Introduction Previous evidence linked low socioeconomic status with higher smoking prevalence. Our objective was to assess the strength of this association in the world population, updating a previous work. Methods Systematic ...

Supporting Families After Traumatic Brain Injury, Is This a Way of Improving Results?

Suramab (SUM) is a new pharmaceutical combination made up of suramine (SUR) and bevacizumab (BVM), which showed a high synergistic effect when administered jointly. As the pharmaceutical vehicle, poloxamer aqueous dispersions ...

Using immunohistochemical techniques, we characterized changes in the expression of several neurochemical markers in lumbar 4-sacral 2 (L4-S2) dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neuron profiles (NPs) and the spinal cord of BALB/c ...

Los pacientes con enfermedades oncológicas en cuidados paliativos pertenecen a un grupo caracterizado como altamente vulnerable y su inclusión en estudios clínicos presenta diversos problemas éticos. Estudio de corte ...

Abstract Acute liver failure is a critical medical condition defined as rapid development of hepatic dysfunction associated with encephalopathy. The prognosis in these patients is highly variable and depends on the ...

The liver is constantly exposed to a host of injurious stimuli. This results in hepatocellular death mainly by apoptosis and necrosis, but also due to autophagy, necroptosis, pyroptosis and in some cases by an intricately ...

BACKGROUND: Cirrhosis is a major health problem worldwide and new therapies are needed. Hepatic macrophages (hMø) have a pivotal role in liver fibrosis, being able to act in both its promotion and its resolution. It is ...

Introducción: Una de las causas prevenibles de los eventos adversos a medicamentos (EAM) en los adultos mayores lo constituye la prescripción inapropiada (PIM), es decir, aquella prescripción donde los riesgos superan los ...