Enfermedad de Crohn

SCIENTIFIC LETTERS Crohn’s disease: Upper gastrointestinal involvement Enfermedad de Crohn: afectación gastrointestinal alta

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory process that can affect any part of the digestive tract and its most frequent location is the terminal ileum.1 Oropharyngeal and esophageal involvement is rare (0.211%) and 80% of these cases are associated with synchronous lesions in the terminal ileum that develop up to 3 months after upper tract symptom onset.2 It is considered a poor outcome marker ...

Fosforilación de tau y enfermedad de Alzheimer

La enfermedad de Huntington: una visión biomolecular

La enfermedad de Huntington (EH) es una afección neurodegenerativa de carácter autosómico dominante, con penetración completa, cuya prevalencia es de 5 a 10 casos por cada 100.000 habitantes [1-3]. Las manifestaciones clínicas aparecen con mayor frecuencia entre los 35 y los 50 años de edad y se caracterizan por un cuadro progresivo de movimientos anormales e involuntarios de tipo coreico, que ...

SPECT cerebral y enfermedad de Alzheimer: una revisión

The Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT) is one of the recent neuroimaging techniques that contributes with information about the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). The present paper presents a description of the SPECT methodology and reviews the contribution of cerebral SPECT studies in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Several studies have shown a pattern of bilateral parietotemporal hypoperfu...

La desincronización interna como promotora de enfermedad y problemas de conducta

La desincronización interna como promotora de enfermedad y problemas de conducta SUMMARY Life on our planet is ruled by a temporary structure that governs our activities, our days and our calendars. In order to cope with a daily changing environment, organisms have developed adaptive strategies by exhibiting daily behavioral and physiological changes. Biological rhythms are properties conserved...