ON COGNITIVE ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT PROMOTE ALZHEIMER DISEASE: LESSONS FROM OCTODON DEGUS (RODENTIA: OCTODONTIDAE)

On cognitive ecology and the environmental factors that promote Alzheimer disease: lessons from Octodon degus (Rodentia: Octodontidae)

Cognitive ecologist posits that the more efficiently an animal uses information from the biotic and abiotic environment, the more adaptive are its cognitive abilities.Nevertheless, this approach does not test for natural neurodegenerative processes under field or experimental conditions, which may recover animals information processing and decision

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Human umbilical cord expresses several vasoactive peptides involved in the local regulation of vascular tone: protein and gene expression of Orphanin, Oxytocin, ANP, eNOS and iNOS

Full-term human umbilical cord contains three blood vessels: two arteries coiled around a vein and surrounded by Wharton’s jelly, a mucous tissue with few mesenchymal stromal cells and abundant extracellular matrix.Umbilical vessels lack innervations, thus endothelial cells must play a role in the control of blood flow.The aim of this ste

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