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Estrogenic effects of herbal medicines from Costa Rica used for the management of menopausal symptoms
(2009-06)
Objective: Outcomes from the Women's Health Initiative have demonstrated adverse effects associated with hormone therapy and have prioritized the need to develop new alternative treatments for the management of menopause ...
Medicinal plants with inhibitory properties against snake venoms
(2005)
Envenomations due to snake bites are commonly treated by parenteral administration of horse or
sheep-derived polyclonal antivenoms aimed at the neutralization of toxins. However, despite the widespread
success of this ...
Review of the fractionation of medicines available in solid formulations (tablets)
(2016)
Not always people receive the just dose of active ingredient required for his health problem. To obtain success in pharmacology treatment, sometimes the physicians prescribe drugs in a dose that is impossible obtain in the ...
Análisis de la mortalidad de la Sección Medicina del Hospital Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia del 2001 al 2003
(Revista Médica de Costa Rica y Centroamérica LXI(568):105-111, 2004)
El objetivo de este estudio fue describir los patrones de mortalidad de la sección de medicina del Hospital Calderón Guardia y compararla con la mortalidad general y la publicada en la literatura mundial. Hubo 895 ...
Criptosporidiosis in children from some highland costa rican rural and urban areas
(The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 32(1):24-29, 1984)
This report summarizes both a prospective study of diarrhea in cohorts of
rural children in their natural ecosystem, and a vertical study of diarrheic urban children
attending a hospital emergency service. Cryptosporidium ...
Transformation of presumptive precursors to frontalin and exo-brevicomin by bark beetles and the West Indian sugarcane weevil (Coleoptera)
(1996-03)
(Z)-6-Nonen-2-one (1) has recently been shown to be the biosynthetic precursor for the aggregation pheromone exo-brevicomin (2) in mountain pine beetle (MPB) males, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Hopkins). We tested the hypotheses ...
Physicochemical and chromatographic method of characterization of Matricaria recutita tinctures
(2016)
Context: The pharmacological activity of medicinal products containing plant materials depends on their specific components. However, these components are not characterized in their entirety in all cases. Therefore, ...
Menopause, A Universal Female Experience: Lessons from Mexico and Central America
(Current Women’s Health Reviews 4(1), 3-8, 2008)
In Mexico and Central America, women typically experience menopause up to 10 years earlier than their U.S. counterparts. This may be due in part to numerous pregnancies, long periods of lactation, poor nutrition, extreme ...
Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans
(2012-01)
Despite the large number of studies, mostly in developed economies, there is limited consensus on the
health effects of inequality. Recently a related literature has examined the relationship between relative
deprivation ...
Diketopiperazines from Costa Rican endolichenic fungus Colpoma sp. CR1465A
(2016-05-15)
Three new diketopiperazines (1–3), cyclo(l-Pro-d-trans-Hyp) (1), cyclo(l-Pro-d-Glu) (2), and cyclo(d-Pro-d-Glu) (3) and five known diketopiperazines (4–8) were isolated from the endolichenic fungus Colpoma sp. CR1465A ...