Interleukin-32γ in the Control of Acute Experimental Chagas Disease by Yarlla L. L. Braga, José R. C. Neto, Arthur W. F. Costa, Muriel V. T. Silva, Marcos V. Silva, Mara R. N. Celes, Milton A. P. Oliveira, Leo A. B. Joosten, Fátima Ribeiro-Dias, Rodrigo S. Gomes, Juliana R. Machado

“…Our results indicate that the presence of human IL-32γ in mice infected with the Colombian strain of T. cruzi is important for infection control during the acute phase of Chagas disease.…”
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SICKLE CELL TRAIT, CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND OUTCOMES: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY by Diego A Vargas-Hernández, Adriana Catalina Uscategui-Ruiz, Andrés Jesus Prada-Rueda, Consuelo Romero-Sánchez

“…Of these, 28 (54.8%) were Afro-Colombian, and 23 (45.1%) were Colombian mestizos. …”
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Imágenes y estereotipos del indígena en la producción fílmica de Ciro Guerra: Pájaros de verano by Carmen Laura Paz Reverol, María Dolores Fuentes Bajo

“…The goal of this article is to study the image of indigenism offered by the Colombian cinema; for this we will look at one of the most awarded directors, Ciro Guerra, and his movie Birds of Passage, released in 2018. …”
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Na casa das onças: xamanismo e performance na antropologia de E. Jean Langdon by Laura Pérez Gil, Luciana Hartmann

“…Raised and educated in the United States, Esther Jean Langdon conducted intensive field research among the Siona (Western Tukanoan), in the Colombian Amazon and has worked, for the last four decades, at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in the south of Brazil. …”
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Promoting Internal Armed Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: The Case of the US–Colombia Relations (Part I) by A. A. Manukhin

“…The author shows that the forms and the scope of the U.S. assistance to the Colombian government were strongly linked to the evolution of both the situation in that country and the strategic priorities of the US foreign policy in general. …”
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Testicular biometrics of Murrah buffaloes in different age groups by Erly L. Carrascal-Triana, Jorge Mejía Lúquez, Divier Agudelo Gómez, Edison Julián Ramírez Toro

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Antileishmanial Effect of 5,3′-Hydroxy-7,4′-dimethoxyflavanone of Picramnia gracilis Tul. (Picramniaceae) Fruit: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies by Sara M. Robledo, Wilson Cardona, Karen Ligardo, Jéssica Henao, Natalia Arbeláez, Andrés Montoya, Fernando Alzate, Juan M. Pérez, Victor Arango, Iván D. Vélez, Jairo Sáez

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Refugiados en la globalización  aproximaciones filosóficas a los procesos de subjetivación y exclusión socio-política by Pamela Verónica Morales

“…This time we will focus particularly on Colombian refugees and asylum seekers in Argentina. …”
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Toward Sustainable Biocultural Ecotourism: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Cultural and Biodiversity Richness in Colombia by Alejandra Echeverri, Natasha M. Batista, Stacie Wolny, Guido A. Herrera‐R, Federico Andrade‐Rivas, Allison Bailey, Anaid Cardenas‐Navarrete, Armando Dávila Arenas, Andres Felipe Díaz‐Salazar, Katherine Victoria Hernandez, Kelley E. Langhans, Bryam E. Mateus‐Aguilar, Dallas Levey, Andrew Neill, Oliver Nguyen, Andres Felipe Suárez‐Castro, Felipe Zapata, Natalia Ocampo‐Peñuela

“…Areas with great potential for biocultural ecotourism development largely coincide with designated Indigenous Reserves and Afro‐Colombian Territories. Our paper suggests that Colombia is currently safeguarding its biocultural capital and that it remains inaccessible to tourists. …”
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“Dame tu fuerza, Pegaso”: cultura televisiva, música africana, copia e intertextualidad en el género de la champeta criolla by Andrés Gualdrón Ramírez

“…Champeta is a musical genre from the Colombian Caribbean that originated in connection with the region’s neighborhood parties. …”
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La memoria de un fruto: La Fiesta del Pijuayo by María Eugenia Yllia, Nancy Ochoa

