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Animal Models of Stress - Current Knowledge and Potential Directions

2021

Finding new therapies and new antidepressant agents is of high clinical priority given that many cases of depressive disorder do not respond to conventional monoaminergic antidepressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors The authors demonstrated that electroacupuncture and fluoxetine, a second-generation antidepressant categorized as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (Perez-Caballero et al , 2014), regulate the expression of key proteins in the calmodulin kinase (CAMK) signaling pathway, which are related to depression in the hippocampi of rats (Takemoto-Kimura et al , 2017;Xie et al , 2019) In a paper on “Sho…

Adverse Reactions to Anticancer Drugs in the Oral Cavity

2018

The development, testing, and adoption into clinical practice of anticancer medications have revolutionized cancer care over the past decades. A better understanding of the biology of cancer has translated into development of novel systemic agents, as well a more effective use of older chemotherapy agents. As a consequence, cancer mortality continues to decrease. However, greater cure and disease control rates come at a price of an increased risk of adverse effects, which often affects the mouth and related structures including the oral mucosa, salivary glands, jawbones, and cranial nerves. Oral mucositis, hyposalivation, dysgeusia, and osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) are some examples of th…

Editorial misconduct: the case of online predatory journals.

2021

The number of publishers that offer academics, researchers, and postgraduate students the opportunity to publisharticles and book chapters quickly and easily has been growing steadily in recent years. This can be ascribed to avariety of factors, e.g., increasing Internet use, the Open Access movement, academic pressure to publish, and theemergence of publishers with questionable interests that cast doubt on the reliability and the scientific rigor of thearticles they publish.All this has transformed the scholarly and scientific publishing scene and has opened the door to theappearance of journals whose editorial procedures differ from those of legitimate journals. These publishers arecalled…

Importance of sarcopenia parameter changes after living donor liver transplantation

2017

The systemic role of muscle tissue is strengthened by the large system of hormones, chemokines and other mediators that constitute a dense network of communication between the skeletal muscle and the liver (1,2). This, associated with the evidence of a progressive malnutrition and depletion of muscle mass in end-stage liver disease (ESLD) patients, has led many to study the role of sarcopenia and its systemic effects in this setting, and to identify it as critical risk factor for post- liver transplantation (LT) mortality (3-5). Englesbe and colleagues found a direct correlation between central sarcopenia, measured by computerized tomography (CT), the total area of the psoas muscle (psoas a…

Biomaterials and bioactive molecules to drive differentiation in striated muscle tissue engineering

2015

International audience; The generation of engineered tissues and organs has entered into the clinical practice in response to the chronic lack of organ donors. In particular, for the skeletal and cardiac muscles the translational potential of tissue engineering approaches has clearly been shown, even though the construction of these tissues lags behind others given the hierarchical, highly organized architecture of striated muscles. Failure of the cardiac tissue leads to cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading cause of death in the developed world (Di Felice et al., 2014). On the other hand, there are many clinical cases where the loss of skeletal muscle due to a traumatic injury, an…

Plasmid-mediated QnrS2 determinant from a clinical Aeromonas veronii isolate.

2008

The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of the Qnr determinants in clinical and environmental Aeromonas spp. A total of 52 Aeromonas sp. isolates identified by biochemical methods (5), 25 isolated from natural waters (1) and 27 isolated from clinical samples from hospitals in Valencia, Spain, were tested for quinolone resistance by the disk diffusion method (4) (nalidixic acid, 30 μg; oxolinic acid, 2 μg; flumequine, 30 μg; ciprofloxacin, 5 μg; and levofloxacin, 5 μg). Among the studied isolates, 27 showed resistance to nalidixic acid and susceptibility to ciprofloxacin, 24 isolates were susceptible to both nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin, and only 1, the A. veroni…

Predictors of oncological outcomes in T1G3 patients treated with BCG who undergo radical cystectomy

2018

PURPOSE: To evaluate the oncological impact of postponing radical cystectomy (RC) to allow further conservative therapies prior to progression in a large multicentre retrospective cohort of T1-HG/G3 patients initially treated with BCG. METHODS: According to the time of RC, the population was divided into 3 groups: patients who did not progress to muscle-invasive disease, patients who progressed before radical cystectomy and patients who experienced progression at the time of radical cystectomy. Clinical and pathological outcomes were compared across the three groups. RESULTS: Of 2451 patients, 509 (20.8%) underwent RC. Patients with tumors > 3 cm or with CIS had earlier cystectomies (HR = 1…

Dopamine Interaction with other Neurotransmitter Systems: Relevance in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of CNS Disorders

2010

Fumador, exfumador y COVID-19: la nicotina no protege contra el SARS-CoV-2

2021

Queremos agradecer a Moril et al.1 el interés en nuestro trabajo, pues nos permite reflexionar sobre el tema. La proteína Spike del SARS-CoV-2 es la responsable de facilitar su entrada a las células humanas, requiriendo cebado por la proteasa TMPRSS2 que permite la fusión de las membranas viral y celular2. El receptor utilizado por la proteína Spike es la enzima convertidora de angiotensina 2 (ACE2)2, que se expresa en diferentes estirpes celulares, además de en el pulmón; existiendo, a nivel pulmonar, un gradiente de expresión de ACE2 (mayor expresión en vías respiratorias superiores [epitelio nasal] y menor en los neumocitos alveolares)2. Se sugiere que una mayor expresión de ACE2 podría …

The “Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology” Journal Club Series: Highlights of Recent Papers in Pediatric Exercise

2019

We are glad to introduce the ninth Journal Club. This edition is focused on several relevant studies published in the last years in the field of Pediatric Exercise, chosen by our Editorial Board members and their colleagues. We hope to stimulate your curiosity in this field and to share with you the passion for the sport as seen also from the scientific point of view. The Editorial Board members wish you an inspiring lecture.