• Associations between greenspace and gentrification-related sociodemographic and housing cost changes in major metropolitan areas across the United States

  Schinasi, Leah H.; Cole, Helen; Hirsch, Jana A.; Hamra, Ghassan B.; Gullón, Pedro; Bayer, Felicia; Melly, Steven J.; Neckerman, Kathryn M.; Clougherty, Jane E.; Lovasi, Gina S. (MDPI, 2021)

  Neighborhood greenspace may attract new residents and lead to sociodemographic or housing cost changes. We estimated relationships between greenspace and gentrification-related changes in the 43 largest metropolitan ...
• Environmental and individual exposure to secondhand aerosol of electronic cigarettes in confined spaces: Results from the TackSHS Project

  Amalia, Beladenta; Fu, Marcela; Tigova, Olena; Ballbé, Montse; Castellano, Yolanda; Semple, Sean; Clancy, Luke; Vardavas, Constantine; López, Maria José; Cortés, Nuria; Pérez Ortuño, Raúl, 1976-; Pascual, José A.; Fernández, Esteve (Wiley, 2021)

  Secondhand electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) aerosol (SHA) might impair indoor air quality and expose bystanders. This study aims to investigate exposure to SHA in controlled conditions of enclosed settings simulating ...
• Prenatal and postnatal exposure to acetaminophen in relation to autism spectrum and attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms in childhood: Meta-analysis in six European population-based cohorts

  Alemany, Silvia; Avella García, Claudia B., 1982-; García Esteban, Raquel; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Springer, 2021)

  The potential etiological role of early acetaminophen exposure on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is inconclusive. We aimed to study this association in a collaborative ...
• The relationship between residential proximity to outdoor play spaces and children's mental and behavioral health: The importance of neighborhood socio-economic characteristics

  Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Cole, Helen; Bont, Jeroen de; Connolly, James; Baró Porras, Francesc; Díaz, Yesika; Fontán Vela, Mario; Duarte Salles, Talita, 1985-; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985- (Elsevier, 2021)

  Urban outdoor play spaces are reported to improve children's health. However, there is little empirical evidence on the impact of outdoor play spaces on childhood mental and behavioral health. To fill this gap, we investigated ...
• The scaffold protein IQGAP1 links heat-induced stress signals to alternative splicing regulation in gastric cancer cells

  Birladeanu, Andrada Maria; Rogalska, Malgorzata; Potiri, Myrto; Papadaki, Vasiliki; Andreadou, Margarita; Kontoyiannis, Dimitris L.; Lewis, Joe D.; Erpapazoglou, Zoi; Kafasla, Panagiota (Nature Research, 2021)

  In response to oncogenic signals, Alternative Splicing (AS) regulators such as SR and hnRNP proteins show altered expression levels, subnuclear distribution and/or post-translational modification status, but the link between ...
• Dysfunctional brain reward system in child obesity

  Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; Blanco Hinojo, Laura, 1981-; Martínez-Vilavella, Gerard; Deus, Joan; Pérez Solá, Victor; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Eating habits leading to obesity may reflect nonhomeostatic behavior based on excessive immediate-reward seeking. However, it is currently unknown to what extent excess weight is associated with functional alterations in ...
• Emotion annotation of music: a citizen science approach

  Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás; Gómez Cañón, Juan Sebastián; Porcaro, Lorenzo; Santos Rodríguez, Patrícia; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Springer, 2021)

  The understanding of the emotions in music has motivated research across diverse areas of knowledge for decades. In the field of computer science, there is a particular interest in developing algorithms to “predict” the ...
• Using network analysis to characterize participation and interaction in a citizen science online community

  Amarasinghe, Ishari; Manske, Sven; Hoppe, H. Ulrich; Santos Rodríguez, Patrícia; Hernández Leo, Davinia (Springer, 2021)

  Citizen Science (CS) projects provide a space for collaboration among scientists and the general public as a basis for making joint scientific discoveries. Analysis of existing datasets from CS projects can broaden our ...
• High fruit and vegetable consumption and moderate fat intake are associated with higher carotenoid concentration in human plasma

  Marhuenda Muñoz, María; Malcampo, Mireia; Zomeño Fajardo, Maria Dolores; Schröder, Helmut, 1958-; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. (MDPI, 2021)

  Carotenoids are pigments contained mainly in fruit and vegetables (F&V) that have beneficial effects on cardiometabolic health. Due to their lipophilic nature, co-ingestion of fat appears to increase their bioavailability ...
• Hydrotalcite-embedded magnetite nanoparticles for hyperthermia-triggered chemotherapy

  Simeonidis, Konstantinos; Kaprara, Efthimia; Rivera Gil, Pilar, 1976-; Xu, Ruixue; Teran, Francisco J.; Kokkinos, Evgenios; Mitropoulos, Athanassios; Maniotis, Nikolaos; Balcells, Lluis (MDPI, 2021)

  A magnetic nanocomposite, consisting of Fe3O4 nanoparticles embedded into a Mg/Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) matrix, was developed for cancer multimodal therapy, based on the combination of local magnetic hyperthermia ...
• Parkinson's disease patient-specific neuronal networks carrying the LRRK2 G2019S mutation unveil early functional alterations that predate neurodegeneration

  Carola, Giulia; Malagarriga, Daniel; Calatayud, Carles; Pons Espinal, Meritxell, 1986-; Blasco Agell, Lucas; Richaud Patin, Yvonne; Fernández Carasa, Irene; Baruffi, Valentina; Beltramone, Santiago; Molina, Emilio; Dell'Era, Patrizia; Toledo Aral, Juan J.; Tolosa, Eduard; Muotri, Alysson R.; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Soriano Fradera, Jordi; Raya Chamorro, Ángel; Consiglio, Antonella (Nature Research, 2021)

