Tropical Fruits and Their Co-Products as Bioactive Compounds and Their Health Effects: A Review.

Tropical and subtropical fruits are recognized as a source of a high content of bioactive compounds and health promoting properties due to their nutritional composition. These beneficial health effects are related to the content of several of these bioactive compounds, mainly flavonoids and non-flavonoid phenolics. Many of these compounds are common in different tropical fruits, such as epicatechin in mango, pineapple, and banana, or catechin in pineapple, cocoa or avocado. Many studies of tropical fruits had been carried out, but in this work an examination is made in the current literature of the flavonoids and non-flavonoid phenolics content of some tropical fruits and their coproducts, comparing the content in the same units, as well as examining the role that these compounds play in health benefits.

Assessment and determination of LC50 of carvacrol and salicylic acid analogues with acaricide activity in larvae and adult ticks of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus.

Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is a tick that causes huge economic losses in cattle. The indiscriminate use of acaricides has generated resistance to most compounds present on the market. Carvacrol and salicylic acid have been widely studied for their biological activities and have been evaluated in different strains of Rhipicephalus. In this research the analogues carvacrol and salicylic acid were evaluated in larvae of R. (B.) microplus with data obtained in larval packet test (LPT) and larval immersion test (LIT). A lethal concentration 50 (LC50) was assessed. The most potent compounds were evaluated in the adult ticks since there are no reports of evaluation in the life state of the parasite. From all the tested compounds, the ethyl 2-methoxybenzoate (91.82 ± 1.66%, 0.91 µmol/mL) and ethyl 2,5-dihydroxybenzoate (89.14 ± 1.61%, 2.04 µmol/mL) showed the highest percentage of mortality and the lowest LC50. They were found to be the best candidates for a study in vivo.

Prevención de trauma y desastre: Papel del sector salud en caso de desastre hospitalario / Disaster and trauma prevention: Role of the health sector in case of hospitalary disaster

Documento elaborado con el propósito de mostrar cuál es el papel y las acciones que debe desempeñar el Sector Salud en caso de algún desastre hospitalario, los Servicios Coordinados de Salud en el Estado de Puebla, México, a través de la Oficina de Prevención de Trauma y Desastre (PETRADE), presenta algunos puntos que deben cumplirse y desarrollarse en caso de algún desastre en hospital, mismos que se presentan a continuación: 1. Evaluación inicial y tratamiento de urgencia del paciente traumatizado 2. Material y equipo de sala de urgencias (anexo) 3. Triage en pacientes con trauma 3. Diagrama de flujo de heridos (anexo) 5. Tarjeta Triage (manejo) 6. Tarjeta Triage (anexo) 7. Plan Hospitalario en caso de Desastre Interno 8. Chalecos (anexo) 9. Plan Hospitalario en caso de Desastre Externo 10. Diagrama flujo de heridos (anexo) 11. Hoja de revisión norma técnica para ambulancias 12. Papel del Departamento de Enfermería en casos de desastre 13. Tablero de destinación de víctimas (anexo) 14. Tarjetas de funciones (anexo) 15. Lecturas recomendadas