Universidad de Guadalajara

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Neuroscience

Assessment of Audio-Tactile Sensory Substitution Training in Participants with Profound Deafness Using the Event-Related Potential Technique

Vanessa D. Ruiz-Stovel¹, Andrés A. González-Garrido¹, Fabiola R. Gómez-Velázquez¹, Geisa B. Gallardo-Moreno¹, Erwin R. Villuendas-González², Carlos A. Soto-Nava¹

¹Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad de Guadalajara, ²Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo

This protocol is designed to explore underlying learning-related electrophysiological changes in subjects with profound deafness after a short training period in audio-tactile sensory substitution by applying the event-related potential technique.

Biology

Contact Mode Atomic Force Microscopy as a Rapid Technique for Morphological Observation and Bacterial Cell Damage Analysis

Héctor Pérez Ladrón de Guevara¹, Virginia Villa-Cruz¹, Rita Patakfalvi¹, Lily Xochilt Zelaya-Molina², Ramiro Muñiz-Diaz¹

¹Centro Universitario de los Lagos, Universidad de Guadalajara, ²Centro Nacional de Recursos Genéticos, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias

Here, we present the application of atomic force microscopy (AFM) as a simple and fast method for bacterial characterization and analyze details such as the bacterial size and shape, bacterial culture biofilms, and the activity of nanoparticles as bactericides.