Publications by authors named "A Gonzalez-Herrera"
Background: The clinical manifestations of sickle cell disease (SCD) result in significant morbidity and healthcare costs. The effect of weather as a risk factor for the development of vaso-occlusive episodes (VOEs) has been previously studied, although with variable results. The aim of our retrospective, nationwide study was to determine the association between weather patterns and pediatric VOE and acute chest syndrome (ACS).
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- - The study focuses on the genetic analysis of chitinase enzymes from neotropical fungal isolates, which are important for agricultural biological control due to their ability to break down chitin, a component of insect exoskeletons and fungal cell walls.
- - Researchers examined eight genomes, discovering eleven chitinase 1 genes categorized into two types and highlighting variations particularly in chitinase 1, which may indicate different roles in infection and growth processes.
- - The findings stress the significance of local fungal genomes in understanding pathogen-host interactions and suggest practical agricultural applications, emphasizing the need for more experimental work to validate these computational insights.
In this study, we systematically explored the characteristics of dimethyl carbonate (DMC)/sodium 1,4-bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate (AOT) reverse micelles (RMs) in the presence of water using dynamic light scattering (DLS), proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H NMR), and molecular probes. DMC, a biocompatible solvent, enables the formulation of AOT RMs without the need for a co-surfactant. DLS revealed that as the water content increased, the droplet sizes grew larger.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There are different ways to analyze energy absorbance (EA) in the human auditory system. In previous research, we developed a complete finite element model (FEM) of the human auditory system.
Objective: In this current work, the external auditory canal (EAC), middle ear, and inner ear (spiral cochlea, vestibule, and semi-circular canals) were modelled based on human temporal bone histological sections.
Semi-automatic algorithm to build finite element numerical models of the human hearing system from Micro-CT data.
Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng
June 2024
Finite Element modeling has been an extended methodology to build numerical model to simulate the behavior of the hearing system. Due to the complexity of the system and the difficulties to reduce the uncertainties of the geometric data, they result in computationally expensive models, sometimes generic, representative of average geometries. It makes it difficult to validate the model with direct experimental data from the same specimen or to establish a patient-oriented modeling strategy.
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