Ameloblastoma sólido multiquístico en mandibula y reconstrucción con placa de titanio / Solid multicystic ameloblastoma in jaw and reconstruction with titanium plate

El ameloblastoma sólido multiquístico es una neoplasia odontogénica rara, representa el 1% de los tumoresmaxilares, es de crecimiento lento y muestra un comportamiento agresivo local; en estado avanzado es capaz de generar deformidad facial, dolor, infección de la lesión, ulceración de la mucosa, pérdida dentaria, parestesia y puede alterar la masticación y la fonética. Objetivo: determinar las características clínicas, imagenológicas e histológicas del ameloblastoma para realizar el diagnóstico correcto y tratamiento oportuno. Presentación de caso clínico: p aciente femenina de 66 años, tratada en el servicio de cirugía oral y maxilofacial del Hospital Escuela Universitario, por presentar lesión de aspecto tumoral en cavidad bucal y región mandibular izquierda de 4 años de evolución. Los resultados deexámenes complementarios confirmaron que se trataba de un ameloblastoma sólido multiquístico. Se extirpó el tumor con amplios márgenes de seguridad mediante hemimandibulectomía y reconstrucción posterior con placa de titanio 2.4 W Lorenz. Conclusión: Los ameloblastomas son neoplasias benignas que presentan comportamientos clínicos similares con debe establecer un diagnóstico diferencial exhaustivo, auxiliándose de los exámenes complementarios pertinentes para iniciar el tratamiento adecuado y oportuno...(AU)

Superparamagnetic Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3 hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Background: The progress in material science and the recent advances in biodegradable/biocompatible polymers and magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles have led to develop innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for diseases based on multifunctional nanoparticles, which include contrast medium for magnetic resonance imaging, agent for hyperthermia and nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery. The aim of this work is to synthesize and characterize superparamagnetic iron oxide (magnetite), and to encapsulate them into poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) nanoparticles for biomedical applications. Results: The magnetite nanoparticles were confirmed by X-ray diffraction and exhibited a size of 22.3 ± 8.8 nm measured by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Polymeric PHBV nanoparticles loaded with magnetite (MgNPs) were analyzed using dynamic light scattering and showed a size of 258.6 ± 35.7 nm and a negative zeta potential (-10.8 ± 3.5 mV). The TEM examination of MgNPs exhibited a spherical core-shell structure and the magnetic measurements showed in both, non-encapsulated magnetite and MgNPs, a superparamagnetic performance. Finally, the in vitro studies about the magnetic retention of MgNPs in a segment of small intestine of rats showed an active accumulation in the region of the magnetic field. Conclusions: The results obtained make the MgNPs suitable as potential magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents, also promoting hyperthermia and even as potential nanocarriers for site-specific transport and delivery of drugs.

Variación alozimática en el crustáceo Artemia franciscana (Anostraca: Artemiidae) del Gran Lago Salado en varias condiciones experimentales / Allozymatic variation in crustacea Artemia franciscana (Anostraca: Artemiidae) of Freat Salt Lake in different experimental conditions]

Starch gel electrophoresis was used to analyze the allelic variability of four polymorphic loci (Lap-2, Lap-3, Pgm and Gpi) from a single population of Artemia franciscana (Kellogg, 1906) from the Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA), cultured under eight different experimental conditions. The organisms were cultured to the adult stage under a 2 x 2 x 2 experimental design (22 and 30 degrees C; 30 and 60 ppt salinity; and Dunaliella sp. and Spirulina sp. as food). There were significant differences in allele frequencies at each locus and the mean expected heterozygosity (He) varied from 0.236 to 0.447. Therefore, the hypothesis of no allelic differences among treatments is rejected. With relation to a possible correlation between genetic variability and the phenotypic characteristics, the results show that there is probably a synergic effect between the different salinities and temperatures on the survival of heterozygous organisms in the different loci.