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Metabolic Singularities in Microsatellite-Stable Colorectal Cancer: Identifying Key Players in Immunosuppression to Improve the Immunotherapy Response. 

Gorría, Teresa; Sierra-Boada, Marina; Rojas, Mariam; Figueras, Carolina; Marín Martínez, Silvia; Madurga Díez, Sergio; Cascante i Serratosa, Marta; Maurel Santasusana, Joan (Publication date: 2026-03-03)

Although immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy is currently the standard of care in microsatellite-unstable (MSI) metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), ICI therapy, alone or in combination with other therapies, is not a ...

Polo-like kinase 1 inhibitors in refractory colorectal cancer: deciphering the myth of synthetic lethality 

Rojas, Mariam; Gonzalez, Laura; Cascante i Serratosa, Marta; Maurel Santasusana, Joan (Publication date: 2026-02-02)

Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) remains a highly lethal disease because resistance to chemotherapy and targeted agents—including anti-VEGF and anti-EGFR therapies—emerges rapidly and universally. In RAS‑mutant mCRC, ...

Metabolic plasticity drives specific mechanisms of chemotherapy and targeted therapy resistance in metastatic colorectal cancer 

Rojas, Mariam; Manzi, Malena; Madurga Díez, Sergio; García Velásquez, Fernando Enrique; Romero, Maira Alejandra; Marín Martínez, Silvia; Cascante i Serratosa, Marta; Maurel Santasusana, Joan (Publication date: 2026-01-29)

Microsatellite-stable metastatic colorectal cancer (MSS mCRC) is currently treated with chemotherapy and targeted agents based on RAS and BRAF mutational status. Although these therapies offer initial benefit, most patients ...

Transcriptomic profiling of endothelial progenitor cells in post-COVID-19 patients: Insights at 3- and 6-month post-infection 

Poyatos Dorado, Paula; Gratacòs-Aurich, Miquel; Aguilar, Daniel; Luque, Neus; Bonnin Vilaplana, Marc; Eizaguirre, Saioa; Cascante i Serratosa, Marta; Orriols Martínez, Ramon; Tura-Ceide, Olga (Publication date: 2026-01-27)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused significant global morbidity since 2019. Long COVID, characterized by persistent symptoms after acute infection, may involve endothelial injury. We ...

Design of a true bivalent ligand with picomolar affinity for a G protein-coupled receptor homodimer 

Pulido, Daniel; Casadó Anguera, Verònica; Pérez-Benito, Laura; Moreno Guillén, Estefanía; Cordomí, Arnau; López, Laura; Cortés Tejedor, Antonio; Ferré, Sergi; Pardo, Leonardo; Casadó, Vicent; Royo Expósito, Miriam (Publication date: 2026-01-23)

Bivalent ligands have emerged as chemical tools to study G protein-coupled receptor dimers. Using a combination of computational, chemical, and biochemical tools, here we describe the design of bivalent ligand 13 with high ...

Towards biomimetic electrochromatography: Fast method for the Abraham's characterization of solute-solvent interactions in micellar and microemulsion electrokinetic systems 

Idrees, Rabia; Subirats i Vila, Xavier; Amézqueta, Susana; Rosés Pascual, Martí (Publication date: 2026-01-16)

This study presents a fast method for the characterization of solute-solvent interactions in micellar and microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography based on the linear solvation energy relationships proposed by Abraham. ...

Intergenerational effects of maternal childhood maltreatment on newborns' stress regulation: The role of maternal depressive symptoms 

San Martín-Gonzalez, Nerea; Moya-Higueras, Jorge; Eixarch Roca, Elisenda; Castro-Quintas, Águeda; Marques-Feixa, Laia; Crispi Brillas, Fàtima; Daura-Corral, Maria; de la Fuente-Tomás, Lorena; Monteserín-García, José Luis; García Portilla, María Paz; Fañanás Saura, Lourdes (Publication date: 2024-12-03)

Background: Maternal childhood maltreatment (CM) has been repeatedly associated with negative offspring's emotional outcomes. The dysregulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis has emerged as the main ...

Parameter Splitting in dark energy: is dark energy the same in the background and in the cosmic structures? 

Bernal Mera, José Luis; Verde, Licia; Cuesta Vázquez, Antonio José (Publication date: 2019-01-23)

We perform an empirical consistency test of General Relativity/dark energy by disentangling expansion history and growth of structure constraints. We replace each late-universe parameter that describes the behavior of dark ...

