Mercury (Hg) vapor can produce kidney injury, where the proximal tubule region of the nephron is the main target of the Hg-induced oxidative stress. Hg is eliminated from the body as a glutathione conjugate. Thus, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in glutathione-related ge...
Autor(es): Fernando Rondon. Oscar Flórez-Vargas. Luz Helena Sánchez Rodríguez. Linda Rocha Muñoz. Olga Marcela Medina Pérez. Giovanna Rincón Cruz.
Several scientific reasons support continuing bird collection in Colombia, a megadiverse country with modest science financing. Despite the recognized value of biological collections for the rigorous study of biodiversity, there is scarce information on the monetary costs of spec...
Autor(es): Enrique Arbelaez. Daniela Villamizar. Fernando Rondon.
In artisanal and small?scale gold mining, occupational exposure to mercury (Hg) vapor is related to harmful effects on several organs, including the kidneys. We previously reported significantly increased levels of Hg in blood and urine despite normal kidney function in individua...
Autor(es): Fernando Rondon. Oscar Flórez-Vargas. Luz Helena Sánchez Rodríguez. Linda Rocha Muñoz. Olga Marcela Medina Pérez. Giovanna Rincón Cruz.
We describe an ancestry-informative autosomal SNP multiplex designed to be a small-scale, flexible panel that can complement uniparental markers in assessing the American variability (i.e. pre-Colombian) found in contemporary indigenous American populations. This study centered o...
Autor(es): Fernando Rondon. Gloria Liliana Porras Hurtado. Julieta Henao Bonilla. Angel Carracedo. Silviene Oliveira. Guillermo Barreto. Vivian Nogueira Silbiger. Carlos Alberto Isaza. Lareu MV. Lisbeth Borjas.
Six Lippia sp. were subjected to sequence analysis of the small ribosomal subunit (SRS) or 18S rDNA gene (ca. 1530 bp in length) for studying their genetic relationship. A total of nine nucleotide differences distinguished the species-specific SRS haplotypes of L. alba, L. americ...
Autor(es): Francisco Jose Martinez. Fernando Rondon. Jorge Luis Fuentes. Liliana Santamaría-Acevedo. Cesar Augusto Prada-Medina. Elena Stashenko. Morris Levy. María Mercedes Levy.
Con tan sugestivo título, la UIS publicó el que tal vez sea su libro bandera. Presentado al público el pasado 5 de marzo, esta obra ha tomado vuelo entre la comunidad universitaria, y ahora se propone tomarlo entre la comunidad general. Sus autores, vinculados a la Escuela de Bio...
Autor(es): Jose Gregorio Moreno. Jorge Enrique Avendaño. Fernando Rondon.