Plant science research productivity in Chile during the past 20 years.

abstract：:Cyanobacteria display a large diversity of cellular forms ranging from unicellular to complex multicellular filaments or aggregates. Species in the group present a wide range of metabolic characteristics including the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, resistance to extreme environments, production of hydrogen, seconda...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Stucken K,Koch R,Dagan T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of plant transformation in the mid-1980s and of many new tools for cell biology, molecular genetics, and biochemistry has resulted in enormous progress in plant biology in the past decade. With the completion of the genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana just around the corner, we can expect even fast...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Chrispeels MJ,Holuigue L,Latorre R,Luan S,Orellana A,Peña-Cortes H,Raikhel NV,Ronald PC,Trewavas A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain cells have a highly active oxidative metabolism, yet they contain only low to moderate superoxide dismutase and catalase activities. Thus, their antioxidant defenses rely mainly on cellular reduced glutathione levels. In this work, in cortical neurons we characterized viability and changes in reduced and oxidize...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Aguirre P,Mena N,Tapia V,Rojas A,Arredondo M,Núñez MT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral brain damage which includes the hippocampus leads to memory impairments consistent with hemispheric specialization on the same side. Damage to the corpus callosum, the major connecting pathway between the left and right hemispheres, also leads to memory impairments. This suggests both hemispheric specializa...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Zaidel DW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral aspiration lesions of the fimbria-fornix were performed in 10 male Sprague Dawley rats weighing 240-300 g under chloral hydrate narcose (420 mg/kg). Another 9 animals were operated in the same way, but no aspiration was carried out to constitute a control group. A week after surgery recording and stimulation...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Bergado JA,Moreno H,Nuñez N

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last twenty years an important effort in brain sciences, especially in cognitive science, has been the development of mathematical tool that can deal with the complexity of extensive recordings corresponding to the neuronal activity obtained from hundreds of neurons. We discuss here along with some historical i...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Goles E,Palacios AG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to arsenic via drinking water is considered as a worldwide problem. Studies have shown that arsenic exposure during pregnancy affects embryogenesis and offspring development in rats and mice. Zinc as a micronutrient regulates many physiological functions, including an antioxidative role under various toxic co...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Ahmad M,Wadaa MA,Farooq M,Daghestani MH,Sami AS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve biological variables were submitted to dimensional analysis in accordance with the MLT-system of physics (M, mass; L, length; T, time). Each of these variables has a characteristic numerical value for the exponents alpha for mass, beta for length, and gamma for time. By means of Newton's reduction coefficient (...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Günther B,Gonzalez U,Morgado E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that the concept of sheet-flow in the pulmonary microcirculation of mammals was introduced more than three decades ago, the capillary circulatory model still prevails in the physiological literature. Since cardiac output is identical in the systemic and in pulmonary circulations, it is noteworthy that...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Günther B,Morgado E,Cociña M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we focus on the fundamental role of vitamin C transporters for the normal delivery of vitamin C to germ cells in the adluminal compartment of seminiferous tubules. We argue that the redox status within spermatozoa or in semen is partly responsible for the etiology of infertility. In this context, anti...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Angulo C,Maldonado R,Pulgar E,Mancilla H,Córdova A,Villarroel F,Castro MA,Concha II

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regeneration of natural tetraploid T. pratense, originated from Erzurum-Turkey, is reported in this study. This plant has low seed setting and hard seed problems due to polyploidy. Hypocotyl, cotyledon, apical meristems, epicotyl and young primary leaves were inoculated on MS and PC-L2 media containing different c...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Cölgeçen H,Toker MC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is one of the main characteristics of heart failure patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. As bilirubin is regarded as an important endogenous antioxidant molecule, serum total bilirubin levels were compared between heart failure patients with a p...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Zheng H,Li Y,Xie N

更新日期：2014-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Tridax procumbens flavonoids (TPF), are well known for their medicinal properties among local natives. The TPF are traditionally used for dropsy, anaemia, arthritis, gout, asthma, ulcer, piles, and urinary problems. It also used in treating gastric problems, body pain, and rheumatic pains of joints. The ...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Al Mamun MA,Islam K,Alam MJ,Khatun A,Alam MM,Al-Bari MA,Alam MJ

更新日期：2015-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a means by which organisms dispose of unwanted cells without inducing an inflammatory response. Alterations in apoptosis is a common process by which cells become cancerous. Paradoxically, many cancer chemotherapeutics preferentially kill cancer cells by inducing apoptosis. Diacylglycerol is a lipid secon...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Wright MM,McMaster CR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the molecular basis underlying the formation of bone-forming osteocytes and lipid-storing adipocytes will help provide insights into the cause of disorders originating in stem/progenitor cells and develop therapeutic treatments for bone- or adipose-related diseases. In this study, the role of R...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Madrigal A,Tan L,Zhao Y

