Publications by authors named "Ximena Rodriguez"
Background: Evidence indicates that low-grade inflammation can alter gastrointestinal motor and sensory function and might contribute to the genesis of symptoms in IBS.
Objective: To examine relationships between IBS, disease antibodies and cytokine titers in celiac patients and a control group.
Materials And Methods: IBS, CD activity and serum levels of IL-6, IL-8 and IL12/23p40 were determined in celiac patients and controls.
[Common variable immunodeficiency: digestive involvement of a systemic disease].
Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam
March 2013
Common variable immunodeficiency is characterized by a primary deficiency in antibody production that is clinically manifested by respiratory recurrent infections and gastrointestinal diseases (infectious, inflammatory and neoplastic). Above 50% of the patients have diarrhea and 10% develop idiopathic malabsorption and weight loss. We present the case of a 34-year-old woman submitted to our service for chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain and bloating and history of recurrent respiratory infections since childhood.
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- A noncoding mitochondrial RNA with an inverted repeat (IR) has been found covalently linked to the 5' end of the mitochondrial 16S RNA in human cells.
- This RNA transcript, characterized by a stem-loop structure, is present in proliferating human cells but absent in resting cells.
- Additionally, two antisense mitochondrial transcripts with similar stem-loop structures are expressed in normal cells but significantly down-regulated in various tumor cell lines, highlighting their potential role in distinguishing normal cells from cancerous ones and offering insights into cancer biology and diagnostics.