Publications by authors named "M Milian"
Recently, there has been great interest in plant-derived compounds known as phytochemicals. The pentacyclic oleanane-, ursane-, and lupane-type triterpenes are phytochemicals that exert significant activity against diseases like cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide.
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- The study aimed to explore how episodic memory networks differ between patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) due to hippocampal sclerosis and healthy individuals, focusing on the parietal memory network (PMN) and its impact on memory performance after surgery.
- Using fMRI scans, the research involved 21 TLE patients and 28 healthy controls, comparing brain activations related to spatial memory tasks and linking these activations to memory scores post-surgery.
- Findings indicated that healthy subjects showed greater activation in several brain regions compared to TLE patients, particularly in areas related to the PMN; higher activation levels in certain regions were associated with better verbal and nonverbal memory performance in TLE patients after
Various arboviruses are transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, particularly Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, two invasive and frequently sympatric species. The objective of this study was to evaluate the dispersion and the behavior of Ae. albopictus in relation to houses and its association with other mosquitoes in the province of Havana, Cuba.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOvine anaplasmosis is a vector-borne disease caused by and mainly transmitted through tick bites. In Spain, the first outbreak of ovine anaplasmosis occurred in 2014. An epidemiological study in fifty-one farms was carried out associated with this outbreak in the affected geographical area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer is the second largest cause of death worldwide with the number of new cancer cases predicted to grow significantly in the next decades. Biotechnology and medicine can and should work hand-in-hand to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment efficacy. However, success has been frequently limited, in particular when treating late-stage solid tumors.
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