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women. Chilean studies reveal that this cancer presents the third highest mortality rate. A family history of breast cancer is one of the major risk factors for the development of this disease. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the two main hereditary breast cancer susceptibility ge...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Jara L,Ampuero S,Seccia L,Bustamante M,Blanco R,Ojeda JM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psoralen is a coumarin-like and coumarin-related benzofuran glycoside, which is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with kidney and spleen-yang deficiency symptom. Psoralen has been reported to show estrogen-like activity, antioxidant activity, osteoblastic proliferation accelerati...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Wang X,Peng P,Pan Z,Fang Z,Lu W,Liu X

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial fluid flow stress is one of the most important mechanical stimulations of bone cells under physiological conditions. Osteocytes and osteoblasts act as primary mechanosensors within bones, and in vitro are able to respond to fluid shear stress, both morphologically and functionally. However, there is littl...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Xu H,Zhang J,Wu J,Guan Y,Weng Y,Shang P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of smooth muscle is vital for health. The major route to contraction is a rise in intracellular [Ca2+], determined by the entry and efflux of Ca2+ and release and re-uptake into the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). We review these processes in myometrium, to better understand excitation-contraction coupling and de...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Matthew A,Shmygol A,Wray S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Santiago de Chile has a high level of air pollution with ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO) and particles equal or smaller than 10 microns (PM10) usually exceeding the accepted standards. This situation should be noxious for the exposed population and particularly--in the case of O3 and PM10--for the respiratory system....

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Oyarzún M,Pino P,Ortiz J,Olaeta I

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyptidendron canum (Pohl ex Benth.) Harley is a native tree of the Brazilian Savannah. The fish Oreochromis niloticus L. was used as an experimental model to determine the bioactivity of the crude ethanol extract as well as ethyl acetate, hexanic and chloroform fractions obtained from its leaves. The plant ethanol ext...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Fiuza TS,Silva PC,Paula JR,Tresvenzol LM,Sabóia-Morais SM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zinc finger RNA binding protein (ZFR) is involved in the regulation of growth and cancer development. However, little is known about ZFR function in pancreatic cancer. METHODS:Herein, to investigate whether ZFR is involved in tumor growth, Oncomine microarray data was firstly used to evaluate ZFR gene expre...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Zhao X,Chen M,Tan J

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hawthorn (Crateagus sp.) mostly occurs around the temperate region of the world with a high number of species, producing a fruit with numerous beneficial effects for human health. The aim of the study was to determine organic acid and sugar contents in the fruit of a number of hawthorn species grown in E...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Gundogdu M,Ozrenk K,Ercisli S,Kan T,Kodad O,Hegedus A

更新日期：2014-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tear desiccation on a glass surface followed by transmitted-light microscopy has served as diagnostic test for dry eye. Four distinctive morphological domains (zones I, II, III and transition band) have been recently recognized in tear microdesiccates. Physicochemical dissimilarities among those domains hamp...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Traipe-Salas F,Traipe-Castro L,Salinas-Toro D,López D,Valenzuela F,Cartes C,Toledo-Araya H,Pérez C,López Solís R

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress occurs early in the progression of Alzheimer disease, significantly before the development of the pathologic hallmarks, neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques. In the first stage of development of the disease, amyloid-beta deposition and hyperphosphorylated tau function as compensatory responses a...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Moreira PI,Zhu X,Liu Q,Honda K,Siedlak SL,Harris PL,Smith MA,Perry G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of kallikrein-kinin systems since the 1930's have now led to substantial insight into the importance of this vasoactive system in the regulation of cardiovascular and renal function. It now seems clear that before long, these insights will lead to new therapeutic attacks upon diseases of the cardiovascular sys...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Margolius HS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura 2, submicromolar levels of intracellular Ca2+ have been detected in Trypanosoma cruzi different stages. The intracellular transport mechanisms involved in maintaining Ca2+ homeostasis in T. cruzi have been characterized by measuring Ca2+ transport in digitonin-permeabilized...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Docampo R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limonoids are highly oxygenated compounds with a prototypical structure. Their occurrence in the plant kingdom is mainly confined to plant families of Meliaceae and Rutaceae. Owing to their wide range of pharmacological and therapeutic properties, this study was aimed at investigating the potential nitric ox...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Dzoyem JP,Tsamo AT,Melong R,Mkounga P,Nkengfack AE,McGaw LJ,Eloff JN

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts prepared from seeds of Manilkara zapota, Anona squamosa, and Tamarindus indica were screened for their antibacterial activity by disc diffusion and broth dilution methods. Acetone and methanol extracts of T. indica seeds were found active against both gram-positive and gram-negative organisms. MIC values of p...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Kothari V,Seshadri S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transducin serves as a mediator between the receptor protein, rhodopsin, and the effector protein, cGMP phosphodiesterase, in the visual process. Transducin is a protein composed of three polypeptides: T alpha, T beta, and T gamma, and acts as two functional units, the alpha-subunit and the beta gamma-complex. In the ...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Bubis J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00