Dominguez, M. (Miguel)

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    Bivalency of plasminogen monoclonal antibodies is required for plasminogen bridging to fibrin and enhanced plasmin formation
    (Elsevier, 2002) Paramo, J.A. (José Antonio); Dominguez, M. (Miguel); Angles-Cano, E. (Eduardo); Montes, R. (Ramón)
    Binding of plasminogen to fibrin and cell surfaces is essential for fibrinolysis and pericellular proteolysis. We used surface plasmon resonance and enzyme kinetic analyses to study the effect of two mAbs (A10.2, CPL15) on plasminogen binding and activation at fibrin surfaces. A10.2 is directed against the lysine-binding site (LBS) of kringle 4, whereas CPL15 recognises a region in kringle 1 outside the LBS. In the presence of CPL15 and A10.2 mAbs, binding of plasminogen (K(d)=1.16+/-0.22 micromol/l) to fibrin was characterised by a mAb concentration-dependent bell-shaped isotherm. A progressive increase in the concentration of mAbs at the surface was also detected, and reached a plateau corresponding to the maximum of plasminogen bound. These data indicated that at low mAb concentration, bivalent plasminogen-mAb-plasminogen ternary complexes are formed, whereas at high mAb concentration, a progressive shift to monovalent plasminogen-mAb binary complexes is observed. Plasmin formation in the presence of mAbs followed a similar bell-shaped profile. Monovalent Fab fragments of mAb A10.2 showed no effect on the binding of plasminogen, confirming the notion that a bivalent mAb interaction is essential to increase plasminogen binding and activation at the surface of fibrin.
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    Meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging and cognitive control studies in schizophrenia: preliminary elucidation of a core dysfunctional timing network
    (2016) Radua, J. (Joaquim); Dominguez, M. (Miguel); Albajes-Eizagirre, A. (Anton); Ortuño-Sanchez-Pedreño, F. (Felipe); Alustiza-Quintana, I. (Irene); Aubá-Guedea, E. (Enrique)
    Timing and other cognitive processes demanding cognitive control become interlinked when there is an increase in the level of difficulty or effort required. Both functions are interrelated and share neuroanatomical bases. A previous meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies found that people with schizophrenia had significantly lower activation, relative to normal controls, of most right hemisphere regions of the time circuit. This finding suggests that a pattern of disconnectivity of this circuit, particularly in the supplementary motor area, is a trait of this mental disease. We hypothesize that a dysfunctional temporal/cognitive control network underlies both cognitive and psychiatric symptoms of schizophrenia and that timing dysfunction is at the root of the cognitive deficits observed. The goal of our study was to look, in schizophrenia patients, for brain structures activated both by execution of cognitive tasks requiring increased effort and by performance of time perception tasks. We conducted a signed differential mapping (SDM) meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies in schizophrenia patients assessing the brain response to increasing levels of cognitive difficulty. Then, we performed a multimodal meta-analysis to identify common brain regions in the findings of that SDM meta-analysis and our previously-published activation likelihood estimate (ALE) meta-analysis of neuroimaging of time perception in schizophrenia patients. The current study supports the hypothesis that there exists an overlap between neural structures engaged by both timing tasks and non-temporal cognitive tasks of escalating difficulty in schizophrenia. The implication is that a deficit in timing can be considered as a trait marker of the schizophrenia cognitive profile.