Histórico

Cancer is the second cause of mortality in Spain and the industrialized countries. Drugs currently used in chemotherapy have serious side effects, as they act on fast-reproducing cells, both tumour and sound. However, the progressive advances in the understanding of...

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Researchers of the UGR, the Laboratory for Medical Research and the Paediatric Service of the Teaching Hospital are the authors of “Prenatal risk factors for cryptorchidism and hypospadias: a case control study”. Cryptorchidism (undescended testicles) and hypospadias (abnormal positioning of...

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When it comes to carrying out a treatment, previously knowing the emotional state of the patient is essential for odontologists and, in general, for any health professional, as patients may present an immune state altered by the anxiety caused by...

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The Professor of the Department of Nursing of the University of Granada, María José Aguilar Cordero, has just published “Mother’s Lactation”. Once again, the prestigious publishing house Elsievier Science, one of the major publishing houses specialized in world Health Sciences,...

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Professor Manuel Toledano Pérez has focused part of his research works on psychomotor training of future odontologists. They have set in motion a teaching innovation project that improves the features of the hindsight box they have been using in the...

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A researcher’s network from twelve countries –Spain among them- has recently presented the sequence of hen’s genome in the journal Nature. It is the first genome of a bird which has been decoded and it is 60% identical to human...

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This research work has been supervised by Professor Fernando Gil Hernández and has proved that the presence of arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) in the population of the area where the accident of Aznalcóllar occurred is similar to that of...

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AIDS is still one of the top priority points of the international scientific agenda. In this sense, the group Virus transmission by blood of the University of Granada fits into the AIDS Research Network, in a project coordinated from Barcelona...

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Cell death is on the origin of degenerative diseases such as Parkinson. Taking this as starting point, Darío Acuña Castroviejo´s group, of the Department of Physiology of the UGR, studies the mechanisms which take part in this process, connecting cell...

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What has ADP-ribose polymerases activity got to do with tubular necrosis in a kidney that is going to be transplanted? A lot, according to the indications of these studies, and its temporary inhibition could improve the functional nature of these...

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