CPEB4 increases expression of PFKFB3 to induce glycolysis and activate mouse and human hepatic stellate cells, promoting liver fibrosis Mejias M, Gallego J, Naranjo-Suarez S, Ramirez M, Pell N, Manzano A, Suñer C, Bartrons R, Mendez R, Fernandez M Corresponding author: Mercedes Fernandez Gastroenterology 2020; 159: 273-288. This paper has...
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Gastroenterology impact factor: 20.877. This study unveils a new functional link between CPEB4-dependent translation, glycolysis and liver fibrosis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32169429/ https://www.clinicbarcelona.org/noticias/descifran-un-nuevo-mecanismo-de-progresion-de-la-fibrosis-en-enfermedades-hepaticas-cronicas http://biotech-spain.com/en/articles/descifran-un-nuevo-mecanismo-de-progresi-n-de-la-fibrosis-en-enfermedades-hep-ticas-cr-nicas/ https://twitter.com/idibaps/status/1281956432561217538...
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Published in Current Tissue Microenvironment Reports (Springer Nature); doi:10.1007/s43152-020-00013-w. By Marc Mejias, Alexandra Balvey and Mercedes Fernandez. This new journal publishes cutting-edge, invitation-only reviews in order to advance our knowledge of how the constituents of different tissues interact between them, and function in physiologic and pathologic conditions....
By Marc Mejias, Javier Gallego, Salvador Naranjo-Suarez, Marta Ramirez, Nuria Pell, Anna Manzano, Clara Suñer, Ramon Bartrons, Raul Mendez, Mercedes Fernandez. Corresponding author: M Fernandez. CPEB4 increases expression of PFKFB3 to induce glycolysis and activate mouse and human hepatic stellate cells, promoting liver fibrosis. Gastroenterology 2020; S0016-5085(20)30328-0 (doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2020.03.008). This study...
Núria Pell (5-Year PhD Student in our lab and AECC volunteer) organizing, with the AECC, a workshop honoring all female scientists whose discoveries changed the world. Thanks AECC for implementing these initiatives and supporting science!! ...
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By Marta Ramirez-Pedraza & Mercedes Fernandez. Published in Frontiers in Immunology 2019; 10:2882. Specialty Section Molecular Innate Immunity. Editor Ralf Weiskirchen. Open Access Article ...
Members of our group participate as organizers and teachers at the 2019 Science Week hosted by the IDIBAPS, where 250 high school students become researchers for one day! ...
Congrats Marc and all authors for this excellent work, which has been selected as a Presidential Poster of Distinction by the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD). Posters of Distinction are classified as being in the top 10% of all accepted poster abstracts...
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Published in OBM Hepatology and Gastroenterology (2019) 3:15, by Marta Ramirez and Mercedes Fernandez. Special Issue: "Exploring Novel Treatment Options for Liver Fibrosis: Can Anti-Angiogenics Succeed?". Ed. M. Bartneck. Lidsen Publishing, Ohio, USA. Invited Review. Link...
Published in Springer Nature (2019), by Marta Ramirez*, Nuria Pell*, Marc Mejias and Mercedes Fernandez (*co-first authors). Pericyte Biology in Different Organs, Ed. A. Birbrair, Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 2019;1122:73-100. PubMed Brings readers up to date on this unique cell type which has...
It has been a great pleasure to co-organize this extraordinary research event of the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL). Thanks to our keynote speakers for their fantastic opening talks, to all faculty members and students for their remarkable engagement and enthusiasm, and...
Celebrating teamwork, hard work, and collaboration with the Reiberger's lab and the Trebicka's lab at the ECLCB-8 meeting. Thomas Reiberger, Sabine Klein, Philipp Königshofer, Frank Erhard Uschner, Nuria Pell, Ester Garcia-Pras, Marta Ramirez, Salvador Naranjo and myself (with Robert Schierwagen and Jonel Trebicka) organized and...
This wonderful and fruitful meeting has been a unique platform to present our work, share experience, create new networks for international collaborations, and have fun. We have organized and presented the Workshop on Vascular Biology Techniques and chaired the Session on Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cell...