• A pilot study applying the plant Anchored Hybrid Enrichment method to New World sages (Salvia subgenus Calosphace; Lamiaceae) 

      Fragoso Martínez, Itzi; Salazar, Gerardo A.; Martínez Gordillo, Martha; Magallón, Susana; Sánchez Reyes, Luna Luisa; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R.; Sazatornil, Federico D.; Granados Mendoza, Carolina (Elsevier, 2017)
      "We conducted a pilot study using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment to resolve relationships among a mostly Neotropical sage lineage that may have undergone a recent evolutionary radiation. Conventional markers (ITS, trnL-trnF ...
    • Advances in the Properties of Incomptine A: Cytotoxic Activity and Downregulation of Hexokinase II in Breast Cancer Cell Lines 

      Arietta García, Angel Giovanni; Calzada, Fernando; Ramírez Sánchez, Israel; Bautista Redonda, Francisco Elihú; García Hernández, Normand; Ordoñez Razo, Rosa María (MDPI, 2023)
      Breast cancer treatments are limited by the cancer subtype and its selectivity towards tumor cells, hence the importance of finding compounds that increase the survival of healthy cells and target any subtype. Incomptine ...
    • Ano1 is a better marker than c-Kit for transcript analysis of single interstitial cells of Cajal in culture 

      Loera Valencia, Raúl; Wang, Xuan-Yu; Wright, George W.J.; Barajas López, Carlos; Huizinga, Jan D. (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014)
      "The interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) drive the slow wave-associated contractions in the small intestine. A commonly used marker for these cells is c-Kit, but another marker named Ano1 was recently described. This study ...
    • Constitutive expression of the active fragment of human vasostatin Vs30 in Pichia pastoris SMD1168H 

      Calderón Salais, Sergio; Velázquez Bernardino, Prisiliana; Balderas Hernández, Víctor Emmanuel; Barba de la Rosa, Ana Paulina; De León Rodríguez, Antonio (Elsevier, 2018)
      "Vasostatin 30 (Vs30) is an active fragment derived from the N-terminal region (135–164 aa) of human calreticulin and has the ability to inhibit angiogenesis. In this work, the expression of Vs30 was performed using a ...
    • Decrease of Arabidopsis PAO activity entails increased RBOH activity, ROS content and altered responses to Pseudomonas 

      Jasso Robles, Francisco Ignacio; González, María Elisa; Pieckenstain, Fernando Luis; Ramírez García, José Miguel; Guerrero González, Maria de la Luz; Jiménez Bremont, Juan Francisco; Rodríguez y Domínguez Kessler, Margarita (Elsevier, 2020)
      "Polyamines (PAs) are small aliphatic amines with important regulatory activities in plants. Biotic stress results in changes in PA levels due to de novo synthesis and PA oxidation. In Arabidopsis thaliana five FAD-dependent ...
    • Down-regulation of arginine decarboxylase gene-expression results in reactive oxygen species accumulation in Arabidopsis 

      Chávez Martínez, Ana Isabel; Jasso Robles, Francisco Ignacio; Rodríguez y Domínguez Kessler, Margarita; Gill, Sarvajeet Singh; Becerra Flora, Alicia; Jiménez Bremont, Juan Francisco (Elsevier, 2018)
      "Arabidopsis amiR:ADC-L2 is a non-lethal line with several developmental defects, it is characterized by a drastic reduction in free polyamine content. Herein, we found that catalase application had growth-promoting effects ...
    • Expanding the Study of the Cytotoxicity of Incomptines A and B against Leukemia Cells 

      Calzada, Fernando; García Hernández, Normand; Hidalgo Figueroa, Sergio Nemorio; Bautista Redonda, Francisco Elihú; Barbosa Cabrera, Elizabeth; Velázquez González, Claudia; Hernández Caballero, Marta Elena (MDPI, 2022)
      "Heliangolide-type sesquiterpene lactones (HTSLs) are phytocompounds with several pharmacological activities including cytotoxic and antitumor activity. Both bioactivities are related to an ?-methylene-?-lactone moiety and ...
    • Impact of Carbon Nanomaterials on the Antioxidant System of Tomato Seedlings 

      González García, Yolanda; López Vargas, Elsy Rubisela; Cadenas Pliego, Gregorio; Benavides Mendoza, Adalberto; González Morales, Susana; Robledo Olivo, Armando; Alpuche Solís, Ángel Gabriel; Juárez Maldonado, Antonio (MDPI, 2019)
      "Tomato is one of the most economically important vegetables worldwide and is constantly threatened by various biotic and abiotic stress factors reducing the quality and quantity in the production of this crop. As an ...
    • In Vivo Neuropharmacological Effects of Neophytadiene 

      González Rivera, María Leonor; Barragan Galvez, Juan Carlos; Gasca Martínez, Deisy; Hidalgo Figueroa, Sergio Nemorio; Isiordia Espinoza, Mario Alberto; Alonso Castro, Angel Josabab (MDPI, 2023)
      Neophytadiene (NPT) is a diterpene found in the methanolic extracts of Crataeva nurvala and Blumea lacera, plants reported with anxiolytic-like activity, sedative properties, and antidepressant-like actions; however, the ...
    • Multilocus coalescent species delimitation to evaluate traditionally defined morphotypes in Hydrangea sect. Asperae (Hydrangeaceae) 

      De Smet, Yannick; De Clerck, Olivier; Uemachi, Tatsuya; Granados Mendoza, Carolina; Wanke, Stefan; Goetghebeur, Paul; Samain, Marie-Stephanie (Elsevier, 2017)
      "The number of species recognized in section Asperae of the flowering plant genus Hydrangea differs widely between subsequent revisions. This variation is largely centered around the H. aspera species complex, with numbers ...
    • Recreating intestinal peristalsis in the petri dish 

      Espinosa Luna, Rosa; Barajas Espinosa, Alma Rosa; Ochoa Cortés, Fernando; Barajas López, Carlos (Humana Press Inc, 2017)
      "Here we describe a culture technique of cells dissociated from the external muscularis of the guinea pig small intestine, which allows us to maintain all the elements involved in the intestinal peristaltic reflex. After ...
    • Selective Activation of D3 Dopamine Receptors Ameliorates DOI-Induced Head Twitching Accompanied by Changes in Corticostriatal Processing 

      Estrada Sánchez, Ana María; Rangel Barajas, Claudia; Howe, Andrew G.; Barton, Scott J.; Mach, Robert H.; Luedtke, Robert R.; Rebec, George V. (MDPI, 2023)
      D3 receptors, a key component of the dopamine system, have emerged as a potential target of therapies to improve motor symptoms across neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric conditions. In the present work, we evaluated ...
    • Tecia solanivora infestation increases tuber starch accumulation in Pastusa Suprema potatoes 

      Kumar, Pavan; Garrido, Etzel; Zhao, Kun; Zheng, Yi; Alseekh, Saleh; Vargas Ortiz, Erandi; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Fei, Zhangjun; Poveda, Katja; Jander, Georg (Wiley, 2018)
      "In response to infestation with larvae of the Guatemalan tuber moth (Tecia solanivora), some Solanum tuberosum (potato) varieties exhibit an overcompensation response, whereby the total dry mass of uninfested tubers is ...