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Ramírez-Carracedo R, Hernández I, Moreno-Gómez-Toledano R, Díez-Mata J, Tesoro L, González-Cucharero C, Jiménez-Guirado B, Alcharani N, Botana L, Saura M, Zamorano JL, Zaragoza C. NOS3 prevents MMP-9, and MMP-13 induced extracellular matrix proteolytic degradation through specific microRNA-targeted expression of extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer in hypertension-related atherosclerosis. J Hypertens 2024; 42:685-693. [PMID: 38406874 PMCID: PMC10906209 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000003679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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BACKGROUND Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS3) elicits atheroprotection by preventing extracellular matrix (ECM) proteolytic degradation through inhibition of extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN) and collagenase MMP-13 by still unknown mechanisms. METHODS C57BL/6 mice lacking ApoE , NOS3, and/or MMP13 were fed with a high-fat diet for 6 weeks. Entire aortas were extracted and frozen to analyze protein and nucleic acid expression. Atherosclerotic plaques were detected by ultrasound imaging, Oil Red O (ORO) staining, and Western Blot. RNA-seq and RT-qPCR were performed to evaluate EMMPRIN, MMP-9, and EMMPRIN-targeting miRNAs. Mouse aortic endothelial cells (MAEC) were incubated to assess the role of active MMP-13 over MMP-9. One-way ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis tests were performed to determine statistical differences. RESULTS Lack of NOS3 in ApoE null mice fed with a high-fat diet increased severe plaque accumulation, vessel wall widening, and high mortality, along with EMMPRIN-induced expression by upregulation of miRNAs 46a-5p and 486-5p. However, knocking out MMP-13 in ApoE/NOS3 -deficient mice was sufficient to prevent mortality (66.6 vs. 26.6%), plaque progression (23.1 vs. 8.8%), and MMP-9 expression, as confirmed in murine aortic endothelial cell (MAEC) cultures, in which MMP-9 was upregulated by incubation with active recombinant MMP-13, suggesting MMP-9 as a new target of MMP-13 in atherosclerosis. CONCLUSION We describe a novel mechanism by which the absence of NOS3 may worsen atherosclerosis through EMMPRIN-induced ECM proteolytic degradation by targeting the expression of miRNAs 146a-5p and 485-5p. Focusing on NOS3 regulation of ECM degradation could be a promising approach in the management of atherosclerosis.
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- Rafael Ramírez-Carracedo
- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Av. Monforte de Lemos
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
- Universidad de Alcalá, Unidad de Fisiología, Departamento de Biología de Sistemas, Alcalá de Henares
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Av. Monforte de Lemos
- Universidad de Alcalá, Unidad de Fisiología, Departamento de Biología de Sistemas, Alcalá de Henares
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Av. Monforte de Lemos
- Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Av. Monforte de Lemos
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Escobar C, Palacios B, Gonzalez V, Gutiérrez M, Duong M, Chen H, Justo N, Cid-Ruzafa J, Hernández I, Hunt PR, Delgado JF. Evolution of economic burden of heart failure by ejection fraction in newly diagnosed patients in Spain. BMC Health Serv Res 2023; 23:1340. [PMID: 38041087 PMCID: PMC10693147 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-10376-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To describe healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and costs, in patients with newly diagnosed heart failure (HF) according to ejection fraction (EF) in Spain. METHODS Retrospective cohort study that analyzed anonymized, integrated and computerised medical records in Spain. Patients with ≥ 1 new HF diagnosis between January 2013 and September 2019 were included and followed-up during a 4-year period. Rates per 100 person-years of HCRU and costs were estimated. RESULTS Nineteen thousand nine hundred sixty-one patients were included, of whom 43.5%, 26.3%, 5.1% and 25.1% had HF with reduced, preserved, mildly reduced and unknown EF, respectively. From year 1 to 4, HF rates of outpatient visits decreased from 1149.5 (95% CI 1140.8-1159.3) to 765.5 (95% CI 745.9-784.5) and hospitalizations from 61.7 (95% CI 60.9-62.7) to 15.7(14.7-16.7) per 100 person-years. The majority of HF-related healthcare resource costs per patient were due to hospitalizations (year 1-4: 63.3-38.2%), followed by indirect costs (year 1-4: 12.2-29.0%), pharmacy (year 1-4: 11.9-19.9%), and outpatient care (year 1-4: 12.6-12.9%). Mean (SD) per patient HF-related costs decreased from 2509.6 (3518.5) to 1234.6 (1534.1) Euros (50% cost reduction). At baseline, 70.1% were taking beta-blockers, 56.3% renin-angiotensin system inhibitors, 11.8% mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists and 8.9% SGLT2 inhibitors. At 12 months, these numbers were 72.3%, 65.4%, 18.9% and 9.8%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Although the economic burden of HF decreased over time since diagnosis, it is still substantial. This reduction could be partially related to a survival bias (sick patients died early), but also to a better HF management. Despite that, there is still much room for improvement.
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- Carlos Escobar
- Cardiology Department, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, 28046, Spain
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- Evidera, Stockholm, 113 21, Sweden
- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Cardiology Department, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, CIBERCV, Madrid, 28041, Spain.
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Egea LG, Pérez-Estrada CJ, Jiménez-Ramos R, Hernández I, López-López S, Brun FG. Changes in carbon metabolism and dissolved organic carbon fluxes on seagrass patches (Halodule wrightii) with different ages in Southern Gulf of California. Mar Environ Res 2023; 191:106136. [PMID: 37591164 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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Seagrass meadows are highly dynamic, particularly in sites where extreme climatological events may produce a mosaic of patches with different ages. This study evaluates the community carbon metabolism, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes and associated fauna in patches of Halodule wrightii with different ages since establishment. Net community production declined as patch age increased, probably due to the increase in non-photosynthetic tissues, higher respiration rates of the community assemblage and a likely increase in self-shading of the canopy. The export of DOC was significantly higher in the youngest patches, mainly as a consequence of the lower seagrass net production recorded in older meadows. We concluded that 'colonizers' seagrass species may show higher production rates and DOC release during the first stages of colonization, which suggest that, the production, organic carbon exportation and their role as relevant blue carbon communities may be higher than expected.
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- Luis G Egea
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain.
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C., Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, 23096 La Paz, BCS, Mexico
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional s/n, Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C. P. 23096, La Paz, BCS, Mexico
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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Rodríguez-Jiménez P, Reymundo-Jiménez A, Delgado-Jiménez Y, Gallo E, Navarro R, Vargas E, Castillo V, Hernández I, Torres E, Rodríguez-Campo F, Tejera-Vaquerizo A. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Elderly Melanoma Patients: A Real Practice Cohort. Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas 2023; 114:T462-T466. [PMID: 37030564 DOI: 10.1016/j.ad.2023.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 04/08/2023] Open
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Escobar C, Palacios B, Gonzalez V, Gutiérrez M, Duong M, Chen H, Justo N, Cid-Ruzafa J, Hernández I, Hunt PR, Delgado JF. Burden of Illness beyond Mortality and Heart Failure Hospitalizations in Patients Newly Diagnosed with Heart Failure in Spain According to Ejection Fraction. J Clin Med 2023; 12:2410. [PMID: 36983410 PMCID: PMC10054096 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12062410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to describe the rates of adverse clinical outcomes, including all-cause mortality, heart failure (HF) hospitalization, myocardial infarction, and stroke, in patients newly diagnosed with HF to provide a comprehensive picture of HF burden. METHODS This was a retrospective and observational study, using the BIG-PAC database in Spain. Adults, newly diagnosed with HF between January 2013 and September 2019 with ≥1 HF-free year of enrolment prior to HF diagnosis, were included. RESULTS A total of 19,961 patients were newly diagnosed with HF (43.5% with reduced ejection fraction (EF), 26.3% with preserved EF, 5.1% with mildly reduced EF, and 25.1% with unknown EF). The mean age was 69.7 ± 19.0 years; 53.8% were men; and 41.0% and 41.5% of patients were in the New York Heart Association functional classes II and III, respectively. The baseline HF treatments included beta-blockers (70.1%), renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (56.3%), mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (11.8%), and SGLT2 inhibitors (8.9%). The post-index incidence rates of all-cause mortality, HF hospitalization, and both combined were 102.2 (95% CI 99.9-104.5), 123.1 (95% CI 120.5-125.7), and 182 (95% CI 178.9-185.1) per 1000 person-years, respectively. The rates of myocardial infarction and stroke were lower (26.2 [95% CI 25.1-27.4] and 19.8 [95% CI 18.8-20.8] per 1000 person-years, respectively). CONCLUSIONS In Spain, patients newly diagnosed with HF have a high risk of clinical outcomes. Specifically, the rates of all-cause mortality and HF hospitalization are high and substantially greater than the rates of myocardial infarction and stroke. Given the burden of adverse outcomes, these should be considered targets in the comprehensive management of HF. There is much room for improving the proportion of patients receiving disease-modifying therapies.
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- Carlos Escobar
- Cardiology Department, University Hospital La Paz, 28046 Madrid, Spain
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- Evidera, 113 21 Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Cardiology Department, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, CIBERCV, 28041 Madrid, Spain
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Laorden D, Hernández I, Domínguez-Ortega J, Romero D, Álvarez-Sala R, Quirce S. A real life cohort of Mepolizumab treatment in severe eosinophilic asthma. Eur Ann Allergy Clin Immunol 2023. [PMID: 36927725 DOI: 10.23822/eurannaci.1764-1489.289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Summary Background. Mepolizumab, a monoclonal antibody that interacts with IL-5, was the first anti-IL-5 approved for uncontrolled severe eosinophilic asthma. In several randomised, placebo-controlled trials, treatment with mepolizumab has shown a significant improvement in asthma symptoms and the need to use of oral corticosteroids (OCS). Several studies have correlated blood levels of eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) with the degree of eosinophilic inflammation, which could make it an indirect marker of eosinophilic activity. Methods. This was a single-centre retrospective study that included all patients diagnosed with severe eosinophilic asthma under treatment with mepolizumab. We recorded the number of exacerbations, daily prednisone intake, asthma control test scores and forced expiratory volume in the first second. Results. We followed 22 patients, 14 of whom were OCS-dependent with a mean daily dose of 15.85 ± 15.62 mg prednisone. After 12 months, only five continued taking OCS and the mean daily dose was reduced by up to 2.50 ± 3.84 mg (p less than 0.007). The exacerbation rate at baseline was 2.91 ± 2.27 and decreased to 0.82 ± 1.14 in the following year (p less than 0.001). ACT scores increased significantly from 16.00 ± 5.85 to 20.71 ± 4.45 after six months (p = 0.003). We also observed a decrease in ECP from 81.46 ± 43.99 µg/L to 19.12 ± 18.80 µg/L (p > 0.001). Conclusions. These real-life results are consistent with previous clinical trials demonstrating the efficacy and safety of mepolizumab in routine clinical practice for severe uncontrolled eosinophilic asthma. We observed a significant decrease in blood eosinophil counts and in ECP levels, suggesting a reduction in eosinophil activity following mepolizumab treatment.