“…Its symbolic importance spreads beyond the borders and inscribes itself in the mythological, religious and ritual body of knowledge of indigenous populations from north-west Amazonia in Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian and Brazilian territories, thus revealing the production’s sophisticated technologies.…”
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Les mesures corporelles dans les rituels mexicains by Danièle Dehouve

“…It shows that both are based on body measurements open to mutual conversion, the logic of equivalencies being of pre-Colombian origin. Ritual uses are also similar. Every ceremony included the precise counting of ceremonial objects, as well as the measurement of their dimensions. …”
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Les cours d’eau dans les incantations chamaniques des Indiens yucuna (Amazonie colombienne) by Laurent Fontaine

“…Rivers in shamanic incantations of Yucuna Indians (Colombian Amazon). For Yucuna Indians, every river has its history, its masters or original inhabitants. …”
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Las medidas corporales en los rituales mexicanos by Danièle Dehouve

“…It shows that both are based on body measurements open to mutual conversion, the logic of equivalencies being of pre-Colombian origin. Ritual uses are also similar. Every ceremony included the precise counting of ceremonial objects, as well as the measurement of their dimensions. …”
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EFL Teacher Professionalism and Identity: Between Local/Global ELT Tensions by Julio Cesar Torres-Rocha

“…Framed within a critical approach of applied linguistics, these issues are addressed in three sections (global/local tensions, teacher professional identity, and a new EFL professional identity) in order to argue that a dynamic, shifting, and multifaceted perspective of a globally-minded EFL teacher professional identity is needed so that Colombian EFL professionals can define or redefine their own identities in taking an informed and critical political stance. …”
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EFL Teacher Professionalism and Identity: Between Local/Global ELT Tensions by Julio Cesar Torres-Rocha

“…Framed within a critical approach of applied linguistics, these issues are addressed in three sections (global/local tensions, teacher professional identity, and a new EFL professional identity) in order to argue that a dynamic, shifting, and multifaceted perspective of a globally-minded EFL teacher professional identity is needed so that Colombian EFL professionals can define or redefine their own identities in taking an informed and critical political stance. …”
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Jacques Gilard, entre la historia y la literatura by Consuelo Triviño Anzola

“…The article shows how he played a leading part in the understanding and the diffusion of Colombian writers’ works, especially those of Garcia Márquez and the Grupo de Barranquilla, in which he includes himself. …”
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Epidemiological Surveillance Study of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Latin America: Serotype Distribution. A Pan American Health Organization Initiative by Elizabeth Castañeda, Sistema Regional de Vacunas, Pan American Health Organization Pneumococcal Surveillance Study Croup, National Centre for Streptococcus, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control

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Online peer-tutoring: a renewed impetus for autonomous English learning by Luis Ignacio Herrera Bohórquez, José David Largo Rodríguez, John Jairo Viáfara González

“… Challenges to an existing face-to-face peer-tutoring model grew into an opportunity to integrate online technologies as a support for English autonomous learning in two undergraduate teacher education programs at a Colombian public university. This qualitative study examines how a group of tutees’ exposure to an online-based peer-tutoring model shapes their autonomy. …”
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From surface to caves: new species of Diploexochus Brandt, 1833 (Oniscidea, Armadillidae) from Colombia, with the description of the first troglobitic species by Ricardo Borja-Arrieta, Carlos Mario López-Orozco, Yesenia M. Carpio-Díaz, Miguel Gutierrez-Estrada, Ivanklin Soares Campos-Filho, Gabriel R. Navas-S., Maria Elina Bichuette

“…Two new species of Diploexochus are described, Diploexochus cacique sp. nov. from Cerro Bañaderos in Hatonuevo, La Guajira, and Diploexochus troglobius sp. nov. from Roca Madre Cave, Toluviejo, Sucre, both from the Tropical Dry Forest (TDF) areas of the Colombian Caribbean. The latter represent the first troglobitic species of the genus. …”
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