Content characterization of Latin American film productions on Netflix: a Bolivian perspective

A Latin American Perspective on Ion Channels.

Ion channels, both ligand- and voltage-gated, play fundamental roles in many physiologic processes. Alteration in ion channel function underlies numerous pathologies, including hypertension, diabetes, chronic pain, epilepsy, certain cancers, and neuromuscular diseases. In addition, an increasing number of inherited and de novo ion channel mutations have been shown to contribute to disease state...

A Latin American Perspective on Mission in Europe

A Latin American Perspective on G Protein-Coupled Receptors.

G protein-coupled receptors are sensors that interact with a large variety of elements, including photons, ions, and large proteins. Not surprisingly, these receptors participate in the numerous normal physiologic processes that we refer to as health and in its perturbations that constitute disease. It has been estimated that a large percentage of drugs currently used in therapeutics target the...

Latin american debt: an international bargaining perspective*

No assessment of new or recently re-established democracies in Latin America can overlook the threat to these regimes posed by debt service obligations that are often heavier and more durable than the reparations imposed on Weimar Germany. No discussion of the weakening of the liberal international economic order (the trend towards trade protection, chronic instability in currency and financial...

Rural Territorial Dynamics. a Latin American Perspective Insights from Ecuador

A left-of-centre government wrestles with the question of what it means to build a more socialist economy and society, while accepting that private enterprise will carry out the bulk of economic activity, co-ordinated in relatively free markets and an open economy — Ecuador uses the US dollar as its currency. There is an intense sense of having emerged from either the ‘long night’ or the ‘short...