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- D Laorden
- Department of Pneumology, Hospital La Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, IdiPAZ, and CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Allergy, Hospital La Paz, IdiPAZ, and CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, Madrid, Spain.,Pfizer, Spain
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- Department of Allergy, Hospital La Paz, IdiPAZ, and CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pneumology, Hospital La Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, IdiPAZ, and CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pneumology, Hospital La Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, IdiPAZ, and CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Allergy, Hospital La Paz, IdiPAZ, and CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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Rodríguez-Jiménez P, Reymundo-Jiménez A, Delgado-Jiménez Y, Gallo E, Navarro R, Vargas E, Castillo V, Hernández I, Torres E, Rodríguez-Campo F, Tejera-Vaquerizo A. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Elderly Melanoma Patients: A Real Practice Cohort. Actas Dermosifiliogr 2023; 114:462-466. [PMID: 36750157 DOI: 10.1016/j.ad.2022.05.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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- P Rodríguez-Jiménez
- Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of General Surgery, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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Bermejo R, Galindo-Ponce M, Golden N, Linderhoff C, Heesch S, Hernández I, Morrison L. Two bloom-forming species of Ulva (Chlorophyta) show different responses to seawater temperature and no antagonistic interaction. J Phycol 2023; 59:167-178. [PMID: 36371650 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The generalized use of molecular identification tools indicated that multispecific green tides are more common than previously thought. Temporal successions between bloom-forming species on a seasonal basis were also revealed in different cold temperate estuaries, suggesting a key role of photoperiod and temperature controlling bloom development and composition. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, water temperatures are predicted to increase around 4°C by 2100 in Ireland, especially during late spring coinciding with early green tide development. Considering current and predicted temperatures, and photoperiods during bloom development, different eco-physiological experiments were developed. These experiments indicated that the growth of Ulva lacinulata was controlled by temperature, while U. compressa was unresponsive to the photoperiod and temperatures assayed. Considering a scenario of global warming for Irish waters, an earlier development of bloom is expected in the case of U. lacinulata. This could have significant consequences for biomass balance in Irish estuaries and the maximum accumulated biomass during peak bloom. The observed seasonal patterns and experiments also indicated that U. compressa may facilitate U. lacinulata development. When both species were co-cultivated, the culture performance showed intermediate responses to experimental treatments in comparison with monospecific cultures of both species.
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- Ricardo Bermejo
- Department of Ecology and Geology, University of Malaga. Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), University Campus of Teatinos, E29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, E11510, Puerto Real, Spain
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- Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Natural Sciences and Ryan Institute, University of Galway, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland
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- CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, 29688, Roscoff cedex, France
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, E11510, Puerto Real, Spain
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- Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Natural Sciences and Ryan Institute, University of Galway, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland
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de Velasco Oria de Rueda G, Plata Bello AC, Landeira M, Mateo M, Anguita P, Pranzo A, Snijder R, Garnham A, Hernández I. Incidence, prevalence, and treatment patterns in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer in Spain: ECHOS study. Actas Urol Esp 2022; 46:557-564. [PMID: 36241525 DOI: 10.1016/j.acuroe.2022.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The management of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) has changed in recent years due to the approval of new drugs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, incidence, and treatment patterns in mHSPC in Spain. PATIENTS AND METHODS Multicenter, observational, longitudinal, retrospective study in routine clinical practice of patients diagnosed with mHSPC treated in Spanish hospitals between 2015 and 2019 (ECHOS study). Electronic medical records were extracted from BIG-PAC database, which contains geographically representative Spanish centers. RESULTS Data from 379 men with mHSPC were included. The prevalence of mHSPC ranged between 12.2-14.6% per year, representing from 671 to 824 annual cases with an increasing trend. The mean incidence along the 4-year period was 2.5%, with annual incidence ranging 2.2-3.0%. New annual cases of de novo and recurrent disease ranged between 7-11 and 77-104, respectively, with no trend being observed. These patients were mostly recurrent (91%) with high-volume disease (68.6%). The most common first-line therapy was ADT combined with docetaxel (53%), followed by ADT alone (23.8%), combination of ADT and abiraterone (11.2%), and radiotherapy (8.6%). In the last 12 months before diagnosis of metastasis, most men had been submitted to radical prostatectomy (84.9%). The remaining patients had received radiotherapy (12%) or no treatment at all (3.8%). CONCLUSIONS The ECHOS study provides epidemiologic data and current patterns of treatment in clinical practice of patients with mHSPC in Spain. These results emphasize the medical need of targeted treatments in these clinical settings.
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- Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Departamento Médico, Astellas Pharma S.A., Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento Médico, Astellas Pharma S.A., Madrid, Spain.
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- Departamento Médico, Astellas Pharma S.A., Madrid, Spain
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- AIA Real World Data & Evidence, Astellas Pharma Ltd, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- AIA Real World Data & Evidence, Astellas Pharma Ltd, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- AIA Real World Data & Evidence, Astellas Pharma Ltd, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Escobar C, Palacios B, Varela L, Gutiérrez M, Duong M, Chen H, Justo N, Cid-Ruzafa J, Hernández I, Hunt PR, Delgado JF. Healthcare resource utilization and costs among patients with heart failure with preserved, mildly reduced, and reduced ejection fraction in Spain. BMC Health Serv Res 2022; 22:1241. [PMID: 36209120 PMCID: PMC9547468 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08614-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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AIMS To describe healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) of patients with heart failure with preserved (HFpEF), mildly reduced (HFmrEF), and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in Spain. METHODS: Adults with ≥ 1 HF diagnosis and ≥ 1 year of continuous enrolment before the corresponding index date (1/January/2016) were identified through the BIG-PAC database. Rate per 100 person-years of all-cause and HF-related HCRU during the year after the index date were estimated using bootstrapping with replacement. RESULTS Twenty-one thousand two hundred ninety-seven patients were included, of whom 48.5% had HFrEF, 38.6% HFpEF and 4.2% HFmrEF, with the rest being of unknown EF. Mean age was 78.8 ± 11.8 years, 53.0% were men and 83.0% were in NYHA functional class II/III. At index, 67.3% of patients were taking renin angiotensin system inhibitors, 61.2% beta blockers, 23.4% aldosterone antagonists and 5.2% SGLT2 inhibitors. Rates of HF-related outpatient visits and hospitalization were 968.8 and 51.6 per 100 person-years, respectively. Overall, 31.23% of patients were hospitalized, mainly because of HF (87.88% of total hospitalizations); HF hospitalization length 21.06 ± 17.49 days (median 16; 25th, 75th percentile 9-27). HF hospitalizations were the main cost component: inpatient 73.64%, pharmacy 9.67%, outpatient 9.43%, and indirect cost 7.25%. Rates of all-cause and HF-related HCRU and healthcare cost were substantial across all HF subgroups, being higher among HFrEF compared to HFmrEF and HFpEF patients. CONCLUSIONS HCRU and cost associated with HF are high in Spain, HF hospitalizations being the main determinant. Medication cost represented only a small proportion of total costs, suggesting that an optimization of HF therapy may reduce HF burden.
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- Carlos Escobar
- Cardiology Department, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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- Evidera, Stockholm, Sweden; Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Cardiology Department, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, CIBERCV, Madrid, Spain.
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Qadir MI, Albo J, de Pedro I, Cieslar M, Hernández I, Brüner P, Grehl T, Castegnaro MV, Morais J, Martins PR, Silva CG, Nisar M, Dupont J. Nanoarchitectonics of CuNi bimetallic nanoparticles in ionic liquids for LED-assisted synergistic CO2 photoreduction. Molecular Catalysis 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2022.112654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Tesoro L, Hernández I, Ramírez-Carracedo R, Díez-Mata J, Alcharani N, Jiménez-Guirado B, Ovejero-Paredes K, Filice M, Zamorano JL, Saura M, Zaragoza C, Botana L. NIL10: A New IL10-Receptor Binding Nanoparticle That Induces Cardiac Protection in Mice and Pigs Subjected to Acute Myocardial Infarction through STAT3/NF-κB Activation. Pharmaceutics 2022; 14:pharmaceutics14102044. [PMID: 36297479 PMCID: PMC9608724 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14102044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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(1) Background: Early response after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) prevents extensive cardiac necrosis, in which inflammation resolution, including expression of anti-inflammatory interleukin-10 (IL-10), may play a key role. (2) Methods: We synthesized NIL10, a micelle-based nanoparticle, to target IL-10 receptor in mice and pigs subjected to AMI. (3) Results: Administration of NIL10 induced cardiac protection of wild-type and IL-10 knockout mice and pigs subjected to AMI. Cardiac protection was not induced in IL-10-receptor null mice, as shown by a significant recovery of cardiac function, in which inflammatory foci and fibrosis were strongly reduced, together with the finding that resolving M2-like macrophage populations were increased after day 3 of reperfusion. In addition, anti-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-4, IL-7, IL-10, IL-13, IL-16, and IL-27 were also elevated. Mechanistically, NIL10 induced activation of the IL-10 receptor/STAT-3 signaling pathway, and STAT3-dependent inhibition of nuclear translocation of pro-inflammatory NF-ĸB transcription factor. (4) Conclusions: Taken together, we propose using NIL10 as a novel therapeutic tool against AMI-induced cardiac damage.
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- Laura Tesoro
- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense (UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERRES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense (UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERRES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), 28034 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad de Fisiología, Departamento de Biología de Sistemas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcalá, 28871 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Correspondence: (C.Z.); (L.B.)
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- Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28034 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Correspondence: (C.Z.); (L.B.)
