216 results match your criteria: "Hospital Clínico Universitario (INCLIVA)[Affiliation]"

Osteoporosis is a chronic disease that is characterized by a loss of bone density, which mainly affects the microstructure of the bones due to a decrease in bone mass, thereby making them more fragile and susceptible to fractures. Osteoporosis is currently considered one of the pandemics of the 21st century, affecting around 200 million people. Its most serious consequence is an increased risk of bone fractures, thus making osteoporosis a major cause of disability and even premature death in the elderly.

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Diet and exercise in frailty and sarcopenia. Molecular aspects.

Mol Aspects Med

December 2024

Freshage Research Group, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia and CIBERFES, Fundación Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario/INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain.

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  • Lifelong function declines due to aging, chronic diseases, and lifestyle factors, leading to issues like frailty and disability, especially impacting skeletal muscle through conditions like sarcopenia.
  • The manuscript explores the age-related changes in skeletal muscle, discussing how these changes affect quality of life and independence in older adults.
  • It highlights exercise as a key intervention for reversing frailty, examines various training programs, the nutritional factors influencing muscle health, and discusses genetic interventions aimed at enhancing resilience against muscle aging.
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Down Syndrome (DS) is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21, and leading to various developmental and cognitive defects. A critical feature of DS is the occurrence of oxidative distress particularly in the brain, which exacerbates neurodevelopmental processes. Mitochondria play a crucial role in cell energy metabolism and their impairment is one of the major causes of oxidative distress in several pathologies.

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  • This study aims to create predictive models for treatment outcomes in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell lymphoma undergoing CAR-T therapy by analyzing imaging data and clinical information.
  • It includes a cohort of 65 patients, utilizing imaging features from PET/CT scans to assess treatment response, overall survival, progression-free survival, and neurotoxicity risk associated with the therapy.
  • The results demonstrated that combining imaging features with clinical data significantly enhances prediction accuracy for treatment-related outcomes, highlighting the importance of metabolic tumor volume (MTV) in stratifying patient prognosis.
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  • Exercise is important for staying healthy and can help prevent diseases as we age.
  • When we exercise, our bodies learn to handle stress better, which can lead to positive long-term changes.
  • Scientists are studying how our muscles remember exercise to help athletes train better and help people recover from injuries more effectively.
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Handgrip Strength and Upper Limb Anthropometric Characteristics among Latin American Female Volleyball Players.

J Funct Morphol Kinesiol

September 2024

Laboratory of Exercise Physiology, Sports Science and Innovation Research Group (GICED), Unidades Tecnológicas de Santander (UTS), Bucaramanga 680006, Colombia.

In volleyball, the upper limb dimensions and grip strength greatly influence offensive and defensive movements during a match. However, the relationship between these parameters remains underexplored in elite female volleyball players. This study aimed to contrast the upper limb anthropometric characteristics and handgrip strength (HGS) of female elite volleyball players against a control group.

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Molecular mechanisms of cancer cachexia. Role of exercise training.

Mol Aspects Med

October 2024

Freshage Research Group. Department of Physiology. Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia and CIBERFES, Fundación Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario/INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain.

Cancer-associated cachexia represents a multifactorial syndrome mainly characterized by muscle mass loss, which causes both a decrease in quality of life and anti-cancer therapy failure, among other consequences. The definition and diagnostic criteria of cachexia have changed and improved over time, including three different stages (pre-cachexia, cachexia, and refractory cachexia) and objective diagnostic markers. This metabolic wasting syndrome is characterized by a negative protein balance, and anti-cancer drugs like chemotherapy or immunotherapy exacerbate it through relatively unknown mechanisms.

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Mice models of Alzheimer's disease (APP/PS1) typically experience cognitive decline with age. G6PD overexpressing mice (G6PD-Tg) exhibit better protection from age-associated functional decline including improvements in metabolic and muscle functions as well as reduced frailty compared to their wild-type counterparts. Importantly G6PD-Tg mice show diminished accumulation of DNA oxidation in the brain at different ages in both males and females.

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PTCy vs CNI-based GVHD prophylaxis in HLA-matched transplants for Hodgkin lymphoma: a study of the LWP of the EBMT.

Blood Adv

August 2024

Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany.

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  • A study compared the effectiveness of posttransplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) versus conventional calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based regimens for preventing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from HLA-matched donors.
  • Results showed that while PTCy was linked to slower recovery of blood cells, it significantly reduced the risk of chronic GVHD and improved long-term survival measures, including overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS).
  • Overall, PTCy exhibited better outcomes in reducing relapse rates and improving survival compared to CNI-based prophylaxis in this patient group, suggesting it may be a
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Over 60% of relapsed/refractory (R/R) large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) patients who receive chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells will experience disease progression. There is no standard next line of therapy and information in this setting is scarce and heterogeneous. We analyzed 387 R/R LBCL patients who progressed after CAR T cells from July 2018 until March 2022 in Spain and the United Kingdom.

