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Thermographic image analysis is a subfield of diagnostic image processing aimed at detecting breast abnormalities in women at an early stage. It is a developing field of research and its effectiveness and scope require scientific assessment to be determined. An open-access dataset has been created for the scientific community to test and develop techniques for computational detection of normal and abnormal breast conditions from thermograms. This dataset is a valuable resource for researchers due to the scarcity of publicly available datasets of breast thermographic images. It includes thermographic images of the female chest area in three capture positions: anterior, left oblique and right oblique. The data set comes from 119 women ranging from 18 to 81 years of age. A table is attached to the dataset with the diagnosis of breast pathology, showing that 84 patients had benign pathology and 35 patients had malignant pathology. The diagnoses of women with healthy breast pathology are not included.

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The Guadalupe cypress (Cupressus guadalupensis S. Watson) is an endangered species included in the list of the NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010. The presence of wild goats in the habitat has been the greatest threat to the propagation and survival of this species. Therefore, there is a need to generate propagation protocols that facilitate the regeneration of the species. Plant tissue culture offers various possibilities that can facilitate the regeneration of species under some risk. Temporary immersion systems have proven to be an option with various advantages in plant tissue culture, such as increasing the number of seedlings generated and reducing production times, compared to semisolid media. The objective of this chapter is to describe a protocol to propagate Guadalupe cypress tissues in a RITA® temporary immersion system.

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OBJECTIVE: To identify nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver stiffness in Mexican subjects with different body mass index (BMI). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 505 adults. Risk for NASH was defined as the presence of one or more of the following biochemical and metabolic parameters (BMPs): fasting glucose ≥100 mg/dl, triglycerides (TG) ≥150 mg/dl, homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) ≥2.5, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) >54 IU/L and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >42 IU/L. Body mass index measurement and nutritional assessment were performed by standard procedures. Liver fibrosis stage was determined by liver stiffness measurement using transitional elastography (TE) or by liver biopsy (LB). RESULTS: Risk for NASH was 57% (290/505). Most BMPs values incremented by BMI category. Among 171 at-risk patients, 106 subjects were evaluated by TE and 65 subjects by LB. Abnormal liver stiffness (≥6.0 kPa) was prevalent in 54% (57/106) of the cases, whereas by LB, 91% (59/65) of patients with obesity had NASH and liver fibrosis. Furthermore, liver fibrosis was prevalent in 46% (6/13) in normal weight individuals, whereas 4.6% (3/65) of patients with a BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2 showed no histopathological abnormalities. Overall, 67.8% (116/171) of the patients had abnormal liver stiffness or NASH. The normal weight patients with liver damage consumed relatively a higher fat-rich diet compared to the other groups whereas the remaining subgroups shared a similar dietary pattern. CONCLUSION: Young patients with overweight and obesity showed a high prevalence of altered BMPs related to abnormal liver stiffness assessed by TE and NASH by LB. Early diagnostic strategies are required to detect the risk for NASH and avoid further liver damage in populations with a rising prevalence of obesity by defining the risk factors involved in the onset and progression of NASH.

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Antecedentes: La diabetes tipo 2 es uno de los mayores problemas para los sistemas de salud de Latinoamérica. La expectativa de su incremento se basa en la alta prevalencia de las condiciones que preceden a la diabetes como la obesidad y la intolerancia a la glucosa, entre otras. Objetivo: Determinar los conocimientos, prácticas y actitudes en relación a su enfermedad de los pacientes con Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 en la aldea El Nance, Campamento, Olancho, Octubre-Diciembre 2016. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo que incluyó todos los pacientes con Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 de la aldea el Nance, Campamento, Olancho. Se realizó una encuesta previa y luego se brindó educación a cada paciente. Resultados: Se evaluaron 40 pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2, en donde 62.5 % desconoce que es hipoglicemia, la mitad de ellos relaciona las complicaciones a diabetes mellitus tipo 2 . 32.5% de los pacientes no realiza actividad física semanal. La mitad de ellos no cuenta con glucómetro. 55% de los pacientes asistiría a sus citas médicas si supiera que estará mejor. Discusión: Los pacientes diabéticos tipo 2 de este estudio presentaron conocimientos adecuados acerca de los conceptos de la enfermedad, las complicaciones, y algunas prácticas, siendo similar a los resultados de estudios centroamericanos.

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BACKGROUND: The Linear Array® (LA) genotyping test is one of the most used methodologies for Human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping, in that it is able to detect 37 HPV genotypes and co-infections in the same sample. However, the assay is limited to a restricted number of HPV, and sequence variations in the detection region of the HPV probes could give false negatives results. Recently, 454 Next-Generation sequencing (NGS) technology has been efficiently used also for HPV genotyping; this methodology is based on massive sequencing of HPV fragments and is expected to be highly specific and sensitive. In this work, we studied HPV prevalence in cervixes of women in Western Mexico by LA and confirmed the genotypes found by NGS. METHODS: Two hundred thirty three cervical samples from women Without cervical lesions (WCL, n = 48), with Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 1 (CIN I, n = 98), or with Cervical cancer (CC, n = 87) were recruited, DNA was extracted, and HPV positivity was determined by PCR amplification using PGMY09/11 primers. All HPV- positive samples were genotyped individually by LA. Additionally, pools of amplicons from the PGMY-PCR products were sequenced using 454 NGS technology. Results obtained by NGS were compared with those of LA for each group of samples. RESULTS: We identified 35 HPV genotypes, among which 30 were identified by both technologies; in addition, the HPV genotypes 32, 44, 74, 102 and 114 were detected by NGS. These latter genotypes, to our knowledge, have not been previously reported in Mexican population. Furthermore, we found that LA did not detect, in some diagnosis groups, certain HPV genotypes included in the test, such as 6, 11, 16, 26, 35, 51, 58, 68, 73, and 89, which indicates possible variations at the species level. CONCLUSIONS: There are HPV genotypes in Mexican population that cannot be detected by LA, which is, at present, the most complete commercial genotyping test. More studies are necessary to determine the impact of HPV-44, 74, 102 and 114 on the risk of developing CC. A greater number of samples must be analyzed by NGS for the most accurate determination of Mexican HPV variants.

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El presente estudio se llevó a cabo la determinación de la actividad inhibidora contra Mycobacterium smegmatis y Mycobacterium tuberculosis de extracto de plantas de uso medicinal en Guatemala. El propósito de este estudio fue determinar si existía correlación entre la acción inhibidora in vitro de extractos hexánicos, clorosfórmico, metanólicos y acuosos de las plantas: Sida acuta, Enterolobium cyclocarpum, Piper auritum, Stachytarpheta cayennensis y Ocimum micranthum, de una cepa de Mycobacterium smegmatis y una cepa multisensible, 3 de mediana resistencia y una multiresistencia y una multiresistencia de Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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