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Plant J ; 113(4): 833-850, 2023 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36582174

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The plant immune system perceives a diversity of carbohydrate ligands from plant and microbial cell walls through the extracellular ectodomains (ECDs) of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which activate pattern-triggered immunity (PTI). Among these ligands are oligosaccharides derived from mixed-linked ß-1,3/ß-1,4-glucans (MLGs; e.g. ß-1,4-D-(Glc)2 -ß-1,3-D-Glc, MLG43) and cellulose (e.g. ß-1,4-D-(Glc)3 , CEL3). The mechanisms behind carbohydrate perception in plants are poorly characterized except for fungal chitin oligosaccharides (e.g. ß-1,4-d-(GlcNAc)6 , CHI6), which involve several receptor kinase proteins (RKs) with LysM-ECDs. Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants impaired in glycan perception (igp) that are defective in PTI activation mediated by MLG43 and CEL3, but not by CHI6. igp1-igp4 are altered in three RKs - AT1G56145 (IGP1), AT1G56130 (IGP2/IGP3) and AT1G56140 (IGP4) - with leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) and malectin (MAL) domains in their ECDs. igp1 harbors point mutation E906K and igp2 and igp3 harbor point mutation G773E in their kinase domains, whereas igp4 is a T-DNA insertional loss-of-function mutant. Notably, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) assays with purified ECD-RKs of IGP1 and IGP3 showed that IGP1 binds with high affinity to CEL3 (with dissociation constant KD  = 1.19 ± 0.03 µm) and cellopentaose (KD  = 1.40 ± 0.01 µM), but not to MLG43, supporting its function as a plant PRR for cellulose-derived oligosaccharides. Our data suggest that these LRR-MAL RKs are components of a recognition mechanism for both cellulose- and MLG-derived oligosaccharide perception and downstream PTI activation in Arabidopsis.


Asunto(s)
Proteínas de Arabidopsis , Arabidopsis , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinasas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/genética , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Leucina/metabolismo , Glucanos/metabolismo , Celulosa/metabolismo , Inmunidad de la Planta/genética , Plantas/metabolismo , Oligosacáridos/metabolismo
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Am J Psychoanal ; 84(2): 190-202, 2024 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38866953

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The COVID pandemic has had a major impact on the mental health of the population, especially on female adolescents. Eating disorders and gender identity problems have increased markedly. Online activities have also grown enormously during this period occupying a large portion of adolescents' time. We explore the use of social networking and online gaming by adolescent girls and boys. We discuss their possible influence on different levels of psychological distress in boys and girls in the face of the pandemic. We propose that online games, mainly used by young boys, might offer them some emotional protection through mechanisms related to the body and its experience, to the group dynamics of competition, collaboration, and hierarchy, to the possibility of expressing aggression, and to the construction of a clearer and more stable identity. An unprejudiced look at new technologies is mandatory, if we are to avoid projecting our fears and expectations onto them.


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COVID-19 , Salud Mental , Juegos de Video , Humanos , COVID-19/psicología , Adolescente , Juegos de Video/psicología , Masculino , Femenino , Conducta del Adolescente/psicología , Redes Sociales en Línea
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Psychol Med ; 53(9): 4236-4244, 2023 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35410632

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BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been a global challenge. High mortality rates have been reported in some risk groups, including patients with pre-existing mental disorders. METHODS: We used electronic health records to retrospectively identify people infected due to COVID-19 (between March 2020 and March 2021) in the three territories of the Basque Country. COVID-19 cases were defined as individuals who had tested positive on a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models and multilevel analyses with generalized estimated equations were used to determine factors associated with COVID-19-related mortality and hospital admission. RESULTS: The COVID-19 mortality rate was increased for patients with psychotic disorders [odds ratio (OR) adjusted: 1.45, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.09-1.94), p = 0.0114] and patients with substance abuse [OR adjusted: 1.88, 95% CI (1.13-3.14, p < 0.0152)]. The mortality rate was lower for patients with affective disorders [OR adjusted: 0.80, 95% CI (0.61-0.99), p = 0.0407]. Hospital admission rates due to COVID-19 were higher in psychosis [OR adjusted: 2.90, 95% CI (2.36-3.56), p < 0.0001] and anxiety disorder groups [OR adjusted: 1.54, 95% CI (1.37-1.72), p < 0.0001]. Among admitted patients, COVID-19 mortality rate was decreased for those with affective disorders rate [OR adjusted: 0.72, 95% CI (0.55-0.95), p = 0.0194]. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19-related mortality and hospitalizations rates were higher for patients with a pre-existing psychotic disorder.


