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Envenomations by Bothrops and Crotalus Snakes Induce the Release of Mitochondrial Alarmins
(PLoS Negl Trop Dis 6(2): e1526, 2012-02-21)
Skeletal muscle necrosis is a common manifestation of viperid snakebite envenomations. Venoms from snakes of the genus Bothrops, such as that of B. asper, induce muscle tissue damage at the site of venom injection, provoking ...
Análisis de la planificación compartida de la atención en pacientes con Enfermedades Crónicas Avanzadas a partir de la autoeficacia de los profesionales sanitarios de la CCSS
(2023-05)
La planificación compartida de la atención (PCA) nace como una expresión más de la autonomía del paciente en relación con los nuevos dilemas éticos que plantea el avance de la medicina al final de la vida. Morir con dignidad ...
The relation between trans fatty acid levels and increased risk of myocardial infarction does not hold at lower levels of trans fatty acids in the costa rican food supply
(2006)
Data on the effects of recent industrial modifications that reduced the trans fatty acid (TFA) content in food supplies are scarce. In this study, incident cases (n = 1797) of a first nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) ...
Favourable changes in economic well-being and self-rated health among the elderly
(2011-04)
Adverse economic shocks exert an influence on health perceptions, but little is known about the effect of sudden positive changes in a person’s financial situation on self-rated health, particularly among low income people. ...
Prevalencia de esteatosis hepática no alcohólica en personas diabéticas tipo 2
Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in people with type 2 diabetes
(Acta Médica Costarricense 56(1) p 17-22, 2014-01)
Antecedentes: la esteatosis hepática no alcohólica es la causa más común de enfermedad hepática crónica y existe cada vez mayor evidencia de que progresa a cirrosis, falla hepática y carcinoma hepatocelular. Esta condición ...
Protocolo para la rehabilitación del paciente en postoperatorio de laringectomía total
(2022-01-12)
En la actualidad, en los servicios de Otorrinolaringología donde se manejan pacientes con
diagnóstico de carcinoma de laringe en estadío avanzado, a los cuales se les realiza el
procedimiento ...
Isolation of a galactose-binding lectin from the venom of the snake Bothrops godmani (Godmann's pit viper).
(1990)
A galactose-binding
lectin, isolated from the venom of B. gotlmani by affinity chromatography . is
an acidic protein (pI 4.9) with a subunit mol. wt of about 14,000, occurring
mostly as a disulfide-linked dimer of 28,000. ...
Venomics of the Central American Lyre snake Trimorphodon quadruplex (Colubridae: Smith, 1941) from Costa Rica
(2020)
Rear-fanged colubrid snakes include hundreds of species globally that possess a Duvernoy's venom gland and often one-several enlarged rear maxillary teeth. We investigated the venom proteome of the Central American Lyre ...
Fat Intake and obesity-related parameters predict striatal BDNF gene expression and dopamine metabolite levels in cafeteria diet-fed rats
(2022-04)
Modern westernized diet is a major risk factor associated with the current obesity epidemic. To study the effects of dietary choices of Western societies, the cafeteria diet has been validated as a preclinical model of ...