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Fuentes MMPB, Santos AJB, Abreu-Grobois A, Briseño-Dueñas R, Al-Khayat J, Hamza S, Saliba S, Anderson D, Rusenko KW, Mitchell NJ, Gammon M, Bentley BP, Beton D, Booth DTB, Broderick AC, Colman LP, Snape RTE, Calderon-Campuzano MF, Cuevas E, Lopez-Castro MC, Flores-Aguirre CD, Mendez de la Cruz F, Segura-Garcia Y, Ruiz-Garcia A, Fossette S, Gatto CR, Reina RD, Girondot M, Godfrey M, Guzman-Hernandez V, Hart CE, Kaska Y, Lara PH, Marcovaldi MAGD, LeBlanc AM, Rostal D, Liles MJ, Wyneken J, Lolavar A, Williamson SA, Manoharakrishnan M, Pusapati C, Chatting M, Mohd Salleh S, Patricio AR, Regalla A, Restrepo J, Garcia R, Santidrián Tomillo P, Sezgin C, Shanker K, Tapilatu F, Turkozan O, Valverde RA, Williams K, Yilmaz C, Tolen N, Nel R, Tucek J, Legouvello D, Rivas ML, Gaspar C, Touron M, Genet Q, Salmon M, Araujo MR, Freire JB, Castheloge VD, Jesus PR, Ferreira PD, Paladino FV, Montero-Flores D, Sozbilen D, Monsinjon JR. Adaptation of sea turtles to climate warming: Will phenological responses be sufficient to counteract changes in reproductive output? Glob Chang Biol 2024; 30:e16991. [PMID: 37905464 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
Abstract
Sea turtles are vulnerable to climate change since their reproductive output is influenced by incubating temperatures, with warmer temperatures causing lower hatching success and increased feminization of embryos. Their ability to cope with projected increases in ambient temperatures will depend on their capacity to adapt to shifts in climatic regimes. Here, we assessed the extent to which phenological shifts could mitigate impacts from increases in ambient temperatures (from 1.5 to 3°C in air temperatures and from 1.4 to 2.3°C in sea surface temperatures by 2100 at our sites) on four species of sea turtles, under a "middle of the road" scenario (SSP2-4.5). Sand temperatures at sea turtle nesting sites are projected to increase from 0.58 to 4.17°C by 2100 and expected shifts in nesting of 26-43 days earlier will not be sufficient to maintain current incubation temperatures at 7 (29%) of our sites, hatching success rates at 10 (42%) of our sites, with current trends in hatchling sex ratio being able to be maintained at half of the sites. We also calculated the phenological shifts that would be required (both backward for an earlier shift in nesting and forward for a later shift) to keep up with present-day incubation temperatures, hatching success rates, and sex ratios. The required shifts backward in nesting for incubation temperatures ranged from -20 to -191 days, whereas the required shifts forward ranged from +54 to +180 days. However, for half of the sites, no matter the shift the median incubation temperature will always be warmer than the 75th percentile of current ranges. Given that phenological shifts will not be able to ameliorate predicted changes in temperature, hatching success and sex ratio at most sites, turtles may need to use other adaptive responses and/or there is the need to enhance sea turtle resilience to climate warming.
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- M M P B Fuentes
- Marine Turtle Research, Ecology, and Conservation Group, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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- Marine Turtle Research, Ecology, and Conservation Group, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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- Unidad Academica Mazatlan, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, UNAM, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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- Unidad Academica Mazatlan, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, UNAM, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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- Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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- Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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- Society for Protection of Turtles, Gonyeli, Northern Cyprus
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK
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- Society for Protection of Turtles, Gonyeli, Northern Cyprus
- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK
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- Programa de Protección y Conservación de Tortugas Marinas, Convenio FONATUR-Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología-UNAM, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico
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- Pronatura Península de Yucatán, A. C. Programa para la Conservación de la Tortuga Marina, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA
- Duke Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA
- Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Centro de Investigaciones Oceánicas del Mar de Cortés-Gran Acuario de Mazatlán, Mazatlán, Mexico
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey
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- Fundação Projeto Tamar, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
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- Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
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- Asociacion ProCosta, San Salvador, El Salvador
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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- Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
- School of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK
- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET-Aquatic Research Network, Ispa-Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas, Dr. Alfredo Simão da Silva (IBAP), Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
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- Sea Turtle Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Sea Turtle Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Sea Turtle Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (DEKAMER), Mugla, Turkey
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- Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, India
- Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Research Center of Pacific Marine Resources-University of Papua (UNIPA), Manokwari, Papua Barat, Indonesia
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey
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- Sea Turtle Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, USA
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- Caretta Research Project, Savannah, Georgia, USA
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- Hakkari University, Vocational School of Health Services, Hakkari, Turkey
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- Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Malaysia
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- Department of Zoology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa
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- Department of Zoology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa
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- Department of Zoology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa
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- Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
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- Te Mana O Te Moana, Moorea-Maiao, French Polynesia
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- Te Mana O Te Moana, Moorea-Maiao, French Polynesia
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- Te Mana O Te Moana, Moorea-Maiao, French Polynesia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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- Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, San Salvador, El Salvador
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- Fundação Espírito Santense de Tecnologia-FEST, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Econservation Estudos e Projetos Ambientais, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Gemologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Veterinary, Acıpayam Vocational School, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey
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- Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, La Réunion, France
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Schroeder BA, Cuevas E, Graber JJ. Multidisciplinary tumor boards present technical and financial challenges in the COVID-19 era. Ann Oncol 2021; 32:933. [PMID: 33737120 PMCID: PMC8010380 DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2021.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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- B A Schroeder
- Clinical Cancer Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.
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- Army Medical School, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Ramonet M, Ciais P, Apadula F, Bartyzel J, Bastos A, Bergamaschi P, Blanc PE, Brunner D, Caracciolo di Torchiarolo L, Calzolari F, Chen H, Chmura L, Colomb A, Conil S, Cristofanelli P, Cuevas E, Curcoll R, Delmotte M, di Sarra A, Emmenegger L, Forster G, Frumau A, Gerbig C, Gheusi F, Hammer S, Haszpra L, Hatakka J, Hazan L, Heliasz M, Henne S, Hensen A, Hermansen O, Keronen P, Kivi R, Komínková K, Kubistin D, Laurent O, Laurila T, Lavric JV, Lehner I, Lehtinen KEJ, Leskinen A, Leuenberger M, Levin I, Lindauer M, Lopez M, Myhre CL, Mammarella I, Manca G, Manning A, Marek MV, Marklund P, Martin D, Meinhardt F, Mihalopoulos N, Mölder M, Morgui JA, Necki J, O'Doherty S, O'Dowd C, Ottosson M, Philippon C, Piacentino S, Pichon JM, Plass-Duelmer C, Resovsky A, Rivier L, Rodó X, Sha MK, Scheeren HA, Sferlazzo D, Spain TG, Stanley KM, Steinbacher M, Trisolino P, Vermeulen A, Vítková G, Weyrauch D, Xueref-Remy I, Yala K, Yver Kwok C. The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO 2 measurements. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 375:20190513. [PMID: 32892733 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
During the summer of 2018, a widespread drought developed over Northern and Central Europe. The increase in temperature and the reduction of soil moisture have influenced carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems in various ways, such as a reduction of photosynthesis, changes in ecosystem respiration, or allowing more frequent fires. In this study, we characterize the resulting perturbation of the atmospheric CO2 seasonal cycles. 2018 has a good coverage of European regions affected by drought, allowing the investigation of how ecosystem flux anomalies impacted spatial CO2 gradients between stations. This density of stations is unprecedented compared to previous drought events in 2003 and 2015, particularly thanks to the deployment of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) network of atmospheric greenhouse gas monitoring stations in recent years. Seasonal CO2 cycles from 48 European stations were available for 2017 and 2018. Earlier data were retrieved for comparison from international databases or national networks. Here, we show that the usual summer minimum in CO2 due to the surface carbon uptake was reduced by 1.4 ppm in 2018 for the 10 stations located in the area most affected by the temperature anomaly, mostly in Northern Europe. Notwithstanding, the CO2 transition phases before and after July were slower in 2018 compared to 2017, suggesting an extension of the growing season, with either continued CO2 uptake by photosynthesis and/or a reduction in respiration driven by the depletion of substrate for respiration inherited from the previous months due to the drought. For stations with sufficiently long time series, the CO2 anomaly observed in 2018 was compared to previous European droughts in 2003 and 2015. Considering the areas most affected by the temperature anomalies, we found a higher CO2 anomaly in 2003 (+3 ppm averaged over 4 sites), and a smaller anomaly in 2015 (+1 ppm averaged over 11 sites) compared to 2018. This article is part of the theme issue 'Impacts of the 2018 severe drought and heatwave in Europe: from site to continental scale'.
