Introduction: Chronic lung disease's feature is pathological angiogenesis, a still little understood process in this and other diseases. Recently adenosine, a signaling molecule, and chemokines have been considered regulators of this process. Though, relationship between these factors has not been investigated. Objective: To determine the role of adenosine in the induction of angiogenesis during pulmonary chronic inflammation. Design: Experimental. Setting: Bioterio, Immunology Research Group, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, Arequipa, Peru, and Biomedical Research Institute, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Biologic material: C57BL/6J adenosine deaminase (ADA)-deficient mice. Methods and interventions: By morphometric analysis we determined relationship between adenosine levels in lung and tracheal angiogenesis, and expression to CXCL1 and its receptor ...

Las úlceras por presión (UPP), también conocidas como úlceras por decúbito o escaras de presión, son lesiones que patológicamente son inducidas por procesos cíclicos de isquemia y reperfusión (IR) que resultan primariamente de una presión constante sobre un área preferencialmente ósea.

One of the future challenges to produce food in a Mars environment will be the optimization of resources through the potential use of the Martian substratum for growing crops as a part of bioregenerative food systems. In vitro plantlets from 65 potato genotypes were rooted in peat-pellets substratum and transplanted in pots filled with Mars-like soil from La Joya desert in Southern Peru. The Mars-like soil was characterized by extreme salinity (an electric conductivity of 19.3 and 52.6 dS m−1 under 1 : 1 and saturation extract of the soil solution, respectively) and plants grown in it were under sub-optimum physiological status indicated by average maximum stomatal conductance <50 mmol H2O m−2 s−1 even after irrigation. 40% of the genotypes survived and yielded (0.3–5.2 g tuber plant−1) where CIP.397099.4, CIP.396311.1 and CIP.390478.9 were targeted as promising materials with ...