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  1. Article: 15-F

    Putman, Ashley K / Contreras, G Andres

    Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)

    2022  Volume 11, Issue 3

    Abstract: Dysregulated inflammation and oxidative stress are major underlying components of several diseases. Macrophages are critical effector cells in immune responses, functioning to progress and resolve inflammation during such diseases. These mononuclear ... ...

    Abstract Dysregulated inflammation and oxidative stress are major underlying components of several diseases. Macrophages are critical effector cells in immune responses, functioning to progress and resolve inflammation during such diseases. These mononuclear cells regulate inflammatory responses by exhibiting a range of phenotypes that evolve with the process, first promoting inflammation but then switching to a proresolving subtype to restore tissue homeostasis. Furthermore, macrophages are a primary source of isoprostanes (IsoPs), a nonenzymatic byproduct of lipid peroxidation during inflammation. As highly sensitive and specific indicators of lipid damage, IsoPs are the gold standard biomarker of oxidative stress. However, the physiological role of IsoPs during inflammation is currently not well-established. This study determined how IsoPs affect macrophage phenotype during lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. RAW 264.7 macrophages (n = 7) were challenged with 5 ng/mL LPS for 8 h, followed with or without 500 nM 15-F2t-IsoP for 1 h. Macrophage phenotype was determined using metabolic, transcriptomic, and proteomic markers. Phenotypic markers assessed included ATP production; transcription of proinflammatory Nos2, Il1β, and anti-inflammatory Il10; and translation markers IL1α and IL6 (proinflammatory) with G-CSF and IL17 (anti-inflammatory). Statistical analyses included one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s posthoc test. Significance was set at p < 0.05. In combination with LPS, 15-F2t-IsoP increased ATP production relative to LPS-only treated cells. Additionally, gene expression of Nos2 and Il1β were decreased while Il10 was increased. Cytokine production of IL6 was decreased while IL10, G-CSF, and IL17 were increased. Collectively, these results provide evidence that 15-F2t-IsoP promotes an anti-inflammatory macrophage phenotype during LPS challenge. These data support a novel physiological role of IsoPs, where these lipid mediators may participate in healing pathways during late-stage inflammation when they are elevated. Additionally, the promotion of an anti-inflammatory macrophage phenotype may contribute to preventing or mitigating inflammation during disease. Future studies should be directed towards defining the mechanisms in which IsoPs influence macrophage phenotype, such as receptor interactions and downstream signaling pathways.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-19
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2704216-9
    ISSN 2076-3921
    ISSN 2076-3921
    DOI 10.3390/antiox11030586
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  2. Article: The Link Between 15-F

    Putman, Ashley K / Sordillo, Lorraine M / Contreras, G Andres

    Frontiers in veterinary science

    2022  Volume 9, Page(s) 873544

    Abstract: Modern dairy cattle suffer from increased incidence and severity of mastitis during major physiological transitions of the lactation cycle. Oxidative stress, a condition resulting from inadequate antioxidant defense against reactive oxygen and nitrogen ... ...

    Abstract Modern dairy cattle suffer from increased incidence and severity of mastitis during major physiological transitions of the lactation cycle. Oxidative stress, a condition resulting from inadequate antioxidant defense against reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, is a major underlying component of mastitis pathophysiology. Isoprostanes (IsoP) are molecules derived from cellular lipid membranes upon non-enzymatic interaction with reactive species during inflammation, and are regarded as highly sensitive and specific biomarkers of oxidative stress. Changes in IsoP concentrations have been noted during major physiological transitions and diseases such as coliform mastitis in dairy cattle. However, the biological role of IsoP during oxidative stress in dairy cows has not been well-elucidated. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the impacts of IsoP on oxidative stress outcomes in a bovine model of acute endothelial inflammation. Bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC;
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-29
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2834243-4
    ISSN 2297-1769
    ISSN 2297-1769
    DOI 10.3389/fvets.2022.873544
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  3. Article ; Online: SARC-F and the Risk of Falling in Middle-Aged and Older Community-Dwelling Postmenopausal Women.

    Alzar-Teruel, María / Hita-Contreras, Fidel / Martínez-Amat, Antonio / Lavilla-Lerma, María Leyre / Fábrega-Cuadros, Raquel / Jiménez-García, José Daniel / Aibar-Almazán, Agustín

    International journal of environmental research and public health

    2021  Volume 18, Issue 21

    Abstract: 1) Background: The objective of the present study was to determine the ability of the SARC-F ... years). The SARC-F questionnaire was used to screen for risk of sarcopenia. Fear of falling and balance ... of falling as assessed by FES-I was associated with higher SARC-F scores (OR = 1.656), anxiety levels (OR = 1 ...

