解剖学和形态学
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细胞和组织工程学
临床神经病学
危重症监护医学
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肠胃学和肝脏学
老人病学和老年医学
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abstract：:This is the fourth and last contribution describing the individual structure, distribution and conservation status of coral reefs in the Province of Bocas del Toro. Here we describe 14 new reefs along 129 km of coast from Peninsula Valiente to Río Calovébora. Average live coral coverage for this region was 17.1% (+/- ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The fish and invertebrates community structure in the Sabancuy estuary was analyzed in two seasons and 14 sampling stations (13 along the estuary and one in the marine adjacent coast). No significant differences were found between seasons. The environmental frame defines two zones within the estuary, the first extends...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The floristic composition and structure of a premontane moist forest remnant were studied in the El Rodeo Protected Zone, Central Valley of Costa Rica. Three one-hectare plots were established in the non-disturbed forest, and all trees with a diameter at breast height (dbh) of 10 cm or greater were marked, measured an...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Four expeditions were made to Coiba National Park between 1996 and 1998 to characterize this part of the poorly known Panamian Pacific polychaete fauna. The samples were collected by SCUBA diving, either by removing 4 kg blocks of dead coral (Pocillopora sp.) or scraping off 25 x 25 cm quadrats of Telesto multiflora o...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Two types of inclusion bodies were consistently observed under light microscopy in bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) leaf tissue infected with Bean rugose mosaic virus (BRMV), a species of the genus Comovirus, family Comoviridae. One type consisted of vacuolated inclusions found mainly in the cytoplasm of epidermal cells. The...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:From the study of more than 450 specimens of Hydroides and Serpula, 12 species from the Grand Caribbean Region were identified and characterized. Eight species were collected along the shores of the Yucatan Peninsula and five were found in other localities in the Gulf of Mexico, seven others are from Cuba and comments...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A new species of green, prehensile-tailed pitviper of the genus Bothriechis is described from the Atlantic slopes of eastern Guatemala and western Honduras. This species appears to be most closely related to B. bicolor of the Pacific versant of Chiapas (Mexico) and Guatemala. Several other species of Bothriechis occur...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Bauxite explotation of the Orinoco River in recent years is an important source of heavy metals discharge in the ecosystem, changing the natural biochemical flow of these elements and their concentrations in water, sediment and organisms. Iron and copper concentrations were measured in the fish Plagioscion squamosissi...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The sea urchin roe is among the highest valued seafood items in the world. Increasing demand has extended this fishery worldwide and cases of overfishing have been detected in some countries. On the eastern coast of Venezuela some species of sea urchin, such as Lytechinus variegatus, are consumed as food but studies t...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The dose dependent antiproliferative effect of an alkaloidal substance extracted from the sponge Amphimedon viridis was tested on Leishmania mexicana promastigotes. Sponges were collected in Isla Larga, Venezuela (10 degrees 20' 20" - 10 degrees 24" N, 64 degrees 19' - 64 degrees 22' W), cut and dipped in methanol for...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-12-01 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
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更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Thirteen representatives of Myxariaceae sensu Jülich: Heterochaetella brachyspora (Bourdot & Galzin) Luck-Allen, Myxarium atratum (Peck) Ginns & Lefebvre, M. granulum Hauersl., M. laccatum (Bourdot & Galzin) Reid, M. mesomorphum (Bourdot & Galzin) Haursl., M. mesonucleatum Kisim., Oberw. & L.D. Gómez nov. sp., M. subs...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Four sampling stations were set 200-500 m off Limon Port, Costa Rica, at an average depth of 20 m. From October 1996 to May 1997 horizontal subsuperficial trawls were done for 12 minutes at a speed of about 2 Km/h, with a 1,000 microns plancton net. A total of 28 samples were processed and 104 physical-chemistry param...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The octopus (Octopus maya) is one of the most important fish resources in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico with a mean annual yield of 9000 ton, and a reasonable number of jobs created; O. maya represents 80% of the total octopus catch, followed by Octopus vulgaris. There are two artisanal fleets based on Octopus maya and a...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The anti-inflammatory properties of Loasa speciosa and Loasa triphylla (Loasaceae), Urtica leptuphylla and Urera baccifera (Urticaceae), and Chaptalia nutans (Asteracene) were studied using the carregeenan induced rat paw edema model. Aqueous extracts of each plant were made according to the ethnobotanical use. The hi...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Occurrence of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori was compared for two Costa Rican sites with contrasting levels of gastric cancer incidence, Poás (incidence 15.13%) and Puriscal (83.53%). A sample of 185 adults of similar age and sex proportions was studied in each site, using both H. pylori antiserum tests and gastros...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An in vivo model to study the antimalaric effect of plant extracts is described. White mice (25-30 g body weight) are treated subcutaneously with 0.6 ml of the diluted extract starting seven days before P. berghei infection; treatment continues until death or for 30 days. Simultaneously 0.2 ml of the extract are appli...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A sample of 15 Costa Rican scientific papers published since 1985 reported only 49% of the necessary information about laboratory animals and experimental conditions, slightly better than in the rest of Latin America (47%, sample = 15 papers) but lower than in the USA and Europe (60%, sample = 15). Adequate informatio...