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Escobar C, Palacios B, Varela L, Gutiérrez M, Duong M, Chen H, Justo N, Cid-Ruzafa J, Hernández I, Hunt PR, Delgado JF. Prevalence, Characteristics, Management and Outcomes of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved, Mildly Reduced, and Reduced Ejection Fraction in Spain. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11175199. [PMID: 36079133 PMCID: PMC9456780 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11175199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Objective: To estimate the prevalence, incidence, and describe the characteristics and management of patients with heart failure with preserved (HFpEF), mildly reduced (HFmrEF), and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in Spain. Methods: Adults with ≥1 inpatient or outpatient HF diagnosis between 1 January 2013 and 30 September 2019 were identified through the BIG-PAC database. Annual incidence and prevalence by EF phenotype were estimated. Characteristics by EF phenotype were described in the 2016 and 2019 HF prevalent cohorts and outcomes in the 2016 HF prevalent cohort. Results: Overall, HF incidence and prevalence were 0.32/100 person-years and 2.34%, respectively, but increased every year. In 2019, 49.3% had HFrEF, 38.1% had HFpEF, and 4.3% had HFmrEF (in 8.3%, EF was not available). Compared with HFrEF, patients with HFpEF were largely female, older, and had more atrial fibrillation but less atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Among patients with HFrEF, 76.3% were taking renin-angiotensin system inhibitors, 69.5% beta-blockers, 36.8% aldosterone antagonists, 12.5% sacubitril/valsartan and 6.7% SGLT2 inhibitors. Patients with HFpEF and HFmrEF took fewer HF drugs compared to HFrEF. Overall, the event rates of HF hospitalization were 231.6/1000 person-years, which is more common in HFrEF patients. No clinically relevant differences were found in patients with HFpEF, regardless EF (50- < 60% vs. ≥60%). Conclusions: >2% of patients have HF, of which around 50% have HFrEF and 40% have HFpEF. The prevalence of HF is increasing over time. Clinical characteristics by EF phenotype are consistent with previous studies. The risk of outcomes, particularly HF hospitalization, remains high, likely related to insufficient HF treatment.
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- Carlos Escobar
- Cardiology Department, University Hospital La Paz, 28046 Madrid, Spain
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- AstraZeneca Farmaceutica, 28033 Madrid, Spain
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- Evidera, 113 21 Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Cardiology Department, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, CIBERCV, 28041 Madrid, Spain
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Cruz Castellanos P, Rosas Alonso R, Ozaez I, Hernández I, Losantos I, Gutiérrez Sainz L, Higuera Gómez O, Rodríguez Antolín C, Esteban Rodríguez I, Ibáñez de Cáceres I, De Castro Carpeño J. EP08.02-088 Mutational Status of KRAS, STK11 and CDKN2A Genes as Predictors of Response to Antiangiogenic Agents in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ozaez I, Hernández I, Cruz-Castellanos P, Gutiérrez-Sainz L, Rosas-Alonso R, Castillo R, Higuera O, Losantos I, Rodríguez-Antolín C, Ibanez de Caceres I, Rodríguez IE, de Castro Carpeño J. EP16.02-014 A Comparative Analysis of Gene Alteration Detected With NGS in Tumor Tissue and Peripheral Blood in Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.1045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Castro-Pinto M, López-Menéndez J, Sánchez-Esteban S, Hernández I, Reventún P, Rodríguez-Roda J, Zaragoza C, Saura M. Niveles de quinasa ligada a la integrina endotelial y calcificación valvular: estudio molecular de la calcificación en la estenosis valvular aórtica. Cirugía Cardiovascular 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.circv.2022.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022] Open
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Sánchez J, Matas M, Ibáñez-López FJ, Hernández I, Sotillo J, Gutiérrez AM. The Connection Between Stress and Immune Status in Pigs: A First Salivary Analytical Panel for Disease Differentiation. Front Vet Sci 2022; 9:881435. [PMID: 35782547 PMCID: PMC9244398 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2022.881435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This paper analyzes the association between stress and immune response activations in different diseases, based on the salivary analytics. Moreover, a first attempt to discriminate between diseases was performed by principal component analysis. The salivary analytics consisted of the measurement of psychosocial stress (cortisol and salivary alpha-amylase) indicators, innate (acute phase proteins: C-reactive protein and haptoglobin), and adaptive immune (adenosine deaminase, Cu and Zn) markers and oxidative stress parameters (antioxidant capacity and oxidative status). A total of 107 commercial growing pigs in the field were divided into six groups according to the signs of disease after proper veterinary clinical examination, especially, healthy pigs, pigs with rectal prolapse, tail-biting lesions, diarrhea, lameness, or dyspnea. Associations between stress and immune markers were observed with different intensities. High associations (r = 0.61) were observed between oxidative stress markers and adaptive immune markers. On the other hand, moderate associations (r = 0.31–0.48) between psychosocial stress markers with both innate and adaptive immune markers were observed. All pathological conditions showed statistically significant differences in at least 4 out of the 11 salivary markers studied, with no individual marker dysregulated in all the diseases. Moreover, each disease condition showed differences in the degree of activation of the analyzed systems which could be used to create different salivary profiles. A total of two dimensions were selected through the principal component analysis to explain the 48.3% of the variance of our data. Lameness and rectal prolapse were the two pathological conditions most distant from the healthy condition followed by dyspnea. Tail-biting lesions and diarrhea were also far from the other diseases but near to healthy animals. There is still room for improvements, but these preliminary results displayed a great potential for disease detection and characterization using salivary biomarkers profiling in the near future.
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- J. Sánchez
- BioVetMed Research Group, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary School, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Cefu SA, Murcia, Spain
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- BioVetMed Research Group, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary School, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Statistical Support Service (SAE), Scientific and Technological Research Area (ACTI), CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Statistical Support Service (SAE), Scientific and Technological Research Area (ACTI), CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- BioVetMed Research Group, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary School, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- BioVetMed Research Group, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary School, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- *Correspondence: A. M. Gutiérrez
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Altabás González I, Rua-Figueroa I, Jiménez N, Rubiño F, Mouriño Rodríguez C, Hernández I, Menor-Almagro R, Uriarte Isacelaya E, Tomero Muriel E, Salman Monte TC, Carrión Barberà I, Galindo M, Rodríguez Almaraz E, Inês L, Pego-Reigosa JM. POS0759 DOES LLDAS DEFINITION MATCH THE RHEUMATOLOGIST OPINION? THE FIRST VISIT EVALUATION OF A LONGITUDINAL SPANISH MULTICENTER STUDY TO ASSESS REASONS OF DISAGREEMENT. Ann Rheum Dis 2022. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.3044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BackgroundTreat to Target strategies are necessary in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). They are difficult to establish due to the heterogeneity of the disease. The current definitions of Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS) according to the Asia Pacific Lupus Collaboration (APLC) and remission according to Definition of Remission in SLE (DORIS) 2021 are difficult to achieve and maintain over time.ObjectivesTo evaluate the concordance between the LLDAS and the clinical status according to the rheumatologist opinion and reasons of disagreement. To explore modifications in LLDAS definition that best fit with the expert´s opinion.MethodsProspective multicenter study of SLE patients (ACR 1997 Classification Criteria or clinical diagnosis by the physician) from seven Spanish Rheumatology Departments. Statistical analysis: descriptive cross-sectional (at the time of recruitment) analysis of the demographic and clinical characteristics, treatments; remission and LLDAS and the subjective evaluations of SLE activity by the rheumatologist. Analysis of the level of agreement between expert opinion and the definition of LLDAS and its modification were evaluated using Cohen’s kappa.ResultsDEMOGRAPHIC, DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENTS. Five hundred and eight were included (92% women; mean age (±SD): 50.4 years (±13.7)). Mean SLEDAI-2K (±SD) was 2.84 (±3.31). A total of 406 (79.9%) patients presented SLEDAI-2K≤4. A total of 317 (74.1%) patients were on antimalarial treatment. Two hundred and twenty-two (43.7%) patients were on some type of immunosuppressive or biological therapy. More than half of patients were not taking glucocorticoids (n=310, 61%). A total of 38 patients (7.5%) were taking doses of prednisone higher than 7.5mg/day.REMISSION/LLDAS 267 (54.4%) patients were in remission and 304 (62.7%) patients were in LLDAS. According to the expert opinion of the rheumatologist, remission was the most frequent state considered (n=206, 41.6%); followed by low activity (n=153, 30.9%); serologically active (n=71, 14.3%); moderate activity (n=55, 11.1%) and high activity (n=10, 2%).AGREEMENT Overall agreement between expert opinion and the definition of LLDAS was 71.4 % with a Cohen’s kappa of 0.3. The majority of the cases (96.1%) that fulfilled the definition of LLDAS, were classified by the expert as remission, serologically active or low activity. Only 12 (3,9%) patients were classified by the expert as moderate or high activity. Of the patients that did not fulfill the definition of LLDAS, 126 out of 179 (70.4%) patients were classified by the expert as remission/low disease activity (Figure 1). The main reasons for discordance in the group that did not fulfill the definition of LLDAS were the presence of new clinical features compared to previous visit and a SLEDAI 2-K >4, in 74 (58.7%) and 59 (46.8%) patients, respectively. The LLDAS adjustment that meant a significant increase in the agreement was the exclusion of the comparative features with the previous visit, with an increase in the agreement to 82.6% (95% CI: 81.61-83.96%). The modification of prednisone to 5mg/daily dose, did not represent a significant change in agreement from the original definition.Figure 1.Comparison of LLDAS and expert opinionConclusionAt a given point in time, almost two thirds of SLE patients were in remission or in LLDAS. There is a good correlation between LLDAS and the physician’s opinion, particularly for those patients who fulfill LLDAS definition. However, the agreement is not so good for patients who don’t, these being excessively classified by the physician as remission or low activity. The main LLDAS items causing this disagreement were a SLEDAI-2K >4 and the appearance of different clinical manifestations from the previous evaluation. On the contrary, physician assessment by the PGA adequately fits the LLDAS definition. The modification of the LLDAS definition excluding the comparison with previous assessment increases the agreement with the expert opinion to 82.6%.Disclosure of InterestsNone declared
