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Efecto de los anticuerpos monoclonales anti proteínas variable de superficie sobre el proceso de variación antigénica en Giardia Lamblia
Full text linkTesis (Doctor en Ciencias Químicas) - - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, 2016Fil: Torri, Alessandro. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Medicina. Cátedra de Química; Argentina.Fil: Torri, Alessandro. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas; Argentina.Fil: Luján, Hugo Daniel. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Medicina. Cátedra de Química; Argentina.Fil: Luján, Hugo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Inmunología y Enfermedades Infecciosas; Argentina.Fil: Barra, José Luis Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Química Biológica; Argentina.Fil: Barra, José Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba; Argentina.Fil: Sotomayor, Claudia Elena. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica; Argentina.Fil: Sotomayor, Claudia Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; Argentina.Fil: Rivero, Virginia Elena. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica; Argentina.Fil: Rivero, Virginia Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; Argentina.Fil: Mayorga, Luis Segundo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Histología y Embriología de Mendoza Dr. Mario H. Burgos; Argentina.Giardia lamblia es un parásito intestinal considerado como uno de los eucariotas más primitivos. Vive en el duodeno de los humanos y otros mamíferos y es el agente causante la giardiasis, una enfermedad que puede manifestarse clínicamente con diarrea aguda o crónica así como puede causar infecciones asintomáticas. Giardia está recubierto por proteínas de superficie que constituyen una interfase entre el parásito y el medio ambiente y que pertenecen a la familia de proteínas llamadas Proteínas Variables de Superficie (Variant-specific Surface Proteins - VSPs). Su genoma contiene aproximadamente entre 150 y 200 genes codificantes para estas proteínas, pero sólo una VSP es expresada sobre la superficie de cada parásito en un dado momento y puede ser recambiada por otra mediante un mecanismo de regulación post transcripcional. Los estímulos que inducen este recambio son aún desconocidos. Varios estudios han sugerido que anticuerpos monoclonales contra una VSP específica podrían tener efectos citotóxicos sobre Giardia. En el presente trabajo de tesis se demuestra no sólo que los anticuerpos monoclonales contra VSPs no tiene efecto citotóxico sobre el parásito, sino también que son un estímulo que induce variación antigénica in vitro, sugiriendo que la presión del sistema inmunitario podría ser la principal causa de la variación antigénica in vivo.Giardia lamblia is an intestinal protozoan considered one of the most primitive eukaryotes. It lives in the small intestine of humans and other mammals and is the causative agent of giardiasis. This disorder is characterized by clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic infection to acute or chronic diarrhea, and closely related to malabsorption. Giardia is covered with a specific surface protein, which is a true interface between the parasite and the environment, and belong to a family of proteins called Variant-specific surface proteins (VSPs). Its genome contains a repertoire from 150 to 200 genes encoding these proteins, but only one VSP is expressed on the surface of each parasite at a particular time and can switches to a different VSP by unknown stimuli through a post transcriptional regulation. Several studies have suggested that monoclonal antibodies against a specific VSP may have cytotoxic effect on Giardia. Through this work it is demonstrated not only that • inmunoglobulins do not have a cytotoxic effect but also induce antigenic variation in vitro, suggesting that the inimune system pression can be a major cause of antigenic switching in vivo.Fil: Torri, Alessandro. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Medicina. Cátedra de Química; Argentina.Fil: Torri, Alessandro. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas; Argentina.Fil: Luján, Hugo Daniel. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Medicina. Cátedra de Química; Argentina.Fil: Luján, Hugo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Inmunología y Enfermedades Infecciosas; Argentina.Fil: Barra, José Luis Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Química Biológica; Argentina.Fil: Barra, José Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba; Argentina.Fil: Sotomayor, Claudia Elena. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica; Argentina.Fil: Sotomayor, Claudia Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; Argentina.Fil: Rivero, Virginia Elena. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica; Argentina.Fil: Rivero, Virginia Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; Argentina.Fil: Mayorga, Luis Segundo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Histología y Embriología de Mendoza Dr. Mario H. Burgos; Argentina
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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