Publications by authors named "Sara Garcia-Moreno"
The production of efficient, tunable, and switchable circularly polarized laser emission would have far reaching implications in optical communications or biophotonics. In this work, it is demonstrated the direct generation of circularly polarized (CP) laser emission in achiral and isotropic dye laser systems without the use of extracavity polarizing elements, and without resorting to chiral dyes, chiral liquid crystal matrices, or interferometric methods. The origin of this ellipticity arises from the dynamic birefringence induced by the strong and polarized laser pumping and the subsequent orientation anisotropy of the excited molecular dipoles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute kidney injury (AKI) is often associated to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to influenza A/H1N1 virus infection. The profile of angiogenic and inflammatory factors in ARDS patients may be relevant for AKI. We analyzed the serum levels of several angiogenic factors, cytokines, and chemokines in 32 patients with A/H1N1 virus infection (17 with ARDS/AKI and 15 ARDS patients who did not developed AKI) and in 18 healthy controls.
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- The study investigates how the pandemic A/H1N1 virus and the seasonal A/PR/8/34 virus affect inflammatory responses in human macrophages and epithelial cells.
- Researchers found that the pandemic strain led to higher production of pro-inflammatory cytokines while suppressing certain immune-regulating genes like SOCS-1 and RIG-I.
- Overall, the results suggest that the pandemic A/H1N1 virus may enhance inflammation by altering the expression of key genes involved in immune response.