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- M Ramonet
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, Milan, Italy
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, 30059 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians University, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Marseille, France
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- Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
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- National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy
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- Centre for Isotope Research (CIO), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 6, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, 30059 Krakow, Poland
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- DRD/OPE, Andra, Bure, France
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- National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy
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- Izana Atmospheric Research Center, Meteorological State Agency of Spain, Tenerife, Spain
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- Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile, Rome, Italy
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- Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Petten, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Laboratoire d'Aérologie, UPS Université Toulouse 3, CNRS (UMR5560), Toulouse, France
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- University of Heidelberg, Institut fuer Umweltphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Sopron, Hungary
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
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- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Petten, The Netherlands
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- NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Deutscher Wetterdienst, Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.,University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.,University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- University of Bern, Physics Institute, Climate and Environmental Physics Division and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland
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- University of Heidelberg, Institut fuer Umweltphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Deutscher Wetterdienst, Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Unit for Field-based Forest Research, 92291 Vindeln, Sweden
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- Environmental Protection Agency, Dublin, Ireland
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- Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory, University of Crete, Greece
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, 30059 Krakow, Poland
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Unit for Field-based Forest Research, 92291 Vindeln, Sweden
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile, Rome, Italy
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Deutscher Wetterdienst, Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Climate and Health Programme (CLIMA), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGLOBAL), Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Centre for Isotope Research (CIO), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 6, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile, Rome, Italy
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- National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
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- National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Deutscher Wetterdienst, Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Marseille, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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González Z, Adame M, Cuevas E, Corzo G, Villegas E. Antimicrobial activity of cationic peptide VC15 obtained from the proteolysis of Pin2. Toxicon 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2020.04.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Wallace BP, Stacy BA, Cuevas E, Holyoake C, Lara PH, Marcondes ACJ, Miller JD, Nijkamp H, Pilcher NJ, Robinson I, Rutherford N, Shigenaka G. Oil spills and sea turtles: documented effects and considerations for response and assessment efforts. ENDANGER SPECIES RES 2020. [DOI: 10.3354/esr01009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Cuevas E, Liceaga-Correa MA, Uribe-Martínez A. Ecological vulnerability of two sea turtle species in the Gulf of Mexico: an integrated spatial approach. ENDANGER SPECIES RES 2019. [DOI: 10.3354/esr00984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Baez-Ferrer N, Dominguez Rodriguez A, Hernandez-Vaquero D, Rodriguez S, Avanzas P, Abreu-Gonzalez P, Cuevas E. P3420Is there an association between Saharan dust events and acute coronary syndrome incidence? Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz745.0294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Abstract
Background
Asian dust and air pollution have been recently recognized as triggers in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction. The inflow of dust from the Sahara into Spain causes an increase in particulate matter (PM) levels in the atmosphere. The proximity to the Western Coast of Morocco and the Sahara Desert promotes the seasonality arrival of natural PM on the Canary Islands (Spain), leading to high concentrations of PM with an aerodynamic diameter over 10μm (PM10). The association of dust transport from the Sahara to the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean areas over the incidence of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), is unknown.
Purpose
The aim of the present study was to elucidate whether Saharan dust events in the dust belt - Canary Islands - is associated with the incidence of ACS.
Methods
We retrospectively collected data of hospitalizations due to ACS in 2416 consecutive patients from a tertiary care hospital in Tenerife (Canary Islands–Spain), from December 2012 to December 2017. Taking advantage of Canary Islands location, we characterized the Saharan dust events using PMx measurements and dust modeling. Concentrations of PM10 and reactive gases are measured in the Air Quality Network of the Canary Islands by using the European reference method. We applied the time-stratified case crossover design to examine the association between Saharan dust events and the incidence of ACS. This design allows us to adjust for individual confounders, season, time trend and the day of week. Using conditional Poisson regression models, we estimated the impact of PM10 Saharan dust events on the incidence of ACS. Because the effects of Saharan dust events could persist over the course of a few days, we examined the lag effect from Day 0 to Day 5.
Results
The occurrence of Saharan dust events observed 0–5 days before the ACS was not significantly associated with the incidence of ACS. PM10 (μg/m3) effect was: lag 0 (IRR: 0.999, 95% CI: 0.977–1.022), lag 1 (IRR: 1.025, 95% CI: 0.988–1.063), lag 2 (IRR: 0.98, 95% CI: 0.928–1.042), lag 3 (IRR: 0.976, 95% CI: 0.944–1.011), lag 4 (IRR: 0.996, 95% CI: 0.983–1.008) and lag 5 (IRR: 0.996, 95% CI: 0.984–1.007). (Figure 1)
Poisson regression model of PM10
Conclusions
This negative study, the first to assess the impact of Saharan dust events as a potential trigger in the onset of ACS, shows that African dust is unlikely to be associated with the incidence of ACS.
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- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Experimental Station of Arid Zones, Almeria, Spain
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- University Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- Centro de Investigacion Atmosferico de Izaña- AEMET-CSIC, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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Cuevas E, Espino J, Marques I. Reproductive isolation between Salvia elegans and S. fulgens, two hummingbird-pollinated sympatric sages. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2018; 20:1075-1082. [PMID: 30004608 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The integrity of species in sympatric contact sites is dependent on the existence of reproductive isolating mechanisms, which restrict gene flow between them. However, we know little about the mechanisms that enable the coexistence of species with similar floral morphologies. Here, we evaluated several reproductive isolation barriers between Salvia elegans and S. fulgens, two sympatric sages with a similar ornithophilous floral syndrome, offering nectar as the main reward. Over 3 years, we evaluated broad-scale geographic isolation, floral phenologies and floral visitors as pre-pollination barriers, and fruit set, seed number and seed germination as post-pollination barriers. We found considerable geographic isolation and significant altitudinal differences between the two sages. The flowering period of both sages always overlapped extensively during the 3 years of this study, but hummingbirds were highly specific, visiting one or the other Salvia species and showing aggressive territorial behaviour. Interspecific experimental crosses revealed that hybrid seeds might be formed although strong asymmetric barriers were found depending on the species acting as the maternal donor. Despite the low level of flowering asynchrony, reproductive isolation was remarkably high in the two sages. Geographic isolation and pollinator fidelity were the main factors responsible for maintaining species integrity. Despite an extensive review, we found very few studies quantifying the efficiency of isolation barriers in Neotropical plants or even the importance of hummingbirds as pollinators.
