Browsing by Subject "Octodon degus"
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(Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)
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(Sociedad de Biologia de Chile, 2002)We present an analysis of behavioral flexibility in a day-active caviomorph rodent, the degu, Octodon degus, in response to temporal (daily and seasonal), spatial, and thermal heterogeneity of its environment. We quantified ...
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(2008)To identify and characterize chilean samples of Trypanosoma cruzi and their association with hosts, the first 516 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were sequenced from eight biological samples, and phylogenetically ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)© 2014 The Royal Entomological Society. Several reports have described host species diversity and identity as the most important factors influencing disease risk, producing either dilution or amplification of the pathogen ...
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(Elsevier, 2013)This study shows for the first time the presence of intra and extrapancreatic ganglionar neurons and telocytes in Octodon degus such as those described in human and guinea pig pancreas. Pancreatic ganglionar neurons were ...
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(2010)Studies show that environmental modifications can produce profound alterations in the normal development of the visual cortex and its connectivity. For the other hand it is possible that in natural conditions, animal species ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2003)We studied the ontogeny of the intestinal brush border disaccharidases sucrase and lactase in the precocial rodent Octodon degus. Sucrase hydrolyze sugars from plants while lactase hydrolyzes sugars from milk. Enzyme ...
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(2007)This study examined the placentation in the degu, the origin of the extrasubplacental trophoblast (EST) (extravillous trophoblast in human), and the activity of Na+/K+ ATPase in the placental barrier during different ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2018)© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial progressive neurodegenerative disease. Despite decades of research, no disease modifying therapy is available and a change of research objectives and/or ...
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(BIOMED Central Ltd., 2017)Background: Chagas disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi is considered a major public health problem in America. After an acute phase the disease changes to a chronic phase with very low parasitemia. The parasite presents ...