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Objective: Frailty may be increased by menopause. Physical activity has been proposed to reduce frailty, but poor adherence and cost limit effectiveness. We aimed to investigate both the effectiveness against the frailty burden and the adherence rate of a multicomponent physical activity scheme partially managed by the participating women themselves.

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Muscle atrophy and functional decline (sarcopenia) are common manifestations of frailty and are critical contributors to morbidity and mortality in older people. Deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying sarcopenia has major implications for understanding human ageing. Yet, progress has been slow, partly due to the difficulties of characterizing skeletal muscle niche heterogeneity (whereby myofibres are the most abundant) and obtaining well-characterized human samples.

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Delineating the contribution of ageing and physical activity to changes in mitochondrial characteristics across the lifespan.

Mol Aspects Med

June 2024

The Exercise Prescription Lab (EPL), Institute for Health and Sport (IHES), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address:

Ageing is associated with widespread physiological changes prominent within all tissues, including skeletal muscle and the brain, which lead to a decline in physical function. To tackle the growing health and economic burdens associated with an ageing population, the concept of healthy ageing has become a major research priority. Changes in skeletal muscle mitochondrial characteristics have been suggested to make an important contribution to the reductions in skeletal muscle function with age, and age-related changes in mitochondrial content, respiratory function, morphology, and mitochondrial DNA have previously been reported.

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Objective: To explore the association between anxiety and frailty in community-dwelling postmenopausal women.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in which 390 postmenopausal women (aged 60-83 years) who were attending a comprehensive care program were surveyed between January 2018 and February 2020. Each participant was administered a validated Spanish version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to assess their anxiety status.

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Systemic Mastocytosis (SM) is a multifaceted clinically heterogeneous disease. Advanced SM (AdvSM) comprises three entities: aggressive SM (ASM), mast cell leukaemia (MCL) and SM with an associated hematologic neoplasm (SM-AHN), the latter accounting for 60-70% of all AdvSM cases. Detection of a disease-triggering mutation in the KIT gene (esp.

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Redox-associated changes in healthy individuals at risk of Alzheimer's disease. A ten-year follow-up study.

Free Radic Biol Med

March 2024

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, CIBERFES, Fundación Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario/INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Electronic address:

Carrying an allele 4 of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is the best-established genetic risk factor to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD). Fifty percent of ApoE4/4 individuals develop the disease at 70 years of age. ApoE3/4 carriers have a lower risk of developing the disease, still 50% of them suffer AD at around 80 years.

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  • e13a2 and e14a2 are the most common transcript types of the fusion gene in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), influencing treatment outcomes.
  • The study found that patients who received at least 119 months of imatinib (IM) treatment had lower relapse rates after stopping treatment and that those with the e14a2 transcript type had better treatment-free remission (TFR) outcomes.
  • While transcript type did not impact the response to second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (2G-TKI), 2G-TKI treatment was linked to improved and quicker deep molecular responses for patients with the e14a2 transcript.
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Objective: The prevalence of frailty has been related to menopause. Our main objective was to investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the estrogen receptor (ER) and genes were related to the frailty phenotype in a population of community-dwelling postmenopausal women.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in which we selected five SNPs, three in the gene and two in the .

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ESGO-ESMO-ESP consensus conference recommendations on ovarian cancer: pathology and molecular biology and early, advanced and recurrent disease.

Ann Oncol

March 2024

Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome; Department of Woman, Child and Public Health, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. Electronic address:

The European Society of Gynaecological Oncology, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the European Society of Pathology held a consensus conference (CC) on ovarian cancer on 15-16 June 2022 in Valencia, Spain. The CC panel included 44 experts in the management of ovarian cancer and pathology, an ESMO scientific advisor and a methodologist. The aim was to discuss new or contentious topics and develop recommendations to improve and harmonise the management of patients with ovarian cancer.

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Prognostic impact of non-MPN driver gene mutations in primary myelofibrosis. MIPSS70: Mutation-Enhanced International Prognostic Score System.

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  • - Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) significantly impacts patient health post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, prompting new drug approvals and clinical practice changes in its management over the last three years.
  • - The European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) convened a panel of 23 experts to update clinical recommendations using the GRADE process and PICO questions to ensure standardized treatment approaches.
  • - Key updates include making ruxolitinib the standard care for steroid-refractory GVHD, using rabbit anti-T-cell globulin or post-transplantation cyclophosphamide for GVHD prevention, and adding belumosudil for treating steroid-refractory chronic GVHD.
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