Biomedicina: Recent submissions
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Novel Regulation of the Synthesis of α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid (AMPA) Receptor Subunit GluA1 by Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase 1C (CPT1C) in the Hippocampus
The regulation of AMPA-type receptor (AMPAR) abundance in the postsynaptic membrane is an important mechanism involved in learning and memory formation. Recent data suggest that one of the constituents of the AMPAR complex ...
Inhibition of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Erk1/2 Promotes Protein Degradation of ATP Binding Cassette Transporters A1 and G1 in CHO and in HuH7 cells.
Signal transduction modulates expression and activity of cholesterol transporters. We recently demonstrated that the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade regulates protein stability of Scavenger ...
Hacia una nueva forma de evaluación en educación médica: la evaluación programática
Hace ahora seis años, desde estas mismas páginas, en un editorial sobre el proceso de Bolonia [1], el profesor Albert Oriol afirmaba que la evaluación de las competencias constituía un gran reto para las universidades ...
CAR-T cells targeting CCR9 and CD1a for the treatment of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive malignancy characterized by high rates of induction failure and relapse, and effective targeted immunotherapies are lacking. Despite promising clinical progress ...
Loss of brainstem white matter predicts onset and motor neuron symptoms in C9orf72 expansion carriers: a GENFI study.
Background and objectives: The C9orf72 expansion is the most common genetic cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and/or motor neuron disease (MND). Corticospinal degeneration has been described in post-mortem neuropathological ...
Untargeted lipidomics uncovers lipid signatures distinguishing severe versus moderate forms of acutely decompensated cirrhosis.
Background & aims: Acute decompensation (AD) of cirrhosis is a heterogeneous clinical entity associated with moderate mortality. In some patients, this condition develops quickly into the more deadly acute-on-chronic liver ...
Pyk2 modulates hippocampal excitatory synapses and contributes to cognitive deficits in a Huntington's disease model.
The structure and function of spines and excitatory synapses are under the dynamic control of multiple signalling networks. Although tyrosine phosphorylation is involved, its regulation and importance are not well understood. ...
The Combined Treatment of Curcumin with Verapamil Ameliorates the Cardiovascular Pathology in a Williams-Beuren Syndrome Mouse Model
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare disorder caused by a recurrent microdeletion with hallmarks of cardiovascular manifestations, mainly supra-valvular aortic stenosis (SVAS). Unfortunately, there is currently no ...
Gut IgA functionally interacts with systemic IgG to enhance antipneumococcal vaccine responses
The gut microbiota enhances systemic immunoglobulin G (IgG) responses to vaccines, but it is unknown whether this effect involves IgA, which coats intestinal microbes. That IgA may amplify postimmune IgG production is ...
Efficacy of Albumin Treatment for Patients with Cirrhosis and Infections Unrelated to Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
Background & aims: We performed a randomized trial to determine whether albumin should be administered to patients with infections unrelated to spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). Methods: We performed a multicenter, ...
Reversal of a full-length mutant huntingtin neuronal cell phenotype by chemical inhibitors of polyglutamine-mediated aggregation
Background: Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder triggered by an expanded polyglutamine tract in huntingtin that is thought to confer a new conformational property on this large protein. The ...
Sex-dependent role of CD300f immune receptor in generalized anxiety disorder.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) presents a high prevalence in the population, leading to distress and disability. Immune system alterations have been associated with anxiety-related behaviors in rodents and GAD patients. ...
The power and the promise of cell reprogramming: Personalized autologous body organ and cell transplantation
Reprogramming somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) or direct reprogramming to desired cell types are powerful and new in vitro methods for the study of human disease, cell replacement therapy, and drug ...
Acid ceramidase improves mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in Niemann-Pick type C disease by repressing STARD1 expression and mitochondrial cholesterol accumulation.
Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease, a lysosomal storage disorder caused by defective NPC1/NPC2 function, results in the accumulation of cholesterol and glycosphingolipids in lysosomes of affected organs, such as liver and ...
Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy: making sense of the total score through a second order confirmatory factor analysis
Background: Empathy is a key aspect of the physician-patient interactions. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) is one of the most used empathy measures of medical students. The development of cross-cultural empathy studies ...
Extracellular Vesicles as Mediators of Endothelial Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Diseases
This comprehensive review aims to provide a thorough overview of the vital role that extracellular vesicles (EVs) play in endothelial dysfunction, particularly emphasizing how physiological factors-such as sex and aging-along ...
Sipa1l1 is an early biomarker of liver fibrosis in CCl4-treated rats
At present, several procedures are used for staging liver fibrosis. However, these methods may involve clinical complications and/or present diagnostic uncertainty mainly in the early stages of the disease. Thus, this study ...
Molecular mechanisms contributing to TARP regulation of channel conductance and polyamine block of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors.
Many properties of fast synaptic transmission in the brain are influenced by transmembrane AMPAR regulatory proteins (TARPs) that modulate the pharmacology and gating of AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs). Although ...
Novel role of 3'UTR-embedded Alu elements as facilitators of processed pseudogene genesis and host gene capture by viral genomes
Since the discovery of the high abundance of Alu elements in the human genome, the interest for the functional significance of these retrotransposons has been increasing. Primate Alu and rodent Alu-like elements are ...
The Role of Testosterone in Spermatogenesis: lessons from proteome profiling of human spermatozoa in testosterone deficiency
Testosterone is essential to maintain qualitative spermatogenesis. Nonetheless, no studies have been yet performed in humans to analyze the testosterone-mediated expression of sperm proteins and their importance in ...