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Sánchez-Costa JT, Hernández I, Fernández-Fernández E, Silva MT, Valero Jaimes JA, González Fernández I, Sanchez-Martin J, Lluch Pons J, Galíndez-Agirregoikoa E, Mendizabal J, Lois P, Loricera J, Muñoz Jimenez. A, Valero C, Moya P, Larena C, Navarro Angeles VA, Calvet J, Casafont-Solé I, Ortiz-Sanjuán F, Labrada S, Calvo J, Iñíguez CL, Hernández Hernández V, Campos Fernández C, Alcalde Villar M, Mas AJ, De Miguel E, Narváez J, González-Gay MA, Garrido Puñal NP, Estrada P, Blanco R. POS0796 TREATMENT, ADVERSE EVENTS AND FOLLOW UP IN PATIENTS WITH GIANT CELL ARTERITIS IN THE ARTESER MULTICENTER STUDY. Ann Rheum Dis 2022. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.1314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BackgroundGlucocorticoids (GC) are the mainstay therapy in Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), initially at high doses (40-60 mg/day) followed by gradual glucocorticoid tapering. This treatment, especially in older patients, is associated with numerous adverse effects (AE). In addition, there are frequent relapses. Therefore, conventional synthetic immunosuppressants such as methotrexate (MTX), leflunomide, azathioprine, cyclophosphamide or mycophenolate, have been used with controversial results. Studies with biological immunosuppressants, such as TNFi have been ineffective; in contrast, tocilizumab (TCZ) has obtained positive results and was approved for the treatment of GCA.ObjectivesIn the ARTESER study we describe a) treatment with GC, synthetic or biological immunosuppressants; b) AE of CG; and c) evolution.MethodsARTESER is a retrospective observational study sponsored by the Spanish Society of Rheumatology. 26 Spanish centers participated and all new patients diagnosed with GCA from June 1, 2013 to March 29, 2019 were included. Data on GC and immunosuppressants were collected at the beginning and during the follow-up of GCA patients. For the calculation of the cumulative dose of GC, an application was developed that, by including the periods of time, dose and type of GC received during follow-up, performs the automatic calculation in mg of prednisone.ResultsOf the 1675 patients included, GC treatment was adequately recorded in 1650 patients (Table 1). All received oral treatment, being prednisone the most frequently drug used (N=1602, 97.09%). In addition, 426 (25.82%) patients received at least one iv pulse of methylprednisolone, being the 1000 mg regimen the most frequent (n=217; 50.9%). The total mean duration of GC treatment was 22.65 months. The mean cumulative dose per patient at the end of follow-up was 8514.98 mg of prednisone.Table 1.Corticosteroid treatment and immunosuppressive treatmentPatients taking oral corticosteroid1650 Prednisone, n (%)1602 (97.09) Methylprednisolone, n (%)164 (9.94) Deflazacort, n (%)64 (3.88)Patients receiving intravenous corticosteroid, n (%)426 (25.82)Mean duration of steroid treatment, mean (SD)22.65 (17.36)Mean cumulative dose at the end of follow-up per patient, mg of prednisone, mean (SD)8514.98 (6570.21)Methotrexate at diagnosis*, n (%)165 (9.9)Leflunomide at diagnosis*, n (%)2 (0.1)Azathioprine at diagnosis*, n (%)3 (0.2)Cyclophosphamide at diagnosis*, n (%)7 (0.4)Mycophenolate at diagnosis*, n (%)1 (0.1)Tocilizumab at diagnosis*, n (%)22 (1.3)Methotrexate during follow-up, n (%)532 (31.8)Leflunomide during follow-up, n (%)19 (1.2)Azathioprine during follow-up, n (%)26 (1.5)Cyclophosphamide during follow-up, n (%)10 (0.6)Mycophenolate during follow-up, n (%)10 (0.6)Tocilizumab during follow-up, n (%)153 (9.1)The most widely used immunosuppressant was MTX both at diagnosis (n=165; 9.9%) and during follow-up (n=532; 31.8%), followed by TCZ, at diagnosis (22; 1.3%) and at follow-up (153; 9.1%).AE with GC were described in 393 patients (23.8%), highlighting serious infections (n=67; 10.03%) followed by diabetes mellitus (n=63; 9.43%), steroid myopathy (n=53; 7.9%), vertebral fractures (n=47; 7.04%), non-vertebral fractures (n=36; 5.39%), heart failure (n=36; 5.39%), arterial hypertension (n=34; 5.09%) and neuropsychiatric alterations (n=27; 4.04%).During the follow-up, 334 (19.9%) patients had relapses, 532 (31.8%) were hospitalized on some occasion, and 142 patients (8.48%) died. The main cause of death were infections (n=44; 30.99%), neoplasms (n=23; 16.2%), cardiovascular (n=15; 10.56%), and cerebrovascular (n=10; 7.04%).ConclusionThe main treatment for GCA was oral GC, which were required for almost two years on average, in a quarter of patients associated with IV pulses. The cumulative steroid dose was high as well as the side effects. MTX was the most widely used immunosuppressant and TCZ was prescribed in 10%. Relapses and admissions at the hospital were relatively frequent.AcknowledgementsThis study has been funded by ROCHE Farma. The funder has not participated in the design, analysis, or interpretation of the resultsDisclosure of InterestsNone declared
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Navarrete-Fernández T, Bermejo R, Hernández I, Deidun A, Andreu-Cazenave M, Cózar A. The role of seagrass meadows in the coastal trapping of litter. Mar Pollut Bull 2022; 174:113299. [PMID: 35090282 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The accelerated discard and mismanagement of human-made products are resulting in the continued input of litter into the oceans. Models and field observations show how floating litter can accumulate in remote areas throughout the global ocean, but far less is known about the non-floating litter fraction. Seagrass meadows play an important role in the sediment and natural-debris dynamics, and likely also in the storage and processing of non-floating litter. In this work, non-floating litter was studied across six Posidonia oceanica meadows. Litter accumulated mainly around the landside edge of the meadow. The outer margin of the edge predominantly trapped macro-litter, whilst microplastics accumulated mainly along the inner margin. On average, macro-litter concentrations increased 3-fold after heavy rainfall. Retention of non-floating litter by coastal meadows facilitates the recurrent landward-seaward conveyance of the easily-transportable litter (mainly plastic items) and its fragmentation before it is buried or transferred to deeper areas.
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- T Navarrete-Fernández
- University of Cádiz, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, Av. República Saharaui s/n, Puerto Real 11510, Spain.
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- University of Cádiz, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, Av. República Saharaui s/n, Puerto Real 11510, Spain.
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- University of Cádiz, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, Av. República Saharaui s/n, Puerto Real 11510, Spain.
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- University of Malta, Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences, MSD 2080, Malta..
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- University of Cádiz, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, Av. República Saharaui s/n, Puerto Real 11510, Spain
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- University of Cádiz, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, Av. República Saharaui s/n, Puerto Real 11510, Spain.
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Peralta G, Godoy O, Egea LG, de Los Santos CB, Jiménez-Ramos R, Lara M, Brun FG, Hernández I, Olivé I, Vergara JJ, González-Ortiz V, Moreno-Marín F, Morris EP, Villazán B, Pérez-Lloréns JL. The morphometric acclimation to depth explains the long-term resilience of the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa in a shallow tidal lagoon. J Environ Manage 2021; 299:113452. [PMID: 34526276 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Cadiz Bay is a shallow mesotidal lagoon with extensive populations of the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa at intertidal and shallow subtidal elevations. This work aims to understand the mechanisms behind the resilience of this species to gradual sea level rise by studying its acclimation capacity to depth along the shallow littoral, and therefore, to gradual variations in the light environment. To address this objective, these populations have been monitored seasonally over a 10 year period, representing the longest seasonal database available in the literature for this species. The monitoring included populations at 0.4, -0.08 and -0.5 m LAT. The results show that C. nodosa has a strong seasonality for demographic and shoot dynamic properties - with longer shoots and larger growth in summer (high temperature) than in winter (low temperature), but also some losses. Moreover, shoots have different leaf morphometry depending on depth, with small and dense shoots in the intertidal areas (0.4 m) and sparse large shoots in the subtidal ones (-0.08 and 0.5 m). These differences in morphometry and shoot dynamic properties, combined with the differences in shoot density, explain the lack of differences in meadow production balance (i.e. meadow growth - meadow losses) between the intertidal (0.4 m) and the deepest population (-0.5 m), supporting the long term resilience of Cymodocea nodosa in Cadiz Bay. This study contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms behind seagrass stability and resilience, which is particularly important towards predicting the effects of climate change on these key coastal ecosystems, and also highlights the value of continuous long-term monitoring efforts to evaluate seagrass trajectories.
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- G Peralta
- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain.
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain; Centre of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain; Dpto. Ecología y Geología, University of Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Spain; TAXUS Medio Ambiente S.L., Spain
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Martínez-Pías E, García-Azorín D, Trigo-López J, Talavera B, Valle G, Hernández I, Simón P, Arenillas-Lara JF. [Effect of treatment with benzodiazepines on the hospital prognosis of Coronavirus disease 2019]. Rev Neurol 2021; 73:201-209. [PMID: 34515333 DOI: 10.33588/rn.7306.2021028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The consequences of the use of of benzodiazepines in coronavirus disease 2019 have not yet been studied. We compared the hospital prognosis of patients hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 in benzodiazepine users and non-users. PATIENTS AND METHODS Observational study with a retrospective cohort design. All consecutive patients admitted with a confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 were included. The patients under chronic treatment with benzodiazepines at the time of admission were studied and compared with non-users. The primary objective was to analyze the mortality of patients who used chronic benzodiazepines at the time of admission and compare them with those who did not use them. The secondary objective was to analyze the risk of severe disease due to coronavirus 2019, acute respiratory distress syndrome and admission to the Intensive Care Unit in both groups of patients. RESULTS We included 576 patients, 138 (24.0%) used benzodiazepines. After adjusting for sex, age, baseline situation and all the different variables between both groups, benzodiazepine users did not show a higher odds of mortality (OR: 1,1, IC 95%: 0,7-1,9, p = 0,682) or higher risk of severe disease due to coronavirus 2019 (OR: 1.2, 95% CI: 0.7-1.8, p = 0.523). They also did not have a higher risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (OR: 1.2, IC 95%: 0.8-1.9, p = 0.315) or more admission to the Intensive Care Unit (OR: 0.8, 95% CI: 0.4-1.4, p = 0.433). CONCLUSION In our sample, treatment with benzodiazepines at the time of admission was not associated with a worse hospital prognosis in patients with coronavirus disease 2019.
