Loeselia campechiana (Polemoniaceae) una especie rara y amenazada de Campeche (México)

CELSO GUTIERREZ BAEZ RODRIGO STEFANO DUNO PEDRO ZAMORA CRESCENCIO (2023, [Artículo])

Loeselia campechiana C. Gut. Báez & R. Duno (Polemoniaceae), es una especie descrita del estado de Campeche (México) en el año 2015. Es una especie rara, se conoce solamente de una localidad de selva mediana subcaducifolia en el ejido de Mucuychakán. Esta especie se distingue por tener brácteas florales cortas, el tubo de la corola recto, los filamentos y el estilo también cortos. Con relación a su estado de conservación, la especie se considera en Peligro Crítico (CR por sus siglas en inglés).

ERICALES PENINSULA DE YUCATAN SELVA MEDIANA SUBCADUCIFOLIA TREN MAYA BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL

La coordinación en política pública para erradicar la trata de mujeres con fines de explotación sexual en SLP

NYDIA LISSETTE CARMEN MORALES (2021, [Tesis de maestría])

"El objetivo general es: Analizar la política pública en materia de atención, prevención, sanción y erradicación de la trata de mujeres con fines de explotación sexual, específicamente en la Comisión Interinstitucional que determina la ley vigente en 2016 para identificar las estrategias de coordinación en función de las atribuciones que la legislación les otorga a los organismos del gobierno estatal."

Ciencia política -- Administración pública -- Sexo y derecho -- México Delitos contra la Mujer -- México Mujeres -- Derechos -- San Luis Potosí -- México Mujeres en México -- Condiciones sociales CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIA POLÍTICA CIENCIA POLÍTICA

Debaryomyces hansenii: una nueva levadura probiótica

Debaryomyces hansenii: A new probiotic yeast

MIRIAM GORETTY ANGULO VILLAVICENCIO MARTHA CANDELARIA REYES BECERRIL Carlos Eliud Angulo Valadez (2022, [Artículo])

"Los probióticos son bichos diminutos cuyo consumo genera efectos benéficos en la salud. De hecho, la palabra probiótico significa 'pro-vida'. Algunas levaduras, como la utilizada para hacer pan o cerveza, pueden ser probióticos para animales y humanos. Desde hace algunos años, los estudios con la levadura Debaryomyces hansenii han demostrado que ésta es un probiótico. Se ha demostrado que, administrada por vía oral, esta levadura tiene efectos estimulantes del sistema de defensa y beneficios para la función digestiva de animales terrestres y acuáticos. Por lo anterior, se describen los hallazgos que revelan que D. hansenii es un probiótico para animales y posiblemente para humanos."

"Probiotics are tiny bugs that when consumed have beneficial effects on health. In fact, the word probiotic means pro-life. Some yeasts, such as that used to make bread or beer, can be probiotics for animals and humans. For some years, studies with the yeast Debaryomyces hansenii indicate that it is a probiotic.

This yeast administered orally has been shown to have stimulating effects on the defense system and beneficial effects on the digestive function of terrestrial and aquatic animals. Therefore, we will try to describe the findings of D. hansenii that indicate that it is a probiotic for animals and possibly also for humans."

probióticos, bienestar, microbios, enfermedad, supervivencia probiotics, wellbeing, microbes, disease, survival BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA MICROBIOLOGÍA MICOLOGÍA (LEVADURAS) MICOLOGÍA (LEVADURAS)

Effect of antimicrobial nanocomposites on Vibrio cholerae lifestyles: Pellicle biofilm, planktonic and surface-attached biofilm

ANAID MEZA VILLEZCAS (2019, [Artículo])

