Abstract:
:A review of leukemia worldwide is discussed, focusing on etiology, diagnosis and treatment. The history of research of this type of cancer in Costa Rica is presented through the first hospital diagnosis, the arrival of clinical and laboratory hematologists, the establishment of specialized laboratories, the local hematology teaching programs and the voluntary associations that help patients with leukemia. A brief review of Costa Rican publications in this area and the future of this problem in our country is also shown.
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Rev Biol Tropjournal_title
Revista de biologia tropicalauthors
Jiménez Bonilla Rsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-09-01 00:00:00pages
559-69issue
3eissn
0034-7744issn
2215-2075journal_volume
52pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Long-term, high accuracy seawater temperature data sets are essential in studies assessing environmental changes that may alter coral reef communities. Located at the approximately the same latitude, the subsurface seawater temperature (S3T) off Discovery Bay, Jamaica (DBJ) and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) had the s...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Arecaceae is a family rich in species and provides resources for the subsistence of human groups in the tropical regions. The aim of this work was to assess the richness, diversity, composition, and use patterns of the family Arecaceae in three communities of the Medio Atrato, Chocó, Colombia, in order to obtain usefu...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Age and growth parameters were estimated for bigeye tuna Thunnus obesus Lowe, 1839 sampled from China longline fisheries in the central Atlantic Ocean from October 2002 to July 2003 and from August 2004 to March 2005. The von Bertalanffy growth parameters were estimated at L(infinity)=217.9 cm fork length, k=0.23 year...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.15517/rbt.v57i1-2.11292
更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Centrostephanus coronatus reaches a density of 0.06 individuals/m2 in shallow reef waters in Parque Nacional Marino Ballena, Pacific of Costa Rica, in the same habitat occupied by the urchin Diadema mexicanum. It is the fourth species of diadematoid urchins reported for Costa Rican and a first new report for Central A...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sechium edule (chayote) is a cucurbitaceus species. A fast transition from domestic crop to exportation product, made evident the lack of adequate information about the plant and the cultivation techniques. This work summarizes, reinterprets or describes comprehensively several aspects related to the taxonomy, origin,...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1989-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The volume of secretion obtained from adult Zonocerus variegatus (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) was influenced by the type of food plants. Insects fed on leaves of cassava Manihot esculenta, bitter leaves Vernonia amygdalina, and a mixture of M. esculenta and Acalypha wilkesiana gave a good volume of secretion while Chr...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Lichens are increasingly used worldwide as air quality biomonitors because they are efficient, easy and cheap, but validation studies of the methodology are scarce. Three foliose lichen biomonitoring methods were compared by field tests (in the tropical urban habitat of San José, Costa Rica) and laboratory simulations...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::In Neotropical wet forests several species of omnivorous, resource-defending ants, live and forage in close proximity to one another. Although the forest floor is heterogeneous in microhabitat and food quantity, little is known about the impact of microhabitat and food variation upon resource monopoly among ants. We i...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Huperzia brevifolia is one of the dominant species of the genus Huperzia living in paramos and superparamos from the Colombian Andes. A detailed study of the sporangium's ontogeny and sporogenesis was carried out using specimens collected at 4200m above sea level, in Parque Natural Nacional El Cocuy, Colombia. Small p...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Punta Lara Natural Reserve shelters the relict of the Southernmost riparian forest in the world, where the flora is threatened by the anthropic expansion and by the introduction of exotic species. In this area the ferns and lycophytes grow in particular environments as marshland, grassland and marginal forest. The aim...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Different features of the satellite associations between the acrocentric chromosomes of 100 postpartum mothers, between 14 and 43 years of age, and 100 neonates (51 males and 49 females) from Puriscal, Costa Rica, were compared (400 cells were examined, 2 from each individual). Several types of satellite associations ...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1985-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Isolation of a field strain of Babesia bigemina (Piroplasma: Babesiidae) and establishment of in vitro culture for antigen production. Bovine b abesiosis, caused by Babesia bigemina, is a barrier for livestock development; it results in high economic loss to Mexican livestock. Control requires adequate antigens for di...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Puerulus settlement of the western Atlantic spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, was monitored using modified Witham collectors from December 1996 to March 1998 at seven sites around St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. A total of 605 pueruli were collected from 553 samples for a catch per unit effort (CPUE) for all sites of 1...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fish are important ecological components in tropical coastal lagoons. In order to evaluate the distribution and feeding preferences of the toadfish Opsanus phobetron in the Chelem Lagoon, Yucatan, Mexico, fish samples were collected using a beach seine in eight stations distributed randomly, from March 2002 to January...