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- E Cuevas
- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico
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- UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research and Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- CE3C - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Campo Grande, Portugal
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Lara-García O, Lara-García M, Perez-Hernandez D, Cuevas E, Martínez-Gómez M, Pacheco P. Spinal cord neuronal components involved in the reflex activity of female rat pubococcygeus motoneurons. Neurosci Lett 2018; 670:105-109. [PMID: 29391219 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.01.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2017] [Revised: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Evoked EMG reflex activity from the pubococcygeus muscle of female Wistar rats has been reported, but has not been carefully analyzed. Here, we studied this reflex activity through mechanical stimulation of the clitoris, perigenital skin, caudal vagina and foot, all of which produced bilateral reflex multiunit electromyographic (MEMG) tonic "on" activity and displayed a rapid adaptation. However, deep vagina and cervical stimulation did not modify MEMG baseline activity even if it was combined with clitoris, perigenital skin and foot stimulation. Electrical stimulation of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris produced bilateral MEMG activity that when recorded at fast sweep speed, it was possible to observe that the ipsilateral response had an 8 ms latency, while the contralateral response had a 10 ms latency. These data suggest that bilateral reflex activation of pubococcygeus muscle motoneurons is produced by several sensory sources in which a specialized neural circuitry of afferent and efferent components and several spinal cord interneurons are involved. This is in accordance with the multi functionality of this muscle in reproductive and behavioral processes.
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- O Lara-García
- Centro de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Médicos y Odontólogos s/n, CP 91130 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
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- Instituto de Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Av. Luis Castelazo Ayala s/n, CP 91190, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
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- Instituto de Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Av. Luis Castelazo Ayala s/n, CP 91190, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
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- Centro Tlaxcala de Biología de la Conducta, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Carretera Federal Tlaxcala-Puebla Km. 1.5, CP 90000 Tlaxcala, Mexico.
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- Centro Tlaxcala de Biología de la Conducta, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Carretera Federal Tlaxcala-Puebla Km. 1.5, CP 90000 Tlaxcala, Mexico.
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- Instituto de Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Av. Luis Castelazo Ayala s/n, CP 91190, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico; Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP 04510 Coyoacan, D.F., Mexico.
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Cervantes C, Alvarez A, Cuevas E. Small but attractive: female-biased nectar production and floral visitors in a dimorphic shrub. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2018; 20:160-164. [PMID: 29069524 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In sexually dimorphic species, hermaphrodite flowers in gynodioecious species or male flowers in dioecious species are often larger and produce more nectar than their conspecific female flowers. As a consequence, hermaphrodite or male flowers frequently receive more pollinator visits. Sex ratio, flower size, floral display, nectar production and floral visits were evaluated in two natural populations of Fuchsia thymifolia, a morphologically gynodioecious but functionally subdioecious insect-pollinated shrub. Sex ratio did not differ from the expected 1:1 in the two studied populations. As expected, hermaphrodite flowers were larger than female flowers, but in contrast to the general pattern, hermaphrodite flowers did not produce nectar or produced much less than female flowers. Flower visitors were flies (68%) and bumblebees (24%), both of which showed a preference for female flowers. No sex difference was detected in either flower longevity or floral display across the flowering season. Higher nectar production by females may attract more pollinators, and may be a strategy to enhance female reproductive success in this species. Finally, floral dimorphism and insect preferences did not seem to hamper the maintenance of sub-dioecy or prevent the evolution of dioecy in F. thymifolia.
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- C Cervantes
- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México
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Altshuler BL, Cuevas E, Ioffe LB, Kravtsov VE. Nonergodic Phases in Strongly Disordered Random Regular Graphs. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:156601. [PMID: 27768332 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.156601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We combine numerical diagonalization with semianalytical calculations to prove the existence of the intermediate nonergodic but delocalized phase in the Anderson model on disordered hierarchical lattices. We suggest a new generalized population dynamics that is able to detect the violation of ergodicity of the delocalized states within the Abou-Chakra, Anderson, and Thouless recursive scheme. This result is supplemented by statistics of random wave functions extracted from exact diagonalization of the Anderson model on ensemble of disordered random regular graphs (RRG) of N sites with the connectivity K=2. By extrapolation of the results of both approaches to N→∞ we obtain the fractal dimensions D_{1}(W) and D_{2}(W) as well as the population dynamics exponent D(W) with the accuracy sufficient to claim that they are nontrivial in the broad interval of disorder strength W_{E}<W<W_{c}. The thorough analysis of the exact diagonalization results for RRG with N>10^{5} reveals a singularity in D_{1,2}(W) dependencies which provides clear evidence for the first order transition between the two delocalized phases on RRG at W_{E}≈10.0. We discuss the implications of these results for quantum and classical nonintegrable and many-body systems.
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- B L Altshuler
- Physics Department, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad de Murcia, E30071 Murcia, Spain
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- CNRS and Universite Paris Sud, UMR 8626, LPTMS, Orsay Cedex F-91405, France
- L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka 142432, Moscow region, Russia
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- L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka 142432, Moscow region, Russia
- Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste, Italy
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Rosas-Hernandez H, Cuevas E, Lantz S, Imam A, Sturdivant N, Balachandran K, Slikker W, Paule M, Ali S. Neurovascular unit components on a chip as a model to study traumatic brain injury. Toxicol Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2016.07.211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Tognella MMP, Soares MLG, Cuevas E, Medina E. Heterogeneity of elemental composition and natural abundance of stables isotopes of C and N in soils and leaves of mangroves at their southernmost West Atlantic range. BRAZ J BIOL 2016; 76:994-1003. [PMID: 27191466 DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.05915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Accepted: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Mangrove communities were selected in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, near their southernmost limit of distribution, to study mineral nutrient relation in soils and plants. Communities included three true mangrove species, Rhizophora mangle, Laguncularia racemosa and Avicennia germinans, and two associated species, the fern Acrostichum danaeifolium, and the grass Spartina densiflora. The sites included communities in the lower Río Tavares near Florianopolis city, Sonho beach near Palhoça city, and the Santo Antonio lagoon. These sites included a full range of mangroves under humid climate where winter temperatures, instead of salinity, may be the main factor regulating their productive capacity and species composition. Soil salinity was determined by the concentration of soluble Na, and soil C and N were linearly correlated indicating their association in organic matter. Tavares site showed higher specific conductivity, and concentrations of Na and Mg in the soil layer below 40 cm depth, indicating larger influence of marine water. Isotopic signature of C increased with soil depth suggesting that microorganisms decomposing organic matter are releasing 13C depleted CO2. Nitrogen isotopic signature decreased with soil depth, indicating enrichment in 15N possibly as a result of denitrification in the upper soil layers. Mineral elements in leaf tissues showed A. schaueriana with higher concentrations of N, P, Na, K, Cu, Zn, and Na/Ca ratio. Spartina densiflora was characterized by the lowest N and K concentrations, and the highest concentrations of Al and Fe. Rhizophora mangle and L. racemosa had the highest Ca concentrations. Carbon isotopic signatures identified S. densiflora as a C4 plant, and A. schaueriana as the mangrove species occupying comparatively more water stressed microsites than the rest. Leaf nitrogen isotopic signatures were positive, in correspondence with the soil values. The results support the hypothesis that sites sampled were comparatively fertile, because sediment transport through fresh water run-off is predominant in humid coasts, and therefore plants were not limited by nutrient supply, nor particularly stressed by soil salinity.