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- E Martínez-Pías
- Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
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- Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
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- Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
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- Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
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- Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
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- Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
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- Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
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- Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, España.,Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España.,Universidad de Valladolid-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, España
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Ortega G, Espinosa A, Alegret M, Monté-Rubio GC, Sotolongo-Grau O, Sanabria A, Tartari JP, Rodríguez-Gómez O, Marquié M, Vivas A, Gómez-Chiari M, Alarcón-Martín E, Pérez-Cordón A, Roberto N, Hernández I, Rosende-Roca M, Vargas L, Mauleón A, Abdelnour C, Esteban De Antonio E, López-Cuevas R, Alonso-Lana S, Moreno-Grau S, de Rojas I, Orellana A, Montrreal L, Tárraga L, Ruiz A, Boada M, Valero S. Combination of white matter hyperintensities and Aβ burden is related to cognitive composites domain scores in subjective cognitive decline: the FACEHBI cohort. Alzheimers Res Ther 2021; 13:141. [PMID: 34404456 PMCID: PMC8371791 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-021-00877-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND To explore whether the combination of white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) and amyloid-beta (Aβ) deposition is associated with worse cognitive performance on cognitive composites (CCs) domain scores in individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD). METHODS Two hundred participants from the FACEHBI cohort underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 18F-florbetaben positron emission tomography (FBB-PET), and neuropsychological assessment. WMHs were addressed through the Fazekas scale, the Age-Related White Matter Changes (ARWMC) scale, and the FreeSurfer pipeline. Eight CCs domain scores were created using the principal component analysis (PCA). Age, sex, education, and apolipoprotein E (APOE) were used as adjusting variables. RESULTS Adjusted multiple linear regression models showed that FreeSurfer (B - .245; 95% CI - .1.676, - .393, p = .016) and β burden (SUVR) (B - .180; 95% CI - 2.140, - .292; p = .070) were associated with face-name associative memory CCs domain score, although the latest one was not statistically significant after correction for multiple testing (p = .070). There was non-significant interaction of these two factors on this same CCs domain score (p = .54). However, its cumulative effects on face-name associative performance indicated that those individuals with either higher WMH load or higher Aβ burden showed the worst performance on the face-name associative memory CCs domain score. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that increased WMH load and increased Aβ are independently associated with poorer episodic memory performance in SCD individuals, indicating a cumulative effect of the combination of these two pathological conditions in promoting lower cognitive performance, an aspect that could help in terms of treatment and prevention.
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- G Ortega
- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament de Diagnòstic Per La Imatge, Clínica Corachan, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Diagnòstic Per La Imatge, Clínica Corachan, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Research Center and Memory Clinic, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, C/ Gran Via de Carles III, 85 bis- 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Networking Research Center On Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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Norrbacka K, Sicras-Mainar A, Lebrec J, Artime E, Díaz S, Tofé-Povedano S, Hernández I, Romera I. Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Data from a Real-World Study in Spain. Diabetes Ther 2021; 12:1535-1551. [PMID: 33860927 PMCID: PMC8099971 DOI: 10.1007/s13300-021-01039-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION This study aimed to describe utilization patterns, persistence, resource utilization and costs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus initiating treatment with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists in routine clinical practice in Spain. METHODS This retrospective study of medical records in the Big-Pac database identified adults starting treatment with once-weekly (QW) dulaglutide, exenatide-QW or once-daily liraglutide between 1 November 2015 and 30 June 2017. Patients were followed for up to 18 months from treatment initiation. Data on clinical characteristics of patients, treatment patterns, average daily dose and costs were obtained for the three cohorts. Persistence over the 18-month period was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier curves. All analyses were descriptive. RESULTS A total of 1402 patients were included in this study (dulaglutide [n = 492], exenatide-QW [n = 438] or liraglutide [n = 472]); 52.8% were men, and the mean (SD) age was 62 (11) years, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) was 8.1% (1.2) and body mass index was 35.5 (3.2) kg/m2 at treatment initiation. Persistence at 18 months was 59.1% (95% confidence interval [CI] 54.8-63.4) for dulaglutide, 45.7% (95% CI 41.0-50.4) for exenatide-QW and 46.6% (95% CI 42.1-51.1) for liraglutide. The average (SD) dose was 1.2 (0.4) mg/week for dulaglutide, 1.9 (0.3) mg/week for exenatide-QW and 1.1 (0.3) mg/day for liraglutide. The average reduction in HbA1c levels at 1 year was - 0.68% for patients who initiated dulaglutide, - 0.54% for patients who initiated exenatide-QW and - 0.50% for patients who initiated liraglutide. The mean (SD) total annual health care costs were €4072 (1946) for dulaglutide, €4418 (2382) for exenatide-QW and €4382 (2389) for liraglutide. CONCLUSION Results suggest that patients who started treatment with dulaglutide had higher persistence over 18 months, presented lower HbA1c levels at 12 months and incurred lower annual total healthcare costs than patients who initiated exenatide-QW or liraglutide.
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- Lilly Spain, Avenida de la Industria 30, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
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- Lilly Spain, Avenida de la Industria 30, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
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- Lilly Spain, Avenida de la Industria 30, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
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Bermejo R, Macías M, Sánchez-García F, Love R, Varela-Álvarez E, Hernández I. Influence of irradiance, dissolved nutrients and salinity on the colour and nutritional characteristics of Gracilariopsis longissima (Rhodophyta). ALGAL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2020.102121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Egea LG, Jiménez-Ramos R, Hernández I, Brun FG. Differential effects of nutrient enrichment on carbon metabolism and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes in macrophytic benthic communities. Mar Environ Res 2020; 162:105179. [PMID: 33065520 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Nutrient enrichment can alter negatively benthic communities and reduce their ecological services. This study explores in two contrasting seasons (winter and summer), the effects of in situ nutrient enrichment at the community level on carbon metabolism and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes in two benthic communities dominated by the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa and by the macroalga Caulerpa prolifera. Under nutrient enrichment, C. nodosa increased total community biomass and diversity in summer, while net community production shifted from net autotrophic to net heterotrophic in winter. In contrast, C. prolifera became heterotrophic in summer, while no significant effects were found in winter. Regarding DOC fluxes, nutrient enrichment shifted C. nodosa from net DOC consumer in winter to a strong net DOC producer in summer, while C. prolifera seemed unaffected. Therefore, nutrient enrichment can promote conditional effects (positive, negative or neutral) in coastal areas depending both on macrophyte assemblages and season.
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- Luis G Egea
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain.
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain; Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC), C/ Miquel Marquès, 21 07190, Esporles Illes Balears, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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Pisonero J, Varela O, García E, Hernández I, Ajates J, Sagredo J, Olivar M, Albarran C, Roso L, Méndez C. FDTD Modeling of double ultrashort pulse propagation in nonlinear absorbing media. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023812006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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An approach based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is developed for simulating the dynamics of two ultrashort laser pulses inside a saturable absorbing media. This work discusses the results obtained using this numerical model for the prediction of the nonlinear absorbing media behaviour as well as how it affects the final double pulse combination. These results can be used to improve contrast cleaning conditions for high power laser chains and for synchronization studies, this last application was checked in the VEGA facility lab as a code validation.
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Sicras Mainar A, Navarro Artieda R, Hernández I, Morillo R. Prevalence of the potential drug-drug interactions between pangenotypic direct-acting antivirals and the concomitant medications associated with patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection in Spain. Gastroenterol Hepatol 2019; 42:465-475. [PMID: 31451229 DOI: 10.1016/j.gastrohep.2019.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2018] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the comorbidity and potential for drug-drug interactions (DDIs) among pangenotypic direct-acting-antivirals (pDAAs) and the concomitant medications associated with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients in routine clinical practice in Spain. METHODS Retrospective observational study. Included patients were ≥18 years, diagnosed with CHC, on antiviral treatment and required medical attention during 2017. Two groups were differentiated according to age ranges (<50 and ≥50 years). The variables collected were: age, gender, general/specific comorbidity, concomitant medication and potential DDIs (www.hep-druginteractions.org). The pDAAs analysed were: a) Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir (SOF/VEL), b) Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir (GLE/PIB) and c) Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir/Voxilaprevir (SOF/VEL/VOX). Bivariate statistical analysis, P<.05. RESULTS 3,430 patients with a mean age of 56.9 years and 60.3% males were enrolled. The average Charlson index was 0.8. Age range distribution: 18-49 years (28.9%) and ≥50 years (71.1%). The average number of medications per patient/year was 3.1 (SD 2.6). The total percentage of potential DDIs was: 8.6% minor DDIs, 40.5% clinically significant DDIs and 10.0% contraindicated medication. These DDIs were greater in patients ≥50 years (8.6%, 43.8% and 12.4%, respectively, P<.001). For all ages, SOF/VEL showed a lower percentage of: minor interactions (1.3% vs. 6.6% and 5.9%, P<.001); clinically significant interactions (53.4%, vs. 77.4% and 66.3%, P<.001) and contraindicated medication (1.7% vs. 8.3% and 10.7%, P<.001) compared to GLE/PIB and SOF/VEL/VOX, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Patients with CHC present high comorbidity and concomitant medication use, particularly elderly patients, thus implying a greater exposure to potential DDIs. Although the DDI rate was considerable with the three combinations analysed, SOF/VEL showed a lower number of clinically significant interactions.
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- Documentación Médica. Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España
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- Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Real Life Data, Madrid, España
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- Farmacia Hospitalaria, Hospital de Valme, AGS Sur de Sevilla, España
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Otero J, Camacho PA, Gómez-Peña LM, Rueda-Quijano SM, Gómez-Cuellar JF, Rey JJ, Sánchez G, Narváez C, Accini JL, Aroca G, Arcos E, Hernández I, García H, Pérez M, Galvis CR, Molina DI, Mejía C, Casanova ME, García L, Urina-Triana M, López-Jaramillo P. [Measurement, monitoring and knowledge of blood pressure: May Measurement Month, Colombia 2017]. Hipertens Riesgo Vasc 2019; 37:4-10. [PMID: 31416713 DOI: 10.1016/j.hipert.2019.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2018] [Revised: 03/09/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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AIM To describe the findings of implementing May Measurement Month 2017 in the adult Colombian population to raise awareness of the importance of blood pressure measuring, monitoring, and awareness. MATERIALS AND METHODS May Measurement Month is a cross-sectional survey that follows the directives of the International Society of Hypertension and the World Hypertension League, which gathers information on cardiovascular risk factors and blood pressure readings. Its implementation in Colombia was lead by the Santander Ophthalmological Foundation (FOSCAL) and the Latin American Society of Hypertension (LASH) with the support of the Colombian Network for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes (RECARDI). RESULTS Data was collected from 11 departments on 21,797 people, 58.7% of whom were female, with an average age of 40.5±17.7 years. The overall prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) was 20.8% (self-reported antihypertensive treatment or systolic blood pressure reading [systolic blood pressure≥140mmHg]). Of the total number of hypertensives, 46.5% had systolic blood pressure readings classified as uncontrolled (systolic blood pressure<140mmHg), and 26.4% were unaware that they were hypertensive who, in this report, we consider to be new cases of HBP. CONCLUSION The prevalence of (elevated) blood pressure is high in this young adult population, whose lack of awareness of HBP is also high, and HBP in those aware of their condition is poorly controlled. These results highlight the need to implement effective detection programmes for hypertensive patients and to establish standardised treatments to improve HBP control as a strategy to reduce cardiovascular events.