Vibrio cholerae is an important human pathogen causing intestinal disease with a high incidence in developing countries. V. cholerae can switch between planktonic and biofilm lifestyles. Biofilm formation is determinant for transmission, virulence and antibiotic resistance. Due to the enhanced antibiotic resistance observed by bacterial pathogens, antimicrobial nanomaterials have been used to combat infections by stopping bacterial growth and preventing biofilm formation. In this study, the effect of the nanocomposites zeolite-embedded silver (Ag), copper (Cu), or zinc (Zn) nanoparticles (NPs) was evaluated in V. cholerae planktonic cells, and in two biofilm states: pellicle biofilm (PB), formed between air-liquid interphase, and surface-attached biofilm (SB), formed at solid-liquid interfaces. Each nanocomposite type had a distinctive antimicrobial effect altering each V. cholerae lifestyles differently. The ZEO-AgNPs nanocomposite inhibited PB formation at 4 μg/ml, and prevented SB formation and eliminated planktonic cells at 8 μg/ml. In contrast, the nanocomposites ZEO-CuNPs and ZEO-ZnNPs affect V. cholerae viability but did not completely avoid bacterial growth. At transcriptional level, depending on the nanoparticles and biofilm type, nanocomposites modified the relative expression of the vpsL, rbmA and bap1, genes involved in biofilm formation. Furthermore, the relative abundance of the outer membrane proteins OmpT, OmpU, OmpA and OmpW also differs among treatments in PB and SB. This work provides a basis for further study of the nanomaterials effect at structural, genetic and proteomic levels to understand the response mechanisms of V. cholerae against metallic nanoparticles. © 2019 Meza-Villezcas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

bacterial protein, copper nanoparticle, nanocomposite, OmpT protein, OmpU protein, OmpW protein, outer membrane protein A, silver nanoparticle, unclassified drug, zeolite, zinc nanoparticle, antiinfective agent, copper, metal nanoparticle, nanocompos BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA MICROBIOLOGÍA MICROBIOLOGÍA

CAOS-NIXTAMAL: MATERIA Y ENERGÍA DE UNA TÉCNICA ALIMENTARIA MESOAMERICANA. PERSPECTIVAS DE LA ANTROPOLOGÍA ENERGÉTICA Y LA HISTORIA MATERIAL

Jorge Luis Méndez Martínez (2011, [Tesis de maestría])

"El presente trabajo propone una interpretación histórica y antropológica de la técnica de cocción alcalina del maíz conocida como nixtamalización. El primer capítulo presenta las perspectivas de teóricas de la historia material y la antropología energética de corte neoevolucionista, así como de problemas asociados al entendimiento de la técnica de nixtamalización, tales como el conocimiento indígena, el problema de la evolución tecnológica y los métodos etnohistóricos. El segundo capítulo presenta las herramientas metodológicas para entender la nixtamalización a propósito de la etnografía multi-situada, la analogía arqueológica, la antropología material y la teoría de la complejidad. El tercer capítulo hace una presentación de la nixtamalización como conjunto técnico, lo que implica poner de relieve sus características físicas, bioquímicas y alimentarias. El cuarto capítulo presenta propiamente la historia de la nixtamalización. Este capítulo se divide en dos partes. La primera parte aborda la prehistoria, historia prehispánica y colonial de la técnica, poniendo de relieve los aportes de la arqueología y los problemas derivados de la ausencia de fuentes historiográficas estrictas. La segunda parte se centra en la irrupción tecnológica de los molinos y, más tarde, de las máquinas tortilladoras, aquí se abordan los problemas de industrialización, urbanización, las connotaciones de género entre otras. Este último recuento cubre hasta nuestros días. En los anexos se presentan transcripciones de fuentes primarias, que no han sido previamente publicadas, relativas a las máquinas tortilladoras del siglo XIX".

Teoría del conocimiento. Conocimiento indígena. Maíz. Nixtamal. Tecnología y civilización - México - Historia. Tesis - Maestría en Antropología Social. CDMX. HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA ANTROPOLOGÍA ETNOGRAFÍA Y ETNOLOGÍA AGRICULTURA AGRICULTURA

Implementation of a Nickel-Electroless Coating in Heat Exchanger Pipes Considering the Problem of the Environmental Conditions ofthe Cooling Water Without Recirculation to Increase the Effectiveness Under Uncertainty

VICTOR MANUEL ZEZATTI FLORES GUSTAVO URQUIZA BELTRAN MIGUEL ANGEL BASURTO PENSADO LAURA LILIA CASTRO GOMEZ JUAN CARLOS GARCIA CASTREJON (2022, [Artículo])

