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    Research
    16 Jul 2025
    Nature: A gut microbiota metabolite linked to atherosclerosis could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment

    A new study led by the CNIC has identified imidazole propionate (ImP), a metabolite produced by gut bacteria, as a driver of atherosclerosis— as a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes
    Sarai Martínez Cano, Marcos Femenía Muiña, Elena Hernández, Vanessa Núñez, Manuel Rodrigo Tapias, Miguel Galán Burgos, Iñaki Robles, Alberto Benguria, David Sancho y Almudena Ramiro
    Research
    2 Jun 2025
    Circulation Research: CNIC scientists uncover how the immune response drives atherosclerosis—the root cause of heart attacks and strokes

    A team from the CNIC has discovered the key role of conventional type 1 dendritic cells (cDC1) in atherosclerosis and has developed an experimental therapy with immunosuppressive nanoparticles that slows the progression of the disease in animal models.
    Rebecca F. Gottesman
    Research
    4 Jun 2024
    Rebecca F. Gottesman: “Telling someone their risk of dementia would drop if they treated their high blood pressure would impact them more than the possibility of a heart attack or stroke"

    Stroke Branch Chief at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
    Imagen obtenida por microscopía confocal en la que se observa el borde de la cicatriz glial producida tras el infarto cerebral, lo cual dificulta la posterior regeneración de la zona. Este evento es atenuado en gran medida a través del tratamiento con metoprolol intravenoso pre-reperfusión.
    Research
    3 Oct 2022
    BJP: CNIC scientists identify a neuroprotective action of metoprolol after a stroke

    Metoprolol, an established drug in the cardiologists armory, protects the brain during a stroke and greatly reduces its consequences