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Lantero Bringas, Esther ; Matallanas Peñas, Beatriz ; Pascual, Susana ; Callejas Hervás, Carmen | MDPI | 2018-06-28The European Union (EU) is facing the recent arrival of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. Its fast spread has caused great alarm because of the economic impact it implies for the agroeconomy of European countries. Among its insect vectors, Phila[...]texto impreso
Velasco Bucheli, Rodrigo ; Hormigo, Daniel ; Fernández-Lucas, Jesús ; Torres Ayuso, Pedro ; Alfaro Ureña, Yohana ; Saborido Modia, Ana ; Serrano Aguirre, Lara ; García, José Luis ; Ramón, Fernando ; Acebal Sarabia, Carmen ; Santos de la Sen, Antonio ; Arroyo Sánchez, Miguel ; Mata Riesco, Isabel de la | MDPI | 2020-07-01Many Gram-negative bacteria produce N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs), quorum sensing (QS) molecules that can be enzymatically inactivated by quorum quenching (QQ) processes; this approach is considered an emerging antimicrobial alternative. In [...]texto impreso
Aragonés Tapia, Juan Ignacio ; Tapia-Fonllem, César ; Poggio Lagares, Lucía ; Fraijo-Sing, Blanca | MDPI | 2017-02-13This study applies the “psychometric paradigm” of risk perception to the heavy mineral spill in the Sonora River (Mexico). A total of 241 inhabitants of the polluted area with a mean age of 46.3 years participated in the study, completing an int[...]texto impreso
Yacamán Ochoa, Carolina ; Matarán Ruiz, Alberto ; Mata Olmo, Rafael ; Macías Figueroa, Álvaro ; Torres Rodríguez, Adolfo | MDPI | 2020-06-20Discussions on food security in the Global North have raised questions about the capacity of peri-urban organic agriculture to provide sufficient healthy food for the urban market. Dealing with food security requires more attention to how to pro[...]texto impreso
Adversarial classification (AC) is a major subfield within the increasingly important domain of adversarial machine learning (AML). So far, most approaches to AC have followed a classical game-theoretic framework. This requires unrealistic commo[...]texto impreso
Fernández Trapero, María ; Pérez Díaz, Carmen ; Espejo Porras, Francisco ; Lago Femia, Eva de ; Fernández Ruiz, Javier | MDPI | 2020-02-11The phytocannabinoid-based medicine Sativex® is currently marketed for the treatment of spasticity and pain in multiple sclerosis patients and is being investigated for other central and peripheral pathological conditions. It may also serve in V[...]texto impreso
Hübbers, Anna ; Hennings, Julia ; Lambertz, Daniela ; Haas, Ute ; Trautwein, Christian ; Nevzorova, Yulia A. ; Sonntag, Roland ; Liedtke, Christian | MDPI | 2020-05-05Liver fibrosis is a wound healing process in response to chronic liver injury, which is characterized by the accumulation of extracellular collagen produced by Hepatic Stellate Cells (HSCs). This process involves cell cycle re-entry and prolifer[...]texto impreso
Lantero Bringas, Esther ; Matallanas Peñas, Beatriz ; Pascual, Susana ; Ochando González, María Dolores ; Callejas Hervás, Carmen | MDPI | 2020-06-26The olive fruit fly (olf) Bactrocera oleae is the most damaging olive pest. The intensive use of organophosphates (OPs) to control it, led to an increase in resistance in field populations. This study assesses the presence and distribution of th[...]texto impreso
Phytoestrogens are plant-derived polyphenols with a structure similar to human estrogens. The three main groups of phytoestrogens, isoflavones, ellagitannins, and lignans, are transformed into equol, urolithins, and enterolignans, respectively, [...]texto impreso
Aldas, Miguel ; Pavon, Cristina ; López-Martínez, Juan ; Arrieta Dillon, Marina Patricia | MDPI | 2020Fully bio-based materials based on thermoplastic starch (TPS) were developed starting from corn starch plasticized with glycerol. The obtained TPS was further blended with five pine resin derivatives: gum rosin (GR), disproportionated gum rosin [...]texto impreso