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- M M P Tognella
- Laboratório de Gestão em Manguezal - GEMA, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Centro Universitário Norte do Espírito Santo - CEUNES, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - UFES, Rod. BR 101 Norte, Km 60, Bairro Litorâneo, CEP 29934-430, São Mateus, ES, Brazil
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- Núcleo de Estudos em Manguezais - NEMA, Departamento de Oceanografia Biológica, Faculdade de Oceanografia - FAOC, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, sala 4023-E, Maracanã, CEP 22420-020, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation, University of Puerto Rico - UPR-Rio Piedras, Facundo Bueso Building, 301-A, PO Box 23360, 00931-3360, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas - IVIC, Carretera Panamericana, Km 11, Edo Miranda, Aptdo 20632, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela.,USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, 1201, Calle Ceiba, Jardín Botánico Sur, 00926-1119, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Cuevas E, Rosas-Guerrero V. Spatio-temporal variation of nectar robbing in Salvia gesneriflora and its effects on nectar production and legitimate visitors. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2016; 18:9-14. [PMID: 25677960 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Nectar robbing occurs when floral visitors remove floral nectar through floral damage and usually without providing pollination in return. Even though nectar robbing may have negative, neutral or even positive effects on plant fitness, few studies have investigated temporal and spatial variation in robbing rate and their consequences, particularly in the tropics. In this study, robbing levels were estimated during 3 years in four populations of Salvia gesneriflora, a hummingbird-pollinated shrub endemic to central Mexico that is mainly robbed by birds, carpenter bees and bumblebees. The effect of robbing on nectar availability, flower longevity and on visitation rate by floral visitors was also evaluated. Our results indicate great variation in robbing levels across years and populations and a positive relationship between robbing level and flower abundance per population. Moreover, our results show that nectar availability is about eight times higher in unrobbed flowers than in robbed flowers, and that nectar robbers prefer younger flowers, although lifespan of robbed and unrobbed flowers did not differ statistically. Primary and secondary nectar robbers showed a higher visitation rate compared to legitimate visitors, and neither legitimate nor illegitimate floral visitors seem to discriminate between robbed and unrobbed flowers. These results suggest that robbers may respond to food availability and that no floral visitors apparently could differentiate between robbed and unrobbed flowers. Finally, results show that nectar robbers prefer the youngest flowers, which suggests that strong competition for access to nectar between pollinators and robbers might occur, mainly at the first stages of the flowers.
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- E Cuevas
- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México
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- Unidad Académica en Desarrollo Sustentable, Campus Costa Grande, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero, México
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Rodríguez-Castelán J, Nicolás L, Morimoto S, Cuevas E. The Langerhans islet cells of female rabbits are differentially affected by hypothyroidism depending on the islet size. Endocrine 2015; 48:811-7. [PMID: 25213470 DOI: 10.1007/s12020-014-0418-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Effects of hypothyroidism on the glucose and insulin levels are controversial, and its impact on the Langerhans islet morphology of adult subjects has been poorly addressed. In spite of hypothyroidism and diabetes mellitus are more frequent in females than in males, most studies using animal models have been done in males. The effect of hypothyroidism on the immunolabeling of thyroid hormone receptors (TRs) and thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) of islet cells is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of hypothyroidism on the glucose and insulin concentrations, morphometry of islets, and immunostaining of TRs α1-2 and β1 and TSHR of islet cells in female rabbits. Control and hypothyroid (0.02% of methimazole for 30 days) animals were used to quantify blood levels of glucose and insulin, density of islets, cross-sectional area (CSA) of islets, number of cells per islet, cell proliferation, and the immunolabeling of TRs α1-2, TRβ1, and TSHR. Student's t or Mann-Whitney-U tests, two-way ANOVAs, and Fischer's tests were applied. Concentrations of glucose and insulin, as well as the insulin resistance were similar between groups. Hypothyroidism did not affect the density or the CSA of islets. The analysis of islets by size showed that hypothyroidism reduced the cell number in large and medium islets, but not in small ones. In small islets, cell proliferation was increased. The immunoreactivity of TRα1-2, TRβ1, and TSHR was increased by hypothyroidism in all islet sizes. Our results show that hypothyroidism affects differentially the islet cells depending on the size of islets.
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- J Rodríguez-Castelán
- Maestría en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, Mexico
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Cuevas E, Osuna-Enciso V, Oliva D. Circle detection on images based on the Clonal Selection Algorithm (CSA). The Imaging Science Journal 2015. [DOI: 10.1179/1743131x14y.0000000079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Anaya-Hernández A, Rodríguez-Castelán J, Nicolás L, Martínez-Gómez M, Jiménez-Estrada I, Castelán F, Cuevas E. Hypothyroidism affects differentially the cell size of epithelial cells among oviductal regions of rabbits. Reprod Domest Anim 2014; 50:104-11. [PMID: 25405800 DOI: 10.1111/rda.12455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2014] [Accepted: 10/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Oviductal regions show particular histological characteristics and functions. Tubal pathologies and hypothyroidism are related to primary and secondary infertility. The impact of hypothyroidism on the histological characteristics of oviductal regions has been scarcely studied. Our aim was to analyse the histological characteristics of oviductal regions in control and hypothyroid rabbits. Hypothyroidism was induced by oral administration of methimazole (MMI) for 30 days. For both groups, serum concentrations of thyroid and gonadal hormones were determined. Sections of oviductal regions were stained with the Masson's trichrome technique to analyse both epithelial and smooth muscle layers. The percentage of proliferative epithelial cells (anti-Ki67) in diverse oviductal regions was also quantified. Data were compared with Student t-test, Mann-Whitney U-test, or Fischer's test. In comparison with the control group, the hypothyroid group showed: (i) a low concentration of T3 and T4, but a high level of TSH; (ii) similar values of serum estradiol, progesterone and testosterone; (iii) a large size of ciliated cells in the ampulla (AMP), isthmus (IST) and utero-tubal junction (UTJ); (iv) a large size of secretory cells in the IST region; (v) a low percentage of proliferative secretory cells in the fimbria-infundibulum (FIM-INF) region; and (vi) a similar thickness of the smooth muscle layer and the cross-sectional area in the AMP and IST regions. Modifications in the size of the oviductal epithelium in hypothyroid rabbits could be related to changes in the cell metabolism that may impact on the reproductive functions achieved by oviduct.