This research is based on the operation tube heat exchangers, their use and problematic on hydroelectric power plants. It is based on the design heat exchanger tubes for industrial use, which took the parameters of operation, design, working fluids (air and water) and conditions to assemble a monitoring equipment at appropriate scale for the laboratory, with the necessary measurement instruments to analyze the behavior of heat energy transfer by means of thermocouples, the velocity of the air with a hot wire anemometer and the flow of water with a turbine flow meter, in pipes of different materials: copper, steel 1018 and stainless steel 316L, all in ideal conditions, and with this to found a comparative parameter with pipes of the same materials but under conditions of deterioration with the presence of forced oxidation and with the data mining and support vector machine can be minimized the corrosion problems in pipes.

INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA CIENCIAS TECNOLÓGICAS Data mining, Support Vector Machine, Pattern Recognition and Decision Support System, Heat exchangers

Screening of xylose utilizing and high lipid producing yeast strains as a potential candidate for industrial application

Linnea Qvirist RICARDO VAZQUEZ JUAREZ Thomas Andlid (2022, [Artículo])

"Background: Sustainable production of oil for food, feed, fuels and other lipid-based chemicals is essential to meet the demand of the increasing human population. Consequently, novel and sustainable resources such as lignocel- lulosic hydrolysates and processes involving these must be explored. In this paper we screened for naturally-occurring xylose utilizing oleaginous yeasts as cell factories for lipid production, since pentose sugar catabolism plays a major role in efcient utilization of lignocellulosic feedstocks. Glycerol utilization, which is also benefcial in yeast-based oil production as glycerol is a common by-product of biodiesel production, was investigated as well. Natural yeast isolates were studied for lipid accumulation on a variety of substrates, and the highest lipid accumulating strains were further investigated in shake fask cultivations and fermenter studies on xylose and hydrolysate. Results: By collecting leaves from exotic plants in greenhouses and selective cultivation on xylose, a high frequency of oleaginous yeasts was obtained (>40%). Diferent cultivation conditions lead to diferences in fatty acid contents and compositions, resulting in a set of strains that can be used to select candidate production strains for diferent purposes. In this study, the most prominent strains were identifed as Pseudozyma hubeiensis BOT-O and Rhodosporidium toruloides BOT-A2. The fatty acid levels per cell dry weight after cultivation in a nitrogen limited medium with either glucose, xylose or glycerol as carbon source, respectively, were 46.8, 43.2 and 38.9% for P. hubeiensis BOT-O, and 40.4, 27.3 and 42.1% for BOT-A2. Furthermore, BOT-A2 accumulated 45.1% fatty acids per cell dry weight in a natural plant hydrolysate, and P. hubeiensis BOT-O showed simultaneous glucose and xylose consumption with similar growth rates on both carbon sources. The fatty acid analysis demonstrated both long chain and poly-unsaturated fatty acids, depending on strain and medium. Conclusions: We found various natural yeast isolates with high lipid production capabilities and the ability to grow not only on glucose, but also xylose, glycerol and natural plant hydrolysate. R. toruloides BOT-A2 and P. hubeiensis BOT-O specifcally showed great potential as production strains with high levels of storage lipids and comparable growth to that on glucose on various other substrates, especially compared to currently used lipid production strains..."

Microbial lipids, Oleaginous yeast, Lignocellulose, Pseudozyma hubeiensis, Rhodosporidium toruloides BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA MICROBIOLOGÍA MICROBIOLOGÍA MICROBIOLOGÍA

Using Observed Residual Error Structure Yields the Best Estimates of Individual Growth Parameters

Marcelo Vidal Curiel Bernal EUGENIO ALBERTO ARAGON NORIEGA MIGUEL ANGEL CISNEROS MATA LAURA SANCHEZ VELASCO SYLVIA PATRICIA ADELHEID JIMENEZ ROSENBERG ALEJANDRO FRANCISCO PARES SIERRA (2021, [Artículo])