  A deeper understanding of early disease mechanisms occurring in Parkinson's disease (PD) is needed to reveal restorative targets. Here we report that human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived dopaminergic neurons ...
• Bioactivity descriptors for uncharacterized chemical compounds

  Bertoni, Martino; Duran-Frigola, Miquel, 1985-; Badia-I-Mompel, Pau; Pauls, Eduardo; Orozco Ruiz, Modesto; Guitart Pla, Oriol; Alcalde, Víctor; Diaz, Víctor M.; Berenguer-Llergo, Antonio; Brun-Heath, Isabelle; Villegas, Núria; García de Herreros, Antonio; Aloy, Patrick, 1972- (Nature Research, 2021)

  Chemical descriptors encode the physicochemical and structural properties of small molecules, and they are at the core of chemoinformatics. The broad release of bioactivity data has prompted enriched representations of ...
• Peptide-based vaccines: foot-and-mouth disease virus, a paradigm in animal health

  Forner, Mar; Cañas Arranz, Rodrigo; Defaus, Sira; de León, Patricia; Rodríguez Pulido, Miguel; Ganges, Lliliane; Blanco, Esther; Sobrino, Francisco; Andreu Martínez, David (MDPI, 2021)

  Vaccines are considered one of the greatest global health achievements, improving the welfare of society by saving lives and substantially reducing the burden of infectious diseases. However, few vaccines are fully effective, ...
• Epigenomic profiling of primate lymphoblastoid cell lines reveals the evolutionary patterns of epigenetic activities in gene regulatory architectures

  García Pérez, Raquel, 1989-; Esteller-Cucala, Paula; Mas, Glòria; Lobón, Irene; Di Carlo, Valerio; Riera, Meritxell; Kuhlwilm, Martin; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Blancher, Antoine; Di Croce, Luciano; Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis; Juan, David; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975- (Nature Research, 2021)

  Changes in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression have a central role in evolution. Here, we extensively profiled a panel of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and macaque lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs), using ...
• A genomic exploration of the early evolution of extant cats and their sabre-toothed relatives

  Westbury, Michael V.; Barnett, Ross; Sandoval Velasco, Marcela; Gower, Graham; Garrett Vieira, Filipe; Manuel Montero, Marc de, 1991-; Hansen, Anders J.; Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki; Werdelin, Lars; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Gilbert, M Thomas; Lorenzen, Eline D. (UNLISTED PUBLISHER, 2021)

  Background: The evolutionary relationships of Felidae during their Early–Middle Miocene radiation is contentious. Although the early common ancestors have been subsumed under the grade-group Pseudaelurus, this group is ...
• Promoting citizen science in the energy sector: Generation Solar, an open database of small-scale solar photovoltaic installations

  Cañizo, Carlos del; Cristóbal, Ana Belén; Barbosa, Luisa; Revuelta, Gema; Haas, Sabine; Victoria, Marta; Brocklehurst, Martin (Open Research Europe, 2021)

  Citizen science is becoming an effective approach in building a new relationship between science and society, in which the desire of citizens to participate actively in knowledge production meets the needs of researchers. ...
• Quality standards in proteomics research facilities: Common standards and quality procedures are essential for proteomics facilities and their users

  Chiva, Cristina; Mendes Maja, Teresa; Panse, Christian; Stejskal, Karel; Douché, Thibaut; Matondo, Mariette; Loew, Darmarys; Helm, Dominic; Rettel, Mandy; Mechtler, Karl; Impens, Francis; Nanni, Paolo; Shevchenko, Anna; Sabidó Aguadé, Eduard, 1981- (EMBO Press, 2021)

  Proteomics research infrastructures and core facilities within the Core for Life alliance advocate for community policies for quality control to ensure high standards in proteomics services.
• Urinary metabolite quantitative trait loci in children and their interaction with dietary factors

  Calvo Serra, Beatriz; Maitre, Léa; Lau, Chung-Ho E.; Siskos, Alexandros P.; Gützkow, Kristine B.; Andrušaitytė, Sandra; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Cadiou, Solène; Chatzi, Leda; González, Juan Ramón; Grazuleviciene, Regina; McEachan, Rosemary R.C.; Slama, Rémy; Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Wright, John; Coen, Muireann; Vrijheid, Martine; Keun, Hector C.; Escaramís, Geòrgia; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Human metabolism is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Previous studies have identified over 23 loci associated with more than 26 urine metabolites levels in adults, which are known as urinary metabolite ...
• The early-life exposome and epigenetic age acceleration in children

  Prado Bert, Paula de; Ruiz Arenas, Carlos, 1990-; Vives Usano, Marta, 1990-; Dadvand, Payam; González, Juan Ramón; Maitre, Léa; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Pelegrí, Dolors; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona (Elsevier, 2021)

  The early-life exposome influences future health and accelerated biological aging has been proposed as one of the underlying biological mechanisms. We investigated the association between more than 100 exposures assessed ...
• Maternal ferritin levels during pregnancy and ADHD symptoms in 4-year-old children: results from the INMA-INfancia y Medio Ambiente (environment and childhood) prospective birth cohort study

  Santa Marina, Loreto; Lertxundi, Nerea; Andiarena, Ainara; Irizar, Amaia; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Molinuevo, Amaia; Llop, Sabrina; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Beneito, Andrea; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Imaz, Liher; Ferrin, Maite (MDPI, 2020)

  Ferritin status during prenatal brain development may influence the risk of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in childhood. We investigated the association of maternal ferritin in pregnancy and ...

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