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- A Anaya-Hernández
- Doctorado en Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, México
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Cuevas E, Jiménez R, Lopezaraiza-Mikel M. Sex-specific reproductive components and pollination ecology in the subdioecious shrub Fuchsia microphylla. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2014; 16:1096-1103. [PMID: 24629010 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2013] [Accepted: 12/23/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In subdioecious populations, functional female, male and hermaphrodite individuals coexist. Subdioecy may be a transitional state towards dioecy or a breakdown of dioecy, although lability in sex expression may maintain subdioecy as a stable condition. To better understand the ecological aspects involved in sex ratio dynamics and breeding system evolution, we studied the pollination and female fitness components of female and hermaphrodite individuals of the subdioecious shrub Fuchsia microphylla. In two natural populations at the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt we estimated female frequency and several reproductive components of female and hermaphrodite plants under natural pollination and experimental pollination treatments. Average female frequency was 42%, and on average, 42.5% of hermaphrodites produced fruits. Female plants showed a 17-fold female fertility advantage over hermaphrodites through increased fruit production, as the number of seeds and germination rates did not differ between morphs. Hermaphrodite flowers were larger, with similar nectar production and concentration to female flowers, and pollinators did not show consistent morph preferences. Some hermaphrodites produced fruits autonomously, and female flowers excluded from pollinators produced fruits putatively by apomixis. Fruit production in hermaphrodites, but not in females, was related to height, suggesting increased investment of hermaphrodites in the female function at higher resource status. For sex ratios to be at equilibrium, the female fertility advantage should be reduced about eightfold. However, it may be that hermaphrodites are maintained by producing fruits at no cost to the male function at higher resource status, as the gender plasticity hypothesis proposes.
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- E Cuevas
- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México
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López-Pérez M, Ramos-López R, Perestelo NR, Duarte-Rodriguez X, Bustos JJ, Alonso-Pérez S, Cuevas E, Hernández-Armas J. Arrival of radionuclides released by the Fukushima accident to Tenerife (Canary Islands). J Environ Radioact 2013; 116:180-186. [PMID: 23164694 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2012] [Revised: 09/18/2012] [Accepted: 09/29/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Two weeks after the accident at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear power plant, 131I, 137Cs and 134Cs activities were measured in two different stations located in Tenerife (Canary Islands), situated at 300 (FIMERALL) and 2400 (IZAÑA) m.a.s.l, respectively. Peak measured activity concentrations were: 1.851 mBq/m3 (131I); 0.408 mBq/m3 (137Cs) and 0.382 mBq/m3 (134Cs). The activities measured at the FIMERALL station were always higher than at IZAÑA station, suggesting that the radioactive plume arrived to the island associated with low altitude air masses. Simulations of potential dispersion of the radioactive cloud (137Cs) after the nuclear accident in reactor Fukushima I show that radioactive pollution reached remote regions such as the Canary Islands in the Eastern subtropical North Atlantic. The corresponding effective dose to the local population was 1.17 nSv, a value less than one millionth of the annual limit for the general public. Therefore, there was no risk to public health.
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- M López-Pérez
- Medical Physics and Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, Department of Medical Physics and Pharmacology, University of La Laguna, 38320 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Kravtsov VE, Yevtushenko OM, Snajberk P, Cuevas E. Lévy flights and multifractality in quantum critical diffusion and in classical random walks on fractals. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2012; 86:021136. [PMID: 23005751 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.021136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We employ the method of virial expansion to compute the retarded density correlation function (generalized diffusion propagator) in the critical random matrix ensemble in the limit of strong multifractality. We find that the long-range nature of the Hamiltonian is a common root of both multifractality and Lévy flights, which show up in the power-law intermediate- and long-distance behaviors, respectively, of the density correlation function. We review certain models of classical random walks on fractals and show the similarity of the density correlation function in them to that for the quantum problem described by the random critical long-range Hamiltonians.
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- V E Kravtsov
- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, PO Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy
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Ossipov A, Rushkin I, Cuevas E. Level-number variance and spectral compressibility in a critical two-dimensional random-matrix model. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2012; 85:021127. [PMID: 22463172 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.021127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We study level-number variance in a two-dimensional random matrix model characterized by a power-law decay of the matrix elements. The amplitude of the decay is controlled by the parameter b. We find analytically that at small values of b the level number variance behaves linearly, with the compressibility χ between 0 and 1, which is typical for critical systems. For large values of b, we derive that χ=0, as one would normally expect in the metallic phase. Using numerical simulations we determine the critical value of b at which the transition between these two phases occurs.
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- A Ossipov
- School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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Portela SV, Martín CV, Romay LM, Cuevas E, Martín EG, Briera AF. sLea and sLex expression in colorectal cancer: implications for tumourigenesis and disease prognosis. Histol Histopathol 2011; 26:1305-16. [PMID: 21870334 DOI: 10.14670/hh-26.1305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The glycoconjugates expressed by cancer cells frequently contain sialylated oligosaccharide chains. Among these oligosaccharides the sialyl Lewis a (sLe(a)) and sialyl Lewis x (sLe(x)) antigens are found to be overexpressed in tumours of different origin. The current study assesses sLe(a) and sLe(x) expression in different colorectal specimens in order to establish the correlation of these biomarkers with both malignant transformation of colorectal mucosa and the progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). Healthy disease-free and inflammatory mucosa specimens showed no presence of the antigens. sLe(a) was expressed in 6.7% of the healthy tissue from CRC patients, in 20.8% of the adenomas, and in 33.3% and 42.6% of the transitional tissue and tumour tissue, respectively. sLe(x) expression was observed in 6.7% of the healthy tissue from CRC patients, in 27.0% of the adenomas, and in 25.6% and 74.8% of the transitional and the tumour tissue, respectively. The expression of the sLe(a) and sLe(x) antigens was correlated in adenomas, as well as in healthy and tumour tissue from CRC. Moreover, the high expression of sLe(x) in adenomas was correlated with a high degree of dysplasia (p=0.042). Finally, the survival analysis suggested that sLe(a) expression may be a prognostic factor for predicting disease-free survival in colorectal cancer (p=0.012).
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- S Villar Portela
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Vigo, Spain
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Ossipov A, Rushkin I, Cuevas E. Criticality without self-similarity: a 2D system with random long-range hopping. J Phys Condens Matter 2011; 23:415601. [PMID: 21959771 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/41/415601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We consider a simple model of quantum disorder in two dimensions, characterized by a long-range site-to-site hopping. The system undergoes a metal–insulator transition--its eigenfunctions change from being extended to being localized. We demonstrate that at the point of the transition the nature of the eigenfunctions depends crucially on the magnitude of the hopping amplitude. At small amplitudes they are strongly multifractal. In the opposite limit of large amplitudes, the eigenfunctions do not become fractal. Their density moments do not scale as a power of the system size; instead our result suggests a power of the logarithm of the system size. In this regard, the transition differs from a similar one in the one-dimensional version of the same system, as well as from the conventional Anderson transition in more than two dimensions.
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- A Ossipov
- School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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Fernández-Briera A, García-Parceiro I, Cuevas E, Gil-Martín E. Effect of human colorectal carcinogenesis on the neural cell adhesion molecule expression and polysialylation. Oncology 2010; 78:196-204. [PMID: 20414008 DOI: 10.1159/000313699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2009] [Accepted: 12/21/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Although downregulation of neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) has been correlated with poor prognosis in colorectal cancer (CRC), it is also possible that colon cancer spreading comes from reducing tumor cell adhesion through NCAM polysialylation, as occurs in lung carcinoma or Wilms' tumor. METHODS To prove this hypothesis, we have performed a prospective study on tumor and control specimens from 39 CRC patients, which were immunostained for NCAM and PSA (polysialic acid) expression. RESULTS Tumor versus control expression of NCAM and PSA epitopes in tissue specimens, as well as correlation between tumor expression and clinicopathological features, were statistically analyzed. Results showed a low constitutive expression of NCAM and PSA (PSA-NCAM) in control tissue, which reached a statistically significant increase in the tumor tissue. Likewise, the presence and number of lymph node metastases at surgery were correlated with NCAM expression and PSA/NCAM coexpression. CONCLUSIONS These data highlight the importance of taking into account PSA-associated epitopes when dealing with NCAM cell expression studies in tumor development and progression. The analysis of PSA and NCAM expression in CRC suggests a new way, other than downregulation of NCAM, in order to escape contact inhibition and promote cell tumor spreading in colorectal cancer.