Asunto(s)
COVID-19 , Trastornos Psicóticos , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias , Humanos , Estudios Retrospectivos , SARS-CoV-2 , Hospitalización , Trastornos Psicóticos/epidemiología , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/epidemiología
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Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry ; 32(12): 2523-2536, 2023 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36738328

RESUMEN

Evidence of alterations in emotion processing in maltreated youth has been hypothesized to reflect latent vulnerability for psychopathology. However, previous studies have not systematically examined the influence of psychopathology on the results. Here, we examined emotion recognition and learning in youth who differed in terms of presence vs. absence of maltreatment and psychopathology and tested for potential sex effects. Maltreatment and psychopathology were assessed in 828 youth (514 females) aged 9-18 years using diagnostic interviews and self- and parent-report questionnaires. Emotion recognition was assessed via identification of morphed facial expressions of six universal emotions. For emotion learning, reward and punishment values were assigned to novel stimuli and participants had to learn to correctly respond/withhold response to stimuli to maximize points. A three-way interaction of maltreatment by psychopathology by emotion indicated that when psychopathology was low, maltreated youth were less accurate than non-maltreated youth for happy, fear and disgust. A three-way interaction of sex, maltreatment and emotion indicated that maltreated girls and boys were impaired for fear, but girls showed an impairment for happy, while boys for disgust. There were no effects of maltreatment, psychopathology, or sex on reward learning. However, a two-way interaction between sex and maltreatment showed that maltreated girls were worse at learning from punishment relative to non-maltreated girls, while maltreated boys were better than non-maltreated boys. The study provides the first clear evidence of latent-vulnerability in emotion recognition in maltreated youth and suggests that girls and boys might be characterized by distinct profiles of emotion recognition and learning following maltreatment.


Asunto(s)
Maltrato a los Niños , Masculino , Niño , Femenino , Adolescente , Humanos , Maltrato a los Niños/psicología , Emociones , Miedo , Expresión Facial , Psicopatología
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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37199754

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Clinical high risk of psychosis (CHR-P) population has become an attractive area of interest in preventing transitions to psychosis. The consequences of developing a psychotic disorder may be worse in cases of early onset. Thus, childhood and adolescence represent a critical developmental window, where opportunities to gain social and adaptive abilities depend on the individuals' neurocognitive performance. There have been previous syntheses of the evidence regarding neurocognitive functioning in CHR-P individuals and its longitudinal changes. However, there has been less focus on children and adolescents at CHR-P. A multistep literature search was performed from database inception until July 15th, 2022. PRIMSA/MOOSE compliant systematic review and PROSPERO protocol were used to identify studies reporting on longitudinal changes in neurocognitive functioning in children and adolescents (mean age of sample ≤ 18 years) at CHR-P and matched healthy control (HC) group. A systematic review of identified studies was then undertaken. Three articles were included, resulting in a total sample size of 151 CHR-P patients [mean (SD) age, 16.48 (2.41) years; 32.45% female] and 64 HC individuals [mean (SD) age, 16.79 (2.38) years; 42.18% female]. CHR-P individuals had worse outcomes in verbal learning, sustained attention and executive functioning domains compared to HC. Individuals taking antidepressants had better outcomes in verbal learning in contrast with those taking antipsychotics. In children and adolescents, neurocognition may be already impaired before the psychosis onset, and remains stable during the transition to psychosis. Further study should be performed to obtain more robust evidence.

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Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry ; 32(4): 589-600, 2023 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34661765