    Abstract (1) Background: The objective of the present study was to determine the ability of the SARC-F questionnaire to identify individuals at risk of falling among middle-aged and older community-dwelling postmenopausal women. (2) Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 157 women (70.80 ± 8.37 years). The SARC-F questionnaire was used to screen for risk of sarcopenia. Fear of falling and balance confidence, as measured by the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) and the Activities-Specific balance Scale-16 items (ABC-16) respectively, were used to assess risk of falling. Anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), fatigue (Fatigue Severity Scale), body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, and sleep duration were also determined. (3) Results: Logistic regression showed that higher risk of falling as assessed by FES-I was associated with higher SARC-F scores (OR = 1.656), anxiety levels (OR = 1.147), and age (OR = 1.060), while increased SARC-F scores (OR = 1.612), fatigue (OR = 1.044), and shorter sleep duration (OR = 0.75) were related to ABC-16 scores. In addition, a SARC-F cutoff of 1.50 (83.33% sensitivity and 59.13% specificity) and 3.50 (44.44% sensitivity and 89.26% specificity) were shown to be able to discriminate participants at risk of falling according to the FES-I and the ABC-16, respectively. (4) Conclusions: our results show that SARC-F is an independent predictor of the risk of falling among middle-aged and older community-dwelling postmenopausal women.
    MeSH term(s) Accidental Falls ; Aged ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Fear ; Female ; Geriatric Assessment ; Humans ; Independent Living ; Middle Aged ; Postmenopause ; Surveys and Questionnaires
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-04
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2175195-X
    ISSN 1660-4601 ; 1661-7827
    ISSN (online) 1660-4601
    ISSN 1661-7827
    DOI 10.3390/ijerph182111570
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  4. Conference proceedings ; Book ; Online: Modelos de enseñanza más adecuados para una E.F. a distancia

    Contreras Jordán / Onofre

    2020  

    Abstract: Contexto y problemática de la EF en tiempos de COVID-19. Medidas de prevención. Principios metodológicos de la EF alternativa. Los modelos de enseñanza como instrumento metodológico. ...

    Abstract Contexto y problemática de la EF en tiempos de COVID-19. Medidas de prevención. Principios metodológicos de la EF alternativa. Los modelos de enseñanza como instrumento metodológico.
    Keywords Modelos de enseñanza ; educación física ; individualización ; personalización ; distancia social ; covid19
    Language Spanish
    Publishing date 2020-07-01
    Publishing country eu
    Document type Conference proceedings ; Book ; Online
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  5. Article ; Online: Evaluación de insecticidas para el manejo del chinche marrón (Euschistus heros F.) (Hemíptera

    Javier Antonio Contreras-Miranda / Miguel Angel Ramirez Marin

    Revista Científica y Tecnológica UPSE, Vol 7, Iss

    Pentatomidae)

    2020  Volume 1

    Abstract: Se condujo bioensayos de laboratorio para evaluar la susceptibilidad de adultos del chinche marrón, Euchistus herus, a dos insecticidas organofosforados: Clorpirifos y Acefato. Inicialmente se determinó la LD50 de los productos y luego se evaluó el ... ...

    Abstract Se condujo bioensayos de laboratorio para evaluar la susceptibilidad de adultos del chinche marrón, Euchistus herus, a dos insecticidas organofosforados: Clorpirifos y Acefato. Inicialmente se determinó la LD50 de los productos y luego se evaluó el porcentaje de mortalidad causado por cada uno de ellos. El efecto de ambos químicos sobre la mortalidad se determinó a las 24, 48, 72 y 96 horas después de la aplicación mediante un diseño experimental con cuatro (4) tratamientos y cuatro (4) repeticiones. No se detectó diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los diferentes tiempos evaluados. El porcentaje de mortalidad con el Acefato fue de 75% en contraste con el Clorpirifos cuyas mortalidades fueron de 66,6%. Con el fin de alcanzar niveles de mortalidad superiores para lograr un control más efectivo de E. herus, se recomienda realizar ensayos con otros productos que presenten diferentes mecanismos de acción.
    Keywords Control químico ; chinche ; soya ; Science ; Q ; Social Sciences ; H
    Language Spanish
    Publishing date 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Universidad Península de Santa Elena
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: Feria Vázquez, P. y Ramos Toscano, F.

