• Facile mechanochemical modification of g-C3N4 for selective photo-oxidation of benzyl alcohol 

      Cerdana, Kenneth; Ouyang, Weiyi; Colmenares, Juan C.; Muñoz-Batista, Mario J.; Luque, Rafael; Balu, Alina M. (2019)
      Graphitic carbon nitride enriched with ZnO or Fe2O3 were synthesized using a simple one-pot mechanochemical method. By using this method, composite samples were synthetized without the production of any potentially hazardous ...
    • Farmers review of Best Management Practices: drivers and barriers as seen by adopters and non-adopters 

      Bijttebier, J.; Ruysschaert, G.; Hijbeek, R.; Rijk, B.; Werner, M.; Raschke, I.; Steinmann, H.H.; Zylowska, K.; Pronk, A.; Schlatter, N.; Guzmán Díaz, María Gema; Syp, A.; Bechini, L.; Turpin, N.; Guiffant, N.; Perret, E.; Mauhé, N.; Toqué, C.; Zavattaro, L.; Costamagna, C.; Grignani, C.; Lehninen, T.; Baumgarten, A.; Spiegel, H.; Portero, A.; Van Walleghem, T.; Pedrera, A.; Vanderlinden, Karl; Giráldez Cervera, Juan Vicente (2015)
    • Fasciola hepatica induces eosinophil apoptosis in the migratory and biliary stages of infection in sheep 

      Escamilla, Alejandro; Bautista, M.J.; Zafra Leva, Rafael; Pacheco, I.L.; Ruiz, M.Teresa; Martínez Cruz, Setefilla; Méndez, A.; Martínez-Moreno, Álvaro; Molina Hernández, Verónica; Pérez, José (Elsevier, 2016)
      The aim of the present work was to evaluate the number of apoptotic eosinophils in the livers of sheep experimentally infected with Fasciola hepatica during the migratory and biliary stages of infection. Four groups (n = ...
    • Food Safety Risk Management 

      Carrasco Jiménez, Elena; Valero Díaz, Antonio; Pérez Rodríguez, Fernando; García Gimeno, Rosa María; Zurera Cosano, Gonzalo (INTECH, 2011)
      It is a principal aim of governments to assure the safety of societies in all sectors. In the food field, safety has been dealt with for a long time by making decisions in an empirical manner. Recently, risk management ...
    • Gender and Cross-Scale Differences in the Perception of Social-Ecological Systems 

      Delgado Serrano, María del Mar; Escalante Semerena, Roberto I. (MDPI, 2018)
      The sound management of Social-Ecological Systems (SESs) requires a deep knowledge of the system and its dynamics, but effective strategies also need to include the perceptions of the local actors. These perceptions are ...
    • Genetic control of inflorescence architecture in legumes 

      Benlloch, Reyes; Berbel, Ana; All, Latifeh; Gohari, Gholamreza; Millán, Teresa; Madueño, Francisco (Frontiers, 2015)
      The architecture of the inflorescence, the shoot system that bears the flowers, is a main component of the huge diversity of forms found in flowering plants. Inflorescence architecture has also a strong impact on the ...
    • Genetic Footprints of Iberian Cattle in America 500 Years after the Arrival of Columbus 

      Delgado-Bermejo, J.V.; Martínez Martínez, Amparo; Gama, Luis L.T.; Cañón, Javier; Ginja, Catarina; Dunner, Susana; Landi, Vincenzo; Martín-Burriel, I.; Penedo, M. Cecilia T.; Rodellar, Clementina; Vega-Pla, J.L.; Acosta, Atzel; Álvarez, Luz Ángela; Camacho Vallejo, M.E.; Cortés, Oscar; Marques, J.R.; Martínez, Roberto; Martínez, Ruben D.; Melucci, Lilia; Martínez-Velázquez, Guillermo; Muñoz, Jaime E.; Postiglioni, A.; Quiroz, Jorge; Sponenberg, Philip; Uffo, Odalys; Villalobos, Axel; Villalobos, Axel; Zaragoza, P. (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2012)
      Background: American Creole cattle presumably descend from animals imported from the Iberian Peninsula during the period of colonization and settlement, through different migration routes, andmay have also suffered the ...
    • Hepatic insulin resistance both in prediabetic and diabetic patients determines postprandial lipoprotein metabolism: from the CORDIOPREV study 

      León Acuña, Ana; Delgado Lista, José; Torres‑Peña, J.D.; López Moreno, Javier; García-Ríos, Antonio; Marín, Carmen; Gómez Delgado, Francisco; Caballero, J.; Van‑Ommen, B.; Malagón, María M.; Pérez-Martínez, Pablo; Alcalá Díaz, Juan Francisco; Camargo García, A.; López-Miranda, José (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background/aims: Previous evidences have shown the presence of a prolonged and exaggerated postprandial response in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its relation with an increase of cardiovascular risk. However, ...
    • Heterogeneously Catalyzed Synthesis of Imidazolones via Cycloisomerizations of Propargylic Ureas Using Ag and Au/Al SBA-15 Systems 

      Zuliani, Alessio; Ranjan, Prabhat; Luque, Rafael; Van der Eycken, Erik V. (ACS, 2019)
      The synthesis of imidazolones through the cycloisomerization of ureas, specifically propargylureas, has gained attention due to the large availability of starting materials. However, this type of synthesis normally requires ...
    • Highly active catalytic Ru/TiO2 nanomaterials for continuous production of γ-valerolactone 