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Conduct disorder (CD) with high levels of callous-unemotional traits (CD/HCU) has been theoretically linked to specific difficulties with fear and sadness recognition, in contrast to CD with low levels of callous-unemotional traits (CD/LCU). However, experimental evidence for this distinction is mixed, and it is unclear whether these difficulties are a reliable marker of CD/HCU compared to CD/LCU. In a large sample (N = 1263, 9-18 years), we combined univariate analyses and machine learning classifiers to investigate whether CD/HCU is associated with disproportionate difficulties with fear and sadness recognition over other emotions, and whether such difficulties are a reliable individual-level marker of CD/HCU. We observed similar emotion recognition abilities in CD/HCU and CD/LCU. The CD/HCU group underperformed relative to typically developing (TD) youths, but difficulties were not specific to fear or sadness. Classifiers did not distinguish between youths with CD/HCU versus CD/LCU (52% accuracy), although youths with CD/HCU and CD/LCU were reliably distinguished from TD youths (64% and 60%, respectively). In the subset of classifiers that performed well for youths with CD/HCU, fear and sadness were the most relevant emotions for distinguishing them from youths with CD/LCU and TD youths, respectively. We conclude that non-specific emotion recognition difficulties are common in CD/HCU, but are not reliable individual-level markers of CD/HCU versus CD/LCU. These findings highlight that a reduced ability to recognise facial expressions of distress should not be assumed to be a core feature of CD/HCU.


Asunto(s)
Trastorno de la Conducta , Reconocimiento Facial , Adolescente , Humanos , Trastorno de la Conducta/diagnóstico , Trastorno de la Conducta/psicología , Emociones , Miedo , Reconocimiento en Psicología
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Exp Eye Res ; 215: 108912, 2022 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34965405

RESUMEN

Oxidative stress, generated because of an imbalance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and elimination, is associated with lens damage and cataract progression. ROS generation is known to activate NLRP3 (nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor family, pyrin domain-cointaining 3) inflammasome, and is believed to be an important link between oxidative stress and inflammation, that is also related to cataract development. Potential oxidative hazard to the lens by white light-emitting diode (LED) light, a source of illumination commonly used nowadays, has been suggested, although available information is limited. In this work, we evaluated the cytotoxicity induced by hydrogen peroxide (an oxidative stressor agent) and white LED light in lens epithelial cells as well as melatonin ability to counteract the effects induced by them. Melatonin is a neurohormone secreted by different ocular structures that could be useful to alleviate oxidative damage induced by different oxidative stressors in lens. Particularly, the modulation of Nrf2 (nuclear erythroid 2-related factor)/Keap 1 (Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1), an essential oxidative stress regulator, and NLRP3 activity by melatonin was evaluated in lens epithelial cells. ROS levels rose after white LED light exposure and cell viability was reduced after challenge with oxidative stressor agents. Melatonin prevented cell death triggered by hydrogen peroxide and white LED light, precluded ROS generation induced by white LED light and promoted antioxidant lens capacity through upregulation of Nrf2 protein levels and SOD activity. NLRP3, caspase-1 and IL1-ß expression significantly increased in human lens cells exposed to H2O2 or irradiated with white LED light. Activation of NLRP3 inflammasome triggered by oxidative stressors was also abrogated by melatonin. Attenuation of inflammatory and cytotoxic effects induced by oxidative stressors provided by melatonin in lens indicate the interest of this molecule as a potential therapeutic agent for cataract prevention/management.


Asunto(s)
Catarata , Melatonina , Catarata/metabolismo , Catarata/prevención & control , Humanos , Peróxido de Hidrógeno/toxicidad , Inflamasomas/metabolismo , Melatonina/farmacología , Factor 2 Relacionado con NF-E2/metabolismo , Proteína con Dominio Pirina 3 de la Familia NLR/metabolismo , Estrés Oxidativo , Especies Reactivas de Oxígeno/metabolismo
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Exp Eye Res ; 224: 109245, 2022 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36087761

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Osmotic stress is an important challenge to cell function. Dry eye pathology is characterized by elevated tear film osmolarity as consequence of decreased tear secretion and/or increased evaporation. Dry eye pathogenesis is not completely clarified. However, it is known that tear hyperosmolarity induces NLRP3 (nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor family, pyrin domain-cointaining 3) inflammasome activation and inflammatory mediators release that leads to ocular surface damage. Annexin A1 is a protein involved in anti-inflammatory or pro-resolution actions in different tissues while its presence and biological role on ocular surface has been scarcely examined. In this study, potential changes in annexin A1 protein expression and secretion on the ocular surface after exposure to hyperosmolar conditions were evaluated. In addition, considering the significant role of inflammation in dry eye pathology, the potential anti-inflammatory activity of Ac2-26, an annexin A1 peptide mimicking its N-terminus, was assessed. Cytosolic and membrane staining was detected for annexin A1 in corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells. A native form of annexin A1 together with a truncated form were detected by western blot analysis. Under hyperosmotic conditions increased protein levels of intracellular and secreted annexin A1 as well as higher expression of its receptor Fpr2 (formyl peptide receptor type 2) were found. Treatment with mimetic peptide Ac2-26 ameliorated NLRP3 activation and interleukin 1ß (IL-1ß) release triggered by elevated osmolarity in corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells. These findings suggest a potential role of annexin A1 and its mimetic peptide modulating key inflammatory events associated to dry eye.


