Publications by authors named "Lopez-Perez J"

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  • - The study examined the impact of the HLADQA1*05 gene on patients with inflammatory bowel disease receiving first-line anti-TNF therapies (adalimumab or infliximab) from 2000 to 2021, focusing on response rates, loss of response (LOR), and adverse events (AE).
  • - Out of 408 patients, HLADQA1*05 was linked to a significant increase in the risk of LOR and immunogenicity, especially related to infliximab, while HLADQA1*03 appeared to protect against LOR when using adalimumab.
  • - The findings suggest that genetic factors like HLADQA1*05 and sex play crucial roles in treatment
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Natural products (NPs) are secondary metabolites of natural origin with broad applications across various human activities, particularly the discovery of bioactive compounds. Structural elucidation of new NPs entails significant cost and effort. On the other hand, the dereplication of known compounds is crucial for the early exclusion of irrelevant compounds in contemporary pharmaceutical research.

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serovar Infantis (. Infantis) poses a growing issue in the poultry sector, with phage-based products emerging as a safe and effective control measure. This study investigated the emergence of reduced-phage-susceptibility variants (RPSV) of .

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The role of the inflammasomes in aging and progeroid syndromes remain understudied. Recently, MCC950, a NLRP3 inhibitor, was used in Zmpste24 mice to ameliorate the phenotypes. However, the safety of MCC950 was questioned due to liver toxicity observed in humans.

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Merkel cell carcinoma is a very aggressive primary skin tumour with a high risk of local recurrences and lymphatic and distant metastases. The frequent association between this carcinoma and other skin tumour and lymphoid malignancies, its similar cellular morphology with leukocytes, and limited infiltration in bone marrow constituted a challenging diagnosis. We report an unusual case of an 82-year-old male who simultaneously presented Merkel cell carcinoma and acute myeloid lymphoma.

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  • * Various reactions led to the development of new structures, including isomerization and rearrangement into longibornane and himachalane derivatives, with the molecular characterization performed using advanced techniques like NMR and mass spectrometry.
  • * The resulting longipinene derivatives displayed moderate to high insecticidal activity against certain insects and showed significant root growth inhibition in certain plants, along with notable ixocidal and nematicidal effects.
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Monoaminooxidases (MAOs) are important targets for drugs used in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders and particularly on Parkinson's Disease (PD). Compounds containing a trans-stilbenoid skeleton have demonstrated good selective and reversible MAO-B inhibition. Here, twenty-two (Z)-3-benzylidenephthalides (benzalphthalides, BPHs) displaying a trans-stilbenoid skeleton have been synthesised and evaluated as inhibitors of the MAO-A and MAO-B isoforms.

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It is well known that hormones influence and direct most facets of physiology; however, there is still contention regarding the directions of certain relationships, for example, between gonadal hormones and immunity. Among the many proposed relationships relating to gonadal-immune interactions, support for immunosuppressive effects of androgens remains prominent within physiological literature. Although ample study has been directed toward the immunosuppressive effects of androgens, considerable disagreement remains regarding their influence on immune function.

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Renal transplantation is an effective treatment for severe chronic kidney diseases. However, young patients often face a scarcity of kidneys from donors of similar age, resulting in the transplantation of older organs, which increase the risk of graft rejection and several complications compared with older individuals who receive kidneys from donors of similar age or younger. This article focuses on studying different senescence biomarkers in donors and patients who received kidneys from various age ranges complying with the STROBE requirements.

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Satellites are mobile genetic elements that are dependent upon the replication machinery of their helper viruses. Bacteriophages have provided many examples of satellite nucleic acids that utilize their helper morphogenic genes for propagation. Here we describe two novel satellite-helper phage systems, Mulch and Flayer, that infect Streptomyces species.

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Introduction: The emergence of resistance and interference mechanisms to phage infection can hinder the success of bacteriophage-based applications, but the significance of these mechanisms in phage therapy has not been determined. This work studies the emergence of isolates with reduced susceptibility to a cocktail of three phages under three scenarios: i) cultures (LAB), ii) biocontrol of cooked ham slices as a model of food safety (FOOD), and iii) oral phage therapy in broilers (PT).

