Publications by authors named "S Matus"
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- Sjögren's disease is a chronic autoimmune condition primarily causing dry mouth and eyes, alongside other symptoms.
- It involves reduced saliva production and changes in the quality of mucins, which are essential for mouth and eye hydration.
- A protein called Giantin is mislocalized in the salivary glands of Sjögren’s patients, disrupting its interaction with enzymes that modify mucins, potentially explaining decreased mucin sulfation in these individuals.
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) represents one of the main current threats to global public health; where production animals, companion animals, humans, and the environment play a significant role in its dissemination. However, little attention has been given to companion animals as reservoirs and disseminators of relevant antimicrobial resistant bacteria, especially in South American countries such as Chile. For this reason, this research aimed to estimate the prevalence of AMR to different critical antibiotics at a screening level in commensal bacteria such as E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to animal and public health worldwide; consequently, several AMR surveillances programs have been implemented internationally in both human and veterinary medicine, including indicator bacteria such as . However, companion animals are not typically included in these surveillance programs. Nevertheless, there have been reports of increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance in strains isolated from dogs worldwide.
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- Primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a disease that affects the salivary and tear glands, making it hard for people to produce saliva and tears.
- In patients with SS, stress on their cells causes changes in important proteins that help the cells deal with stress, but this can lead to inflammation and other health problems.
- Researchers studied saliva glands from SS patients and found that certain stress-related proteins were activated more in these patients compared to those without SS, which may affect how well the cells function.