196 researchers participate in a workshop of 'open labs'.
196 researchers participate in a workshop of 'open labs'.
In the V workshop of research in Experimental and Health Sciences, 53 oral communications and posters were presented.
Nearly 200 researchers and staff at training of the University of Navarra have shown their work in the V workshop of research in Experimental and Health Sciences. Doctoral students from the Schools of Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing and from the research center Applied Medicine (CIMA) presented their findings in a special "open laboratories" workshop .
In total, the future doctors have carried out 53 oral communications and in the form of poster. The latter were exhibited on floor 0 of Sciences Building. workshop Students from Master's Degree and Degree of the School de Ciencias, where they are taking part in the Research Training Program, a diploma in English for students in their final years of Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry that prepares them to enter the world of research.
The papers presented have been grouped into five areas: Drugs and Drug Technology, research Biomedical, Biology and Environment, Food, Lifestyle and Health, and Physics and Chemistry.
Among them, research such as that carried out by Marta Dobarro at the department de Farmacología, where she delves into the effects of antihypertensive drugs on Alzheimer's disease. "In this disease there are other cardiovascular risk factors, in addition to age, that could influence it development. In fact, some epidemiological programs of study suggest that the use of certain antihypertensive drugs could reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease," said the doctoral student.
Sleep disorders in children in Pamplona
On the other hand, Marta Celorrio, from the area of Cellular and Molecular Neuropharmacology at CIMA, showed how the mechanisms of neuroprotection work in Parkinson's disease, where she assured that current treatments "provide symptomatic relief, but cannot prevent or delay the progression of the disease. In this sense, we are seeing that the different elements of the endocannabinoid system are altered in these patients, and may play an important role against neuronal damage".
María del Rosario Velez-Galarraga, from the department of Pediatrics of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, also explained her work on the affection of sleep disorders in the child and adolescent population of Pamplona. According to the researcher, the goal of this study "is to establish the prevalence of sleep disorders in children and adolescents in the capital of Navarra and to compare their frequency in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, since the correction of these sleep disorders improves the health of the child, and not doing so can lead to irreversible cognitive and behavioral deficits".
Finally, Ana Simic, from department at Physics and Applied Mathematics, taught part of the research to evaluate possible cardiac defibrillation mechanisms through numerical simulations of cardiac tissue.