Publications by authors named "Alicia Franco"
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- A 60-year-old man developed mycotic keratitis due to the fungus Lasiodiplodia theobromae after suffering ocular trauma from vegetable matter.
- Ophthalmological and microbiological evaluations confirmed the presence of the fungus in the corneal ulcer.
- The patient was treated for 37 days, which controlled the infection, but he ultimately needed a cornea transplant due to scarring, marking the first reported case of this type of keratitis in Paraguay.
We have shown that en masse cell migration of fibroblasts on the planar surface results in a radial outward trajectory, and a spatially dependent velocity distribution that decreases exponentially in time towards the single cell value. If the cells are plated on the surface of aligned electrospun fibers above 1 microm in diameter, they become polarized along the fiber, expressing integrin receptors which follow closely the contours of the fibers. The velocity of the cells on the fibrous scaffold is lower than that on the planar surface, and does not depend on the degree of orientation.
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