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Overview

Alejandro Casas is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with a significant number of publications in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their scholarly work covers multiple subfields including Physiology, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.

Their research topics demonstrate extensive engagement with respiratory diseases and related mechanisms. The main topics of their work include:

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • Plant Toxicity and Pharmacological Properties
  • High Altitude and Hypoxia

Alejandro Casas has published in a variety of scholarly venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Archivos de Bronconeumología
  • COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • Gaceta Médica de México
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Revista Colombiana de Neumología

Frequent co-authors collaborating on research include:

  • Carlos A. Torres-Duque
  • Mauricio González-García
  • María Montes de
  • María Victorina López Varela
  • Alejandra Ramírez-Venegas

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Alejandro Casas include:

  • "Arterial blood gases and ventilation at rest by age and sex in an adult Andean population resident at high altitude," 2020, European Journal of Applied Physiology
  • "Physical Activity Levels and Associated Factors in a Latin American COPD Population of Patients. The LASSYC Study," 2021, COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • "Prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in COPD patients living at high altitude," 2022, Pulmonology
  • "Incorporating new evidence on inhaled medications in COPD. The Latin American chest association (ALAT) 2019," 2020, Archivos de Bronconeumología
  • "Understanding the Gaps in the Reporting of COPD Exacerbations by Patients: A Review," 2024, COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Best Publications

  • In situ Management and Domestication of Plants in Mesoamerica

    Alejandro Casas;Adriana Otero-Arnaiz;Edgar Pérez-Negrón;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

  • Knowledge and use value of plant species in a Rarámuri community: a gender perspective for conservation.

    Andrés Camou-Guerrero;Victoria Reyes-García;Miguel Martínez-Ramos;Alejandro Casas

  • Biological diversity in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico

    Patricia Dávila;Maria Del Coro Arizmendi;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Jose Luis Villaseñor

  • Plant resources of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley, Mexico

    Alejandro Casas;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Juan Luis Viveros;Javier Caballero

  • Manejo de la vegetación, domesticación de plantas y origen de la agricultura en Mesoamérica

    Alejandro Casas;Javier Caballero;Cristina Mapes;Sergio Zárate

  • Plant Management in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico1

    José Blancas;Alejandro Casas;Selene Rangel-Landa;Ana Moreno-Calles

  • Conservation and sustainable use of crop wild relatives

    Vernon Heywood;Alejandro Casas;Brian Ford-Lloyd;Shelagh Kell

  • Plant management among the Nahua and the Mixtec in the Balsas River Basin, Mexico : An ethnobotanical approach to the study of plant domestication

    Alejandro Casas;María del Carmen Vázquez;Juan Luis Viveros;Javier Caballero

  • Ethnobotany and domestication in Xoconochtli, Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae), in the Tehuacán Valley and La Mixteca Baja, México

    Alejandro Casas;Alejandro Casas;Barbara Pickersgill;Javier Caballero;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

  • Morphological variation and the process of domestication of Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae) in Central Mexico

    Alejandro Casas;Javier Caballero;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Jose Antonio Soriano

  • Ecological and socio-cultural factors influencing plant management in Náhuatl communities of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico

    José Blancas;Alejandro Casas;Diego Pérez-Salicrup;Javier Caballero

  • Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

    Charles Roland Clement;Alejandro Casas;Fabiola Alexandra Parra-Rondinel;Carolina Levis

  • La vegetación del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Alejandro Casas;Ariel Alcántara;Patricia Dávila

  • Pollinator-dependent food production in Mexico.

    Lorena Ashworth;Lorena Ashworth;Mauricio Quesada;Alejandro Casas;Ramiro Aguilar;Ramiro Aguilar

  • Seed germination of wild and cultivated Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae) from the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Central México

    Mariana Rojas-Aréchiga;Alejandro Casas;Carlos Vázquez-Yanes

  • Reproductive biology and the process of domestication of the columnar cactus Stenocereus Stellatus in Central Mexico.

    Alejandro Casas;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Alberto Rojas-Martínez;Patricia Dávila

  • Traditional knowledge and useful plant richness in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico.

    Rafael Lira;Alejandro Casas;Rocío Rosas-López;Martín Paredes-Flores

  • Pollination biology of two winter-blooming giant columnar cacti in the Tehuacán Valley, central Mexico

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Alberto Rojas-Martı́nez;Alejandro Casas;Marı́a del Coro Arizmendi

  • Genetic Structure of Wild and Domesticated Populations of Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) from Northwestern Mexico Analyzed by RAPDs

    Ken Oyama;Sergio Hernández-Verdugo;Carla Sánchez;Antonio González-Rodríguez

  • Evolution Under Domestication: Ongoing Artificial Selection and Divergence of Wild and Managed Stenocereus Pruinosus (Cactaceae) Populations in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico

    Fabiola Parra;Alejandro Casas;Juan Manuel Peñaloza-Ramírez;Aurea C. Cortés-Palomec

  • Traditional management and morphological variation in Leucaena esculenta (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) in the Mixtec region of Guerrero, Mexico

    Alejandro Casas;Javier Caballero

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet National Autonomous University of Mexico
Antonio González-Rodríguez
Antonio González-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Ken Oyama
Ken Oyama National Autonomous University of Mexico
Charles R. Clement
Charles R. Clement National Institute of Amazonian Research
Marc Miravitlles
Marc Miravitlles Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari
James L. Hamrick
James L. Hamrick University of Georgia
Luis E. Eguiarte
Luis E. Eguiarte National Autonomous University of Mexico
Ana M. B. Menezes
Ana M. B. Menezes Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Miguel Martínez-Ramos
Miguel Martínez-Ramos National Autonomous University of Mexico
Ana H. Ladio
Ana H. Ladio National University of Comahue

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