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- J Otero
- Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander (FOSCAL) y Universidad de Santander (UDES), Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
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- Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander (FOSCAL) y Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB), Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander (FOSCAL), Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander (FOSCAL), Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander (FOSCAL), Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB), Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Universidad del Quindío, Hospital San Juan de Dios de Armenia, Armenia, Quindío, Colombia
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- Hospital Susana López de Valencia ESE, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia
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- IPS Centro Científico Asistencial, Universidad Libre y Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia
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- Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia
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- Fundación Centro Médico COMETA, Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
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- Universidad Cooperativa Regional Pasto, Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
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- Fundación Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas (RIESCARD), Espinal, Tolima, Colombia
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- Universidad Militar Nueva Granada y Clínica de Marly, Bogotá DC, Colombia
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- Universidad de Los Llanos, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia
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- Asociación IPS Médicos Internistas de Caldas y Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia
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- Universidad Libre Seccional Cali, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Universidad Libre Seccional Cali, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Fundación CARDIOMET Pereira y Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
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- Fundación del Caribe para la Investigación Biomédica (Fundación Bios) y Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia
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- Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander (FOSCAL) y Universidad de Santander (UDES), Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia.
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Llaó I, Gómez-Hospital JA, Aboal J, Garcia C, Montero S, Sambola A, Ortiz J, Tomás C, Bonet G, Viñas D, Oliveras T, Sans-Roselló J, Cantalapiedra J, Andrea R, Hernández I, Pérez-Rodriguez M, Gual M, Cequier A, Ariza-Solé A. Risk-adjusted early invasive strategy in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome in Intensive Cardiac Care Units. Med Intensiva 2019; 44:475-484. [PMID: 31362838 DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2019.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 05/27/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Current guidelines recommend a risk-adjusted early invasive strategy (EIS) in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTEACS). The present study assesses the application if this strategy, the conditioning factors and prognostic impact upon patients with NSTEACS admitted to Intensive Cardiac Care Units (ICCU). DESIGN A prospective cohort study was carried out. SETTING The ICCUs of 8 hospitals in Catalonia (Spain). PATIENTS Consecutive patients with NSTEACS between October 2017 and March 2018. The risk profile was defined by the European Society of Cardiology criteria. INTERVENTIONS EIS was defined as the performance of coronary angiography within the first 6hours in patients at very high-risk or within 24hours in high-risk patients. OUTCOME VARIABLES Mortality or readmission at 6 months. RESULTS A total of 629 patients were included (mean age 66.6 years), of whom 225 (35.9%) were at very high risk, and 392 (62.6%) at high risk. Most patients (96.2%) underwent an invasive strategy. EIS was performed in 284 patients (45.6%), especially younger patients with fewer comorbidities. These patients had a shorter ICCU and hospital stay, as well as a lesser incidence of ACS, revascularization and death or readmission at 6 months. After adjusting for confounders, the association between EIS and death or readmission at 6 months remained significant (hazard ratio: .66, 95% confidence interval .45-.97; P=.035). CONCLUSIONS The EIS was performed in a minority of NSTEACS admitted to ICCU, being associated with better outcomes.
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- I Llaó
- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiológicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cardiología Intervencionista, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiolígicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari Josep Trueta, Girona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiolígicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiológicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos cardiológicos. Hospital Universitari de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos cardiológicos. Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos cardiológicos. Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos cardiológicos. Hospital Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiolígicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari Josep Trueta, Girona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiolígicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiológicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiolígicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos cardiológicos. Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos cardiológicos. Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos cardiológicos. Hospital Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiológicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España
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- Servicio de Cardiología. Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Cardiológicos, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España.
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Arias F, Asín G, Flamarique S, Hernández I, Suarez J. In favor of total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) for locally advanced rectal carcinoma. Clin Transl Oncol 2019; 22:793-794. [PMID: 31309436 DOI: 10.1007/s12094-019-02177-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- F Arias
- Services of Radiation Oncology, Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Unit (UMDCR), Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
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- Services of Radiation Oncology, Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Unit (UMDCR), Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Services of Radiation Oncology, Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Unit (UMDCR), Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Services of Medical Oncology, Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Unit (UMDCR), Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Services of Surgery, Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Unit (UMDCR), Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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Borrero-Palacios A, Cebrián A, Gómez Del Pulgar MT, García-Carbonero R, Garcia-Alfonso P, Aranda E, Elez E, López-López R, Cervantes A, Valladares M, Nadal C, Viéitez JM, Guillén-Ponce C, Rodríguez J, Hernández I, García JL, Vega-Bravo R, Puime-Otin A, Martínez-Useros J, Del Puerto-Nevado L, Rincón R, Rodríguez-Remírez M, Rojo F, García-Foncillas J. Author Correction: Combination of KIR2DS4 and FcγRIIa polymorphisms predicts the response to cetuximab in KRAS mutant metastatic colorectal cancer. Sci Rep 2019; 9:7706. [PMID: 31097738 PMCID: PMC6522500 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43809-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- A Borrero-Palacios
- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain.
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Gral. Univ. Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Vall d'Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Navarra, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain
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- Oncology, Medical Unit, Merck S.L, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Anatomopathology Department, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Anatomopathology Department, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Anatomopathology Department, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain.
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Velázquez M, Albarrán A, Hernández I, López-Gude MJ, Sarnago F, Martín R, Arribas F, Escribano P. Angioplastia pulmonar con balón en la hipertensión pulmonar tromboembólica crónica no operable. Estudio observacional en una unidad de referencia. Rev Esp Cardiol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.recesp.2018.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Velázquez M, Albarrán A, Hernández I, López-Gude MJ, Sarnago F, Martín R, Arribas F, Escribano P. Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty for Inoperable Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. Observational Study in a Referral Unit. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 72:224-232. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rec.2018.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2017] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Borrero-Palacios A, Cebrián A, Gómez Del Pulgar MT, García-Carbonero R, Garcia-Alfonso P, Aranda E, Elez E, López-López R, Cervantes A, Valladares M, Nadal C, Viéitez JM, Guillén-Ponce C, Rodríguez J, Hernández I, García JL, Vega-Bravo R, Puime-Otin A, Martínez-Useros J, Del Puerto-Nevado L, Rincón R, Rodríguez-Remírez M, Rojo F, García-Foncillas J. Combination of KIR2DS4 and FcγRIIa polymorphisms predicts the response to cetuximab in KRAS mutant metastatic colorectal cancer. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2589. [PMID: 30796344 PMCID: PMC6385198 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39291-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Cetuximab is a standard-of-care treatment for RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) but not for those harbor a KRAS mutation since MAPK pathway is constitutively activated. Nevertheless, cetuximab also exerts its effect by its immunomodulatory activity despite the presence of RAS mutation. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of polymorphism FcγRIIIa V158F and killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genes on the outcome of mCRC patients with KRAS mutations treated with cetuximab. This multicenter Phase II clinical trial included 70 mCRC patients with KRAS mutated. We found KIR2DS4 gene was significantly associated with OS (HR 2.27; 95% CI, 1.08–4.77; P = 0.03). In non-functional receptor homozygotes the median OS was 2.6 months longer than in carriers of one copy of full receptor. Multivariate analysis confirmed KIR2DS4 as a favorable prognostic marker for OS (HR 6.71) in mCRC patients with KRAS mutation treated with cetuximab. These data support the potential therapeutic of cetuximab in KRAS mutated mCRC carrying non-functional receptor KIR2DS4 since these patients significantly prolong their OS even after heavily treatment. KIR2DS4 typing could be used as predictive marker for identifying RAS mutated patients that could benefit from combination approaches of anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies and other immunotherapies to overcome the resistance mediated by mutation in RAS.
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- A Borrero-Palacios
- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain.
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Gral. Univ. Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Vall d'Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Navarra, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain
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- Oncology, Medical Unit, Merck S.L, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Anatomopathology Department, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Anatomopathology Department, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Anatomopathology Department, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Oncology Division, Oncohealth Institute, Hospital Universitario "Fundación Jimenez Diaz", Madrid, Spain.
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Egea LG, Jiménez–Ramos R, Hernández I, Brun FG. Effect of In Situ short-term temperature increase on carbon metabolism and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes in a community dominated by the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0210386. [PMID: 30640926 PMCID: PMC6331083 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Seagrasses form one of the most productive and threatened ecosystems worldwide because of global change and anthropogenic pressures. The frequency of extreme climatic events, such as heat waves, are expected to increase and may drive even more adverse effects than gradual warming. This study explores for the first time the effects of a sudden and temporary increase of temperature in situ on carbon metabolism and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes in a community dominated by a seagrass (Cymodocea nodosa) during two contrasting seasons (winter and summer). Results showed a positive correlation between temperature and seagrass production between seasons, while the experimental sudden and temporary increase in water temperature did not produce significant differences in carbon community metabolism and DOC fluxes in winter. In contrast, high temperature conditions in summer enhanced significantly the net community production and affected positively to DOC fluxes. Hence, this study indicates that a sudden and temporary increase in water temperature, which characterize marine heat waves, in temperate areas may enhance the autotrophic metabolism of seagrass communities and can yield an increase in the DOC released, in contrast to previous researches suggesting solely negative effects on seagrasses.
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- Luis G. Egea
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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Marques Mejías MA, Tomás Pérez M, Hernández I, López I, Quirce S. Asthma Exacerbations in the Pediatric Emergency Department at a Tertiary Hospital: Association With Environmental Factors. J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2018; 29:365-370. [PMID: 30561364 DOI: 10.18176/jiaci.0364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Children with asthma experience recurrent respiratory symptoms and exacerbations due to multiple environmental factors. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and triggers of asthma exacerbations and their management in a cohort of pediatric patients attended in an emergency department (ED). METHODS We performed an observational, retrospective, single-center study in the pediatric ED of Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain in 2015. Children with asthma exacerbations attending the ED were included after a thorough search using our institutional computer database. Pollen and atmospheric mold spore counts and pollution data were collected for that period from official websites. Multiple logistic regression was used to assess the association between daily pollution (NO2, PM10, ozone, pollen, and molds) and admissions to the ED because of asthma. RESULTS During 2015, a total of 50 619 patients were attended in the ED of our hospital. Of these, 2609 (5%) were diagnosed with asthma exacerbation/bronchospasm. The patient had to be admitted to hospital in 21.7% of cases. The main triggers of asthma exacerbations were respiratory infection in 1841 cases (70.6%). A significant correlation was found between grass pollen counts and ED admissions (P<.0001). A positive correlation was also found between ED admissions and NO2 0.58 (95%CI, 0.02-0.87) and PM10 0.75 (95%CI, 0.31-0.93) (P<.05). CONCLUSION Environmental factors such as grass pollen counts and pollution (NO2 and PM10) are associated with a higher frequency of admission to the ED.