Asunto(s)
Anexina A1 , Síndromes de Ojo Seco , Humanos , Anexina A1/análisis , Anexina A1/metabolismo , Antiinflamatorios/metabolismo , Proteínas Portadoras/metabolismo , Síndromes de Ojo Seco/metabolismo , Epitelio/metabolismo , Inflamasomas/metabolismo , Mediadores de Inflamación/análisis , Mediadores de Inflamación/metabolismo , Interleucina-1beta/metabolismo , Proteína con Dominio Pirina 3 de la Familia NLR/metabolismo , Receptores de Formil Péptido/análisis , Receptores de Formil Péptido/metabolismo , Lágrimas/metabolismo
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Metab Brain Dis ; 37(1): 39-50, 2022 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34406560

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is clinically characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive functions and short-term memory. AD patients present two distinctive neuropathological lesions: neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), constituted of beta-amyloid peptide (Aß) and phosphorylated and truncated tau proteins. Aß deposits around cerebral blood vessels (cerebral amyloid angiopathy, CAA) is a major contributor to vascular dysfunction in AD. Vascular amyloid deposits could be early events in AD due to dysfunction in the neurovascular unit (NVU) and the blood-brain barrier (BBB), deterioration of the gliovascular unit, and/or decrease of cerebral blood flow (CBF). These pathological events can lead to decreased Aß clearance, facilitate a neuroinflammatory environment as well as synaptic dysfunction and, finally, lead to neurodegeneration. Here, we review the histopathological AD hallmarks and discuss the two-hit vascular hypothesis of AD, emphasizing the role of neurovascular dysfunction as an early factor that favors vascular Aß aggregation and neurodegeneration. Addtionally, we emphasize that pericyte degeneration is a key and early element in AD that can trigger amyloid vascular accumulation and NVU/BBB dysfunction. Further research is required to better understand the early pathophysiological mechanisms associated with NVU alteration and CAA to generate early biomarkers and timely treatments for AD.


Asunto(s)
Enfermedad de Alzheimer , Angiopatía Amiloide Cerebral , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Péptidos beta-Amiloides/metabolismo , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Angiopatía Amiloide Cerebral/metabolismo , Angiopatía Amiloide Cerebral/patología , Humanos , Placa Amiloide/metabolismo
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Clin Psychol Psychother ; 29(2): 501-511, 2022 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34228846

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Insecure attachment has been described as mediating the relationship between childhood trauma and dysfunctional personality traits in different mental disorders. Despite the role insecure attachment and childhood trauma have independently demonstrated to play as determinants of borderline personality disorder, less is known about the mediating mechanisms explaining these associations. For the first time, we assessed adult attachment, childhood trauma and dimensional personality pathology in a sample of outpatients with borderline personality disorder and tested whether the association between childhood trauma and personality dysfunction was at least partially attributable to insecure attachment. The results showed that attachment anxiety fully mediated the relationship between specific types of trauma (emotional abuse and physical neglect) and emotional dysregulation. Further, emotional abuse was both directly associated with dissocial behaviour and indirectly via attachment anxiety (partial mediation). Emotional abuse has been described as an essential environmental factor for the development of borderline personality disorder and emotional dysregulation, on its part, as the core feature of the condition. Our results indicate that attachment anxiety explains the link between these central aspects of borderline personality disorder. Our findings are consistent with previous research and current etiological understanding of the condition and provide support for recommending a careful assessment of childhood traumatic experiences and adult attachment style to gain a more comprehensive insight into the symptoms and its heterogeneity. As a secondary aim, we assessed the effect parental mental illness may have in these mediation models, but no significant influence on childhood trauma, attachment or personality was found.


