Publications by authors named "Luis Felipe Montano Estrada"
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- * This review explores hibiscus as a potential natural treatment, drawing interest in plant-derived compounds that could boost antibiotic effectiveness.
- * Various bioactive compounds like polyphenols and alkaloids show promise as alternative treatments, suggesting anti-inflammatory properties and potential as antibiotic coadjutants, but further research is necessary.
Background: High-density lipoproteins (HDLs) have antiatherogenic properties related to their chemical structure. Adipose tissue (AT) influences HDL reverse cholesterol transport and plasma HDL cholesterol levels. However, whether AT dysfunction affects HDL subpopulations and their glycation in early type 2 diabetes (T2D) is still unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutologous CXCR4+ Hematopoietic Stem Cells Injected into the Scar Tissue of Chronic Myocardial Infarction Patients Normalizes Tissue Contractility and Perfusion.
Arch Med Res
February 2020
Background: Chronic myocardial infarction (CMI), represents a public health and a financial burden. Since stem cell transplant is used to regenerate cardiac tissue after acute myocardial infarction.
Aim Of The Study: To determine if autologous CXCR4 stem cells could restore damaged myocardial tissue in patients with CMI lesions.
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis is a chronic disease that occurs in persons without significative consumption of alcohol, characterized by macrovesicular steatosis, mixed inflammatory infiltrate, and diverse degrees of fibrosis. It can progress to cirrhosis and its evolution to hepatocellular carcinoma has been described. It principally occurs in patients with obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia, and is at present considered a manifestation of metabolic syndrome with insulin resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis B in pregnant women from several regions of Mexico, as well as the risk factors associated with its occurrence.
Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between May and August 2000. It included 9,992 pregnant women attending the health services of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social-IMSS) in five cities: Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Acapulco, Cancun, and Mexico City (northeast and southeast regions).