Publications by authors named "M Luz Vilarino"

Major depression is one of the most prevalent mental health problems in the penitentiary context and has been related to different undesirable outcomes. The aim of the current research was to evaluate the utility of screening tools for major depression brief assessment in the jail context. We interviewed 203 male inmates and complimented the MCMI-III, the SCL-90-R, and the CES-D-7 self-informed scales.

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Mushrooms have been used for millennia as cancer remedies. Our goal was to screen several mushroom species from the rainforests of Costa Rica, looking for new antitumor molecules. Mushroom extracts were screened using two human cell lines: A549 (lung adenocarcinoma) and NL20 (immortalized normal lung epithelium).

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  • Scientists have successfully derived stable embryonic stem cells (ESCs) from sheep using a specific culture system with FGF2 and IWR1, overcoming previous challenges in livestock.
  • Unlike other species, certain culture conditions that work for humans and mice did not effectively maintain sheep pluripotency in vitro.
  • The newly derived sheep ESCs exhibit stable characteristics and are crucial for furthering understanding of pluripotency in livestock, which could lead to new biomedical and agricultural advancements.
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The breakthrough and rapid advance of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) technology has enabled the efficient generation of gene-edited animals by one-step embryo manipulation. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/CRISPR-associated protein 9 delivery to the livestock embryos has been typically achieved by intracytoplasmic microinjection; however, recent studies show that electroporation may be a reliable, efficient, and practical method for CRISPR/Cas9 delivery. The source of embryos used to generate gene-edited animals varies from in vivo to in vitro produced, depending mostly on the species of interest.

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