Bats have an important role in the ecosystem, and therefore an effective detection of their prevalence can contribute to their conservation. At present, the most commonly methodology used in the study of bats is the analysis of echolocation call[...]texto impreso
Stivers, Nicole S. ; Islam, Ashraful ; Reyes-Reyes, Elsa M. ; Casson, Lavona K. ; Aponte, José C. ; Vaisberg, Abraham J. ; Hammond, Gerald B. ; Bates, Paula J. | MDPI | 2018-11-30T22:50:35ZWe previously reported on the isolation and biological activities of plagiochiline A (1), a 2,3-secoaromadendrane-type sesquiterpenoid from the Peruvian medicinal plant, Plagiochila disticha. This compound was found to have antiproliferative eff[...]texto impreso
González Cano, Agustín ; Navarrete Fernández, María Cruz ; Esteban, Óscar ; Díaz Herrera, Natalia | MDPI | 2014A review of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) transducers based on tapered fibers that have been developed in the last years is presented. The devices have proved their good performance (specifically, in terms of sensitivity) and their versati[...]texto impreso
Vázquez Gómez, Marta ; Heras-Molina, Ana ; García-Contreras, Consolación ; Pesántez-Pacheco, José Luis ; Torres-Rovira, Laura ; Martinez-Fernandez, Beatriz ; González, Jorge ; Encinas Cerezo, Teresa ; Astiz, Susana ; Ovilo, Cristina ; Isabel Redondo, Beatriz ; González Bulnes, Antonio | MDPI | 2019-11-08Maternal supplementation with the polyphenol hydroxytyrosol in a swine model of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) improves the fetal oxidative status, decreases the appearance of low birth-weight neonates and favors growth during early post[...]texto impreso
Rivera de la Torre, Esperanza ; Palacios Ortega, Juan ; Gavilanes, José G. ; Martínez del Pozo, Álvaro ; García Linares, Sara | MDPI | 2019Animal venoms are complex mixtures of highly specialized toxic molecules. Cnidarians and arachnids produce pore-forming proteins (PFPs) directed against the plasma membrane of their target cells. Among PFPs from cnidarians, actinoporins stand ou[...]texto impreso
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Capote-Moreno, Ana ; Ramos Alonso, Eva ; Egea, Javier ; López-Muñoz, Francisco ; Gil-Martín, Emilio ; Romero Martinez, Manuel Alejandro | MDPI | 2019-11-02The wide variety of epigenetic controls available is rapidly expanding the knowledge of molecular biology even overflowing it. At the same time, it can illuminate unsuspected ways of understanding the etiology of cancer. New emerging therapeutic[...]texto impreso
Cuesta Mayorga, Iris ; Astilleros García-Monge, José Manuel ; Fernández-Díaz, Lourdes | MDPI | 2019-03-13In this work, we aimed to experimentally study the nucleation and growth of CaCO3 phases precipitated from supersaturated aqueous solutions in the presence of varying concentrations of sulphate oxyanion. The experiments were conducted under pH c[...]texto impreso
Bizhani, Hasti ; Katbab, Ali Asghar ; López Hernández, Emil ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; López Manchado, Miguel A. ; Verdejo, Raquel | MDPI | 2020-10Hybrid ethylene-propylene-diene-monomer (EPDM) nanocomposite foams were produced via compression molding with enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption efficiency. The hybrid filler, consisting of 20 phr ferroelectric barium titanate (BT) and var[...]texto impreso
Ausín Benito, Berta ; Muñoz López, Manuel ; Castellanos López, Miguel Ángel ; García, Sara | MDPI | 2020-03-15The prevalence of anxiety disorders over the last year among seniors ranged from 3.6% to 17.2%. The most prevalent disorders are specific phobias. Data are needed concerning the consequences of specific phobia disorder on the level of functionin[...]texto impreso
A recent concern in the field of dyslexia studies is the lack of awareness and attention to university students suffering from this condition. If this problem is serious in countries where the relative opacity of the writing system allows for an[...]texto impreso
