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    Effect of high mobility group nonhistone proteins HMG-20 (ubiquitin) and HMG-17 on histone deacetylase activity assayed in vitro

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    We have used a method previously described by Reeves and Candido (1) to partially release histone deacetylase from cell nuclei together with putative regulators of the enzyme. Histone deacetylase released from testis cell nuclei and its putative regulators were separated by gel filtration in Sepharose 6B. A peak of low molecular weight contains a heat-stable factor that stimulate histone deacetylase in vitro. Many of the properties of the activator coincide with those of the protein HMG-20 (ubiquitin). Ubiquitin isolated from testis cell nuclei stimulated histone deacetylase in vitro. It has been suggested that HMG-17 partially inhibits histone deacetylase in Fried cell nuclei (2). In our system, HMG-17 shows no inhibitory effect on histone deacetylase activity

    Two novel ligand-independent variants of the VEGFR-1 receptor are expressed in human testis and spermatozoa, one of them with the ability to activate SRC proto-oncogene tyrosine kinases

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    The vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (VEGFR-1) family of receptors is preferentially expressed in endothelial cells, with the full-length and mostly the soluble (sVEGFR-1) isoforms being the most expressed ones. Surprisingly, cancer cells (MDA-MB-231) express, instead, alternative intracellular VEGFR-1 variants. We wondered if these variants, that are no longer dependent on ligands for activation, were expressed in a physiological context, specifically in spermatogenic cells, and whether their expression was maintained in spermatozoa and required for human fertility. By interrogating a human library of mature testis cDNA, we characterized two new truncated intracellular variants different from the ones previously described in cancer cells. The new isoforms were transcribed from alternative transcription start sites (aTSS) located respectively in intron-19 (i19VEGFR-1) and intron-28 (i28VEGFR-1) of the VEGFR-1 gene (GenBank accession numbers JF509744 and JF509745) and expressed in mature testis and spermatozoa. In this paper, we describe the characterization of these isoforms by RT-PCR, northern blot, and western blot, their preferential expression in human mature testis and spermatozoa, and the elements that punctuate their proximal promoters and suggest cues for their expression in spermatogenic cells. Mechanistically, we show that i19VEGFR-1 has a strong ability to phosphorylate and activate SRC proto-oncogene non-receptor tyrosine kinases and a significant bias toward a decrease in expression in patients considered infertile by WHO criteria

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    La utilizaci贸n de nuevas tecnolog铆as en metodolog铆a docente no constituye una finalidad en s铆 misma sino un instrumento al servicio de un objetivo educativo.聽 Partiendo de las ideas formuladas por Abraham Flexner hace 100 a帽os, nuestro objetivo educativo consiste en mejorar el razonamiento cient铆fico de los estudiantes de Medicina. Para conseguirlo,聽 reducimos la cantidad de informaci贸n suministrada a los estudiantes y ponemos el 茅nfasis en las relaciones causales entre las variables responsables de las principales funciones fisiol贸gicas. Por otra parte, tratamos de transmitir a los estudiantes la emoci贸n de los descubrimientos cient铆ficos y les damos la oportunidad de trabajar durante un tiempo en la poyata de un laboratorio. La utilizaci贸n de las nuevas tecnolog铆as de la comunicaci贸n permite tutelar, de manera individualizada, la formaci贸n intelectual de nuestros estudiantes, haciendo accesible a un gran n煤mero de ellos lo que en otro tiempo fue el privilegio de un n煤mero reducido de disc铆pulos.聽</div

    EL PREMI NOBEL DE FISIOLOGIA O MEDICINA, 2010: Robert G. Edwards

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    Teor铆a de la educaci贸n : educaci贸n y cultura en la sociedad de la informaci贸n

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    Monogr谩fico con el t铆tulo: 'Avances tecnol贸gicos digitales en metodolog铆as de innovaci贸n docente en el campo de las Ciencias de la Salud en Espa帽a'. Resumen basado en el de la publicaci贸nLa utilizaci贸n de nuevas tecnolog铆as en metodolog铆a docente no constituye una finalidad en s铆 misma sino un instrumento al servicio de un objetivo educativo. Partiendo de las ideas formuladas por Abraham Flexner hace 100 a帽os, se plantea un objetivo educativo con el fin de mejorar el razonamiento cient铆fico de los estudiantes de Medicina. Para conseguirlo, se reduce la cantidad de informaci贸n suministrada a los estudiantes poniendo el 茅nfasis en las relaciones causales entre las variables responsables de las principales funciones fisiol贸gicas. Por otra parte, se trata de transmitir a los estudiantes la emoci贸n de los descubrimientos cient铆ficos y se les da la oportunidad de trabajar durante un tiempo en la poyata de un laboratorio. La utilizaci贸n de las nuevas tecnolog铆as de la comunicaci贸n permite tutelar, de manera individualizada, la formaci贸n intelectual de los alumnos, haciendo accesible a un gran n煤mero de ellos lo que en otro tiempo fue el privilegio de un n煤mero reducido de disc铆pulos.Castilla y Le贸nES

    How to improve the formal analytic reasoning and scientific motivation in the intellectual training of medical students

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    A review article of the The New England Journal of Medicine refers that almost a century ago, Abraham Flexner, a research scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, undertook an assessment of medical education in 155 medical schools in operation in the United States and Canada. Flexner鈥檚 report emphasized the nonscientific approach of American medical schools to preparation for the profession, which contrasted with the university-based system of medical education in Germany. At the core of Flexner鈥檚 view was the notion that formal analytic reasoning, the kind of thinking integral to the natural sciences, should hold pride of place in the intellectual training of physicians. This idea was pioneered at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania in the 1880s, but was most fully expressed in the educational program at Johns Hopkins University, which Flexner regarded as the ideal for medical education. (...
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