    Francisco Contreras Pérez

    Erebea, Vol 7, Iss

    Camino hacia la tierra olvidada. Guerra Civil y represión en el Protectorado español de Marruecos, 1936-1945, Sevilla, Foro por la Memoria Histórica de Andalucía, 2016 (ISBN 974-84-695-9218-2, 531pp.)

    2017  

    Keywords History of scholarship and learning. The humanities ; AZ20-999
    Language Spanish
    Publishing date 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Universidad de Huelva
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: SARC-F and the Risk of Falling in Middle-Aged and Older Community-Dwelling Postmenopausal Women

    María Alzar-Teruel / Fidel Hita-Contreras / Antonio Martínez-Amat / María Leyre Lavilla-Lerma / Raquel Fábrega-Cuadros / José Daniel Jiménez-García / Agustín Aibar-Almazán

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11570, p

    2021  Volume 11570

    Abstract: 1) Background: The objective of the present study was to determine the ability of the SARC-F ... years). The SARC-F questionnaire was used to screen for risk of sarcopenia. Fear of falling and balance ... of falling as assessed by FES-I was associated with higher SARC-F scores (OR = 1.656), anxiety levels (OR = 1 ...

    Abstract (1) Background: The objective of the present study was to determine the ability of the SARC-F questionnaire to identify individuals at risk of falling among middle-aged and older community-dwelling postmenopausal women. (2) Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 157 women (70.80 ± 8.37 years). The SARC-F questionnaire was used to screen for risk of sarcopenia. Fear of falling and balance confidence, as measured by the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) and the Activities-Specific balance Scale-16 items (ABC-16) respectively, were used to assess risk of falling. Anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), fatigue (Fatigue Severity Scale), body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, and sleep duration were also determined. (3) Results: Logistic regression showed that higher risk of falling as assessed by FES-I was associated with higher SARC-F scores (OR = 1.656), anxiety levels (OR = 1.147), and age (OR = 1.060), while increased SARC-F scores (OR = 1.612), fatigue (OR = 1.044), and shorter sleep duration (OR = 0.75) were related to ABC-16 scores. In addition, a SARC-F cutoff of 1.50 (83.33% sensitivity and 59.13% specificity) and 3.50 (44.44% sensitivity and 89.26% specificity) were shown to be able to discriminate participants at risk of falling according to the FES-I and the ABC-16, respectively. (4) Conclusions: our results show that SARC-F is an independent predictor of the risk of falling among middle-aged and older community-dwelling postmenopausal women.
    Keywords sarcopenia ; fear of falling ; balance confidence ; anxiety ; depression ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 300
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
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  8. Article ; Online: Revisiting NMR through-space J(FF) spin-spin coupling constants for getting insight into proximate F---F interactions.

    Contreras, Rubén H / Llorente, Tomás / Ducati, Lucas Colucci / Tormena, Cláudio Francisco

    The journal of physical chemistry. A

    2014  Volume 118, Issue 27, Page(s) 5068–5075

    Abstract: At present times it is usual practice to mark biological compounds replacing an H for an F atom ... to study, by means of (19)F NMR spectroscopy, aspects such as binding sites and molecular folding features ... This interesting methodology could nicely be improved if it is known how proximity interactions on the F atom ...

    Abstract At present times it is usual practice to mark biological compounds replacing an H for an F atom to study, by means of (19)F NMR spectroscopy, aspects such as binding sites and molecular folding features. This interesting methodology could nicely be improved if it is known how proximity interactions on the F atom affect its electronic structure as gauged through high-resolution (19)F NMR spectroscopy. This is the main aim of the present work and, to this end, differently substituted peri-difluoronaphthalenes are chosen as model systems. In such compounds are rationalized some interesting aspects of the diamagnetic and paramagnetic parts of the (19)F nuclear magnetic shielding tensor as well as the transmission mechanisms for the PSO and FC contributions to (4)JF1F8 indirect nuclear spin-spin coupling constants.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-07-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1520-5215
    ISSN (online) 1520-5215
    DOI 10.1021/jp501929t
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  9. Article ; Online: Water deficit and abscisic acid treatments increase the expression of a glucomannan mannosyltransferase gene (GMMT) in Aloe vera Burm. F.

    Salinas, Pamela / Salinas, Carlos / Contreras, Rodrigo A / Zuñiga, Gustavo E / Dupree, Paul / Cardemil, Liliana

    Phytochemistry

    2018  Volume 159, Page(s) 90–101

    Abstract: The main polysaccharide of the gel present in the leaves of or Aloe vera Burm.F., (Aloe barbadensis ...

