Ethnopharmacological relevance: H. longipes S.F. Blake (Asteraceae) is a Mexican plant, whose roots aretraditionally used as a condiment, as a mouth anesthetic, and as an antiparasitic. Affinin is the alkamidepresent in ...

Fluorosis, caused by drinking water contamination with inorganic fluoride, is a public health problem inmany areas around the world. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of environmentally relevantdoses of ...

The present work shows the characterization of Phaseolus acutifolius varietylatifolius, on which little research has been published, and provides detailed information onthe corresponding lectin. This protein was purified ...

Recent studies have shown that handcrafted glass-clay containers are a health risk because they can be contaminated by heavy metals, which can be transferred to food, thus reaching the human body to potentially cause ...

Lectins comprise a heterogeneous class of proteins that recognize thecarbohydrate moieties of glycoconjugates with high specificity. Numerous studies haveOPEN ACCESSMolecules 2011, 162108shown that lectins are capable of ...

Aflatoxin B1 is a contaminant of agricultural and dairy products that can berelated to mutagenic and carcinogenic effects. In this report we explore the capacity of ?-mannan (Man) to reduce the DNA damage induced by AFB1 ...

Paternal germline exposure to organophosphorous pesticides (OP) has been associated with reproductivefailures and adverse effects in the offspring. Methyl-parathion (Me-Pa), a worldwide-used OP, hasreproductive adverse ...

Successful fertilization requires gametes to complete several stages, beginning with maturation and transport along the male and femalereproductive tracts and ending with the interaction between the sperm and the egg. This ...