Publications by authors named "L Vara"

Article Synopsis
  • The SARS-CoV-2 virus had a big effect on kidney transplant patients, making them more likely to get really sick, especially early in the pandemic.
  • Doctors adjusted their medications to help manage COVID-19, which included reducing some immunosuppressive drugs that protect the kidney.
  • A study looked at how these changes affected kidney health and certain antibodies in patients six months after they got COVID-19, finding that most patients’ kidney function stayed fairly stable.
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Introduction: SARS CoV2 infection has had a major impact on renal transplant patients with a high mortality in the first months of the pandemic. Intentional reduction of immunosuppressive therapy has been postulated as one of the cornerstone in the management of the infection in the absence of targeted antiviral treatment. This has been modified according to the patient`s clinical situation and its effect on renal function or anti-HLA antibodies in the medium term has not been evaluated.

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Background: Nearly 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer are estimated annually worldwide. Three vaccines are currently licensed to prevent cervical cancer. The success of vaccination depends mainly on the prevalence of HPV genotypes, and many cases of HPV infection have been diagnosed after vaccination.

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The marine unicellular green cyanobacterium MIT9313 belongs to the most abundant and photosynthetically productive genus of cyanobacteria in the oceans. This monophyletic genus use divinyl chlorophyll (Chl ) and (Chl ) to build the photosystems and the membrane-intrinsic Pcb-type antennae. We used the mild detergent n-dodecyl β D-maltopyranoside to solubilize the thylakoid membranes.

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Bacterial Type I restriction-modification (R-M) systems present a major barrier to foreign DNA entering the bacterial cell. The temperate phage P1 packages several proteins into the virion that protect the phage DNA from host restriction. Isogenic P1 deletion mutants were used to reconstitute the previously described restriction phenotypes associated with darA and darB.

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