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Physiological wear-and-tear and later subjective health in mid-life: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2016)
Our body adapts continuously to environmental challenges and stressful conditions. Allostatic load (AL) is a concept that aims to capture the overall physiological wear-and-tear of the body triggered by the repeated ...
La inercia en la conducta humana: consecuencias para la salud pública
(2021)
En esta presentación en el contexto del Foro de Salud Pública, una actividad de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Costa Rica, se analiza la necesidad y conveniencia del cambio en las conductas relacionadas ...
Mediating pathways between parental socio-economic position and allostatic load in mid-life: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2016)
Understanding how human environments affect our health by “getting under the skin” and penetrating the cells, organs and physiological systems of our bodies is a key tenet in public health research. Here, we examine the ...
Les adversités durant l’enfance et la charge allostatique à l’âge adulte : résultats de la cohorte de naissances britannique de 1958
(2016-04-01)
Introduction: La charge allostatique (CA) est une mesure de l’usure physiologique globale qui pourrait être en partie le résultat des expositions précoces de la vie. La CA pourrait permettre de mieux comprendre les chemins ...
Invertebrate neurons as a simple model to study the hyperexcitable state of epileptic disorders in single cells, monosynaptic connections, and polysynaptic circuits
(2022-03-30)
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by a hyperexcitable state in neurons from different brain regions. Much is unknown about epilepsy and seizures development, depicting a growing field of research. Animal ...
Fat Intake and obesity-related parameters predict striatal BDNF gene expression and dopamine metabolite levels in cafeteria diet-fed rats
(2022-04)
Modern westernized diet is a major risk factor associated with the current obesity epidemic. To study the effects of dietary choices of Western societies, the cafeteria diet has been validated as a preclinical model of ...
Excess mortality from COVID 19 in Costa Rica: a registry based study using Poisson regression
(2023-04)
Excess mortality from COVID 19 in Costa Rica: a registry based
study using Poisson regression
Romain Fantin,a ,b ,c ,∗ Cristina Barboza-Solís,c Allan Hildesheim,b and Rolando Herrerob
a
Centro Centroamericano de ...
Procedimiento de identificación de animales vacunados frente a Brucella
Method for the identification of animals vaccinated against Brucella
(2009-12-03)
La presente invencion se refiere al uso de una cepa de Brucella spp. que expresa la proteína Green Flourescent Protein (GFP) en la elaboracion de medicamentos para la prevencion de la brucelosis en mamiferos, a las vacunas ...
Dietary patterns and risk of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in Costa Rican adults
(2006)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become an important public health problem in transition countries in Latin America (Medina and Kaempffer, 2000; Cubillos-Garzón et al., 2004; Ventura and Mehra, 2004; World HealthOrganization, ...
Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Costa Rican Patients With Parkinson's Disease
(2021-08-04)
La mayor parte de la investigación en genómica de la enfermedad de Parkinson (EP) se ha realizado en sujetos de ascendencia europea, lo que genera un sesgo de muestreo y deja a las poblaciones latinoamericanas subrepresentadas. ...