      Ouyang, Weiyi; Muñoz-Batista, Mario J.; Fernández-García, Marcos; Luque, Rafael (2019)
      Green energy production from renewable sources is an attractive but challenging topic to face the likely energy crisis scenario in the future. In the current work, a series of versatile Ru/TiO2 catalysts were simply ...
    • How alkalinization drives fungal pathogenicity 

      Ribeiro Fernandes, Tânia Alícia; Segorbe, David; Prusky, Dov; Di Pietro, Antonio (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      pH governs most, if not all, processes of life. In fungi, ambient pH acts as a potent regulator of growth and development [1]. Studies conducted primarily in the 2 model organisms Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus ...
    • Hypothalamic mTOR Signaling Mediates the Orexigenic Action of Ghrelin 

      Martins, Luis; Fernández-Mayo, Diana; Novelle, Marta G.; Vázquez, María J.; Nogeiras, Rubén; López, Miguel; Diéguez, Carlos; Tena-Sempere, Manuel (Public Library Of Science (PLOS), 2012)
      Current evidence suggests that ghrelin, a stomach derived peptide, exerts its orexigenic action through specific modulation of Sirtuin1 (SIRT1)/p53 and AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathways, which ultimately increase ...
    • Identification of reference genes for real-time PCR cytokine gene expression studies in sheep experimentally infected with Fasciola hepatica 

      Pacheco, I.L.; Abril, Nieves; Zafra Leva, Rafael; Morales-Prieto, N.; Molina Hernández, Verónica; Ruiz, M.T.; Pérez Caballero, Raúl; Martínez-Moreno, Álvaro; Pérez, José (Nature.com, 2019)
      The aim of this study was to validate reference genes for gene normalisation using qRT-PCR in hepatic lymph nodes (HLN) and livers from sheep infected with Fasciola hepatica during early and late stages of infection. To ...
    • Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Vaccine Improvements: Current Status and New Approaches 

      Batista-Duharte, Alexander; Hassouneh, Fakhri; Álvarez-Heredia, Pablo; Pera, Alejandra; Solana Lara, Rafael (MDPI, 2022)
      In recent years, the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in combination with approved or experimental vaccines has proven to be a promising approach to improve vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy. This strategy seeks ...
    • Immune signatures of pathogenesis in the peritoneal compartment during early infection of sheep with Fasciola hepatica 

      Ruiz-Campillo, María Teresa; Molina Hernández, Verónica; Escamilla, Alejandro; Stevenson, Michael; Pérez, José; Martínez-Moreno, Álvaro; Donnelly, Sheila; Dalton, John P.; Cwiklinski, Krystyna (Nature, 2017)
      Immune signatures of sheep acutely-infected with Fasciola hepatica, an important pathogen of livestock and humans were analysed within the peritoneal compartment to investigate early infection. Within the peritoneum, F. ...
    • Immunohistochemical Approach to Study Cylindrospermopsin Distribution in Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) under Different Exposure Conditions 

      Guzmán-Guillén, Remedios; Gutiérrez-Praena, Daniel; Risalde, M.A.; Moyano Salvago, M. Rosario; Prieto, Ana Isabel; Pichardo Sánchez, Silvia; Jos Gallego, Ángeles Mencía; Vasconcelos, Vitor; Cameán Fernández, Ana María (MDPI, 2014)
      Cylindrospermopsin (CYN) is a cytotoxic cyanotoxin produced by several species of freshwater cyanobacteria (i.e., Aphanizomenon ovalisporum). CYN is a tricyclic alkaloid combined with a guanidine moiety. It is well known ...
    • Impact of extreme meteorological events on crop yield: a common framework approach 

      Villalobos Martín, Francisco J.; Testi, Luca; Bellochi, Gianni; De Melo Abreu, José Paulo (2015)
      The hypothesis is that yield variations due to an extreme event (cold temperature, high temperature or water deficit) is mediated by a change in Harvest Index (HI), while the main effect of weather on crop performance ...
    • Impact of Satellite and in Situ Data Assimilation on Hydrological Predictions 

      Musuuza, Jude Lubega; Gustafsson, David; Pimentel, Rafael; Crochemore, Louise; Pechlivanidis, Ilias (MDPI, 2020)
      The assimilation of different satellite and in situ products generally improves the hydrological model predictive skill. Most studies have focused on assimilating a single product at a time with the ensemble size subjectively ...
    • Impacts of soil management on physical soil quality 

      Guzmán Díaz, María Gema; Sáenz de Rodrigáñez, M.; Vanderlinden, Karl; Vanwalleghem, Tom; Laguna Luna, Ana María; Giráldez Cervera, Juan Vicente (2015)
    • Impacts of soil management practices on crop productivity, on indicators for climate change mitigation, and on the chemical, physical and biological quality of soil 

      Spiegel, H.; Zavattaro, L.; Guzmán Díaz, María Gema; D’Hose, T.; Pecio, A.; Lehtinen, T.; Schlatter, N.; ten Berge, H.; Grignani, C.; Molendijk, L.; Ruysschaert, G.; Bechini, L.; Costamagna, C.; Haslmayr, H.P.; Baumgarten, A.; Krüger, J.; Syp, A.; Fotyma, M.; Jarosz, Z.; Sáenz de Rodrigáñez, M.; Vanwalleghem, Tom; Vanderlinden, Karl; Laguna Luna, Ana María; Giráldez Cervera, Juan Vicente; van den Berg, W.; Hoek, H.; Runia, W. (2015)