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    Imágenes de las coroides de ratones control (izquierda) y tras la eliminación de IHH de las células endoteliales (derecha), lo que resulta en una disminución del número de mastocitos (puntos blancos).
    Research
    20 Mar 2020
    Journal of Experimental Medicine:CNIC scientists identify an immunological regulatory circuit that may play a central role in ocular diseases

    Scientists at the CNIC and Weill Cornell Medicine have identified an inflammatory regulatory circuit controlled by a subtype of endothelial cells in the eye
    Dr. Filip Swirski
    About the CNIC
    28 Feb 2020
    "Sleep has been proven to be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease”

    Dr. Filip Swirski is associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) and one of the leading experts on the relationship between sleep and heart disease
    María Ángeles Moro
    About the CNIC
    11 Feb 2020
    "Various diseases and all very mechanistically different, are included under the name of vascular dementia, or better called, cognitive vascular deterioration"

    María Ángeles Moro leads the CNIC's Neurovascular Pathophysiology Laboratory.
    About the CNIC
    29 Jan 2020
    CNIC is one of 4 finalists competing for €35m funding from the British Heart Foundation

    Dr. Valentín Fuster’s group will contribute to the iMAP project through the PESA-CNIC-Santander study
    Andrés Hidalgo, Jose María Adrover y Alejandra Aroca
    Research
    14 Jan 2020
    Nature Immunology: Neutrophils are equipped with a 'disarmament' program that prevents the immune system going 'out of control'

    The newly identified immune control system is located within one of the most important cell types of the immune system, the neutrophil
    De izquierda a derecha José Manuel Alfonso Almazán, Jorge García Quintanilla, Manuel Marina Breysse, José María Lillo Castellano, Julián Pérez Villacastín, David Filgueiras Rama, José Jalife y Nicasio Pérez Castellano.
    Research
    16 Dec 2019
    Europace: Personalized medicine for atrial fibrillation

    The study, published in Europace, uses signals from implantable devices—pacemakers and defibrillators—to analyze electrical signals in the heart during episodes of atrial fibrillation
    Andrés Hidalgo
    Research
    10 Dec 2019
    NeutroCure: exploiting the dual nature of neutrophils to cure inflammatory diseases

    The NeutroCure project focuses on reactive oxygen species (ROS), which play central roles in healthy animals, such as redox signalling to regulate cell growth
    : Blood vessel duplications in the inflamed intestinal mucosa of a mouse with colitis.
    Research
    3 Dec 2019
    EMBO Molecular Medicine: Inhibiting a protease could improve the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

    Scientists at the CNIC and CSIC have identified a function of a protease that could be the future target of drugs to treat inflammatory bowel disease
    Research
    31 Oct 2019
    REANIMA: toward a new paradigm in cardiac regeneration

    Dr. Miguel Torres, of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), leads a new project that will receive €8 million in funding over 5 years, €1,380,000 of which will be directly managed at the CNIC
    Rocío Sierra, José María Fernández-Toro, Cristina Clavería, Raquel Justo-Méndez, José Antonio Enríquez, Ana Victoria Lechuga-Vieco y Luis Miguel Criado.
    Research
    4 Oct 2019
    Cell Metabolism: CNIC scientists discover a new mechanism for the transfer of maternal genetic material

    CNIC researchers have defined the dynamics of  the transfer of mitochondrial DNA from mothers to their offspring