CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CARLOS III (F.S.P.) IMAGE: ANA VICTORIA LECHUGA-VIECO, RAQUEL JUSTO, JOSÉ ANTONIO ENRÍQUEZ, JESÚS VÁZQUEZ Y ENRIQUE CALVO. CREDIT: CNIC Research carried out at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has demonstrated that mixing mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) of different origins can have damaging effects over the medium and long term. mtDNA is...
IMAGE OF MOUSE ASTROCYTES SHOWING THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETON (RED) AND LYSOSOMES (GREEN) view more CREDIT: TANIA LOPEZ-HERNANDEZ Cellular waste disposal, where autophagy and lysosomes interact, performs elementary functions, such as degrading damaged protein molecules, which impair cellular function, and reintroducing the resulting building blocks such as amino acids into the metabolic system. This recycling process...
The results of a meta-analysis presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) 2017 press conference has demonstrated that early therapeutic intervention in patients with so-called pre-rheumatoid arthritis (pre-RA) significantly reduces the risk of the occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in these patients at 52 weeks or more. Recent progress in the understanding...