In wireless body sensor network (WBSNs), the human body has an important effect on the performance of the communication due to the temporal variations caused and the attenuation and fluctuation of the path loss. This fact suggests that the trans[...]texto impreso
Castillo Romero, Rafael ; Torre, Lorena de la ; García Ochoa, Félix ; Ladero Galán, Miguel ; Vallet Regí, María | MDPI | 2020-10-24The synthesis of MCM-41mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) of controlled sizes and porous structure has been performed at laboratory and pilot plant scales. Firstly, the effects of the main operating conditions (TEOS addition rate, nanopartic[...]texto impreso
Pérez García, Selene ; Carrión Caballo, Mar ; Gutiérrez-Cañas, Irene ; Villanueva-Romero, Raúl ; Castro Moreno, David ; Martínez, Carmen ; González-Álvaro, Isidoro ; Blanco, Francisco J. ; Juarranz Moratilla, Yasmina ; Gomáriz, Rosa P. | MDPI | 2019-12-22The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex and specialized three-dimensional macromolecular network, present in nearly all tissues, that also interacts with cell surface receptors on joint resident cells. Changes in the composition and physical[...]texto impreso
Úbeda Palenque, José ; Bonshoms, Martí ; Iparraguirre, Joshua ; Sáez, Lucía ; de la Fuente, Ramón ; Janssen, Lila ; Concha, Ronald ; Vásquez, Pool ; Masías, Pablo | MDPI | 2018This work investigates the timing, paleoclimatic framework and inter-hemispheric teleconnections inferred from the glaciers last maximum extension and the deglaciation onset in the Arid Tropical Andes. A study area was selected to the northeastw[...]texto impreso
Marine, Nicolás ; Arnaiz-Schmitz, Cecilia ; Herrero-Jáuregui, Cristina ; O Cabrera, Manuel Rodrigo de la ; Escudero, David ; Schmitz García, María Fe | MDPI | 2020-08-25Landscape conservation efforts in many European countries focus on cultural landscapes, which are part of the cultural identity of people, have a great heritage significance, improve the living standards of local populations and provide valuable[...]texto impreso
Carracedo Añón, Julia María ; Ramírez-Carracedo, Rafael ; Martínez de Toda, Irene ; Vida Rueda, Carmen ; Alique, Matilde ; Fuente del Rey, Mónica de la ; Ramírez-Chamond, Rafael | MDPI | 2018-05-17Carbamylation is a post-translational modification of proteins that may partake in the oxidative stress-associated cell damage, and its increment has been recently proposed as a “hallmark of aging”. The molecular mechanisms associated with aging[...]texto impreso
Gil Madrona, Pedro ; Romero Martínez, Sonia ; Sáez-Gallego, Nieves ; Ordóñez Camacho, Xavier | MDPI | 2019The present research aimed to study the psycho-motor performance of five-year-old children with different body mass indices (BMI). A total of 694 pre-school children in the province of Albacete-Spain participated. Their performance in motor, per[...]texto impreso
Weigand Talavera, Rosa María ; Sánchez Balmaseda, Margarita María ; Guerra Pérez, José Manuel | MDPI | 2015-09We have numerically studied the influence of the absorption modulation depth of carbon-based saturable absorbers (graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs)) on the Q-switched regime of a diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser. A short-length cavity was used with [...]texto impreso
Ferreira Sánchez, María del Rosario ; Moreno Verdú, Marcos ; Cano-de-la-Cuerda, Roberto | MDPI | 2020-02-06Rigidity is one of the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Present in up 89% of cases, it is typically assessed with clinical scales. However, these instruments show limitations due to their subjectivity and poor intra- and inter-rate[...]texto impreso
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are a class of evolutionary algorithms inspired by Darwinian natural selection. They are popular heuristic optimisation methods based on simulated genetic mechanisms, i.e., mutation, crossover, etc. and population dynami[...]texto impreso
