
    The lack of specific regulatory guidelines for nanotechnology-enabled health products (NHPs) is hampering development and patient access to these innovative technologies. Namely, there is an urgent need for harmonized ...
  • Maury, Eduardo A.; Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network; Walsh, Christopher A. (Elsevier, 2023)
    While germline copy-number variants (CNVs) contribute to schizophrenia (SCZ) risk, the contribution of somatic CNVs (sCNVs)-present in some but not all cells-remains unknown. We identified sCNVs using blood-derived genotype ...
  • Coto-Segura, Pablo; Segú-Vergés, Cristina; Martorell, Antonio; Moreno-Ramírez, David; Jorba Argemí, Guillem; Junet, Valentin; Guerri, Filippo; Daura, Xavier; Oliva Miguel, Baldomero; Cara, Carlos; Suárez-Magdalena, Olaya; Abraham, Sonya; Mas, José Manuel (Frontiers, 2023)
    Background: Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory systemic disease with skin manifestations characterized by erythematous, scaly, itchy and/or painful plaques resulting from hyperproliferation of keratinocytes. ...
  • 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. ...
  • Daalen, Kim van; Tonne, Cathryn; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Nilsson, Maria; Lowe, Rachel (Elsevier, 2023)
  • Khomenko, Sasha; Pisoni, Enrico; Thunis, Philippe; Bessagnet, Bertrand; Cirach, Marta; Iungman, Tamara; Pereira Barboza, Evelise; Khreis, Haneen; Mueller, Natalie, 1988-; Tonne, Cathryn; Hoogh, Kees de; Hoek, Gerard; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Lelieveld, Jos; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: Ambient air pollution is a major risk to health and wellbeing in European cities. We aimed to estimate spatial and sector-specific contributions of emissions to ambient air pollution and evaluate the effects ...
  • 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 ...
  • Cavero, Santiago; Herruzo, Esther; Ontoso, David; San-Segundo, Pedro A. (Shared Science Publishers OG, 2016)
    In meiotic cells, the pachytene checkpoint or meiotic recombination checkpoint is a surveillance mechanism that monitors critical processes, such as recombination and chromosome synapsis, which are essential for proper ...
  • Cavazza, Tommaso, 1985-; Vernos, Isabelle, 1959- (Frontiers, 2016)
    The small GTPase Ran regulates the interaction of transport receptors with a number of cellular cargo proteins. The high affinity binding of the GTP-bound form of Ran to import receptors promotes cargo release, whereas its ...

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