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Biological and chemical studies of Pera benensis, a Bolivian plant used in folk medicine as a treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis
(Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1992)
The stem barks of Pera benensis are employed by the Chimane Indians in the Bolivian Amazonia as treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by the protozoan Leishmania braziliensis. The chloroform extracts containing ...
Heat exchange and energetic balance during exercise in highlanders and lowlanders at sea level and high altitude
(Environmental Physiology, 1973)
This study was designer to determine the effects of changes in both cutaneous circulation (15) and kinetics of oxygen uptake (20) at high altitude on mechanisms of heat exchange during exercise. From a theoretical point ...
Epidemiologie de la Leismaniose tegumentaire en Bolivie. 2. Modalites de la transmission
(Ann. Soc. Belge Med. Trop., 1989)
Résumé
La transmission de la leishmaniose tégumenta¡re due á Leishmania (Viannia)
braziliensis dépend á la fois de l'environnement et des act¡v¡tés humaines.
Dans les zones cultivées des Yungas les habitants sont infectés, ...
Acidimetría gástrica en diferentes niveles de altitud
(Instituto Boliviano de Biología de Altura, 1970)
RESUMEN.
Se realiza un estudio de acidimetría gástrica con estimulación histamínica simple y recolección fraccionada de muestras en 120 minutos.
Se exponen los resultados en distintas constantes del estudio acidimétrico.
Se ...
Total lung capacity in Andean highlanders
(American Journal of Human Biology, 1994)
ABSTRACT.
Total lung capacity (TLC), residual volume (RV), and vital capacity (VC), as well as related measures of pulmonary function, were assessed in a sample of 39 male and 23 female native highlanders of Aymara ...
Antiprotozoal activity of dehydrozaluzanin C, a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from munnozia maronii (Asteraceae)
(PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH, 1993)
The petrolelum ether extract of the leaves of Munnozia maronii was found to inhibit in vitro the growth of promastigote forms of Leishmania and epimastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi with and IC of 25 µg/mL. Activity-guided ...
Efectos hemodinámicos del ortostatismo en la altura
(Instituto Boliviano de Biología de Altura, 1971)
Summary: The authors investigated the hemodynamic repercussions of the orthostatism at high-altitude, in a group of normal subjects, native of the Bolivian Altiplano (High Plateau) (3.700 m.) during rest: in dorsal decupitus ...
Hypoxémie et hématocrite dans la polyglobulie pathologique d'altitude = Hypoxaemia and haematocrit in pathological high altitude polycythaemia
(Bull. Eur. Physiopathol. Respir., 1984)
Abstract.
81 patients living at La Paz (3,600-4,000 m altitude) and suffering from chronic polycythaemia, with an haematocrit > 57% were studied. They were selected on clinical and spirometric criteria to exclude from ...
Comparación de la tasa de hierro sérico, ferritina, transferrina y protoporfirina en sangre venosa y capilar
(Instituto Boliviano de Biología de Altura, 1987)
Resumen.
En conocimiento de un estudio realizado el año 1982 por Luis Mejía y Fernando Viteri (1), sobre la diferencia de concentración de ferritina en plasma de sangre venosa y capilar, amplié esta investigación con el ...
The effects of high altitude on pulmonary hypertension of cardiopathies, at La Paz, Bolivia
(Instituto Boliviano de Biología de Altura, 1969)
Summary.
This investigation concerns a comparison of hemodynamic data derived from eleven patients without cardio-pulmonary disease, living at La Paz, Bolivia, an ten patients with a variety of cardiopathies common to ...