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- A Fernández-Briera
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Vigo, ES-36310 Vigo, Spain
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Marrero C, Jorba O, Cuevas E, Baldasano JM. Sensitivity study of surface wind flow of a limited area model simulating the extratropical storm Delta affecting the Canary Islands. Adv Sci Res 2009. [DOI: 10.5194/asr-2-151-2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Abstract. In November 2005 an extratropical storm named Delta affected the Canary Islands (Spain). The high sustained wind and intense gusts experienced caused significant damage. A numerical sensitivity study of Delta was conducted using the Weather Research & Forecasting Model (WRF-ARW). A total of 27 simulations were performed. Non-hydrostatic and hydrostatic experiments were designed taking into account physical parameterizations and geometrical factors (size and position of the outer domain, definition or not of nested grids, horizontal resolution and number of vertical levels). The Factor Separation Method was applied in order to identify the major model sensitivity parameters under this unusual meteorological situation. Results associated to percentage changes relatives to a control run simulation demonstrated that boundary layer and surface layer schemes, horizontal resolutions, hydrostaticity option and nesting grid activation were the model configuration parameters with the greatest impact on the 48 h maximum 10 m horizontal wind speed solution.
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Armesilla-Diaz A, Bragado P, Del Valle I, Cuevas E, Lazaro I, Martin C, Cigudosa JC, Silva A. p53 regulates the self-renewal and differentiation of neural precursors. Neuroscience 2008; 158:1378-89. [PMID: 19038313 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.10.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2008] [Revised: 10/22/2008] [Accepted: 10/23/2008] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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During embryo neurogenesis, neurons that originate from stem cells located in the forebrain subventricular zone (SVZ) continuously migrate to the olfactory bulb (OB). However, other authors describe the occurrence of resident stem cells in the OB. In the present work we report that the absence of tumor suppressor protein p53 increases the number of neurosphere-forming cells and the proliferation of stem cells derived from 13.5-day embryo OB. Interestingly, differentiation of p53 knockout-derived neurospheres was biased toward neuronal precursors, suggesting a role for p53 in the differentiation process. Moreover, we demonstrate the relevance of p53 in maintaining chromosomal stability in response to genotoxic insult. Finally, our data show that neurosphere stem cells are highly resistant to long-term epidermal growth factor (EGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) deprivation in a p53-independent fashion, and they preserve their differentiation potential. Thus, these data demonstrate that p53 controls the proliferation, chromosomal stability and differentiation pattern of embryonic mouse olfactory bulb stem cells.
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- A Armesilla-Diaz
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiopathology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Cuevas E, Abreu-Grobois FA, Guzmán-Hernández V, Liceaga-Correa MA, van Dam RP. Post-nesting migratory movements of hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata in waters adjacent to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. ENDANGER SPECIES RES 2008. [DOI: 10.3354/esr00128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Jorba O, Marrero C, Cuevas E, Baldasano JM. High resolution modelling results of the wind flow over Canary Islands during the meteorological situation of the extratropical storm Delta (28–30 November 2005). Adv Sci Res 2008. [DOI: 10.5194/asr-2-81-2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Abstract. On 28–29 November 2005 an extratropical storm affected the Canary Islands causing significant damage related to high average wind speeds and intense gusts over some islands of the archipelago. Delta was the twenty-sixth tropical or subtropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It represents an unusual meteorological phenomenon for that region, and its impacts were underestimated by the different operational meteorological forecasts during the previous days of the arrival of the low near Canary Islands. The aim of this study is to reproduce the local effects of the flow that were observed over the Canary Islands during the travel of the Delta storm near the region using high-resolution mesoscale meteorological simulations. The Advanced Research Weather Research & Forecasting Model (WRF-ARW) is applied at 9, 3 and 1 km horizontal resolution using ECMWF forecasts as initial and boundary conditions. The high-resolution simulation will outline the main features that contributed to the high wind speeds observed in the archipelago. Variations in vertical static stability, vertical windshear and the intense synoptic winds of the southwestern part of Delta with a warm core at 850 hPa were the main characteristics that contributed to the development and amplification of intense gravity waves while the large-scale flow interacted with the complex topography of the islands.
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Cuevas E, Parker IM, Molina-Freaner F. Variation in sex ratio, morph-specific reproductive ecology and an experimental test of frequency-dependence in the gynodioecious Kallstroemia grandiflora (Zygophyllaceae). J Evol Biol 2008; 21:1117-24. [PMID: 18462314 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01530.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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An enduring puzzle in gynodioecious species is the great variation in female frequency seen among populations. We quantified sex ratio in 44 populations of gynodioecious Kallstroemia grandiflora. Then, we measured pollinator visitation, pollen deposition, autonomous selfing rate and pollen limitation of females. Finally, using experimental populations, we tested whether female fitness responds to the frequency of female plants. We found broad variability in sex ratio among populations (0-44% female). Hermaphrodite flowers received more pollinator visits and pollen grains than females, and bagged hermaphrodite flowers produced fruits. However, we found no evidence of pollen limitation in females. In experimental populations, female plants showed no evidence of frequency-dependent pollinator visitation, fruit set, seed set or total seed mass. These results do not support frequency-dependent variation in fitness as a major mechanism affecting female frequencies in K. grandiflora. Within the context of this study, pollinators are abundant and pollinator movement appears to operate at a large enough scale to overcome the potential reproductive disadvantages of producing solely female flowers.
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- E Cuevas
- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacan, México.
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Schoeberl MR, Ziemke JR, Bojkov B, Livesey N, Duncan B, Strahan S, Froidevaux L, Kulawik S, Bhartia PK, Chandra S, Levelt PF, Witte JC, Thompson AM, Cuevas E, Redondas A, Tarasick DW, Davies J, Bodeker G, Hansen G, Johnson BJ, Oltmans SJ, Vömel H, Allaart M, Kelder H, Newchurch M, Godin-Beekmann S, Ancellet G, Claude H, Andersen SB, Kyrö E, Parrondos M, Yela M, Zablocki G, Moore D, Dier H, von der Gathen P, Viatte P, Stübi R, Calpini B, Skrivankova P, Dorokhov V, de Backer H, Schmidlin FJ, Coetzee G, Fujiwara M, Thouret V, Posny F, Morris G, Merrill J, Leong CP, Koenig-Langlo G, Joseph E. A trajectory-based estimate of the tropospheric ozone column using the residual method. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2007jd008773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- E. Cuevas
- a Departamento de Física , Universidad de Murcia , 30 071 , Murcia , Spain
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- a Departamento de Física , Universidad de Murcia , 30 071 , Murcia , Spain
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- a Departamento de Física , Universidad de Murcia , 30 071 , Murcia , Spain
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- a Departamento de Física , Universidad de Murcia , 30 071 , Murcia , Spain
- c Department of Physics , Yerevan State University , Armenia
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- b Department of Physics , University of California , Riverside , CA , 92521 , USA
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Cuevas E, Arias DM, Domínguez CA, Castillo RA, Molina-Freaner F. The genetic structure of the gynodioecious Kallstroemia grandiflora (Zygophyllaceae): the role of male sterility and colonization history. Heredity (Edinb) 2006; 97:269-74. [PMID: 16736062 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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In gynodioecious populations, the frequency of females is expected to have a strong influence on the contemporary genetic structure of populations. Historical patterns of range contraction and expansion are also known to influence the genetic diversity of plant populations. We explore the influence of male sterility and colonization history on the genetic diversity in populations of Kallstroemia grandiflora along the Pacific of México. Both the overall population Fis and Fis values of hermaphrodites showed a negative association with female frequency. Genetic diversity declined with latitude. Our results provide evidence that females have a significant effect on the genetic structure as predicted by theoretical models and provide support for the hypothesis that historical processes have modified the genetic structure of K. grandiflora.