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Experiencias Adversas de la Infancia , Trastorno de Personalidad Limítrofe , Maltrato a los Niños , Adulto , Ansiedad/complicaciones , Trastorno de Personalidad Limítrofe/complicaciones , Trastorno de Personalidad Limítrofe/psicología , Niño , Maltrato a los Niños/psicología , Humanos , Personalidad
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Dev Psychopathol ; 33(3): 980-991, 2021 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32571444

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Less is known about the relationship between conduct disorder (CD), callous-unemotional (CU) traits, and positive and negative parenting in youth compared to early childhood. We combined traditional univariate analyses with a novel machine learning classifier (Angle-based Generalized Matrix Learning Vector Quantization) to classify youth (N = 756; 9-18 years) into typically developing (TD) or CD groups with or without elevated CU traits (CD/HCU, CD/LCU, respectively) using youth- and parent-reports of parenting behavior. At the group level, both CD/HCU and CD/LCU were associated with high negative and low positive parenting relative to TD. However, only positive parenting differed between the CD/HCU and CD/LCU groups. In classification analyses, performance was best when distinguishing CD/HCU from TD groups and poorest when distinguishing CD/HCU from CD/LCU groups. Positive and negative parenting were both relevant when distinguishing CD/HCU from TD, negative parenting was most relevant when distinguishing between CD/LCU and TD, and positive parenting was most relevant when distinguishing CD/HCU from CD/LCU groups. These findings suggest that while positive parenting distinguishes between CD/HCU and CD/LCU, negative parenting is associated with both CD subtypes. These results highlight the importance of considering multiple parenting behaviors in CD with varying levels of CU traits in late childhood/adolescence.


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Trastorno de la Conducta , Adolescente , Niño , Preescolar , Emociones , Empatía , Humanos , Responsabilidad Parental
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Int J Mol Sci ; 22(7)2021 Apr 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33915754

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease, characterized histopathologically by intra-neuronal tau-related lesions and by the accumulation of amyloid ß-peptide (Aß) in the brain parenchyma and around cerebral blood vessels. According to the vascular hypothesis of AD, an alteration in the neurovascular unit (NVU) could lead to Aß vascular accumulation and promote neuronal dysfunction, accelerating neurodegeneration and dementia. To date, the effects of insoluble vascular Aß deposits on the NVU and the blood-brain barrier (BBB) are unknown. In this study, we analyze different Aß species and their association with the cells that make up the NVU. We evaluated post-mortem AD brain tissue. Multiple immunofluorescence assays were performed against different species of Aß and the main elements that constitute the NVU. Our results showed that there are insoluble vascular deposits of both full-length and truncated Aß species. Besides, insoluble aggregates are associated with a decrease in the phenotype of the cellular components that constitute the NVU and with BBB disruption. This approach could help identify new therapeutic targets against key molecules and receptors in the NVU that can prevent the accumulation of vascular fibrillar Aß in AD.


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Enfermedad de Alzheimer/patología , Péptidos beta-Amiloides/metabolismo , Astrocitos/patología , Vasos Sanguíneos/patología , Encéfalo/patología , Microglía/patología , Actinas/metabolismo , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Vasos Sanguíneos/metabolismo , Encéfalo/irrigación sanguínea , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Caspasas/metabolismo , Humanos , Uniones Estrechas/patología
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Am J Psychoanal ; 81(4): 480-495, 2021 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34716406

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The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global phenomenon with powerful effects. The deaths and suffering, and the measures taken to mitigate the propagation, are changing the way we relate, work, and enjoy ourselves. The psychological impact on individuals and groups can only be partially known yet, but deserves examination. We focus on the specific place where we live: the city of Bilbao in northern Spain. The response of its people could represent an example of the COVID-19 experience and its effects, and some aspects might be generalized elsewhere. This paper reflects on the influence of the pandemic on some relevant social dimensions: personal and public spaces, affected by estrangement, time, subject to a slower pace, which pushes us into a different contact with our internal world. It also addresses a social vision of the pandemic as a punishment for our errors in the socio-economic and environmental fields, the role of uncertainty that generates strong defensive movements at the group level, and the expressions of personal and group courage throughout the process. The intensity of the pandemic in Bilbao and many parts of the world still prevents reflection on the long-term effects, which will have to be investigated in the future.


