Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is an autoimmune brain illness that is often mistaken as a psychiatric disorder since it causes psychoses and other behavior alterations. Despite having these similarities, the illness does not respond ...
Oct 29, 2020
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Huntington's disease is caused by a mutation in the Huntingtin gen. Patients show involuntary movements, cognitive deficits and specific psychiatric disorders resulting from the degeneration and death of medium spiny striatal ...
Sep 24, 2020
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A team of researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS) of the University of Barcelona has demonstrated that neurons can be generated from skin cells of a human donor using ...
Aug 27, 2020
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A UB study published in the journal Neurotherapeutics has validated a new pharmacological target for Alzheimer's disease. The results show the inhibition of the enzyme soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) in murine models with ...
Jul 27, 2020
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Improving the prediction of survival indicators in patients with breast cancer using tools from artificial intelligence and probabilistic modeling is the aim of ModGraProDep, an innovative system presented in a study led ...
Jun 12, 2020
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An interdisciplinary research study of the University of Barcelona identified two potential candidates to treat Alzheimer's disease. These are two marine molecules, meridianine and lignarenone B, able to alter the activity ...
May 28, 2020
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Although the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak emerged suddenly in the popular market of exotic and wild animals in Wuhan in December 2019, phylogenetic studies show that coronavirus was already present in latency phase in October in the ...
May 18, 2020
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Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona and the CELLEX Biomedical Research Centre from IDIBAPS, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Sydney, University of London and the ...
May 6, 2020
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The Sanfilippo syndrome type C is a severe neurodegenerative disease which appears during the first years of life and for which there is no treatment yet. A recent study, published in Journal of Clinical Medicine, has created ...
Apr 24, 2020
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Ionic channels—integral proteins in the cell membrane—are essential in several processes such as cardiac activity, nervous transmission, cell proliferation and the regulation of blood pressure. A study now published in ...
Apr 20, 2020
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