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The supporting role of the teres major muscle, an additional component in glenohumeral stability? An anatomical and radiological study
(Medical Hypotheses, 2020-08)Muscle coordination plays an important role in glenohumeral stability. The rotator cuff and the long head of the biceps are considered the primary dynamic stabilizers muscles. However, the fact that a ... -
Surface guidance of stem cell behavior: chemically tailored co-presentation of integrin-binding peptides stimulates osteogenic differentiation in vitro and bone formation in vivo
(Acta Biomaterialia, 2016-10-01)Surface modification stands out as a versatile technique to create instructive biomaterials that are able to actively direct stem cell fate. Chemical functionalization of titanium has been used in this ... -
Surface immobilization and bioactivity of TGF-ß1 inhibitor peptides for bone implant applications
(Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, 2016-02-01)TGF-ß1 is the most related cytokine with the production of fibrotic tissue. It plays an important role on the production of collagen by fibroblasts and other types of cells. The inhibition of this ... -
Surgeon-led 7-VINCut antibiotic stewardship intervention decreases duration of treatment and carbapenem use in a general surgery service
(Antibiotics, 2021)Antibiotic stewardship programs optimize the use of antimicrobials to prevent the development of resistance and improve patient outcomes. In this prospective interventional study, a multidisciplinary ... -
Surgical management for refractory bleb dysesthesia
(Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020-08)Purpose. To present long-term results of modified bleb-limiting conjunctivoplasty as a successful treatment for intractable bleb dysesthesia and to review the literature on the surgical management of ... -
A survey exploring biomedical editors’ perceptions of editorial interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines
(F1000Research, 2019)Background: Improving the completeness of reporting of biomedical research is essential for improving its usability. For this reason, hundreds of reporting guidelines have been created in the last few ... -
Survival benefit of multidisciplinary care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Spain: association with noninvasive mechanical ventilation
(Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2019)Purpose: Multidisciplinary care has become the preferred model of care for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It is assumed that the sum of interventions associated with this approach ... -
Susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection among children and adults: a seroprevalence study of family households in the Barcelona metropolitan region, Spain
(Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021-06)Background: Susceptibility of children and adults to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and persistence of antibody response to the virus after infection resolution ... -
Syndemic conditions and quality of life in the PISCIS Cohort of people living with HIV in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands: a cross sectional study
(Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2023)Background: People living with HIV (PLWH) face structural and psychosocial factors that affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We aimed to evaluate how syndemic conditions affected HRQoL in PLWH. ... -
Synthesis and deposition of silver nanoparticles on cp Ti by laser ablation in open air for antibacterial effect in dental implants
(Materials Letters, 2018-07-30)Silver nanoparticles have been synthetized and deposited on cp Ti substrates in one-step process by the use of laser ablation in open air. The nanoparticles are produced by ablating Ag foil using two ... -
A systematic analysis of orphan cyclins reveals CNTD2 as a new oncogenic driver in lung cancer
(2017-08-31)As lung cancer has increased to the most common cause of cancer death worldwide, prognostic biomarkers and efective targeted treatments remain lacking despite advances based on patients’ stratifcation. ... -
Targeted NUDT5 inhibitors block hormone signaling in breast cancer cells
(Nature Communications, 2018)With a diverse network of substrates, NUDIX hydrolases have emerged as a key family of nucleotide-metabolizing enzymes. NUDT5 (also called NUDIX5) has been implicated in ADP-ribose and 8-oxo-guanine ... -
Targeting carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 isoforms in the hypothalamus: a promising strategy to regulate energy balance
(Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2023)Tackling the growing incidence and prevalence of obesity urgently requires uncovering new molecular pathways with therapeutic potential. The brain, and in particular the hypothalamus, is a major integrator ... -
Targeting DNA repair defects for precision medicine in prostate cancer
(Current Oncology Reports, 2019)Purpose of Review: Genomic studies of localized and metastatic prostate cancer have identified a high prevalence of clinically actionable alterations including mutations in DNA repair genes. In this ... -
Targeting the Src N-terminal regulatory element in cancer
(Oncotarget, 2023)The signaling pathways displayed by cancer cells are often composed by the same components than the physiological ones, yet the overall result is a pathological deregulation. The non-receptor protein ... -
Task-dependent modulation of the visual sensory thalamus assists visual-speech recognition
(NeuroImage, 2018-09)The cerebral cortex modulates early sensory processing via feed-back connections to sensory pathway nuclei. The functions of this top-down modulation for human behavior are poorly understood. Here, we ... -
Telerehabilitation for balance rehabilitation in the subacute stage of stroke: a pilot controlled trial
(NeuroRehabilitation, 2022)BACKGROUND:Telerehabilitation has been proposed as an effective strategy to deliver post-stroke specific exercise. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness and feasibility of core stability exercises guided ... -
Temperature and current flow effects of different electrode placement in shoulder capacitive-resistive electric transfer applications: a cadaveric study
(BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021)Background: Impingement syndrome is currently estimated to represent 60% of all shoulder pain disorders. Capacitive-Resistive electric transfer therapy is aimed to provoke temperature and current flow ... -
Temporal validation of a risk prediction model for breast cancer-related lymphoedema in European population: a retrospective study
(Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2023)Aims: To perform temporal validation of a risk prediction model for breast cancer-related lymphoedema in the European population. Design: Temporal validation of a previously developed prediction model ... -
The actin binding protein profilin 2 is a novel regulator of iron homeostasis
(Blood, 2017)Cellular iron homeostasis is controlled by the iron regulatory proteins (IRPs) 1 and 2 that bind cis-regulatory iron-responsive elements (IRE) on target messenger RNAs (mRNA). We identified profilin 2 ...