RESUMO
Diseases of the genitourinary system are the leading cause of hospital deaths in El Salvador, and chronic kidney disease of unknown origin has been gaining attention as a public health problem among farmers in particular. Epidemiological studies point, in part, to environmental risk factors, which have shifted over time with the deployment of modern agricultural science and ongoing climate change. We examined how diseases of the genitourinary system were situated at several margins of an epidemic in one rural Salvadoran municipality where these environmental and epidemiological changes are occurring, albeit relatively slow. By using this approach to study diseases of the genitourinary system, we illustrate one way in which shifting human/environment entanglements can be experimentally "known" in the context of human diseases associated with them. Our approach offers a unique perspective in thinking with ethnographic data to compliment ongoing epidemiological investigations of kidney disease in El Salvador.
Assuntos
Agricultura , Agroquímicos/efeitos adversos , Insuficiência Renal Crônica , Adulto , Antropologia Médica , El Salvador/etnologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Insuficiência Renal Crônica/induzido quimicamente , Insuficiência Renal Crônica/etnologiaRESUMO
Se investigó el efecto antitumoral del extracto acuoso del bejuco Bomarea cornigera. Ratones de la cepa Swiss albina fueron inoculados con la línea tumoral TG-180 por 15 días; luego del cual se separaron en 5 grupos (n=5 por grupo). Se administro intraperitonealmente ciclofosfamida (control positivo), agua destilada (control negativo) y el extracto en concentraciones de 1X, 2X y 4X; se evaluó la morbilidad, mortalidad, el peso y la longitud del sarcoma. Se encontró un efecto inhibidor del extracto de B. cornigera en el desarrollo del tumor sólido en ratones en los cuales se les transplanto el sarcoma TG-180. Las tasas de inhibición fueron 87,44 y 8,52% después de 17 días de tratamiento considerando la dosis 1X (más baja) y 2X (intermedia), respectivamente. Estos resultados sugieren que la administración de extracto acuoso de B. cornigera vía intraperitoneal puede ser útil como inhibidor del cáncer.