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The Impact of Estrogen Decline on Other Noncommunicable Diseases

2017

Estrogens have specific receptors spread out in various systems of the organism. The drastic hormonal fall after menopause may be followed by a series of effects, which may be more or less relevant in the different areas of the organism. The bone constitutes a field that clearly reflects that impact, and postmenopausal osteoporosis has received attention in one ad hoc chapter. The present chapter reviews the impact on functions of the central nervous system, particularly cognition and mood, the skeletal system, specifically osteoarthritis, and the cardiovascular system. The obvious interest of the chapter derives from the importance of the selected systems, which may house highly prevalent …

Las coaliciones tarsianas como causa de dolor en el pie infantil: opciones terapéuticas

2022

Resumen Antecedentes y objetivo La coalicion tarsiana puede ser causa de dolor de medio-retropie en ninos mayores. El objetivo es analizar los tipos de coalicion tratados en nuestro centro hospitalario de 2010 a 2019 asi como el tratamiento realizado. Material y metodo Estudio observacional, descriptivo y retrospectivo de 18 pacientes con coalicion tarsiana, 8 mujeres y 10 hombres, de 11,9 ± 2,6 anos de edad. Se recogieron datos epidemiologicos, hallazgos clinicos y de pruebas de imagen y tratamiento realizado. Resultados Se revisaron 25 pies (38,8% bilaterales). El principal sintoma fue el dolor. Un 64% se asociaba a pie plano-valgo. El 52% se localizaba en la articulacion calcaneo-escafoi…

Artroplastia de suspensión dinámica de Scheker en el tratamiento de la artrosis trapeciometacarpiana

2017

Objetivo Evaluar los resultados clínicos y radiográficos de una serie de pacientes sometidos a una artroplastia de Scheker. Material y Método Estudio descriptivo de 16 pacientes con artrosis TMC. Se valoró el estado clínico y funcional según el cuestionario DASH, la movilidad del pulgar según la escala de Kapandji y el dolor según la escala visual analógica (EVA). A nivel radiográfico, se cuantificó el colapso del espacio remanente tras la exéresis del trapecio. Resultados La edad promedio de los pacientes fue 64,9 años, 81% fueron mujeres. El tiempo de seguimiento medio fue de 19 meses. La puntuación DASH preoperatoria fue de 67,68 puntos y postoperatoria 34,88 (p < 0.001). La puntuaci…

International conference on biomedical aspects of aging research December 10-13, 1997 Fondazione Cini, San Giorgio, Venezia, Italy

1998

Cell Proliferation High-Content Screening on Adherent Cell Cultures

2019

Pulse-chase experiments using 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU), or the more recent EdU (5-etynil-2'-deoxyuridine), enable the identification of cells going through S phase. This chapter describes a high-content proliferation assay pipeline for adherent cell cultures. High-throughput imaging is followed by high-content data analysis using a non-supervised ImageJ macroinstruction that segments the individual nuclei, determines the nucleoside analogue absence/presence, and measures the signal of up to two additional nuclear markers. Based upon the specific combination with proliferation-specific protein immunostaining, the percentage of cells undergoing different phases of the cell cycle (G0, G1…

Diet and environmental factors affecting reproduction

2021

Abstract Diet and exposure to certain chemical compounds related to industrial development could be responsible for the increase in the incidence of human reproductive diseases and the consequent decrease in reproductive function worldwide. The role of diet and environment in fertility has received more attention in recent years because nutrition and exposure to contaminants can affect fecundity in women of reproductive age. Here, we review how diet could affect reproduction. Furthermore, we will review how the most ubiquitous contaminants could disrupt endometrial receptivity and implantation, focusing also on clinical studies performed in the last years.

Discovering unbounded unions of regular pattern languages from positive examples

1996

The problem of learning unions of certain pattern languages from positive examples is considered. We restrict to the regular patterns, i.e., patterns where each variable symbol can appear only once, and to the substring patterns, which is a subclass of regular patterns of the type xαy, where x and y are variables and α is a string of constant symbols. We present an algorithm that, given a set of strings, finds a good collection of patterns covering this set. The notion of a ‘good covering’ is defined as the most probable collection of patterns likely to be present in the examples, assuming a simple probabilistic model, or equivalently using the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. Ou…

Influence of fetal glutathione S-transferase copy number variants on adverse reproductive outcomes

2012

A nested case-control association study was designed to investigate the influence of maternal and fetal copy number variants (CNVs) on reproductive outcomes. Genotypes of ten CNVs encompassing GST and CYP genes were assessed. Significant associations were only found for child CNV genotypes. In particular, the child GSTM1 insertion allele was associated with prematurity protection (odds ratio, 95% CI: 0.67, 0.51-0.89; P < 0.01), whereas the child GSTT2B insertion allele was associated with an increased risk of being small for gestational age (odds ratio, 95% CI: 1.33, 1.07-1.67; P = 0.01). The study highlights the role of the fetal genome in prenatal development and also the need to analyse …

L'enfant face aux aliments: d'avant-goûts en préférences en programmations

2008

Identité narrative, déprise et vécu du vieillissement

2018

Cet article se propose d’envisager le rapport entre deprise et recit de soi comme source de continuite identitaire dans une perspective philosophique, en reference a la notion d’identite narrative de Paul Ricœur. Si le recit de soi permet de mettre en forme le temps que l’on vit sans supposer un noyau non changeant de l’identite, ce recit devrait favoriser le processus de deprise. Mais cette mise en forme du temps par le recit se heurte a plusieurs obstacles : l’invisibilite de notre propre vieillissement qui ne nous laisse pas l’elaborer, sauf a souscrire aux regards exterieurs qui nous objectivent ; la difficulte d’articuler ce recit avec nos valeurs fondamentales dans la duree du temps d…