"Obtaining the best possible estimates of individual growth parameters is essential in studies of physiology, fisheries management, and conservation of natural resources since growth is a key component of population dynamics. In the present work, we use data of an endangered fish species to demonstrate the importance of selecting the right data error structure when fitting growth models in multimodel inference. The totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) is a fish species endemic to the Gulf of California increasingly studied in recent times due to a perceived threat of extinction. Previous works estimated individual growth using the von Bertalanffy model assuming a constant variance of length-at-age. Here, we reanalyze the same data under five different variance assumptions to fit the von Bertalanffy and Gompertz models. We found consistent significant differences between the constant and nonconstant error structure scenarios and provide an example of the consequences using the growth performance index _0 to show how using the wrong error structure can produce growth parameter values that can lead to biased conclusions. Based on these results, for totoaba and other related species, we recommend using the observed error structure to obtain the individual growth parameters."

multimodel inference, error structure, totoaba, growth performance BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA ANIMAL (ZOOLOGÍA) FISIOLOGÍA ANIMAL FISIOLOGÍA ANIMAL

Evaluación de receptores purinérgicos en pacientes con COVID-19

Rubén Omar Urbina Rodríguez (2023, [Tesis de maestría])

Durante COVID-19 el ATP liberado por el tejido pulmonar dañado puede interactuar con los receptores purinérgicos y modificar la respuesta inmune. Debido a su modulación en la respuesta inflamatoria, la actividad purinérgica puede representar un factor de riesgo en los pacientes. En este trabajo se evaluaron perfiles purinérgicos P2X1, P2X4, P2X7 y PA2A en células mononucleares de sangre venosa periférica de 22 pacientes con COVID-19 y 10 sujetos control, por citometría de flujo y qPCR y su relación con parámetros metabólicos y antropométricos. Los resultados demuestran la importancia de los perfiles P2X7 y PA2A durante la enfermedad y parámetros antropométricos y metabólicos como el índice de masa corporal y concentraciones de colesterol LDL.

During COVID-19, ATP released from damaged lung tissue can interact with purinergic receptors and modify the immune response. Due to its modulation in the inflammatory response, purinergic activity may represent a risk factor in patients. In this work, P2X1, P2X4, P2X7 and PA2A purinergic profiles were evaluated in peripheral venous blood mononuclear cells from 22 patients with COVID-19 and 10 control subjects, by flow cytometry and qPCR and their relationship with metabolic and anthropometric parameters. The results demonstrate the importance of the P2X7 and PA2A profiles during the disease and anthropometric and metabolic parameters such as body mass index and LDL cholesterol concentrations.

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Nopal feeding reduces adiposity, intestinal inflammation and shifts the cecal microbiota and metabolism in high-fat fed rats

SOFÍA MORÁN RAMOS (2018, [Artículo])

Nopal is a cactus plant widely consumed in Mexico that has been used in traditional medicine to aid in the treatment of type-2 diabetes. We previously showed that chronic consumption of dehydrated nopal ameliorated hepatic steatosis in obese (fa/fa) rats; however, description of the effects on other tissues is sparse. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of nopal cladode consumption on intestinal physiology, microbial community structure, adipose tissue, and serum biochemistry in diet-induced obese rats. Rats were fed either a normal fat (NF) diet or a HF diet containing 4% of dietary fiber from either nopal or cellulose for 6 weeks. Consumption of nopal counteracted HF-induced adiposity and adipocyte hypertrophy, and induced profound changes in intestinal physiology. Nopal consumption reduced biomarkers of intestinal inflammation (mRNA expression of IL-6) and oxidative stress (ROS), modfied gut microbiota composition, increasing microbial diversity and cecal fermentation (SCFA), and altered the serum metabolome. Interestingly, metabolomic analysis of dehydrated nopal revealed a high choline content, which appeared to generate high levels of serum betaine, that correlated negatively with hepatic triglyceride (TAG) levels. A parallel decrease in some of the taxa associated with the production of trimethylamine, suggest an increase in choline absorption and bioavailability with transformation to betaine. The latter may partially explain the previously observed effect of nopal on the development of hepatic steatosis. In conclusion, this study provides new evidence on the effects of nopal consumption on normal and HF-diet induced changes in the intestine, the liver and systemic metabolism.

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