Las células ß pancreáticas sintetizan y secretan insulina, amilina y factor de crecimiento neuronal (NGF). La insulina y la amilina se almacenan en los mismos gránulos de secreción y se secretan bajo los mismos estímulos. El principal efecto de lainsulina es el aumento en la entrada de glucosa a ls...
Diabetes mellitus is a sickness that causes death. In 1995 it ranked in the fouth place, after cardiovascular, oncological and violent causes of death. The number of patients that have this sickness is of the order of 3 to 6 % woldwide. Nowdays, diabetes is treated by the use of...
The diabetes mellitus (DM) represents one of the principal health problems worldwide, having of the highest indices of prevalence and mortality. The DM can be defined as a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both, originating metabolic abnormalities in...
The old and modern literature informs that the acupunture and other forms of stimulation of the acupunturales points have remarkable effects on physicologic variables and fisiopatologias. Clinical and experimental studies suggest that the acpunture exercises its effect through mechanisms neurohormonales. The purpose of this work is to provide a tool...
INTRODUCTION. Anxiety and insomnia represent a high number of medical attentions, most of them are treated with anxiolitic benzodiacepins. However, studies at present support use of the phytodrugs as alternative treatment for those patients. Phytodrugs offers a beneficial effect for the enclosed sintomatology, improving quality of life. The main aim...
En la encuesta nacional realizada por la Secretaria de Salud en el año 2002, se encontró que del total de la población con obesidad, el 25% eran mujeres. La prevalencia de dicha enfermedad se ha incrementado hasta un 40% en los últimos años. En el caso de las mujeres los...
El propósito del estudio fue investigar si la mezcla a partes iguales de las tinturas de espino blanco (Crataegus monogyna), cola de caballo (Equisetum hyemale) y diente de león (Taraxacum officinale), modifica la presión arterial y la frecuencia del pulso en personas sanas. Participaron 25 personas adultas, 16 varones y...
Investigaciones acerca de los componentes químicos del Allium sativum L.(ajo) entre los cuales se encuentra una compleja mezcla de mono. di-, tri- y polisulfuros, por ejemplo la aliína (sulfóxido de alilcisteína), que se transforma en alicina (disulfuro de dialilo) por acción de la enzima aliinasa, son responsables de su olor...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the electroacupuncture in patients with Back pain. MATERIAL And METODOS: Comparative, opened, observational, prospective and longitudinal study of a sample of 90 patients who went to the Clinic of Acupuncture of the UAM-Iztapalapa, D.F Mexico, with ages between 18 and 70 years, of one...
Presentation. This thesis belongs to the scope of human physiology. It deals with the functional relationship between the autonomic nervous and the cardio-respiratory systems. Specifically, it treats the effects of some experimental maneuvers over the variability of cardiovascular parameters. Each of the selected maneuvers has been a well-established research area...