… Raquel Puig-Pey … Raquel Puig-Pey … In addition, total pulmonary resistance and
intrapulmonary vessel muscularization were significantly related (P < 0.001; r = 0.59). …

Background Cigarette smoke (CS) is associated with lower numbers of circulating stem cells
and might severely affect their mobilization, trafficking and homing. Our study was designed …

Cigarette smoke (CS) induces an inflammatory process in the lung that may underlie the
development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The nature and characteristics …

Sildenafil, a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor used to treat pulmonary hypertension, may have
effects on pulmonary vessel structure and function. We evaluated the effects of sildenafil in a …

… Raquel Puig-Pey … Furthermore, the numbers of neutrophils and eosinophils infiltrating the
airways correlated with the wall thickness of smaller airways (r = 0.61, P = 0.002 and r = 0.66, P …

Surface reconstruction is a very challenging problem arising in a wide variety of applications
such as CAD design, data visualization, virtual reality, medical imaging, computer animation…

Immunosuppressive drugs can be completely withdrawn in up to 20% of liver transplant
recipients, commonly referred to as ‘operationally’ tolerant. Immune characterization of these …

A fraction of liver transplant recipients are able to discontinue all immunosuppressive therapies
without rejecting their grafts and are said to be operationally tolerant to the transplant. …

We report the results of a prospective randomized controlled trial in liver transplantation
assessing the efficacy and safety of antithymocyte globulin (ATG‐Fresenius) plus tacrolimus …

This work concerns the problem of curve and surface fitting. In particular, we focus on the
case of 3D point clouds fitted with Bézier curves and surfaces. Because these curves and …