The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III 

Aihara, Hiroaki; Allende Prieto, Carlos; An, Deokkeun; Anderson, Scott F.; Aubourg, Eric; Balbinot, Eduardo; Beers, Timothy C.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bickerton, Steven J.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanton, Michael R.; Bochanski, John J.; Bolton, Adam S.; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W. N.; Brinkmann, Jon; Brown, Peter J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Busca, Nicolás G.; Campbell, Heather; Carr, Michael A.; Chen, Yanmei; Chiappini, Cristina; Comparat, Johan; Connolly, Natalia; Cortes, Marina; Croft, Rupert A. C.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Da Costa, Luiz A. N.; Davenport, James R. A.; Dawson, Kyle S.; Dhital, Saurav; Ealet, Anne; Ebelke, Garrett L.; Edmondson, Edward M.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Escoffier, Stephanie; Esposito, Massimiliano; Miralda Escudé, Jordi; Verde, Licia (Publication date: 2017-02-23)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the ...

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurements of the growth of structure and expansion rate at z = 0.57 from anisotropic clustering 

Reid, Beth A.; Samushia, Lado; White, Martin; Percival, Will J.; Manera, Marc; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Ross, Ashley J.; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Bailey, Stephen; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Bolton, Adam S.; Brewington, Howard; Brinkmann, Jon; Brownstein, Joel R.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Gunn, James E.; Honscheid, Klaus; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Maraston, Claudia; McBride, Cameron K.; Muna, Demetri; Nichol, Robert C.; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; de Putter, Roland; Roe, Natalie A.; Ross, Nicholas P.; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Seo, Hee-Jong; Shelden Bradley, Alaina; Sheldon, Erin S.; Simmons, Audrey; Skibba, Ramin; Snedden, Stephanie; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Thomas, Daniel; Verde, Licia (Publication date: 2017-02-22)

We analyse the anisotropic clustering of massive galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) sample, which consists of 264 283 galaxies in the redshift ...

The urea cycle of rat white adipose tissue 

Arriarán, Sofía; Agnelli, Silvia; Remesar Betlloch, Xavier; Fernández López, José Antonio; Alemany, Marià, 1946- (Publication date: 2016-02-22)

White adipose tissue (WAT) contains a powerful metabolic machinery related to energy metabolism and partition. The adaptive, regulatory, size and structural variety of WAT agrees with this control role. However, its nitrogen ...

Lifetime suicidal thoughts, attempts, and lethality of attempts as major outcome domains of psychotic disorders: a 21-year prospective cohort study after a first-episode psychosis 

Peralta, Víctor; Moreno-Izco, Lucía; García de Jalón, Elena; Sánchez Torres, Ana M.; Peralta, David; Janda, Lucía; Cuesta, Manuel J.; SEGPEPs group; Ansorena, Xabier; Ballesteros, Alejandro; Chato, Julen; Fañanás Saura, Lourdes; Gil-Berrozpe, Gustavo; Giné-Servé, Eloi; Lorente, Ruth; Papiol, Sergi; Ribeiro, María; Rosado, Esther; Rosero, Ángela (Publication date: 2025-07-28)

Background: Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are a major concern in people with psychotic disorders. There is a need to examine their prevalence over long-term follow-up after first-episode psychosis (FEP) and determine ...

Stable and Efficient Genetic Modification of Cells in the Adult Mouse V-SVZ for the Analysis of Neural Stem Cell Autonomous and Non-autonomous Effects 

Porlan, Eva; Martí-Prado, Beatriz; Consiglio, Antonella; Farinas, Isabel (Publication date: 2019-11-05)

Relatively quiescent somatic stem cells support life-long cell renewal in most adult tissues. Neural stem cells in the adult mammalian brain are restricted to two specific neurogenic niches: the subgranular zone of the ...