    Abstract The main polysaccharide of the gel present in the leaves of or Aloe vera Burm.F., (Aloe barbadensis Miller) a xerophytic crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant, is an acetylated glucomannan named acemannan. This polysaccharide is responsible for the succulence of the plant, helping it to retain water. In this study we determined using polysaccharide analysis by carbohydrate gel electrophoresis (PACE) that the acemannan is a glucomannan without galactose side branches. We also investigated the expression of the gene responsible for acemannan backbone synthesis, encoding a glucomannan mannosyltransferase (GMMT, EC 2.4.1.32), since there are no previous reports on GMMT expression under water stress in general and specifically in Aloe vera. It was found by in silico analyses that the GMMT gene belongs to the cellulose synthase-like A type-9 (CSLA9) subfamily. Using RT-qPCR it was found that the expression of GMMT increased significantly in Aloe vera plants subjected to water stress. This expression correlates with an increase of endogenous ABA levels, suggesting that the gene expression could be regulated by ABA. To corroborate this hypothesis, exogenous ABA was applied to non-water-stressed plants, resulting in a significant increase of GMMT expression after 48 h of ABA treatment.
    MeSH term(s) Abscisic Acid/pharmacology ; Aloe/enzymology ; Aloe/genetics ; Aloe/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Catalytic Domain ; DNA, Complementary/genetics ; Droughts ; Electrophoresis, Starch Gel/methods ; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry ; Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects ; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/drug effects ; Genes, Plant ; Mannans/metabolism ; Methyltransferases/chemistry ; Methyltransferases/genetics ; Methyltransferases/metabolism ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ; Stress, Physiological ; Water/metabolism
    Chemical Substances DNA, Complementary ; Mannans ; Water (059QF0KO0R) ; (1-6)-alpha-glucomannan (36W3E5TAMG) ; Abscisic Acid (72S9A8J5GW) ; Methyltransferases (EC 2.1.1.-)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-12-31
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 208884-8
    ISSN 1873-3700 ; 0031-9422
    ISSN (online) 1873-3700
    ISSN 0031-9422
    DOI 10.1016/j.phytochem.2018.12.009
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  10. Article: Fatalismo ante la posibilidad de contagio por el coronavirus: Generación y validación de un instrumento (F-COVID-19)/ Fatalism due to the possibility of coronavirus infection: Generation and validation of an instrument (F-COVID-19)

    Mejia, Christian R / Rodríguez-Alarcón, J Franco / Carbajal, Macarena / Pérez-Espinoza, Pierina / Porras-Carhuamaca, Luz A / Sifuentes-Rosales, Jhesly / Contreras-Cabrera, Jhuliana M / Carranza-Esteban, Renzo Felipe / Ruiz-Mamani, Percy G

    Kasmera

    Abstract: El coronavirus ha generado una suerte de "histeria colectiva" en diversas poblaciones. Por lo tanto, nuestro objetivo fue validar un test que mida el fatalismo ante la posibilidad de contagio por el coronavirus. Se realizó un proceso de validación en ... ...

    Abstract El coronavirus ha generado una suerte de "histeria colectiva" en diversas poblaciones. Por lo tanto, nuestro objetivo fue validar un test que mida el fatalismo ante la posibilidad de contagio por el coronavirus. Se realizó un proceso de validación en cinco fases: Búsqueda de la literatura y construcción del primer borrador, juicio de fondo con 28 expertos, evaluación de forma con 280 personas, piloto para análisis factorial exploratorio en 389 personas (en ambas se contó con 17 ciudades de Perú) y confirmación de la validez del constructo final con 10 expertos. Los estadísticos de KMO (0,779) y Bartlett (572,6; gl = 21; p < 0,001) presentaron resultados aceptables y significativos. La varianza total explicada por los 7 ítems distribuidos en 2 factores es de 58,9%, lo cual es adecuado. Los análisis robustos muestran que la estructura factorial es satisfactoria (X2 = 21,161; p = 0,007; CFI = 0,984; GFI = 0,996; TLI = 0,957; RMSEA = 0,067 y RMSR = 0,033). Se generó una escala de 7 ítems para medir las medidas fatalistas que las personas podrían tener o tomar si es que llegasen a enfermarse del coronavirus
    Keywords covid19
    Publisher WHO
    Document type Article
    Note WHO #Covidence: #863685
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