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The current debate on the anterior cruciate ligament is focused in the kind of implant to use for the reconstruction of the ligament. Hospital del Mar's researchers have carried out two study cases with bio-absorbable implants and have defined and diagnosed an injury that has been produced by this kind of implants.
Researchers find the mechanism by which cells resist chemotherapy
A team of researchers from the UAB's Mutagenesis Group, led by Dr Jordi Surrallés, has identified one of the mechanisms used by cancer cells to resist chemotherapy. In his paper, published in The EMBO Journal, Dr Surrallés describes how...
Crohn disease causes ulcers in the small and large intestine. Disease symptoms, medicine secondary effects and the potential complications contribute to a psychosocial and emotional worsening that can cause anxiety or depression. A case-control study carried out by the Digestology Unit of the Parc Taulí Sabadell Hospital has demonstrated that,...
Researchers of the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol and the pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Almirall carried out a study to verify what is the therapeutic effect of almotriptan -a drug used in the treatment of migraine crisis- in relation to alcohol consumption. The results obtained show that it is not necessary to modify the...
Myopathies and celiac disease
Inflammatory myopathies are immunological diseases that cause inflammation in the muscular tissue. The cause and mechanisms of these diseases are not yet right known. Their origin could be an unusual immunological answer of human organism. Sometimes, myopathy appears at the same time that celiac disease....
In the 21th Century tuberculosis is still a very important cause of many deaths every year. There are vaccines, but their efficacy is not very high. UAB researchers have collaborated in a research for improving the treatment based in the study of Toll-like receptors. The trials with animal models have demonstrated a role for Toll-like receptors in...
Prognosis of survival of patients affected by melanoma malignant depends on the presence or absence of tumoral cells in sentinel lymph nodes. Scientists of the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital have studied the effectiveness of the analysis techniques used s to detect them.
The "normal pressure" hidrocephalia is a rare illness that we don't know quite well. The most frequent cause is an anomaly in elimination mechanisms of a substance inside of the skull, cephalorraquídeus liquid. Habitually, the processing consists of placing an internal derivation that corrects cephalorraquídeus liquid elimination. Up to now it was...
Researchers of the Spanish National Research Council and Catalan Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences have discovered the receiver responsible for the selective collection of esterified cholesterol in the vascular wall. This type of cholesterol is accumulated in the organism like small drops of fat that can aggravate the vascular injuries and...
