Publications by authors named "I Marugan de la Concha"
Background: The time dedicated to patients and how they are treated are crucial in the evaluation of health care quality. Medical students acting as medical assistants could improve the perception of a good quality of care among ambulatory patients.
Aim: To evaluate if the presence of Student-Assistants improves the patients' perception of health care quality in ambulatory primary care.
In the early days of plastination, plastinate Color was the usual grey/brown familiar to formalin-fixed biological specimens. Initially, trials with Kaiserling's, Klotz, Jore's and McCormick's fixative solutions were disappointing. Vascular injections with Colored epoxy were a great breakthrough in the 1980s.
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- The article discusses research on the increased expression of a specific transporter, mitSVCT2, in breast cancer, highlighting its importance.
- Various breast cancer cell lines were studied using techniques like RT-PCR and Western blot to measure SVCT2 expression levels.
- The researchers also examined where SVCT2 is located within the cells and analyzed tissue samples to see how this transporter behaves in actual cancer tissues.
The potential role of vitamin C in cancer prevention and treatment remains controversial. While normal human cells obtain vitamin C as ascorbic acid, the prevalent form of vitamin C in vivo, the uptake mechanisms by which cancer cells acquire vitamin C has remained unclear. The aim of this study is to characterize how breast cancer cells acquire vitamin C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The etiology of a streptococcal pharyngitis must be documented by laboratory techniques to avoid unnecessary antimicrobial treatment, but this strategy increases cost for the patient. Available scores applied in children or adults are imperfect.
Aim: To develop a clinical prediction rule to aid the diagnostic process of streptococcal pharyngitis (SP) in children in a low-resource setting.