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First imported case of tick-borne encephalitis in Spain - was it alimentary?
As described by Kerlik, et al, tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an emerging infectionin Europe and alimentary transmission is increasingly being reported in some European countries[1,2]. However, this is not the case in ...
Immunological function restoration with Lopinavir/ritonavir vs Efavirenz containing regimens in HIV infected patients: a randomized clinical trial
CD4+ count increase has been reported to be different with lopinavir/r (LPV/r) and efavirenz (EFV)-containing regimens. The different effect of these two regimens on other immune function parameters and the relationship ...
Platelet activation in mice and human Helicobacter pylori infection.
Extracts of Helicobacter pylori (HP) have been shown to induce leukocyte adhesion in mesenteric venules, but the effects of HP infection on gastric microvessels are unknown. Inflammatory cell interactions in the gastric ...
Rapid Diagnosis of Staphylococcal Catheter-Related Bacteraemia in Direct Blood Samples by Real-Time PCR
Catheter-related bacteremia (CRB) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients, being staphylococci the main etiologic agents. The objective of this ...
Endoluminal brachytherapy in the treatment of oesophageal cancer. Technique description, case report and review of the literature.
Endoesophageal brachytherapy is a useful technique for the palliative treatment of dysphagia in advanced oesophageal cancer. This technique offers good results on dysphagia control and quality of life.We report the case ...
¿Qué hacen después del grado los Egresados y Egresadas de los Grados de Biotecnología y de Bioquímica de a Universitat de Barcelona?
[spa] Con frecuencia nos han hecho, como profesores, la pregunta “¿qué puedo hacer después de terminar el grado/master/doctorado?”, y como profesores hemos respondido con la mejor voluntad en función de nuestra experiencia. ...
Epicardial cell shape and maturation are regulated by Wt1 via transcriptional control of Bmp4
The epicardium plays a crucial role in embryonic heart development and adult heart repair; however, the molecular events underlying its maturation remain unknown. Wt1, one of the main markers of the embryonic epicardium, ...
Full blood count values as a predictor of poor outcome of pneumonia among HIV-infected patients
Background To evaluate the predictive value of analytical markers of full blood count that can be assessed in the emergency department for HIV infected patients, with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Methods Prospective ...
Hereditary hepatic and systemic amyloidosis caused by a new deletion/insertion mutation in the apolipoprotein AI gene.
We report a Spanish family with autosomal-dominant non-neuropathic hereditary amyloidosis with a unique hepatic presentation and death from liver failure, usually by the sixth decade. The disease is caused by a previously ...
Dermoscopy of Naevus-associated melanomas.
In order to determine dermoscopic parameters, a case-control test set of naevus-associated melanomas vs de novo melanomas paired by Breslow thickness and histopathological subtype was analysed by 2 blinded experienced ...
Skin infection by Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Streptococcus pyogenes: an unusual association
Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a noncapsulated, club-shaped facultative anaerobic Gram-positive bacilli. Opportunistic or cutaneous co-infection caused by this microorganism, especially non-toxigenic strains, has become ...
Biomarkers improve mortality prediction by prognostic scales in community-acquired pneumonia
Background: Prognostic scales provide a useful tool to predict mortality in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). However, the inflammatory response of the host, crucial in resolution and outcome, is not included in the ...
Inflammatory dysregulation of monocytes in pediatric patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
BACKGROUND: Although the exact etiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is unknown, there is growing evidence of a role for immune dysregulation in the pathophysiology of the disease, especially in the innate immune ...
La docencia práctica de cultivos celulares en los grados de Bioquímica y Biotecnología de la Universitat de Barcelona
Las técnicas de cultivo celular son de gran importancia tanto en la investigación científica (bioquímica, biotecnológica, biomédica...) como en numerosas aplicaciones industriales entre las que destacaríamos la producción ...
Negative symptoms and sex differences in first episode schizophrenia: What's their role in the functional outcome? A longitudinal study
Introduction: Negative symptoms (NS) include asociality, avolition, anhedonia, alogia, and blunted affect and are linked to poor prognosis. It has been suggested that they reflect two different factors: diminished expression ...
Calodium hepaticum: Household Clustering Transmission and the Finding of a Source of Human Spurious Infection in a Community of the Amazon Region
Background: Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a worldwide helminth parasite of which several aspects of transmission still remain unclear. In the Amazon region, the mechanism of transmission based on the ...
Genome-wide association analysis implicates dysregulation of immunity genes in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
Several chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) susceptibility loci have been reported; however, much of the heritable risk remains unidentified. Here we perform a meta-analysis of six genome-wide association studies, imputed ...
Cortical thinning over two years after first-episode psychosis depends on age of onset
First-episode psychosis (FEP) patients show structural brain abnormalities at the first episode. Whether the cortical changes that follow a FEP are progressive and whether age at onset modulates these changes remains ...
TP53 aberrations in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: an overview of the clinical implications of improved diagnostics
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is associated with a highly heterogeneous disease course in terms of clinical outcomes and responses to chemoimmunotherapy. This heterogeneity is partly due to genetic aberrations identified ...
A comprehensive assessment of somatic mutation detection in cancer using whole-genome sequencing.
As whole-genome sequencing for cancer genome analysis becomes a clinical tool, a full understanding of the variables affecting sequencing analysis output is required. Here using tumour-normal sample pairs from two different ...