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COVID-19 , Pandemias , Ansiedad , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2 , España
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BMC Psychiatry ; 20(1): 245, 2020 05 19.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32429886

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BACKGROUND: Several quantitative studies support the effectiveness of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) psychosocial skills training group component for adolescents with impulse-control disorder and/or emotional dysregulation. However, qualitative research to assess this psychotherapeutic tool in the adolescent population is sparse. This study aims to examine the subjective experience of adolescents with behavioral issues who have completed DBT skills training group, as well as using this experience to extract hypotheses regarding its usefulness which can then be verified at a later time by means of quantitative instruments. METHODS: We developed a qualitative study by using focus groups with adolescents (N = 20) whose diagnosis includes symptoms such as behavior disorder, impulse-control disorder and/or emotional dysregulation, and good informants, who have completed DBT skills training. Three focus groups were created. RESULTS: The subjective experience of adolescents who have completed a DBT skills training group is collected in four main categories: experience of illness, motivation for therapy, experience of therapy and results of the therapy. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents with behavioral problems assess their participation in the DBT skills training group positively, even recommending its usefulness to healthy population. Beyond learning skills, they emphasize the intrapsychic changes (as improvement in reflective activity) that they objectify after the group experience.


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Terapia Conductual Dialéctica , Problema de Conducta , Investigación Cualitativa , Adolescente , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Resultado del Tratamiento
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Int J Mol Sci ; 21(22)2020 Nov 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33198167

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Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) is one of the most important plant viruses worldwide. It has a very wide host range infecting at least 318 species in over 43 families, such as Brassicaceae, Fabaceae, Asteraceae, or Chenopodiaceae from dicotyledons. Plant NADPH oxidases, the respiratory burst oxidase homologues (RBOHs), are a major source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during plant-microbe interactions. The functions of RBOHs in different plant-pathogen interactions have been analyzed using knockout mutants, but little focus has been given to plant-virus responses. Therefore, in this work we tested the response after mechanical inoculation with TuMV in ArabidopsisrbohD and rbohF transposon knockout mutants and analyzed ultrastructural changes after TuMV inoculation. The development of the TuMV infection cycle was promoted in rbohD plants, suggesting that RbohD plays a role in the Arabidopsis resistance response to TuMV. rbohF and rbohD/F mutants display less TuMV accumulation and a lack of virus cytoplasmic inclusions were observed; these observations suggest that RbohF promotes viral replication and increases susceptibility to TuMV. rbohD/F displayed a reduction in H2O2 but enhanced resistance similarly to rbohF. This dominant effect of the rbohF mutation could indicate that RbohF acts as a susceptibility factor. Induction of hydrogen peroxide by TuMV was partially compromised in rbohD mutants whereas it was almost completely abolished in rbohD/F, indicating that these oxidases are responsible for most of the ROS produced in this interaction. The pattern of in situ H2O2 deposition after infection of the more resistant rbohF and rbohD/F genotypes suggests a putative role of these species on systemic signal transport. The ultrastructural localization and quantification of pathogenesis-related protein 1 (PR1) indicate that ROS produced by these oxidases also influence PR1 distribution in the TuMV-A.thaliana pathosystem. Our results revealed the highest activation of PR1 in rbohD and Col-0. Thus, our findings indicate a correlation between PR1 accumulation and susceptibility to TuMV. The specific localization of PR1 in the most resistant genotypes after TuMV inoculation may indicate a connection of PR1 induction with susceptibility, which may be characteristic for this pathosystem. Our results clearly indicate the importance of NADPH oxidases RbohD and RbohF in the regulation of the TuMV infection cycle in Arabidopsis. These findings may help provide a better understanding of the mechanisms modulating A.thaliana-TuMV interactions.


Asunto(s)
Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , NADPH Oxidasas/metabolismo , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Potyvirus/metabolismo , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Arabidopsis/virología , Regulación de la Expresión Génica de las Plantas/fisiología , Genotipo , Peróxido de Hidrógeno/metabolismo , Especies Reactivas de Oxígeno/metabolismo
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Am J Psychoanal ; 80(4): 383-394, 2020 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33219323

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The emergence of a collective identity, a complex social and psychological process, may be linked to a specific place and a particular urban layout. Architecture demarcates interior and exterior spaces that not only frame our relationships but can also generate a mirror image of the internal world. The authors examine relevant contributions from the sparse psychoanalytic literature on this subject, to support their hypothesis that changes to a city's landscape, design, or architecture, when wholeheartedly embraced by its citizens, can serve to forge a new collective identity that helps to deal with absence, pain, and loss. They present the city of Bilbao, Spain, as a case study. This once thriving industrial city had collapsed into economic ruin, rife with social conflict, but since the 1990s, in an urban renewal, has emerged as a unique tourist destination. It has become a modern art and cultural center, symbolized by its most famous piece of contemporary architecture.


