Background: Monitoring the health of wild animals under the principles of one health contributes to the prevention of diseases and the preservation of human and animal health, thus contributing to the conservation of species.
Aim: The current study describes the clinical and paraclinical status of an ocelot () captured in Buriticá, Antioquia, Colombia, for research purposes with the aim of contributing to the construction of animal health reference values in the wild, considering the scarcity of published data for the country on capture, management, and paraclinical parameters related to this species.
Methods: For this, hematological parameters, blood chemistry, urine cytochemical analyses, and coprological examinations were carried out.
Rep Pract Oncol Radiother
June 2024
Background: The purpose of this study was to explore the usage patterns and profiles of social media (SM) platforms among Radiation Oncologists (RO) and Physicists in the scope of the Catalan-Occitan Oncology Group (GOCO).
Materials And Methods: From November 2022 to March 2023, a comprehensive survey was sent to Radiation Oncology professionals within the GOCO group, comprising 31 questions that covered demographics (4) and general inquiries (9), user behavior on social media (7), profile of SM activity (7), and participants' opinions (4) regarding professional use of SM. The survey reached professionals from 12 centers, encompassing 10 in Catalonia and 2 in French Occitania.
Radiotherapy is an essential treatment of more than 50% of oncohematological patients. Pericardial disorders and valvular heart disease are two common radiotherapy complications. Acute pericarditis is infrequent and usually underdiagnosed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe optimal modality, intensity, duration, frequency, and dose-response of exercise as a therapy for Parkinson's Disease (PD) are insufficiently understood. To assess the impact of a high-intensity tandem bicycle program on clinical severity, biomarkers, and functional MRI (fMRI) in PD. A single-center, parallel-group clinical trial was conducted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The present study was undertaken to investigate the effectiveness and safety of dose reduction of tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) therapy in the treatment of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) compared to usual care.
Methods: We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Embase, Medline, and trial registries. We screened, extracted data, and assessed risk of bias in duplicate.
Background: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a challenging heterogeneous disease. The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and PsA (GRAPPA) last published their respective recommendations for the management of PsA in 2015. However, these guidelines are primarily based on studies conducted in resource replete countries and may not be applicable in countries in the Americas (except Canada and USA) and Africa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this article is to present the uses of operational research in the health sciences, both in the field of the organisation and management of health resources and in the field of prevention, detection and treatment of diseases. we concentrate on application, without entering into the technical details of the mathematical models or the methods of resolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCollapsing glomerulopathy (CG) is associated with disorders that markedly perturb the phenotype of podocytes. The kd/kd mouse has been studied for immune and genetic causes of microcystic tubulointerstitial nephritis with little attention to its glomerular lesion. Because histologic examination revealed classic morphologic features of CG, the question arises whether podocytes in kd/kd mice exhibit additional phenotypic criteria for CG.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHerein, we report cloning and subcellular localization of two alanine aminotransferase (ALT) isozymes, cALT and mALT, from liver of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata). CHO cells transfected with constructs expressing cALT or mALT as C- or N-terminal fusion with the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) showed that cALT is cytosolic, whereas mALT localized to mitochondria. Fusion of EGFP to mALT N-terminus or removal of amino acids 1-83 of mALT avoided import into mitochondria, supporting evidence that the mALT N-terminus contains a mitochondrial targeting signal.
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