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To demonstrate that T. lewisi infection increases T. gondii multiplication in white rats, groups of five Wistar or Sprague Dawley rats were inoculated with 10(6) T. lewisi trypomastigotes and four or seven days later infected with Toxoplasma tachyzoites. Host survival time was monitored, and the presence of T. gondii ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The host plants of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) in the Province of Espinal (Chaquenian Dominion) and the province of Buenos Aires are mainly exotics, cultivated or naturalized, the last ones growing spontaneously and forming little forests. Forty two species of Cerambycidae are reported using these plants and other nativ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Plant regeneration from seven-week-old callus cultures derived from mature embryos of several indica rice cultivars was achieved with frequencies of morphogenic calli from 10 to 47%. Three media were tested both for callogenesis and plant regeneration. For 3 of the 7 genotypes examined, the best combination of media f...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study is based on a subset of plankton samples obtained during an expedition of the German RV Victor Hensen to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica in 1993/94. It aims at the identification of the main plankton taxa for a general description and comparison of the plankton communities of the gulf systems Golfo de Nicoy...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A list of the species and taxa of some pelagic animals from a tropical upwelling region, based on collections made off the coast of Costa Rica is presented. The list includes a total of 224 species, 53 genera and 11 subspecific forms in Cnidaria, Annelida, Mollusca, Artropoda (Crustacea), Chaetognatha and Pisces. ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Extracts from thirteen species of plants were evaluated by "in vivo" antimalarial test against plasmodium berghei effects. Significant activities were observed in the ethyl acetate and aqueous extracts, elaborated of Cedrela tonduzii leaves, Trichilia havanensis and Trichilia americana barks, Neurolaena lobata and Gli...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:155 specimens of mussels (Modiolus capax) were gathered during March 1993 in a subtidal bed, located in northern Ocotal, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. For each individual in the random sample, shell length, breadth and height were measured and total weight, shell weight empty and meat weight were controlled. Analysis of dat...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lime juice killed millions of Vibrio cholerae O1, El Tor, Inaba, present on cabbage and lettuce contaminated in the laboratory. The lethal effect was evident within 5 min of exposure to lime juice. No vibrios could be recovered at dilution 1:10 using alkaline peptone water (APW) and thiosulfate-citrate-bile salts-sacc...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A conductivity staining method for tissue samples were developed using a solution of 10 ml of 5% carbolic acid solution, 2 g of tannic acid, and 10 ml of saturated aluminium sulfate 12-hydrated after fixation with osmium. Specimens of kidney (mouse) with the above treatment can be analyzed under a scanning electron mi...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effect of irradiation of the aqueous solution of L. m. muta venom was evaluated with thermic neutrons from Uranium-235 employing doses of 1.61 to 5.19 Gray. The venom was examined for protein content by the Folin Lowry Method modified by Stauffer; for acute toxicity by intraperitoneal route estimation in mice and ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A total of 260 Costa Rican patients (106 males) with clinical diagnosis of Bronchial Asthma and 100 non atopic subjects were studied with skin prick tests for all Poaceae tribes. Allergic Type I Hypersensitivity to these pollens among the Bronchial Asthma patients reached 51.2% positivity to at least one tribe (2% in ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Structural hemoglobin variants are reviewed for Iberoamerica; specially in Latin America, they reflect racial composition and geographic origin. Latin American genetic composition is a function of ethnic composition in each country (mainly Africans and Spaniards, and the "indians" or native peoples). For this reason t...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Blood inoculation in mice showed that Toxoplasma organisms circulate in blood after 1 h of oocyst infection. Parasites were detected up to 15 days later and then disappeared from the bloodstream concomitantly with cyst formation in the brain, probably due to antibody presence. Immunosuppression caused by cortisone ace...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Clinical evidence has long pointed to the existence of Clostridium tetani in Costa Rica. Thirty soil samples were studied for clostridia, and two yielded six strains of C. tetani, four of which proved to be toxigenic when mice were inoculated intraperitoneally with the culture supernates. These four isolates could be ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An avirulent T. gondii strain isolated from a owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) produces randomly distributed cysts in the brain of mice which can survive to inocula as high as 1000 oocysts. Cysts appeared for the first time after 15 days of infection. Regarding to humoral immunity development due to our TCR-2 strain, dete...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1990-11-01 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
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更新日期：1989-06-01 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
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更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Two laboratory maintenance systems of Trypanosoma rangeli were compared. The maintenance by weekly subinoculations in Tobie's culture medium and the intrafemoral inoculation of Rhodnius prolixus with cultured flagellates, resulted in loss of infectivity of the metacyclic salivarian trypomastigotes for mice, ten months...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1986-06-01 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
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更新日期：1985-06-01 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
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更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The venom of female spiders (Aphonopelma seemanni) induces necrosis of skeletal muscle in mice. This effect was demonstrated by histology and by the increase in the plasma levels of the enzyme creatine kinase (CK). ...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
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更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lacteous fat globules with their membranes from human milk and calostrum were studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The first appear as spheroidal structures with some irregularities on the surface. Under the transmission electron microscope these irregularities are composed of islets from a materi...
journal_title：Revista de biologia tropical
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00