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- E Cuevas
- Departamento de Ecología de la Biodiversidad, Instituto de Ecología UNAM, Apartado Postal 1354, Hermosillo, Sonora C.P. 83000, México
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Cuevas E, Camacho M, Alvarado M, Hudson R, Pacheco P. Participation of estradiol and progesterone in the retrograde labeling of pubococcygeus motoneurons of the female rat. Neuroscience 2006; 140:1435-42. [PMID: 16650616 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2006] [Revised: 03/01/2006] [Accepted: 03/07/2006] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Retrograde labeling with horseradish peroxidase conjugated to wheat germ agglutinin showed that the pubococcygeus muscles of the female rat are innervated by a population of motoneurons located in a column approximately 2 mm in length in the central region of lamina IX of the sixth lumbar-first sacral spinal cord segments. These neurons have a dendritic distribution that projects to the lateral, medial and ventral regions of the gray matter. Values for soma size, primary dendrite length and arborization area obtained from intact animals that were in diestrous-2, were significantly reduced following ovariectomy. After hormone priming of the ovariectomized animals with estradiol benzoate and progesterone, an additional injection of estradiol benzoate alone or followed by progesterone increased the labeled length of the primary dendrites distributed to the lateral, but not to the medial or ventral regions of the gray matter in the spinal cord. However, dendritic labeling was not significantly increased when only progesterone was additionally injected. It therefore seems that pubococcygeus muscle motoneurons of the female rat are sensitive to the effects of gonadal hormones.
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- E Cuevas
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Autónoma de México, México DF 04510
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Maldonado M, D'Amico S, Otiniano M, Balasubramanyam A, Rodriguez L, Cuevas E. Predictors of glycaemic control in indigent patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis. Diabetes Obes Metab 2005; 7:282-9. [PMID: 15811146 DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1326.2004.00394.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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AIM To derive predictors of good glycaemic control in patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) followed prospectively in a specialized clinic. METHODS One hundred and sixty-one adult patients were admitted during a 31-month period and followed for at least 12 months. After 1 year, the patients were classified into three groups: good control (GC) (HbA1c < or = 7%), intermediate control (IC) (HbA1c 7-9%) and poor control (PC) (HbA1c > 9%). Characteristics of patients in the three groups were compared both at baseline and during follow-up. RESULTS At 12 months, 36% of the patients were classified as GC, 27% as IC and 37% as PC. GC patients had higher fasting serum C-peptide levels 0.7 +/- 0.54 compared to 0.38 +/- 0.29 and 0.16 +/- 0.21 nmol/l, respectively, for the IC and PC patients (p < 0.0001). A higher proportion GC patient had a C-peptide level greater than 0.33 nmol/l than that for IC and PC patients (86, 61 and 19%, respectively; p < 0.0001). Exogenous insulin was safely discontinued in 50, 30 and 3% of patients, respectively, in the GC, IC and PC groups (p < 0.0001). Compliance with life-style interventions was higher in the GC than that in IC and PC patients (87, 41 and 5%, respectively; p < 0.0001). In the logistic regression analysis, predictors of good glycaemic control were having baseline fasting serum C-peptide value > or =0.33 mmol/l, OR: 3.01 (95% CI 1.07-8.55, p = 0.03) and compliance with life-style interventions OR 12.66 (95% CI 3.73-51.57, p = 0.0001). CONCLUSION Among adult patients with DKA, significant predictors of good glycaemic control are preserved beta-cell function and compliance with life-style modifications.
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- M Maldonado
- Department of Medicine/Endocrinology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Rm. N520, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Vázquez-Martín C, Cuevas E, Gil-Martín E, Fernández-Briera A. Correlation analysis between tumor-associated antigen sialyl-Tn expression and ST6GalNAc I activity in human colon adenocarcinoma. Oncology 2004; 67:159-65. [PMID: 15539921 DOI: 10.1159/000081003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2003] [Accepted: 02/18/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Sialyl-Tn (sTn) is a mucin carbohydrate-associated antigen that is strongly expressed in a large number of colorectal carcinomas. In this study, we combined immunohistochemical and enzymatic techniques in order to find the correlation between sTn tissue expression and the sialyltransferase activity (ST6GalNAc I) responsible for its synthesis in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. METHODS We compared sTn expression in healthy (n = 46), tumorous (n = 60) and transitional tissue (n = 46) from CRC patients, and correlated sTn altered expression with clinicopathologic variables of the patient. Furthermore, we determined ST6GalNAc I tissue activity employing asialo-ovine submaxillary mucin (asialo-OSM) as glycoprotein acceptor (n = 27). RESULTS The rates of sTn positive expression obtained for healthy, tumorous and transitional tissues were 15, 67 and 63%, respectively. These rates led to statistically significant differences between healthy and tumorous or transitional tissue (p = 0.001); sTn expression was related to the first stages of the tumor invasion in transitional tissue. As regards ST6GalNAc I activity, we found an enhancement in transitional tissue. Statistical correlation analysis did not reveal association between sTn expression and ST6GalNAc I activity. CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicated that sTn antigen tissue expression and ST6GalNAc I activity levels were not correlated in CRC, in spite of the overexpression of the antigen in tumorous and transitional tissue.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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Ribes A, Grimalt JO, Torres García CJ, Cuevas E. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mountain soils of the subtropical Atlantic. J Environ Qual 2003; 32:977-987. [PMID: 12809298 DOI: 10.2134/jeq2003.9770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Surface soil samples from various altitudes on Tenerife Island, ranging from sea level up to 3400 m above mean sea level, were analyzed to study the distribution of 26 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a remote subtropical area. The stable atmospheric conditions in this island define three vertically stratified layers: marine boundary, trade-wind inversion, and free troposphere. Total PAH concentrations, 1.9 to 6000 microg/kg dry wt., were high when compared with those in tropical areas and in a similar range to those in temperate areas. In the marine boundary layer, fluoranthene (Fla), pyrene (Pyr), benz [a]anthracene (BaA), and chrysene (C + T) were largely dominant. The predominance of Fla over Pyr may reflect photo-oxidative processes during atmospheric transport, although coal combustion inputs cannot be excluded. The PAHs found in higher concentration in the soils from the inversion layer were benzo[b + j]fluoranthene (BbjF) + benzo[k]fluoranthene (BkF) > benzo[e]pyrene (BeP) approximately indeno[1,2, 3-cd]pyrene (Ind) > benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) approximately benzo[ghi]perylene (Bghi) > coronene (Cor) approximately dibenz[a,h]anthracene (Dib), reflecting that high temperatures and insolation prevent the accumulation of PAHs more volatile than BbjF in significant amounts. These climatic conditions involve a process of standardization that prevents the identification of specific PAH sources such as traffic, forest fires, or industrial inputs. Only soils with high total organic carbon (TOC) (e.g., 10-30%) preserve the more volatile compounds such as phenanthrene (Phe), methylphenanthrenes (MPhe), dimethylphenanthrenes (DMPhe), and retene (Ret). However, no relation between PAHs and soil TOC and black carbon (BC) was found. The specific PAH distributions of the free tropospheric region suggest a direct input from pyrolytic processes related to the volcanic emission of gases in Teide.