Methods: .

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This article describes the structure revision of nine triterpenoids that have been reported corresponding to the same C NMR data set. In addition, C NMR calculation shows that some chemical shift assignments must be swapped. Our analysis improves the fit between the experimental and calculated data.

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Objectives: To analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Spanish emergency department (ED) care for patients aged 65 years or older during the first wave vs. a pre-pandemic period.

Material And Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study of a COVID-19 portion of the EDEN project (Emergency Department and Elder Needs).

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Chemical libraries and compound data sets are among the main inputs to start the drug discovery process at universities, research institutes, and the pharmaceutical industry. The approach used in the design of compound libraries, the chemical information they possess, and the representation of structures, play a fundamental role in the development of studies: chemoinformatics, food informatics, pharmacokinetics, computational toxicology, bioinformatics, and molecular modeling to generate computational hits that will continue the optimization process of drug candidates. The prospects for growth in drug discovery and development processes in chemical, biotechnological, and pharmaceutical companies began a few years ago by integrating computational tools with artificial intelligence methodologies.

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Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the progressive loss of neurons, synapses, dendrites, and myelin in the central and/or peripheral nervous system. Actual therapeutic options for patients are scarce and merely palliative. Although they affect millions of patients worldwide, the molecular mechanisms underlying these conditions remain unclear.

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A considerable number of natural products have been published in recent years with misassigned structure, even though they had been correctly elucidated in the past. The availability of databases containing revised structures can prevent the amplification of errors in structural elucidation. NAPROC-13, a dereplication tool based on the C chemical shift, has been used to search for substances that, possessing the same chemical shifts, have been described with different structures.

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Dengue virus (DENV) infection is the most arbovirosis in the world. However, medications have not been approved for its treatment. Drug discovery based on the host-targeted antiviral (HTA) constitutes a new promising strategy, considering their high genetic barrier to resistance and the low probability of selecting drug resistance strains.

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Among vertebrates, some of the most vulnerable taxa to emergent fungal pathogens are members of Reptilia. In light of the growing threat of emergent fungal pathogens affecting wildlife, it is important to broaden the current understanding of immune system function, development, and evolution. The homologous condition of a trait is necessary in order to study its evolution, as such, homology is necessary in the study of immunological evolution.

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Verbal episodic memory tests assess memory performance using total learning scores. The analysis of inter-trial indices such as gained (GA) and lost (LA) access can provide additional information on the acquisition and consolidation processes. The main objetive was to determine whether the GA and LA indices, derived from a word-list verbal episodic memory test are useful for predicting cognitive impairment in aging.

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To study the influence of thiamethoxam exposure on colony strength and pathogen prevalence, an apiary (5 colonies) was placed in front of a plot sown with winter oilseed rape (wOSR), just before the flowering phase. Before sowing, the seeds were treated with an equivalent application of 18 g thiamethoxam/ha. For comparison, a second apiary (5 colonies) was located in front of a separate 750 m plot sown with untreated wOSR.

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This paper presents the new cable delay measurement system (CDMS) designed at Yebes Observatory (IGN, Spain), which is required for the VLBI Global Observing System (VGOS) stations. This system measures the phase difference between the 5 MHz reference signal from the hydrogen maser and the 5 MHz signal that reaches the broadband receiver through a coaxial cable, for the generation of calibration tones. As a result, the system detects the changes in the length of that coaxial cable due to temperature variations along the cable run and flexures caused by VGOS radio telescope movements.

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Aim: To create and analyze an instrument to assess the possible agitation triggers of hospitalized psychiatric patients.

Background: No tools exist for identifying according to a professional's experience.

Methods: Descriptive and cross-sectional study.

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Although the influence of neuraxial anesthesia or sedation with remifentanil in external cephalic version (ECV) is widely known, ECV results using propofol have not been previously analyzed. This study aimed to evaluate ECV outcomes when propofol was used. An observational analysis of ECV was performed between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2020.

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