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Observations about the floral biology and the reproductive system of Macroptilium fraternum were made in two populations in Argentina, with different edaphic conditions, situated at the southern area of distribution of the species. The coexistence of two kind of flowers in the same plant was detected in both populatio...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nutrients and chlorophylls concentrations, as well as salinity, temperature and Secchi disk depth were determined from November 1999 to April 2000, at three stations and two depths, at Gandoca lagoon, Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, Limón, Costa Rica. Salinity profiles indicated that the lagoon was a salt...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A new genus and two species of Melolonthinae from Honduras and Nicaragua are described. A phylogenetic analysis, carried out using morphological characters, suggests that Catrachia is a strongly supported monophyletic group. Catrachia is therefore established as a new genus, constituted by two new species, Catrachia m...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.15517/rbt.v54i2.13910
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The bathymetry of Coco's Island (UNESCO Natural and Cultural World Patrimony), located approximately 500 km from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is not well known. It has a high marine biodiversity and also represents a meeting site for many species traveling throughout the Pacific Ocean. The insular shelf is irregul...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In June, 2002, the government of Dominica requested assistance in evaluating the coral culture and transplantation activities being undertaken by Oceanographic Institute of Dominica (OID), a coral farm culturing both western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific corals for restoration and commercial sales. We assessed the culture...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Seed dispersal is a fundamental process in plant ecology and is of critical importance for the restoration of tropical communities. The lands of the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (CRNWR), formerly under agriculture, were abandoned in the 1970s and colonized mainly by non-native tree species of degraded pastures. ...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2014-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Raptorial birds harbor a variety of ectoparasites and the mayority of them are host specific. The aim of this study was to identify the ectoparasites of captive birds of prey from Mexico, as well as to verify their impact in the health of infested birds. Raptorial birds were confiscated and kept in captivity at the Ce...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Humoral response of paracoccidioidomycosis sera in hamsters with different Venezuelan isolates. Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a progressive systemic mycosis caused by the fungus Paraccocidioides brasiliensis (Pb), endemic to Venezuela and Latin America. In this study, eight different Venezuelan isolates obtained fro...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.15517/rbt.v57i3.5471
更新日期:2009-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Liolaemus belongs to the Eulaemus subgenus, that is included in the Liolaemus montanus group or section, and is distributed in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. The species members of this clade inhabit arid and high altitude environments, usually above 2800 m, and have a strong tendency to herbivory and a viviparou...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dormirator maculatus (n=184) was collected in the Alvarado Lagoon, Mexico during a year period (Oct. 1993-1994). In the helminthologic review, the presence of Clinostomum complanatum (82.3%), Neoechinorhynchus golvani (76.1%), Spiroxys sp. (21.3 %), and Camallanus sp. (6.2%) was registered. Reduction of the hematocrit...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The local effects induced as a consequence of applications of four external secretions from the spider Sphaerobothria hoffmanni were recorded. Macroscopic lesions were not found; the only local effect microscopically observed was a weak necrosis in the skeletal muscle in mice. ...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1984-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The land crab Gecarcinus quadratus is an engineering species that controls nutrient cycling in tropical forests. Factors regulating their coastal distribution are not fully understood. We quantified land crab distribution during the dry season at Sirena Field Station in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, and found t...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.15517/rbt.v55i1.6073
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::During October and November 1998 (rainy season), and December, February and March 1999 (dry season), larvae distribution of Petrolisthes armatus and associated decapods were sampled in three different sites at the Punta Morales peninsula, Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. A total of 6014 decapod larvae were collected, and 7...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A monovalent antivenom was produced by immunizing two horses with venom of the pit viper Bothrops asper (Ophidia: Viperidae). Although development of the immune response against four toxic and enzymatic activities of the venom was similar in both horses during the first two thirds of the immunization schedule, antibod...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The effect of different lecithin sources and presentations on growth, food conversion ratio and survival of P. vannamei (290 mg +/- 0.02) was studied. The bioassay was designed in order to compare different dietary levels and different quality of lecithin. Squid lecithin, crude soybean (7%), deoiled soybean lecithin (...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2003-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although Costa Rica has been biologically well studied, few areas have complete mammal inventories, which are essential for ecological studies and conservation. The San Vito region is considered among the most important for scientific research in the country because of the presence of the Wilson Botanical Garden and L...
journal_title:Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00