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- Department of Allergy, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Allergy, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (IDIPAZ), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Allergy, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Allergy, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Allergy, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Allergy, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (IDIPAZ), Madrid, Spain.,CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias CIBERES, Madrid, Spain
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de Rojas I, Romero J, Rodríguez-Gomez O, Pesini P, Sanabria A, Pérez-Cordon A, Abdelnour C, Hernández I, Rosende-Roca M, Mauleón A, Vargas L, Alegret M, Espinosa A, Ortega G, Gil S, Guitart M, Gailhajanet A, Santos-Santos MA, Moreno-Grau S, Sotolongo-Grau O, Ruiz S, Montrreal L, Martín E, Pelejà E, Lomeña F, Campos F, Vivas A, Gómez-Chiari M, Tejero MA, Giménez J, Pérez-Grijalba V, Marquié GM, Monté-Rubio G, Valero S, Orellana A, Tárraga L, Sarasa M, Ruiz A, Boada M. Correlations between plasma and PET beta-amyloid levels in individuals with subjective cognitive decline: the Fundació ACE Healthy Brain Initiative (FACEHBI). Alzheimers Res Ther 2018; 10:119. [PMID: 30497535 PMCID: PMC6267075 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-018-0444-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Peripheral biomarkers that identify individuals at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) or predicting high amyloid beta (Aβ) brain burden would be highly valuable. To facilitate clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies, plasma concentrations of Aβ species are good candidates for peripheral AD biomarkers, but studies to date have generated conflicting results. METHODS The Fundació ACE Healthy Brain Initiative (FACEHBI) study uses a convenience sample of 200 individuals diagnosed with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) at the Fundació ACE (Barcelona, Spain) who underwent amyloid florbetaben(18F) (FBB) positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging. Baseline plasma samples from FACEHBI subjects (aged 65.9 ± 7.2 years) were analyzed using the ABtest (Araclon Biotech). This test directly determines the free plasma (FP) and total plasma (TP) levels of Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides. The association between Aβ40 and Aβ42 plasma levels and FBB-PET global standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) was determined using correlations and linear regression-based methods. The effect of the APOE genotype on plasma Aβ levels and FBB-PET was also assessed. Finally, various models including different combinations of demographics, genetics, and Aβ plasma levels were constructed using logistic regression and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) analyses to evaluate their ability for discriminating which subjects presented brain amyloidosis. RESULTS FBB-PET global SUVR correlated weakly but significantly with Aβ42/40 plasma ratios. For TP42/40, this observation persisted after controlling for age and APOE ε4 allele carrier status (R2 = 0.193, p = 1.01E-09). The ROC curve demonstrated that plasma Aβ measurements are not superior to APOE and age in combination in predicting brain amyloidosis. It is noteworthy that using a simple preselection tool (the TP42/40 ratio with an empirical cut-off value of 0.08) optimizes the sensitivity and reduces the number of individuals subjected to Aβ FBB-PET scanners to 52.8%. No significant dependency was observed between APOE genotype and plasma Aβ measurements (p value for interaction = 0.105). CONCLUSION Brain and plasma Aβ levels are partially correlated in individuals diagnosed with SCD. Aβ plasma measurements, particularly the TP42/40 ratio, could generate a new recruitment strategy independent of the APOE genotype that would improve identification of SCD subjects with brain amyloidosis and reduce the rate of screening failures in preclinical AD studies. Independent replication of these findings is warranted.
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- Itziar de Rojas
- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Servei de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servei de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Diagnòstic per la Imatge, Clínica Corachan, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Diagnòstic per la Imatge, Clínica Corachan, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Diagnòstic per la Imatge, Clínica Corachan, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Diagnòstic per la Imatge, Clínica Corachan, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Center and Memory Clinic, Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, C/ Marquès de Sentmenat, 57, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
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Egea LG, Jiménez-Ramos R, Vergara JJ, Hernández I, Brun FG. Interactive effect of temperature, acidification and ammonium enrichment on the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa. Mar Pollut Bull 2018; 134:14-26. [PMID: 29475735 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.02.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 02/02/2018] [Accepted: 02/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Global (e.g. climate change) and local factors (e.g. nutrient enrichment) act together in nature strongly hammering coastal ecosystems, where seagrasses play a critical ecological role. This experiment explores the combined effects of warming, acidification and ammonium enrichment on the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa under a full factorial mesocosm design. Warming increased plant production but at the expense of reducing carbon reserves. Meanwhile, acidification had not effects on plant production but increased slightly carbon reserves, while a slight stimulation of net production and a slight decrease on carbon reserves under ammonium supply were recorded. When all the factors were combined together improved the production and carbon reserves of Cymodocea nodosa, indicating that acidification improved ammonium assimilation and buffered the enhanced respiration promoted by temperature. Therefore, it could indicate that this temperate species may benefit under the simulated future scenarios, but indirect effects (e.g. herbivory, mechanical stress, etc.) may counteract this balance.
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- L G Egea
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain.
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain
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Hu JX, Karamshuk S, Gorbaciova J, Ye HQ, Lu H, Zhang YP, Zheng YX, Liang X, Hernández I, Wyatt PB, Gillin WP. High sensitization efficiency and energy transfer routes for population inversion at low pump intensity in Er organic complexes for IR amplification. Sci Rep 2018; 8:3226. [PMID: 29459795 PMCID: PMC5818663 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21700-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Accepted: 02/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Organic erbium complexes have long been of interest due to their potential for using the strong absorption into the organic to sensitise the erbium emission. Despite this interest there is remarkably little quantitative information on how effective the approach is and the discussion of the energy transfer mechanism is generally vague. Here we accurately quantify the sensitisation as a function of excitation pump density and model it using a rate equation approach. As a result, we can calculate the degree of population inversion for the erbium ions as a function of the pump intensity. We demonstrate that even when we increase the erbium concentration in the films from ~10 to ~80% we find a relatively small decrease in the sensitisation which we attribute to the large (>20 Å) Förster radius for the sensitisation process. We show that we can obtain population inversion in our films at very low pump powers ~600 mW/cm2. The calculated Förster radius for the organic erbium complexes suggests design rules for energy transfer between antennas and erbium ions in molecular systems and hybrid organic-inorganic nanoparticles.
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- J X Hu
- College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China
- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore, 637371, Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, SIST, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- Dpto. CITIMAC, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK.
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- College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China.
- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK.
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Egea LG, Jiménez-Ramos R, Hernández I, Bouma TJ, Brun FG. Effects of ocean acidification and hydrodynamic conditions on carbon metabolism and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes in seagrass populations. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0192402. [PMID: 29420625 PMCID: PMC5805273 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Global change has been acknowledged as one of the main threats to the biosphere and its provision of ecosystem services, especially in marine ecosystems. Seagrasses play a critical ecological role in coastal ecosystems, but their responses to ocean acidification (OA) and climate change are not well understood. There have been previous studies focused on the effects of OA, but the outcome of interactions with co-factors predicted to alter during climate change still needs to be addressed. For example, the impact of higher CO2 and different hydrodynamic regimes on seagrass performance remains unknown. We studied the effects of OA under different current velocities on productivity of the seagrass Zostera noltei, using changes in dissolved oxygen as a proxy for the seagrass carbon metabolism, and release of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in a four-week experiment using an open-water outdoor mesocosm. Under current pH conditions, increasing current velocity had a positive effect on productivity, but this depended on shoot density. However, this positive effect of current velocity disappeared under OA conditions. OA conditions led to a significant increase in gross production rate and respiration, suggesting that Z. noltei is carbon-limited under the current inorganic carbon concentration of seawater. In addition, an increase in non-structural carbohydrates was found, which may lead to better growing conditions and higher resilience in seagrasses subjected to environmental stress. Regarding DOC flux, a direct and positive relationship was found between current velocity and DOC release, both under current pH and OA conditions. We conclude that OA and high current velocity may lead to favourable growth scenarios for Z. noltei populations, increasing their productivity, non-structural carbohydrate concentrations and DOC release. Our results add new dimensions to predictions on how seagrass ecosystems will respond to climate change, with important implications for the resilience and conservation of these threatened ecosystems.
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- Luis G. Egea
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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- Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Yerseke, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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Ye H, Bogdanov V, Liu S, Vajandar S, Osipowicz T, Hernández I, Xiong Q. Bright Photon Upconversion on Composite Organic Lanthanide Molecules through Localized Thermal Radiation. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:5695-5699. [PMID: 29099188 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Converting low-energy photons via thermal radiation can be a potential approach for utilizing infrared (IR) photons to improve photovoltaic efficiency. Lanthanide-containing materials have achieved great progress in IR-to-visible photon upconversion (UC). Herein, we first report bright photon, tunable wavelength UC through localized thermal radiation at the molecular scale with low excitation power density (<10 W/cm2) realized on lanthanide complexes of perfluorinated organic ligands. This is enabled by engineering the pathways of nonradiative de-excitation and energy transfer in a composite of ytterbium and terbium perfluoroimidodiphosphinates. The IR-excited thermal UC and wavelength control is realized through the terbium activators sensitized by the ytterbium sensitizers having high luminescence efficiency. The metallic molecular composite thus can be a potential energy material in the use of the IR solar spectrum for thermal photovoltaic applications.
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- Huanqing Ye
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University , 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University , 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
- Chemistry Department, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University , Leninskie Gory, 1-3, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University , 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- Centre for Ion Beam Applications, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore , 2 Science Drive 3, 117542 Singapore
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- Centre for Ion Beam Applications, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore , 2 Science Drive 3, 117542 Singapore
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- Dpto. CITIMAC, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria , Avda. Los Castros, s/n 39005 Santander, Spain
- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London , Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University , 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
- NOVITAS, Nanoelectronics Center of Excellence, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University , 639798 Singapore
- MajuLab, CNRS-UNS-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit, UMI 3654, Singapore
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Whitton BA, Yelloly JM, Christmas M, Hernández I. Surface phosphatase activity of benthic algae in a stream with highly variable ambient phosphate concentrations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/03680770.1995.11900862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Lu H, Peng Y, Ye H, Cui X, Hu J, Gu H, Khlobystov AN, Green MA, Blower PJ, Wyatt PB, Gillin WP, Hernández I. Sensitization, energy transfer and infra-red emission decay modulation in Yb 3+-doped NaYF 4 nanoparticles with visible light through a perfluoroanthraquinone chromophore. Sci Rep 2017; 7:5066. [PMID: 28698586 PMCID: PMC5505979 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05350-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 05/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Infra-red emission (980 nm) of sub 10 nm Yb3+-doped NaYF4 nanoparticles has been sensitized through the excitation of 2-hydroxyperfluoroanthraquinone chromophore (1,2,3,4,5,6,7-heptafluro-8-hydroxyanthracene-9,10-dione) functionalizing the nanoparticle surface. The sensitization is achieved with a broad range of visible light excitation (400-600 nm). The overall near infra-red (NIR) emission intensity of Yb3+ ions is increased by a factor 300 as a result of the broad and strong absorption of the chromophore compared with ytterbium's intrinsic absorption. Besides the Yb3+ NIR emission, the hybrid composite shows organic chromophore-based visible emission in the orange-red region of the spectrum. We observe the energy migration process from the sensitized Yb3+ ions at the surface to those in the core of the particle using time-resolved optical spectroscopy. This highlights that the local environments for emitting Yb3+ ions at the surface and center of the nanoparticle are not identical, which causes important differences in the NIR emission dynamics. Based on the understanding of these processes, we suggest a simple strategy to control and modulate the decay time of the functionalized Yb3+-doped nanoparticles over a relatively large range by changing physical or chemical parameters in this model system.