A physical system out of thermal equilibrium is a resource for obtaining useful work when a heat bath at some temperature is available. Information Heat Engines are the devices which generalize the Szilard cylinders and make use of the celebrate[...]texto impreso
In this article, we first present and discuss eighteenth-century descriptions of minerals that contributed decisively to the development of crystallography. Remarkably, these old crystallographic descriptions included morphologies with symmetrie[...]texto impreso
Soler, Albert ; Arregui García-Rovés, Lucía ; Arroyo Sánchez, Miguel ; Mendoza, José ; Muras, Andrea ; Álvarez, Cristina ; García-Vera, Cristina ; Marquina Díaz, Domingo ; Santos de la Sen, Antonio ; Serrano Barrero, Susana Lourdes | MDPI | 2018-05-18Quorum sensing (QS) is a mechanism dependent on bacterial density. This coordinated process is mediated by the synthesis and the secretion of signal molecules, called autoinducers (AIs). N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) are the most common AIs [...]texto impreso
To prevent microbial growth and its consequences, preservatives such as sorbic acid or its salts, commonly known as sorbates, are added to foods. However, some moulds and yeasts are capable of decarboxylating sorbates and producing 1,3-pentadien[...]texto impreso
Torres, Sandra ; Abdullah, Zeinab ; Brol, Maximilian J. ; Hellerbrand, Claus ; Fernández, Mercedes ; Fiorotto, Romina ; Klein, Sabine ; Königshofer, Philipp ; Liedtke, Christian ; Lotersztajn, Sophie ; Nevzorova, Yulia A. ; Schierwagen, Robert ; Reiberger, Thomas ; Uschner, Frank Erhard ; Tacke, Frank ; Weiskirchen, Ralf ; Trebicka, Jonel | MDPI | 2020-03-16Molecular and cellular research modalities for the study of liver pathologies have been tremendously improved over the recent decades. Advanced technologies offer novel opportunities to establish cell isolation techniques with excellent purity, [...]texto impreso
Macías-Rodríguez, Ricardo U. ; Inzaugarat, María Eugenia ; Ruiz-Margáin, Astrid ; Nelson, Leonard J. ; Trautwein, Christian ; Cubero, Francisco Javier | MDPI | 2020Ferroptosis has emerged as a new type of cell death in different pathological conditions, including neurological and kidney diseases and, especially, in different types of cancer. The hallmark of this regulated cell death is the presence of iron[...]texto impreso
Palomo-López, Patricia ; Losa-Iglesias, Marta Elena ; Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo, Ricardo ; López-López, Daniel ; Rodríguez Sanz, David ; Ántolín-Gil, Marta San ; Martiniano, João ; Calvo Lobo, César | MDPI | 2020Background: This study aimed to adapt the Spanish version of the Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students (ASNS) (shorter form) instrument for Spanish podiatry students, labeling the new tool as the Spanish version of Assessment of Stress in Pod[...]texto impreso
Anthropogenic lead pollution is an environmental problem that threatens the quality of soils and waters and endangers living organisms in numerous surface and subsurface habitats. Lead coprecipitation on mineral surfaces through dissolution-recr[...]texto impreso
Rojas Lozano, Pilar ; Ramírez Sebastián, Ana Isabel ; Cadena Santoyo, Manuel ; Fernández Arrabal, José A. ; García Martín, Elena Salobrar ; López Cuenca, Inés ; Santos García, Irene ; Lago Femia, Eva de ; Urcelay Segura, José Luis ; Ramirez Sebastian, Jose Manuel ; Hoz Montañana, Rosa de ; Salazar Corral, Juan José | MDPI | 2021-02-07The neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) affects the spinal cord, brain stem, and cerebral cortex. In this pathology, both neurons and glial cells are affected. However, few studies have analyzed retinal microglia in ALS[...]texto impreso
