Publications by authors named "Olimpia Carrillo-Farnes"
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- * The study aimed to identify and optimize the digestive enzymes across different regions of the fish's digestive tract, including measuring activities like protease, amylase, and lipase at specific temperatures and pH levels.
- * Findings indicated optimal pH levels for various enzymes (like acid protease at pH 2.0) and suggested the presence of a stomach based on observed acid proteolytic activity, while the hepatopancreas showed low enzyme activity.
The variation of activity of some digestive enzymes was studied in three age groups of two freshwater endemic fishes from Cuba: Limia vittata and Gambusia punctata. Trypsin, chymotrypsin and amylase activities showed a different pattern between both species. Trypsin and chymotrypsin activity increased with the age of fishes, while amylase activity decreased.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur understanding of the evolution of the insulin signaling pathway (ISP) is still incomplete. One intriguing unanswered question is the explanation of the emergence of the glucostatic role of insulin in mammals. To find out whether this is due to the development of new sets of signaling transduction elements in these organisms, or to the establishment of new interactions between pre-existing proteins, we rebuilt putative orthologous ISPs in 17 eukaryotic organisms.
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