The Ninth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey 

Ahn, Chirstopher P.; Alexandroff, Rachael; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anderson, Scott F.; Anderton, Timotjhy; Andrews, Brett H.; Aubourg, Eric; Bailey, Stephen; Balbinot, Eduardo; Barnes, Rory; Bautista, Julian E.; Beers, Timothy C.; Beifiori, Alessandra; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bhardwaj, Vaishali; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blake, Cullen H.; Blanton, Michael R.; Blomqvist, Michael; Bochanski, John J.; Bolton, Adam S.; Borde, Arnadu; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W. N.; Brinkmann, Jon; Brown, Peter J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Bundy, Kevin; Busca, Nicolás G.; Carithers, William; Carnero, Aurelio R.; Carr, Michael A.; Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Chen, Yanmei; Chiappini, Cristina; Comparat, Johan; Verde, Licia; Miralda Escudé, Jordi; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Pérez Ràfols, Ignasi (Publication date: 2017-02-20)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra ...

Constraints on deviations from ΛCDM within Horndeski gravity. 

Bellini, Emilio; Cuesta Vázquez, Antonio José; Jiménez, Raúl (Jiménez Tellado); Verde, Licia (Publication date: 2019-01-23)

Recent anomalies found in cosmological datasets such as the low multipoles of the Cosmic Microwave Background or the low redshift amplitude and growth of clustering measured by e.g., abundance of galaxy clusters and redshift ...

Understanding the mechanism of direct activation of AMP-kinase: Towards a fine allosteric tuning of the kinase activity 

Aledavood, Elnaz; Moraes, Gleiciane; Lameira, Jeronimo; Castro, Ana; Luque Garriga, F. Xavier; Estarellas, Carolina (Publication date: 2020-06-10)

This research deals with the regulation of the AMPK activity by direct activators, such as compound A-769662. AMPK is a key enzyme to maintain the cellular energy homeostasis, as it regulates the levels of ATP, being an ...

Enantioselective Synthesis of Spiro[indolizidine-1,3 '-oxindoles] 

Pérez Bosch, Maria; Ramos, Carlos; Massi, Lucia; Gazzola, Silvia; Taglienti, Chiara; Yayik, Nihan; Molins i Grau, Elies; Viayna Gaza, Antonio; Luque Garriga, F. Xavier; Bosch Cartes, Joan; Amat Tusón, Mercedes (Publication date: 2020-07-03)

A three-step procedure for the enantioselective synthesis of spiro[indolizidine-1,3'-oxindoles], consisting of a stereoselective cyclocondensation reaction between (S)-tryptophanol and a prochiral or racemic 5-oxoester, ...

Structural model of the hUbA1-UbcH10 quaternary complex: In silico and experimental analysis of the protein-protein interactions between E1, E2 and ubiquitin 

Correale, Stefania; de Paola, Ivan; Morgillo, Carmine Marco; Federico, Antonella; Zaccaro, Laura; Pallante, Pierlorenzo; Galeone, Aldo; Fusco, Alfredo; Pedone, Emilia; Luque Garriga, F. Xavier; Catalanotti, Bruno (Publication date: 2018-07-24)

UbcH10 is a component of the Ubiquitin Conjugation Enzymes (Ubc; E2) involved in the ubiquitination cascade controlling the cell cycle progression, whereby ubiquitin, activated by E1, is transferred through E2 to the target ...

Interaction of the N-(3-Methylpyridin-2-yl)amide Derivatives of Flurbiprofen and Ibuprofen with FAAH: Enantiomeric Selectivity and Binding Mode 

Karlsson, Jessica; Morgillo, Carmine Marco; Deplano, Alessandro; Smaldone, Giovanni; Pedone, Emilia; Luque Garriga, F. Xavier; Svensson, Mona; Novellino, Ettore; Congiu, Cenzo; Onnis, Valentina; Catalanotti, Bruno; Fowler, Christopher J. (Publication date: 2017-02-20)

Background Combined fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibition is a promising approach for pain-relief. The Flu-AM1 and Ibu-AM5 derivatives of flurbiprofen and ibuprofen retain similar COX-inhibitory ...

Effect of cafeteria diet feeding on soleus intramyocellular lipid of Wistar rats 

Cabot Majem, Cristina; Pouillot, Karl; Roy, Stéphanie; Romero Romero, María del Mar; Vilà Pont, Ruth; Grasa Martínez, Maria del Mar; Esteve Ràfols, Montserrat; Fernández López, José Antonio; Alemany, Marià, 1946-; Remesar Betlloch, Xavier (Publication date: 2014-05-02)

Background: The presence of lipid besides muscle fibres facilitates the energy supply for exercise, but it is also indicative of insulin resistance in the untrained. Muscle lipid is associated with increased dietary energy: ...

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