Kipus: revista andina de letras. 34 (Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: Luis Aguilar Monsalve, Mímimo mirador, Madrid, Verbum, 2010. -- Guido Tamayo, El inquilino, Bogotá, Mondadori, 2011. -- Fabiano Kueva, dir., Poesía mano a mano: memoria sonora de poesía ecuatoriana, Quito, Centro Experimental Oído Salvaje, 2011. -- Aleyda Quevedo Rojas, La otra, la misma de Dios, Quito, El Conejo, 2011, 150 pp. -- César Chávez, Herir la perfección, Quito, Ediciones Antropófago, 2012, 103 pp. -- Salvador de Madariaga, Guerra en la sangre, Madrid, Fundación José Antonio Castro, 2012. -- Raúl Serrano Sánchez, comp., Rondando a J.J. Tributo a Julio Jaramillo Laurido, Quito, Ministerio Coordinador del Patrimonio, 2012, 178 pp. -- José Joaquín Olmedo, La victoria de Junín. Canto a Bolívar (1825), Estudio introductorio: Raúl Vallejo; Prólogo: Fernando Iwasaki, Quito, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador/ Ediciones Doce Calles, S.L., 2012, 114 pp. -- Abdón Ubidia, Callada como la muerte, Quito, El Conejo, 2012, 109 pp. -- Sandra de la Torre Guarderas, El hueco en el zapato, Quito, El Ángel Editor, 2012, 84 pp.

Reviewing Member States’ Commitment to the European External Action Service. EPIN Working Paper No. 34, 20 November 2012

Based on interviews with diplomats from a representative cross-section of nine member states and members of the EEAS itself, the research findings of this EPIN Working Paper confirm long-standing traditions and member state perceptions of cooperation with European institutions. The paper also reveals new aspects of the intergovernmental method of foreign policy shaping and making in the European Union; in particular how different national positions can positively or negatively affect the consolidation of the EEAS and the role of the EU as an international actor. As such, the Working Paper makes an original contribution to the existing literature on one of most discussed actors in the European Union’s post-Lisbon architecture in the domain of EU external action.

Pretranslational regulation of the expression of the lipoprotein lipase (EC 3.1, l.34) gene by dietary fatty acids in the rat

Although there have been a number of studies of effects of diet and hormones on lipoprotein lipase (EC 3.1.1.34; LPL) activity and levels of LPL mRNA (Raynolds et al. 1990), there have been no studies which have investigated effects of different dietary fatty acids on LPL gene expression. In the present study male Wistar Albino rats were pair-fed diets containing 50 g fat/kg of different fatty acid composition for 2 weeks. The diets fed were (1) a mixed oil (450 g saturated fatty acids, 420 g monounsaturated fatty acids, 130 g polyunsaturated fatty acids/kg; n 8), (2) maize oil (n 8), or (3) fish oil (n 8). Animals were killed, RNA was extracted from liver and perirenal and epididymal fat pads, and analysed by ‘Northern methodology’. Samples were hybridized to a human cDNA probe for LPL (Gotoda et al. 1989). Two transcripts were identified in epididymai and perirenal adipose tissue which were approximately 3·7 and 1·7 kb in size. The results suggested that (1) fish oil-fed animals had significantly greater production of LPL mRNA in epididymai adipose tissue compared with maize oil-fed animals (P < 0·05), (2) maize oil-fed animals had significantly greater production of LPL mRNA in perirenal fat compared with the other dietary groups (P < 0·05), (3) expression in the liver was not significant. Rats fed on a fish oil diet had significantly reduced plasma triacylglycerol concentrations compared with the mixed-oil group (P < 0·05), but there were no significant differences in plasma cholesterol. The differences in LPL could not be explained directly by the changes in plasma immunoreactive-insulin and glucose-dependent insulinotrophic polypeptide levels in the three groups.