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- Dep. of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Chemical and Environmental Research (ICER-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Cuevas E, Ortuño M, Gasparian V, Pérez-Garrido A. Fluctuations of the correlation dimension at metal-insulator transitions. Phys Rev Lett 2002; 88:016401. [PMID: 11800973 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.016401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We investigate numerically the inverse participation ratio, P(2), of the 3D Anderson model and of the power-law random banded matrix (PRBM) model at criticality. We found that the variance of lnP(2) scales with system size L as sigma(2)(L) = sigma(2)(infinity)-AL(-D(2)/2d), with D(2) being the correlation dimension and d the system dimension. Therefore the concept of a correlation dimension is well defined in the two models considered. The 3D Anderson transition and the PRBM transition for b = 0.3 (see the text for the definition of b) are fairly similar with respect to all critical magnitudes studied.
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- E Cuevas
- Departamento de Física, Universidad de Murcia, E-30071 Murcia, Spain
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Van Drooge BL, Grimalt JO, Torres-García CJ, Cuevas E. Deposition of semi-volatile organochlorine compounds in the free troposphere of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Mar Pollut Bull 2001; 42:628-634. [PMID: 11525280 DOI: 10.1016/s0025-326x(01)00064-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Deposition samples were taken at a height of 2367 m above sea level (m.a.s.l.) on the Island of Tenerife from May 1999 until July 2000 and analysed for 19 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCH) and DDTs. This site is located above the inversion layer, so samples represent background concentrations of the free troposphere. The average deposition fluxes of HCB, total HCH, DDTs and PCBs were 86, 400, 110 and 780 ng m(-2) yr(-1), respectively, being lower than those reported at sea level in continental or marine areas. All compounds are generally found in higher abundance in the wet precipitation samples. However, these samples only represent a fraction, e.g. 33%, of the total deposition load. Annual mass balance calculations show that wet precipitation is essentially responsible for the deposition of the low molecular weight OC whereas dry deposition accounts for more than 50% of the higher molecular weight PCBs.
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- B L Van Drooge
- Department of Environmental Chemistry, ICER-CSIC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Cuevas E, Gasparian V, Ortuño M. Anomalously large critical regions in power-law random matrix ensembles. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 87:056601. [PMID: 11497795 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.056601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We investigate numerically the power-law random matrix ensembles. Wave functions are fractal up to a characteristic length whose logarithm diverges asymmetrically with different exponents, 1 in the localized phase and 0.5 in the extended phase. The characteristic length is so anomalously large that for macroscopic samples there exists a finite critical region, in which this length is larger than the system size. The Green's functions decrease with distance as a power law with an exponent related to the correlation dimension.
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- E Cuevas
- Departamento de Física, Universidad de Murcia, E-30071 Murcia, Spain
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Schulz A, Rex M, Harris NRP, Braathen GO, Reimer E, Alfier R, Kilbane-Dawe I, Eckermann S, Allaart M, Alpers M, Bojkov B, Cisneros J, Claude H, Cuevas E, Davies J, De Backer H, Dier H, Dorokhov V, Fast H, Godin S, Johnson B, Kois B, Kondo Y, Kosmidis E, Kyrö E, Litynska Z, Mikkelsen IS, Molyneux MJ, Murphy G, Nagai T, Nakane H, O'Connor F, Parrondo C, Schmidlin FJ, Skrivankova P, Varotsos C, Vialle C, Viatte P, Yushkov V, Zerefos C, von der Gathen P. Arctic ozone loss in threshold conditions: Match observations in 1997/1998 and 1998/1999. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/2000jd900653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Gil M, Puentedura O, Yela M, Cuevas E. Behavior of NO2and O3columns during the eclipse of February 26, 1998, as measured by visible spectroscopy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1029/1999jd900973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Louis E, Vergés JA, Cuevas E. Correlation decay in quantum chaotic billiards with bulk or surface disorder. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 1999; 60:391-7. [PMID: 11969773 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.60.391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/1998] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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We study the decay properties of correlation functions in quantum billiards with surface or bulk disorder. The quantum system is modeled by means of a tight-binding Hamiltonian with diagonal disorder, solved on LxL clusters of the square lattice. The correlation function is calculated by launching the system at t=0 into a wave function of the regular (clean) system and following its time evolution. The results show that the correlation function decays exponentially with a characteristic correlation time (inverse of the Lyapunov exponent lambda). For small enough disorder the Lyapunov exponent is approximately given by the imaginary part of the self-energy induced by disorder. On the other hand, if the scaling of the Lyapunov exponent with L is investigated by keeping constant l/L, where l is the mean free path, the results show that lambda is proportional to 1/L.
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- E Louis
- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Alicante, Apartado 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
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Armerding W, Comes FJ, Crawack HJ, Forberich O, Gold G, Ruger C, Spiekermann M, Walter J, Cuevas E, Redondas A, Schmitt R, Matuska P. Testing the daytime oxidizing capacity of the troposphere: 1994 OH field campaign at the Izaña observatory, Tenerife. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1029/96jd03714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Oltmans SJ, Levy H, Harris JM, Merrill JT, Moody JL, Lathrop JA, Cuevas E, Trainer M, O′Neill MS, Prospero JM, Vömel H, Johnson BJ. Summer and spring ozone profiles over the North Atlantic from ozonesonde measurements. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1029/96jd01713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Cuevas E, Louis E, Vergés JA. Model of Quantum Chaotic Billiards: Spectral Statistics and Wave Functions in Two Dimensions. Phys Rev Lett 1996; 77:1970-1973. [PMID: 10061824 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.77.1970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Hamlett WC, Schwartz FJ, Schmeinda R, Cuevas E. Anatomy, histology, and development of the cardiac valvular system in elasmobranchs. J Exp Zool 1996; 275:83-94. [PMID: 8676100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We report here on the anatomy, histology, and development of the three sets of cardiac valves in embryonic and adult elasmobranch fishes. The sinus venosus is the first segment of the heart to receive blood, and a pair of sinoatrial (SA) valves prevent backward flow of blood into the sinus venosus. The SA valves derive from two dorsolateral infoldings of the cardiac wall and consist of a simple endocardium covering transverse sheets rich in collagen. The SA valves are simple flaps of tissue without papillary muscles or chordae tendineae. Blood from the atrium passes the atrioventricular (AV; semilunar) valves, which are attached to papillary muscles in the ventricle by way of the chordae tendineae. A series of rows of conal or pocket valves (CV) in the conus arteriosus, equipped with chordae tendineae but no papillary muscles, prevent blood from reentering the ventricle. Chordae tendineae form in a similar fashion in both chambers. Elevations from the chamber wall emerge as a sheet covered on both surfaces with endocardium and separated by a core of connective tissue. Endocardial cells extend basal projections toward the opposing epithelium through their basal laminae. Basal cell projections make contact to create perforations that enlarge to produce spaces between the nascent chordae. Fibroblasts in the core of the chordae enlarge and strengthen the chordae by producing linear arrays of collagen fibers.
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- W C Hamlett
- South Bend Center for Medical Education, Indiana University School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame 46556, USA
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