• Antifibrotic effect of brown algae-derived fucoidans on osteoarthritic fibroblast-like synoviocytes 

      Piñeiro-Ramil, María; Flórez-Fernández, Noelia; Ramil-Gómez, Olalla; Torres, María Dolores; Domínguez, Herminia; Blanco García, Francisco J; Meijide-Faílde, Rosa; Vaamonde-García, Carlos (Elsevier, 2022-01-12)
      [Abstract] Synovial fibrosis is a pathological process which contributes to joint pain and stiffness in several musculoskeletal disorders. Fucoidans, sulfated polysaccharides found in brown algae, have recently emerged as ...
    • GWAS for systemic sclerosis identifies multiple risk loci and highlights fibrotic and vasculopathy pathways 

      López-Isac, Elena; Acosta-Herrera, Marialbert; Kerick, Martin; Assassi, Shervin; Satpathy, Ansuman T.; Granja, Jeffrey; Mumbach, Maxwell R.; Beretta, Lorenzo; Simeón, Carmen P.; Carreira, Patricia; Ortego-Centeno, Norberto; Castellvi, Iván; Bossini-Castillo, Lara; Carmona, F. David; Orozco, Gisela; Hunzelmann, Nicolas; Distler, Jörg H.W.; Franke, Andre; Lunardi, Claudio; Moroncini, Gianluca; Gabrielli, Armando; Vries-Bouwstra, Jeska de; Wijmenga, Cisca; Koeleman, Bobby P.C.; Nordin, Annika; Padyukov, Leonid; Hoffmann-Vold, Anna-Maria; Lie, Benedicte; Proudman, Susanna; Stevens, Wendy; Nikpour, Mandana; Vyse, Timothy; Herrick, Ariane L.; Worthington, Jane; Denton, Christopher P.; Allarone, Yannick; Brown, Matthew A.; Radstake, Timothy R.D.J.; Fonseca, Carmen; Chang, Howard Y.; Mayes, Maureen D.; Martín, Javier (Nature, 2019-10-31)
      [Abstract] Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease that shows one of the highest mortality rates among rheumatic diseases. We perform a large genome-wide association study (GWAS), and meta-analysis with previous ...