Worldwide, obesity has become a major public health crisis. Overweight and obesity not only
increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes mellitus but also are now …

Most cancers arise from oncogenic changes in the genomes of somatic cells, and while the
cells may migrate by metastasis, they remain within that single individual. Natural …

A survey of pathological conditions affecting cockle populations of the most economically
important natural beds of Galician estuaries in NW Spain was performed. Samples of 30 adult …

Transmissible cancers are malignant cell lineages that spread clonally between individuals.
Several such cancers, termed bivalve transmissible neoplasia (BTN), induce leukemia-like …

Two types of prevalent neoplastic diseases have been described in marine bivalves of
commercial interest: disseminated neoplasia (DN) and gonadal neoplasia. The first involves the …

The highest shellfishery catch in Galicia (NW Spain) has traditionally been cockle Cerastoderma
edule. The shellfish bed located in Lombos do Ulla (Ría de Arousa) used to be among …

Purpose: Treatment for patients with recurrent endometrioid endometrial cancer (EEC) are
limited as paclitaxel is the only second-line chemotherapy with a response rate >13%. …

Metformin is an oral biguanide commonly used for the treatment of type II diabetes and has
recently been demonstrated to possess antiproliferative properties that can be exploited for …

The notion of a generalized Lie bialgebroid (a generalization of the notion of a Lie
bialgebroid) is introduced in such a way that a Jacobi manifold has associated a canonical …

PRINCIPLES: Midregional proadrenomedullin (proADM) is a novel biomarker with potential
prognostic utility in patients with community-acquired pneumonia. The aim of this study was …