Publications by authors named "C N Gonzalez Castano"
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- Up to 27% of ACL reconstructions show ongoing instability, affecting athletes' ability to return to sports and increasing injury risks, leading researchers to compare isolated ACL repairs versus those combined with ALL reconstruction.
- An observational study with 236 patients narrowed down to 74 ACL and 37 ACL+ALL participants was conducted to evaluate knee stability and surgical outcomes, using methods like paired score matching for pseudo-randomization.
- Results indicated that ALL reinforcement improved pivot shift test outcomes (p=0.007), but no significant differences were found in other assessments, including pain, complications, and return to sports performance.
Trees affect organic matter decomposition through allocation of recently fixed carbon belowground, but the magnitude and direction of this effect may depend on substrate type and decomposition stage. Here, we followed mass loss, chemical composition and fungal colonisation of leaf and root litters incubated in mountain birch forests over 4 years, in plots where belowground carbon allocation was severed by tree girdling or in control plots. Initially, girdling stimulated leaf and root litter mass loss by 12% and 22%, respectively, suggesting competitive release of saprotrophic decomposition when tree-mediated competition by ectomycorrhizal fungi was eliminated (Gadgil effect).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpermatozoa collected from the cauda epididymis of wild ruminants are more cryoresistant than are ejaculated spermatozoa. This work examines the effects of lactoferrin (LF) and phosphoglycerate mutase 2 (PGAM2), which are abundant in the epididymal sperm of wild ruminants, as additives in Iberian ibex and mouflon sperm extenders. In addition, LF was added to a vitrification medium to determine whether it also provided protection during the cryopreservation of testicular tissue.
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- * Studied how testosterone influenced sperm quality during cryopreservation, finding that it negatively impacted acrosome integrity in mouflons and ibexes, especially when combined with the aquaporin blocker phloretin.
- * Concluded that testosterone and the AQP blocker adversely affect sperm cryoresistance, contributing to an understanding of seasonal changes in sperm freezing capacity in ruminants.
Diplodia sapinea causes Diplodia tip blight (DTB) and is recognised as an opportunistic necrotrophic pathogen affecting conifers. While DTB is associated with abiotic stress, the impact of biotic stress in the host on D. sapinea's lifestyle shift is unknown.
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