Before a pituitary tumour is operated on, there are three factors that make it possible to identify which patients are most likely to recover following surgery: the size of the tumour, the secretion system of the tumour and the experience of the neurosurgeons. This was the conclusion reached by a group of doctors from Sant Pau Hospital after...
Until now, it was known that, despite their benefits for preventing cardiovascular diseases, antiplatelet drugs could be damaging to the digestive system. The Catalan Institute of Pharmacology Foundation (FICF) has recently shown its incidence in patients who have a risk of upper grastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB).
Chemical researchers work continuously in the combination of different molecules. It's very important to be able to adjust as well as it's possible the result of these associations to obtain the expected result. Scientists of the UAB Chemistry Department have studied how to obtain a large regioselectivity, it means, how to obtain mainly a...
Reasearchers of the UAB's Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology Departament, in collaboration with the Hospital of Mataró and the Fundació de Gastroenterology Dr. Vilardell, have identified for the first time the P2Y1 receptor, which is responsible of the purinergic relaxation in the human colon.
Studies on the brain are gradually unravelling the mysteries of how it operates.
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In nature we can see many examples of adaptable evolution. On of these mechanisms may be seen in the co-evolution of herbivorous insects and the plants they feed on: while prey develop biological defences, the predators react to make themselves insensitive to attack....
The research group for Research in Cell and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Engineering, composed of researchers from Sant Pau Hospital, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Technical University of Catalonia, has found a new group of stem cells from the spinal cord that may lead to a new form of treatment for the regeneration...
The important role that layers of cianobacteria (photosynthetic microorganisms) play in the process of degradation in oil spillages at sea or along the coat is widely known. However recent research undertaken by the Environmental Microbiology Group at the UAB has shown that these...
After being synthesized, the proteins fold themselves to acquire their function. Although this process, called oxidative folding, has been investigated extensively, some keys aspects have been neglected, like the thermodynamics or the computational prediction. UAB researchers disassembled this puzzle and its conclusions became a one single theory...
Most animal species have two symmetrical halves. There are small differences that break this bilateral symmetry. Scientists at the UAB have studied how these differences come about and how organisms try to achieve perfect symmetry by crossing two species of insects, Drosophila madeirensis and...
