Roberto Olivares Hernández

• Professor
• Professor (Associate) at Metropolitan Autonomous University

A key aspect during the development of antivenoms is the evaluation of the efficiency and security of the therapeutic molecules. In this work, we report the pharmacokinetic analysis of a neutralizing single chain antibody fragment named LR (scFv LR) where three sheep were used as a large animal model. The animals were injected through i.v. route wi...

Agave bagasse is an agricultural residue that has the potential to be used as feedstock biorefineries. However, its complex structure requires a pretreatment step to facilitate the accessibility to carbohydrates for its subsequent conversion. In this study, the capital and operative expenses (CAPEX and OPEX) were simulated for industrial plants pro...

A statistical approach based on fractional and complete factorial designs to increase the citric acid yield was used. Polyurethane foam (PUF) was used as inert support for solidstate fermentation (SSF) due to its high-water retention capacity (up to 60-fold of its weight), resulting in the recovery of concentrated citric acid by squeezing it. The m...

Aerobic Escherichia coli growth at restricted iron concentrations (≤ 1.75 ± 0.04 μM) is characterized by lower biomass yield, higher acetate accumulation and higher activation of the siderophore iron-acquisition systems. Although iron homeostasis in E. coli has been studied intensively, previous studies focused only on understanding the regulation...

In this study, biodiesel was produced from coconut oil via homogeneous basic catalysis using sodium hydroxide as a catalyst, and its characteristics and applicability were analyzed. The following physicochemical properties of coconut oil and biodiesel were determined: density, kinematic viscosity, refractive index, acidity index, saponification ind...