Despite the initial discomfort often experienced by visitors to high altitude (HA), humans have occupied the Andean altiplano for more than 10,000 years, and millions of people currently live on these plains, high in the ...

Chagas disease affects millions of people in Latin America. The control of this vector-borne disease focuses on halting transmission by reducing or eliminating insect vector populations. Most transmission of Trypanosoma ...

Pichia membranaefaciens, Cryptococcus laurentii, Rhodotorula glutinis and Candida krusei were isolated from contaminated sites. A significant variability in cell forms and in assimilation profiles was observed in the C. ...

BACKGROUND: Prions and amyloid-beta (Abeta) oligomers trigger neurodegeneration by hijacking a poorly understood cellular signal mediated by the prion protein (PrP) at the plasma membrane. In early zebrafish embryos, ...

This review has the available information about the digestive physiology and morphology of three decapod species from Argentina: Pleoticus muelleri, Artemesia longinaris, and Neohelice granulata. The anatomy of the foregut ...

Hydra has been used as a model in different topics in biology, including physiology. It pertains to the Phylum Cnidaria, an ancestral group of Metazoa that shares a common ancestor with Bilateria. Hydra provides an ...