La génesis de las parafilias sexuales y la homosexualidad egodistónica: el Modelo de los Mecanismos Tensionales

Mediante el desarrollo del Modelo de los Mecanismos Tensionales, basado en el trastorno de evitación experiencial (Hayes, Wilson, Gifford, Follette & Stroshal,1996) y en la Teoría de la Terminación Conductual propuesta por McConaghy (1980), el presente artículotrata de exponer una serie de fenómenos que pueden estar pasando desapercibidos a la hora de explicar la génesis y el mantenimiento de las parafilias sexuales y la homosexualidad egodistónica. Para ello se parte del análisis de los testimonios de sujetos parafílicos y homosexuales egodistónicos (que no aceptan su homosexualidad) registrados durante los años 2005 y 2006. Desde una perspectiva de la psicología contextual y haciendo uso del análisis funcional y topográfico de las conductas características de cada trastorno, se observará cómo ambas manifestaciones sexuales tienen aspectos comunes (factores predisponentes, precipitantes y demantenimiento) en su origen y evolución.

Senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity in the in vitro ovarian stromal fibroblasts

Introduction: A growing biological research field is the cellular senescence, a mechanism that has been associated, under certain circumstances, with malignant transformation. Given the high incidence of ovarian cancer and its main origin from the ovarian surface epithelium, as well as the possibility that an epithelial-mesenchymal transition occurs, we evaluated both the in vitro growth of stromal fibroblasts from the ovarian cortex and their β-galactosidase activity at pH 6, enzyme whose expression is considered as a marker of replicative senescence. Methods: 48 samples of ovarian cortical fibroblasts from donors without a history of cancer were serially cultured until the end of their replicative life. β-galactosidase activity at pH 6 was quantified in each passage by the chemiluminiscent method. As control, we used ovarian epithelial cell cultures from the same donors. The enzyme activity was also evaluated in fibroblasts previously induced to senescence by exposure to hydrogen peroxide. Results: The analysis of the enzyme activity and the replicative capacity taken together showed that the fibroblast cultures reached the senescent state at passages 4-5, as what happened with the control epithelial cells. Fibroblasts induced to senescence showed high variability in the values of enzymatic activity. Conclusions: The similarity between both types of cells in reaching the senescent state deserves to be taken into account in relation to the epithelialmesenchymal transition that has been proposed to explain their behavior in the genesis of cancer arising from ovarian surface epithelium. Low β-galactosidase activity values at pH 6 would suggest possible inactivation of the response pathways to oxidative stress.

Socioterritorials forms of appropiation of living and right to the differencial space

The aim of this work is to recover Henri Lefèbvre's methodological contributions for (re)thinking the right to the city, based on the need to know the appropriation of space´s dialectical triad. Empirically, it refers to the urban genesis of Mar del Plata (Argentina), an intermediate Latin American city, and its heterogeneous socio-territorial forms of appropriating inhabitance, or different forms of appropriating goods of use, that lead to think about opening to the transformation of the capitalist social order, and of its urban order, naturalized after the fetischism of private property.