The complex of diseases that comprehends Leishmaniasis is still a public health issue in many areas of the world with more than 1 million cases of all clinical forms reported yearly. There is a lot to be understood how the ...

Agro-food by-products contain valuable nutrients which are wasted. In this work, solid-state fermentation (SSF) was carried out using corn cob as substrate for endoglucanase production. The radial growth of three fungal ...

The objective of this work was to analyze the capacity of amaranth peptides generated by gastrointestinal digestion to prevent LDL oxidation. A simulated gastrointestinal digest from protein isolate (Id); Id fractions ...

We analyzed the effect of a 6-week aerobic exercise training program on the in vivo macrophage reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) in human cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) transgenic (CETP-tg) mice. Male CETP-tg ...

Acanthamoeba species are frequently isolated from soil and water collections. In the environment, the organisms multiply as phagotrophic trophozoites and encyst under adverse conditions. Several species are known to infect ...

Egg activation, which includes cortical granule exocytosis, resumption and completion of meiosis and pronuclear formation culminates in the first mitotic cleavage. However, the mechanism through which the fertilizing sperm ...