On 8 May 2020, the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA) reported the case of the first cat infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Spain. It was a 4-year-old cat called Negrito, who lived with a family affected by COVID-19, ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease for which usual treatment is very aggressive and produces severe side effects to the patients. In the search for a new and more effective drug, researchers from the ...
Jul 9, 2020
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A study led by the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) shows that APOE4, the principal genetic risk factor for the most common type of Alzheimer's disease, produces an alteration in the astrocytes' signaling mechanisms in ...
Jun 23, 2020
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A study led by the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) describes a new strategy to tackle cancer, based on inducing a potent stress in tumor causing cell destruction by autophagy. The mechanism has been revealed using the ...
Jun 9, 2020
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An international study by the Institute of Neuroscience of the UAB (INC-UAB), Emory University and Hospital Universitario La Paz, published in PNAS, shows that patients suffering from Lesch-Nyhan, a rare neurological disease, ...
Jun 4, 2020
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An international collaboration, which included the involvement of the research team from the Institut de Neurociències of the UAB (INC-UAB), has shown that neurons expressing dopamine D2 receptors have different molecular ...
May 13, 2020
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Maintaining vitamin D receptor (VDR) levels in pancreatic cells that synthesize and secrete insulin (β cells) could contribute to protecting against the development of diabetes and counteract pancreatic cell damage caused ...
Mar 27, 2020
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A study led by the IBB-UAB has identified the molecular mechanism through which a protein carrying genetic mutations associated with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1G accelerates its tendency to form amyloid fibrils ...
Jan 29, 2020
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In a study published in Brain Communications, the team led by Carlos Barcia, researcher at Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc), analysed the role of immune cells in the expansion of ...
Jan 23, 2020
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The local release of antitumoral drugs through bacterial proteins in the treatment of breast cancer can mark a before and after in precision medicine. In this sense, researchers at the CIBER of Bioengineering, Biomaterials ...
Nov 21, 2019
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