Viruses share antigenic sites with normal host cell components, a phenomenon known as molecular mimicry. It has long been suggested that viral infections might trigger an autoimmune response by several mechanisms including ...

Antecedentes. El consumo de tabaco es responsable del 90 por ciento de los cánceres de pulmón; su uso está en los primeros lugares de América Latina y el Caribe. Objetivo. Identificar la prevalencia del consumo de tabaco, ...

Introducción: Este estudio se hizo para aplicar un modelo teórico, cuyo concepto central es el amor y sus componentes; y los subconceptos la sensibilidad, la percepción, la interacción y la comunicación a fin de vislumbrar ...

Introduction: Human gingival fibroblasts (HGF) have an important role in the periodontal immune response. The fibroblasts alter their normal behavior in response to pro-inflammatory cytokines. It is believed that HGF can ...

Introduction: Women have raised life hope in last decades; this coincides with their vital cycle of peri- post-menopausal apparition. This period present complex changes in it’s by a psycho, sociocultural dimension that ...

Objective: To estimate prevalence of complete vaccination sketch in children of ages of 12 to 47 months old in strata 1 and 2 into urbane zone of Cali in the year of 2002 according to biologics and the categories of ...

Introduction: It is important to study the smoking habit epidemiology in those of humans, which are in the process of academic formation. Those groups will be in the future agents of change in our community and in the case ...

We evaluated dolphin hunting for bait in Bahía Solano, Chocó, Colombia, from July 2005 to April 2006. We interviewed 122 fishermen (18.2% of the registered fishermen in the zone) and obtained data from landings at a fishing ...

Objectives: To assess the frequency and variability of eleven non-metric dental crown traits (winging, shovel-shape, double shovel shape, Carabelli trait, deflecting wrinkle, protostylid, groove pattern, cusp number, sixth ...

A 75 μm 6061 powder Aluminum Alloy (A.A) plus 5, 10 and 15 wt% CuAl2 particles were prepared by mixing the powders in a small milling tumbler during 4 hours at 58 rpm. The samples were compacted at room temperature and at ...