Fernández Arrabal, José A. ; Salazar Corral, Juan José ; Hoz Montañana, María Rosa de ; Marco López, Eva María ; Martín Sánchez, Beatriz ; Flores Salguero, Elena ; García Martín, Elena Salobrar ; López Cuenca, Inés ; Barrios Sabador, Vicente ; Avilés Trigueros, Marcelino ; Valiente Soriano, Francisco Javier ; Miralles de Imperial-Ollero, Juan A. ; Vidal Sanz, Manuel ; Triviño Casado, Alberto ; Ramirez Sebastian, Jose Manuel ; López Gallardo, Meritxell ; Ramírez Sebastián, Ana Isabel | MDPI | 2021-02-19Signaling mediated by cytokines and chemokines is involved in glaucoma-associated neuroinflammation and in the damage of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Using multiplexed immunoassay and immunohistochemical techniques in a glaucoma mouse model at[...]texto impreso
Multiobjective stochastic programming is a field that is well suited to tackling problems that arise in many fields: energy, financial, emergencies, among others; given that uncertainty and multiple objectives are usually present in such problem[...]texto impreso
Figueroa-Angulo, Elisa E. ; Calla-Choque, Jaeson S. ; Mancilla-Olea, Maria Inocente ; Arroyo, Rossana | MDPI | 2019-02-06T14:59:05ZIron homeostasis is highly regulated in vertebrates through a regulatory system mediated by RNA-protein interactions between the iron regulatory proteins (IRPs) that interact with an iron responsive element (IRE) located in certain mRNAs, dubbe[...]texto impreso
González de Vallejo, Luis I. ; Hernández Gutiérrez, Luis E. ; Miranda, Ana ; Ferrer-Vidal, Mercedes | MDPI | 2020-06-06In volcanic regions, rockfalls represent a major hazard strongly conditioned by the geomechanical behaviour of volcanic materials, the geomorphological characteristics of the relief and the climatic conditions. Volcanic rocks possess very differ[...]texto impreso
Díaz-García, Diana ; Montalbán-Hernández, Karla ; Mena-Palomo, Irene ; Achimas-Cadariu, Patriciu ; Rodríguez Diéguez, Antonio ; Eduardo, López-Collado ; Prashar, Sanjiv ; Ovejero Paredes, Karina ; Filice, Marco ; Fischer-Fodor, Eva ; Gómez-Ruiz, Santiago | MDPI | 2020-06-03The synthesis, characterization and cytotoxic activity against different cancer cell lines of various mesoporous silica-based materials containing folate targeting moieties and a cytotoxic fragment based on a triphenyltin(IV) derivative have bee[...]texto impreso
In 2005, our group described for the first time the structural characterization at the atomic scale of bioactive glasses and the influence of the glasses’ nanostructure in their reactivity in simulated body fluids. In that study, two bioactive s[...]texto impreso
Montalvo, Javier ; Ruiz-Labrador, Enrique ; Montoya-Bernabéu, Pablo ; Acosta Gallo, Belén | MDPI | 2019Rural–urban gradients offer an appropriate ecological framework for understanding relevant social issues to sustainability and policy planning. We tested the hypothesis that human population growth rate at a local scale is indirectly driven by s[...]texto impreso
Moya, Alberto ; Archilla Sanz, Diego ; Navarro Palma, Elena ; Hernando Grande, Antonio ; Marín Palacios, María Pilar | MDPI | 2019-07-12Co-based amorphous microwires presenting the giant magnetoimpedance effect are proposed as sensing elements for high sensitivity biosensors. In this work we report an experimental method for contactless detection of stress, temperature, and liqu[...]texto impreso
Encina Vara, Alberto de la ; Hidalgo Herrero, Mercedes ; Llana Díaz, Luis Fernando ; Rubio Díez, Fernando | MDPI | 2020-05-26It is not easy to debug lazy functional programs. The reason is that laziness and higherorder complicates basic debugging strategies. Although there exist several debuggers for sequential lazy languages, dealing with parallel languages is much h[...]texto impreso
Benavides, F. ; Sutovsky, P. ; López, V. ; Kennedy, C. ; Echevarría, L. | MDPI | 2020-07-14T00:00:56ZThe guinea pig, as a livestock species, is still developing and growing throughout Peru and neighboring countries, as reflected by its increasing export since 2000. However, the selection of proven fertile males is tedious due to the absence of [...]