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Arturo R. Zavala

Professor, California State University, Long Beach
Verified email at csulb.edu
Cited by 1100

Etiopathogenesis of Behcet's disease

C Mendoza-Pinto, M García-Carrasco… - Autoimmunity …, 2010 - Elsevier
Bechet's disease (BD) is an inflammatory, multi systemic disease with spontaneous
remissions and relapses similar to various autoimmune diseases. BD leads to organ …

Hexavalent chromium: Regulation and health effects

CC Alvarez, MEB Gómez, AH Zavala - … of trace elements in medicine and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the knowledge about heavy metals toxicity on humans, its use is widely spread
mainly for industrial processes. Chromium is an element that belongs to this group and …

Decision-making under pressure: medical errors in uncertain and dynamic environments

AM Zavala, GE Day, D Plummer… - Australian Health …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
Objective This paper provides a narrative overview of the literature concerning clinical
decision-making processes when staff come under pressure, particularly in uncertain …

Beta-lactamase database (BLDB)–structure and function

T Naas, S Oueslati, RA Bonnin, ML Dabos… - Journal of enzyme …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Beta-Lactamase Database (BLDB) is a comprehensive, manually curated public
resource providing up-to-date structural and functional information focused on this …

Codon usage in Chlamydia trachomatis is the result of strand-specific mutational biases and a complex pattern of selective forces

H Romero, A Zavala, H Musto - Nucleic acids research, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The patterns of synonymous codon choices of the completely sequenced genome of the
bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis were analysed. We found that the most important source …

Piezo1 channels restrain regulatory T cells but are dispensable for effector CD4+ T cell responses

A Jairaman, S Othy, JL Dynes, AV Yeromin… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
T lymphocytes encounter complex mechanical cues during an immune response. The
mechanosensitive ion channel, Piezo1, drives inflammatory responses to bacterial …

Genomic GC level, optimal growth temperature, and genome size in prokaryotes

H Musto, H Naya, A Zavala, H Romero… - Biochemical and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Two years ago, we showed that positive correlations between optimal growth temperature
(Topt) and genome GC are observed in 15 out of the 20 families of prokaryotes we analyzed …

Aerobiosis increases the genomic guanine plus cytosine content (GC%) in prokaryotes

H Naya, H Romero, A Zavala, B Alvarez… - Journal of molecular …, 2002 - Springer
The huge variation in the genomic guanine plus cytosine content (GC%) among prokar-
yotes has been explained by two mutually exclusive hypotheses, namely, selectionist and …

[HTML][HTML] Correlations between genomic GC levels and optimal growth temperatures in prokaryotes

H Musto, H Naya, A Zavala, H Romero, F Alvarez-Valı́n… - FEBS letters, 2004 - Elsevier
In prokaryotes, GC levels range from 25% to 75%, and Topt from≈ 0° C to> 100° C. When
all species are considered together, no correlation is found between the two variables …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy of laparoscopic diagnosis of endometriosis

L Mettler, T Schollmeyer… - JSLS: Journal of the …, 2003 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: Presumed endometriotic sites were observed in 164 patients operated on under
the clinical suspicion of endometriosis. Targeted biopsies were performed for histologic …