A community-based intervention study involving family gardens with aromatic herbs on changes in dietary and urinary sodium.

Objective: To measure dietary and urinary changes in sodium (Na) intake and excretion through the implementation of family gardens with aromatic herbs and workshops for cooking, using the herbs as a substitute for salt and seasoning powder.

Methods: Thirty-five participants from a neighborhood of Mexico City were included. A general questionnaire was administered to collect information on sociodemographic factors.

Impact of AferBio® on quality of life and chemotherapy toxicity in advanced lung cancer patients (AFERBIO study): protocol study for a phase II randomized controlled trial.

Background: Lung cancer patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy exhibit many symptoms related to the disease, such as adverse events and infectious complications during treatment, which impacts directly their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Nutritional status is a relevant aspect among advanced cancer patients under palliative care and food supplementation has the potential to reduce treatment-related adverse effects and improve the nutritional status. The product named AferBio® is a fermented supplement that has been described as able to provide some benefits, including the capacity to potentiate the effects of anticancer drugs, by promoting the reduction of side effects and ultimately improving HRQOL.

Impact of ureteral stenting on urological complications after kidney transplantation surgery: a single-center experience.

Background: Urological complications such as ureteral strictures and ureteral leakage can affect the outcome of kidney transplantation by increasing morbidity and mortality, including graft loss. Controversy still exists regarding the role of stents in renal transplantation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of ureteral stenting in kidney transplantation.

p8/nupr1 regulates DNA-repair activity after double-strand gamma irradiation-induced DNA damage.

The stress protein p8 is a small, highly basic, unfolded, and multifunctional protein. We have previously shown that most of its functions are exerted through interactions with other proteins, whose activities are thereby enhanced or repressed. In this work we describe another example of such mechanism, by which p8 binds and negatively regulates MSL1, a histone acetyl transferase (HAT)-associated protein, which in turn binds the DNA-damage-associated 53BP1 protein to facilitate DNA repair following DNA gamma-irradiation.

Increased lymphocyte viability after non-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) culture in patients with X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP).

Survival of lymphocytes after prolonged culture was studied in two asymptomatic XLP patients. Viability of XLP PBMC after 30 days of non-stimulated culture was higher than that of normal controls (N), mainly due to the persistence of CD8 memory lymphocytes. IFNgamma high CD8 T lymphocytes remained higher in XLP than in N after 30 days.

Evidence of occult HCV genotypes in haemophilic individuals with unapparent HCV mixed infections.

Individuals with haemophilia who received non heat-treated factor concentrates were likely to undergo multiple exposures to the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Therefore, HCV mixed-genotype infections might be more frequent in these patients than in the general population. Their prevalence is extremely variable in similar groups of patients tested by different assays due to the fact that currently available genotyping techniques are not suitable to detect multiple HCV genotypes in a viral population.

[The role of dendritic cells in the infection by HIV and HCV].

Dendritic cells are most important as antigen presenting cells during the induction of an effective immune response. Therefore, it is important to study their role during the generation of persistent or chronic viral infections, such as HIV or HCV infection. In this review we shall describe the phenotypic and functional characteristics of the different classes of dendritic cells and of their membrane receptors.