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University of Coimbra

EducationCoimbra, Portugal
About: University of Coimbra is a education organization based out in Coimbra, Portugal. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Mitochondrion. The organization has 14318 authors who have published 43067 publications receiving 994733 citations. The organization is also known as: UC & Universidade dos Estudos Gerais.


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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that oxidative stress is one of the earliest pathological changes in the brain of Alzheimer disease patients and plays a critical role in the vascular abnormalities underlying metabolic defects in Alzheimer disease.

176 citations

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Georges Aad1, Alexander Kupco2, Paolo Laurelli, Stephen Sekula3  +2959 moreInstitutions (200)
TL;DR: In this paper, the production of W bosons in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV has been analyzed for the presence of double-parton interactions using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1), collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
Abstract: The production of W bosons in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV has been analysed for the presence of double-parton interactions using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1), collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The fraction of events arising from double-parton interactions, f(DP)((D)), has been measured through the p(T) balance between the two jets and amounts to f(DP)((D)) = 0.08 +/- 0.01 (stat.) +/- 0.02 (sys.) for jets with transverse momentum p(T) > 20 GeV and rapidity vertical bar y vertical bar < 2.8. This corresponds to a measurement of the effective area parameter for hard double-parton interactions of sigma(eff) = 15 +/- 3 (stat.)(-3)(+5) (sys.) mb.

175 citations

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TL;DR: It is shown that pyrimidine biosynthesis dependent on respiration-linked dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) is required to overcome cell-cycle arrest, while mitochondrial ATP generation is dispensable for tumorigenesis, pointing to inhibitors of DHODH as potential anti-cancer agents.

175 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed the use of a Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify the best plots suitable for installing photovoltaic solar farms in the Municipality of Torre Pacheco, in the southeast of Spain.

175 citations

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TL;DR: The data suggest mitochondria are important in oxidative damage that occurs in AD and antioxidant therapies based on lipoic acid and N-acetyl cysteine supplementation may be promising.
Abstract: In this study, we evaluated the effect of lipoic acid (LA) and N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) on oxidative [4-hydroxy-2-nonenal, N(epsilon)-(carboxymethyl)lysine and heme oxygenase-1] and apoptotic (caspase 9 and Bax) markers in fibroblasts from patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and age-matched and young controls. AD fibroblasts showed the highest levels of oxidative stress, and the antioxidants, lipoic acid (1 mM) and/or N-acetyl cysteine (100 microM) exerted a protective effect as evidenced by decreases in oxidative stress and apoptotic markers. Furthermore, we observed that the protective effect of LA and NAC was more pronounced when both agents were present simultaneously. AD-type changes could be generated in control fibroblasts using N-methylprotoporphyrin to inhibit cytochrome oxidase assembly indicating that the the oxidative damage observed was associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. The effects of N-methylprotoporphyrine were reversed or attenuated by both lipoic acid and N-acetyl cysteine. These data suggest mitochondria are important in oxidative damage that occurs in AD. As such, antioxidant therapies based on lipoic acid and N-acetyl cysteine supplementation may be promising.

175 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
P. Chang1702154151783
Yang Gao1682047146301
Bin Liu138218187085
P. Sinervo138151699215
Filipe Veloso12888775496
Panagiotis Kokkas128123481051
Nuno Filipe Castro12896076945
Robert Gardner128101577619
Francois Corriveau128102275729
Peter Krieger128117181368
João Carvalho126127877017
Helmut Wolters12685175721
Nicola Venturi12679669518
Sai-Juan Chen121121173991
Harinder Singh Bawa12079866120
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023112
2022530
20213,237
20203,193
20193,090