Publications by authors named "Victoria Bravo"
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- HPV can infect host cells and lead to varied outcomes, including mild symptoms or serious health issues like cancer due to viral proteins that disrupt normal cell growth.
- Glycyrrhizinic acid (Gly), found in liquorice, has shown promise in studies for its antiviral and anticancer properties, specifically by decreasing levels of HPV's harmful proteins and triggering cell death in cervical cancer cells.
- The review discusses Gly's various mechanisms of action and clinical research supporting its potential as a treatment for HPV, whether applied topically or taken orally.
Background: Adolescent women are a special age group affected by human papilloma virus (HPV). Most guidelines recommend surgical treatment for high-grade cytological lesions. However, some reports have attempted to demonstrate that the immune system is fully capable of clearing the virus without using conization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is an analgesic and antipyretic drug widely used across the world. Its ingestion is one of the most common causes of drug overdose. In the United States is the first cause of acute hepatitis in adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the last decades there has been an important decrease in infant mobidity and mortality, but these achievements are not equally distributed across the whole population. Children are one of the most susceptible groups due to their unique vulnerabilities to environmental factors. Unhealthy environments, indoor pollution, poor drainage, inadequate waste disposal, and many others, are significant environmental risk factors to children.
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