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Arquitectura , Entorno Construido , Planificación de Ciudades , Identificación Social , Población Urbana , Remodelación Urbana , Humanos , España
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Mol Plant Microbe Interact ; 32(4): 464-478, 2019 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30387369

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Genetic ablation of the ß subunit of the heterotrimeric G protein complex in agb1-2 confers defective activation of microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP)-triggered immunity, resulting in agb1-2 enhanced susceptibility to pathogens like the fungus Plectosphaerella cucumerina BMM. A mutant screen for suppressors of agb1-2 susceptibility (sgb) to P. cucumerina BMM identified sgb10, a new null allele (mkp1-2) of the mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase 1 (MKP1). The enhanced susceptibility of agb1-2 to the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 and the oomycete Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis is also abrogated by mkp1-2. MKP1 negatively balances production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) triggered by MAMPs, since ROS levels are enhanced in mkp1. The expression of RBOHD, encoding a NADPH oxidase-producing ROS, is upregulated in mkp1 upon MAMP treatment or pathogen infection. Moreover, MKP1 negatively regulates RBOHD activity, because ROS levels upon MAMP treatment are increased in mkp1 plants constitutively overexpressing RBOHD (35S::RBOHD mkp1). A significant reprograming of mkp1 metabolic profile occurs with more than 170 metabolites, including antimicrobial compounds, showing differential accumulation in comparison with wild-type plants. These results suggest that MKP1 functions downstream of the heterotrimeric G protein during MAMP-triggered immunity, directly regulating the activity of RBOHD and ROS production as well as other immune responses.


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Proteínas de Arabidopsis , Arabidopsis , Resistencia a la Enfermedad , Regulación de la Expresión Génica de las Plantas , Proteínas Tirosina Fosfatasas , Arabidopsis/inmunología , Arabidopsis/microbiología , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/genética , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Ascomicetos/fisiología , Resistencia a la Enfermedad/genética , Regulación de la Expresión Génica de las Plantas/genética , Proteínas Tirosina Fosfatasas/genética , Proteínas Tirosina Fosfatasas/metabolismo , Pseudomonas syringae/fisiología , Especies Reactivas de Oxígeno/metabolismo
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New Phytol ; 221(4): 2160-2175, 2019 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30300945

RESUMEN

Plant immunity consists of two arms: pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI), induced by surface-localized receptors, and effector-triggered immunity (ETI), induced by intracellular receptors. Despite the little structural similarity, both receptor types activate similar responses with different dynamics. To better understand phosphorylation events during ETI, we employed a phosphoproteomic screen using an inducible expression system of the bacterial effector avrRpt2 in Arabidopsis thaliana, and identified 109 differentially phosphorylated residues of membrane-associated proteins on activation of the intracellular RPS2 receptor. Interestingly, several RPS2-regulated phosphosites overlap with sites that are regulated during PTI, suggesting that these phosphosites may be convergent points of both signaling arms. Moreover, some of these sites are residues of important defense components, including the NADPH oxidase RBOHD, ABC-transporter PEN3, calcium-ATPase ACA8, noncanonical Gα protein XLG2 and H+ -ATPases. In particular, we found that S343 and S347 of RBOHD are common phosphorylation targets during PTI and ETI. Our mutational analyses showed that these sites are required for the production of reactive oxygen species during both PTI and ETI, and immunity against avirulent bacteria and a virulent necrotrophic fungus. We provide, for the first time, large-scale phosphoproteomic data of ETI, thereby suggesting crucial roles of common phosphosites in plant immunity.


Asunto(s)
Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Moléculas de Patrón Molecular Asociado a Patógenos/metabolismo , Fosfoproteínas/metabolismo , Inmunidad de la Planta , Proteómica , Arabidopsis/genética , Arabidopsis/microbiología , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Autoinmunidad/genética , Regulación de la Expresión Génica de las Plantas , Mutación/genética , Fenotipo , Fosforilación , Inmunidad de la Planta/genética , ATPasas de Translocación de Protón/metabolismo , Pseudomonas syringae/fisiología , Especies Reactivas de Oxígeno/metabolismo , Virulencia
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