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Factores de riesgo de fuga en anastomosis colo-rectales mecánicas tras cirugía oncológica. Importancia del Factor Cirujano.
2014
Introducción: El cáncer colo-rectal es la tercera neoplasia más común y la segunda causa de mortalidad por cáncer en los países desarrollados. La anastomosis primaria es la norma tras la cirugía exerética, y la fuga anastomótica (FA) es la complicación postoperatoria más importante en este tipo de intervención porque se ha demostrado que aumenta la morbimortalidad y los costes y parece aumentar la tasa de recidiva tumoral a nivel local y disminuir la supervivencia global. En la literatura se han identificado numerosos posibles factores de riesgo de la FA; algunos de ellos están relacionados con el paciente, otros con el tumor y otros también con el factor cirujano tanto a nivel general como…
Decay, Disease and Death in Doris Lessing's "The Grass Is Singing": A Feminist Perspective
2018
The article analyses Lessing’s first and highly acclaimed novel of 1950, whose action is set in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s (the country remained British self-governing colony until 1980). Its interpretation from the feminist and gender perspectives, which also involves issues of race and class, is closely related to the themesof decay, disease and death. The process of identity formation of the heroine appears to be the case of social constructionism, for it is completed on her spouse’s farm where Mary comes to live with the man who proves to be inadequate as a husband and farmer, and ultimately as a representative of the white race. The major causes of the gradual collapse and tragic e…
Haunted Cartographies: toward a postcolonial gyne-a-logy of mapmaking
2016
Recalling Jardine’s definition of ‘gynesis’ (1985) which, etymologically, means ‘woman-process’ as the ‘putting into discourse of “woman”’ and strategically combining it with the Foucauldian sense of genealogy (1979), the aim of this paper is to re-vision and re-envision through the lens of feminist and postcolonial critical theory and visual arts the problematics inherent to what has been named the ‘cartographic reason’ (Farinelli, 2009). As Adrienne Rich once proposed for her writing, by revision I mean the theoretical act ‘of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction’ (1972: 18). The new critical direction I detrimentally encourage is …
Finns in the Colonial World
2021
AbstractUtilizing such concepts as “colonial complicity” and “colonialism without colonies”, this chapter examines the case of Finns and Finland as a nation that was once oppressed but also itself complicit in colonialism. It argues that although the Finnish nation has historically been positioned in Europe between western and eastern empires, Finns were not only passive victims of (Russian) imperial rule but also active participants in the creation of imperial vocabulary in various colonial contexts, including Sápmi in the North.This chapter argues that although Finns never had overseas colonies, they were involved in the colonial world, sending out colonizers and producing images of colon…
Review article: intestinal lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in children - the relationship to food hypersensitivity.
2012
SummaryBackground Lymphoid aggregates are normally found throughout the small and large intestine. Known as lymphoid nodular hyperplasia (LNH), these aggregates are observed especially in young children and are not associated with clinical symptoms being considered ‘physiological’. In children presenting with gastrointestinal symptoms the number and size of the lymphoid follicles are increased. Patients suffering from gastrointestinal symptoms (i.e. recurrent abdominal pain) should systematically undergo gastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy. With these indications LNH, especially of the upper but also of the lower gastrointestinal tract has been diagnosed, and in some children it may reflect …
Colonic lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in children: an endoscopic sign of food hypersensitivity.
2007
Maternal antibody transmission and breeding densities in the Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
2004
1. The offspring of avian species, especially those of colonial breeders, are exposed to a number of pathogens immediately after birth. The chick's immune system is, at that early stage still immature and inefficient. As a consequence, diseases can have a strong impact on chick survival.2. The ability of mothers to transmit passive immunity in terms of antibodies of their own acquired immunity to their chicks is probably an essential pathway to enhance the chick survival. Since the production of antibodies is costly, females are expected to adjust the transmission of passive immunity to the local disease environment.3. We found that in Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus L.) yolk antibody …
Isolation of Gram-positive n-alkane degraders from a hydrocarbon-contaminated Mediterranean shoreline.
2007
Aims: To investigate the petroleum hydrocarbon (HC)-degrading potential of indigenous micro-organisms in a sandy Mediterranean coast, accidentally contaminated with petroleum-derived HCs. Methods and Results: Using culturable methods, a population of Gram-positive n-alkane degraders was detected in the contaminated soil. Five isolates, identified as one Nocardia, two Rhodococcus and two Gordonia strains, were able to degrade medium- and long-chain n-alkanes up to C36 as assessed by growth assays and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. Diverging alkane hydroxylase-encoding genes (alkB) were detected by PCR, using degenerated primers, in all the strains; multiple sequences were obt…
Oligonucleotidi complementari a DDH1 e loro uso per la prevenzione e il trattamento dei tumori”
2017
La presente invenzione si riferisce al settore delle biotecnologie e della farmaceutica poiché fornisce degli oligonucleotidi complementari alla sequenza di DDH1 o parti di essa, che possono essere facoltativamente veicolati da vettori lipidici, i quali sono in grado di inibire la proliferazione e indurre la morte cellulare di cellule tumorali e pertanto possono essere impiegati per la prevenzione e la cura dei tumori.