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- Haizhou Lu
- State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, SIST, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore, 637371, Singapore
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Life Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Nanoscale & Microscale Research Centre (nmRC), University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand Campus, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, 4th Floor Lambeth Wing, St Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK.
- College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China.
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- Dpto. CITIMAC, Universidad de Cantabria, Facultad de Ciencias, Avda. Los Castros, s/n 39005, Santander, Spain.
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Manck L, Quintana E, Suárez R, Brun FG, Hernández I, Ortega MJ, Zubía E. Profiling of Phenolic Natural Products in the Seagrass Zostera noltei by UPLC-MS. Nat Prod Commun 2017. [DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1701200511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Seagrasses are marine plants that play important ecological functions in coastal ecosystems. The species Zostera noltei is widely distributed along the European coasts thriving in a variety of environmental conditions. In this study, the phenolic natural products of Z. noltei have been analyzed quantitatively by using UPLC-MS. Plants from the Natural Park of the Bay of Cadiz (Spain) were shown to contain rosmarinic acid (1) and the flavonoids apigenin-7- O-glucoside (2), luteolin-7-sulfate (7), apigenin-7-sulfate (8), diosmetin-7-sulfate (9), and acacetin-7-sulfate (10). The analysis by UPLC-MS of extracts allowed the quantification of all the compounds and evidenced the intraspecific variations in the profile of natural products among plants collected at different dates and locations within the Bay. The flavonoids 2, and 7-10 were present in all the analyzed samples with a total flavonoid content in the range 12.8–72.3 mg/g dry wt, while rosmarinic acid (1) was only present in some samples, reaching up to 19.6 mg/g dry wt. A distinctive feature of plants from the Bay of Cadiz is the common presence of apigenin-7-sulfate (8) as major flavonoid, differing from plants from other regions whose major flavonoid is diosmetin-7-sulfate (9).
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- Lauren Manck
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
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Manck L, Quintana E, Brunb FG, Hernández I, Ortega MJ, Zubia E. Profiling of Phenolic Natural Products in the Seagrass Zostera noltei by UPLC-MS. Nat Prod Commun 2017; 12:687-690. [PMID: 30496676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Seagrasses are marine plants that play important ecological functions in coastal ecosystems. The species Zostera noltei is widely distributed along the European coasts thriving in a variety of environmental conditions. In this study, the phenolic natural products of Z. noltei have been analyzed quantitatively by using UPLC-MS. Plants from the Natural Park of the Bay of Cadiz (Spain) were shown to contain rosmarinic acid (1) and the flavonoids apigenin-7-0- glucoside (2), luteolin-7-sulfate (7), apigenin-7-sulfate (8), diosmetin-7-sulfate (9), and acacetin-7-sulfate (10). The analysis by UPLC-MS of extracts allowed the quantification of all the compounds and evidenced the intraspecific variations in the profile of natural products among plants collected at different dates and locations within the Bay. The flavonoids 2, and 7-10 were present in all the analyzed samples with a total flavonoid content in the range 12.8-72.3 mg/g dry wt, while rosmarinic acid (1) was only present in some samples, reaching up to 19.6 mg/g dry wt. A distinctive feature of plants from the Bay of Cadiz is the common presence of apigenin-7-sulfate (8) as major flavonoid, differing from plants from other regions whose major flavonoid is diosmetin-7-sulfate (9).
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Arias F, Eito C, Asín G, Mora I, Cambra K, Mañeru F, Ibáñez B, Arbea L, Viudez A, Hernández I, Arrarás JI, Errasti M, Barrado M, Campo M, Visus I, Flamarique S, Ciga MA. Fecal incontinence and radiation dose on anal sphincter in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy: a retrospective, single-institutional study. Clin Transl Oncol 2017; 19:969-975. [DOI: 10.1007/s12094-017-1627-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Peng Y, Hu JX, Lu H, Wilson RM, Motevalli M, Hernández I, Gillin WP, Wyatt PB, Ye HQ. Functionalisation of ligands through click chemistry: long-lived NIR emission from organic Er(iii) complexes with a perfluorinated core and a hydrogen-containing shell. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra25494b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Erbium complexes with a fluorinated organic core shell linked to a hydrogen-containing shell, have been synthesized using the click reaction between erbium(iii) bis(perfluoro-4-azidophenyl)phosphinate and a series of alkynes.
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- Y. Peng
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System
- SIST Fudan University
- Shanghai
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- Queen Mary University of London
- London E1 4NS
- UK
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- Department of Macromolecular Science
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System
- SIST Fudan University
- Shanghai
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- Queen Mary University of London
- London E1 4NS
- UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- Queen Mary University of London
- London E1 4NS
- UK
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- Departamento CITIMAC
- Facultad de Ciencias
- Universidad de Cantabria
- Santander 39005
- Spain
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- Queen Mary University of London
- London E1 4NS
- UK
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- Queen Mary University of London
- London E1 4NS
- UK
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore 637371
- Singapore
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Bermejo R, de la Fuente G, Ramírez-Romero E, Vergara JJ, Hernández I. Spatial variability and response to anthropogenic pressures of assemblages dominated by a habitat forming seaweed sensitive to pollution (northern coast of Alboran Sea). Mar Pollut Bull 2016; 105:255-64. [PMID: 26892204 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Revised: 02/01/2016] [Accepted: 02/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The Cystoseira ericaefolia group is conformed by three species: C. tamariscifolia, C. mediterranea and C. amentacea. These species are among the most important habitat forming species of the upper sublittoral rocky shores of the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent Atlantic coast. This species group is sensitive to human pressures and therefore is currently suffering important losses. This study aimed to assess the influence of anthropogenic pressures, oceanographic conditions and local spatial variability in assemblages dominated by C. ericaefolia in the Alboran Sea. The results showed the absence of significant effects of anthropogenic pressures or its interactions with environmental conditions in the Cystoseira assemblages. This fact was attributed to the high spatial variability, which is most probably masking the impact of anthropogenic pressures. The results also showed that most of the variability occurred on at local levels. A relevant spatial variability was observed at regional level, suggesting a key role of oceanographic features in these assemblages.
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- Ricardo Bermejo
- Departamento de Biología, Área de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della terra, dell'ambiente e della vita (DISTAV), Università degli Studi di Genova, Corso Europa, 26 16132, Genova, Italy
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- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Experimental Ecology (Foodwebs), Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Departamento de Biología, Área de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología, Área de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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Cui X, Mathe D, Kovács N, Horváth I, Jauregui-Osoro M, Torres Martin
de Rosales R, Mullen GED, Wong W, Yan Y, Krüger D, Khlobystov AN, Gimenez-Lopez M, Semjeni M, Szigeti K, Veres D, Lu H, Hernández I, Gillin WP, Protti A, Petik KK, Green MA, Blower PJ. Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Core-Shell Co0.16Fe2.84O4@NaYF4(Yb, Er) and Fe3O4@NaYF4(Yb, Tm) Nanoparticle as Trimodal (MRI, PET/SPECT, and Optical) Imaging Agents. Bioconjug Chem 2016; 27:319-28. [PMID: 26172432 PMCID: PMC4759617 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Revised: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Multimodal nanoparticulate materials are described, offering magnetic, radionuclide, and fluorescent imaging capabilities to exploit the complementary advantages of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography/single-photon emission commuted tomography (PET/SPECT), and optical imaging. They comprise Fe3O4@NaYF4 core/shell nanoparticles (NPs) with different cation dopants in the shell or core, including Co0.16Fe2.84O4@NaYF4(Yb, Er) and Fe3O4@NaYF4(Yb, Tm). These NPs are stabilized by bisphosphonate polyethylene glycol conjugates (BP-PEG), and then show a high transverse relaxivity (r2) up to 326 mM(-1) s(-1) at 3T, a high affinity to [(18)F]-fluoride or radiometal-bisphosphonate conjugates (e.g., (64)Cu and (99m)Tc), and fluorescent emissions from 500 to 800 nm under excitation at 980 nm. The biodistribution of intravenously administered particles determined by PET/MR imaging suggests that negatively charged Co0.16Fe2.84O4@NaYF4(Yb, Er)-BP-PEG (10K) NPs cleared from the blood pool more slowly than positively charged NPs Fe3O4@NaYF4(Yb, Tm)-BP-PEG (2K). Preliminary results in sentinel lymph node imaging in mice indicate the advantages of multimodal imaging.
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- Xianjin Cui
- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
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- CROmed
Ltd. Baross u. 91-95, H-1047, Budapest, Hungary
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- CROmed
Ltd. Baross u. 91-95, H-1047, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department
of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis
University, IX. Tűzoltó
u. 37-47, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary
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- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
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de Rosales
- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
- King’s
College London, Division of Chemistry, Britannia
House, 7 Trinity St., London, SE1 1DB, United Kingdom
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- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
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- MRC
Centre for Transplantation, King’s
College London, Guys
Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
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- School of
Chemistry, Nottingham University, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.
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- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis
University, IX. Tűzoltó
u. 37-47, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary
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S Veres
- Department
of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis
University, IX. Tűzoltó
u. 37-47, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary
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- School
of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University
of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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- Dpto.
CITIMAC, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, s/n 39005, Santander, Spain
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- School
of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University
of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis
University, IX. Tűzoltó
u. 37-47, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary
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- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
- King’s
College London, Division of Chemistry, Britannia
House, 7 Trinity St., London, SE1 1DB, United Kingdom
- King’s
College London, Department of Physics, Strand Campus, London, WC2R 2LS, United
Kingdom
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- King’s
College London, Division of Imaging Sciences
and Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United
Kingdom
- King’s
College London, Division of Chemistry, Britannia
House, 7 Trinity St., London, SE1 1DB, United Kingdom
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