Snakebite envenoming is a global neglected disease with an incidence of up to 2.7 million new cases every year. Although antivenoms are so-far the most effective treatment to reverse the acute systemic effects induced by snakebite envenoming, they have a limited therapeutic potential, being unable to completely neutralize the local venom effects. Local damage, such as dermonecrosis and myonecrosis, can lead to permanent sequelae with physical, social, and psychological implications. The strong inflammatory process induced by snake venoms is associated with poor tissue regeneration, in particular the lack of or reduced skeletal muscle regeneration. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs)-based therapies have shown both anti-inflammatory and pro-regenerative properties. We postulate that using allogeneic MSCs or their cell-free products can induce skeletal muscle regeneration in snakebite victims...

The variance is a statistical measure frequently used for analysis of dispersion in the data. This paper presents new types of variances that use Bonferroni means and ordered weighted averages in the aggregation process of the variance. The main advantage of this approach is that we can underestimate or overestimate the variance according to the attitudinal character of the decision-maker. The work considers several particular cases including the minimum and the maximum variance and presents some numerical examples. The article also develops some extensions and generalizations by using induced aggregation operators and generalized and quasi-arithmetic means. These approaches provide a more general framework that can consider a lot of other particular cases and a complex attitudinal character that could be affected by a wide range of variables. The study ends with an application of the ne...

This work was supported by grant 234-2015-FONDECYT (Master Program) from Cienciactiva of CONCYTEC-PERU and German BMBF research campus MODAL (grant no. 3FO18501). The authors thank CiTeSoft-UNSA for the database access. The authors report no conflicts of interest.

The presence of secondary metabolites and of chromium element in seven medicinal plants empirically used for their hypoglycemic action by a phytochemical screening and a qualitative method and other one that is quantitative by Atomic Absorptioli. Spectroscopy for detelmining trivalent chromium has been researched. The studied species are: Phyllantus niruri L. (Chancapiedra), Geranium dielsianum Knut (Pasuchaca), GentianeIla alborosea G. (Hercampure), Otholobium pubescells (Culén), Smallantus sonchifolia (Yacón), Chloraphora tincoria (Mora) y Taraxacum officinalis W (Diente de león). It was phytochemically determined the presence of the following secondary metabolites: alkaloids, flavonoids , tannins, saponins and glycosides, by means of color and precipitation reagents. The determination of chromium element was carried out by qualitative and quantitative via. The accomplished study co...

The presence of secondary metabolites and of chromium element in seven medicinal plants empirically used for their hypoglycemic action by a phytochemical screening and a qualitative method and other one that is quantitative by Atomic Absorptioli. Spectroscopy for detelmining trivalent chromium has been researched. The studied species are: Phyllantus niruri L. (Chancapiedra), Geranium dielsianum Knut (Pasuchaca), GentianeIla alborosea G. (Hercampure), Otholobium pubescells (Culén), Smallantus sonchifolia (Yacón), Chloraphora tincoria (Mora) y Taraxacum officinalis W (Diente de león). It was phytochemically determined the presence of the following secondary metabolites: alkaloids, flavonoids , tannins, saponins and glycosides, by means of color and precipitation reagents. The determination of chromium element was carried out by qualitative and quantitative via. The accomplished study co...