Avaliação da densidade óssea mandibular por meio de tomografias computadorizadas: Multislice e de feixe cônico

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Desempenho e características da carcaça e da carne de cordeiros terminados em confinamento com dietas contendo silgens de resíduos de peixes

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeitos do fator de crescimento dos fibrobalstos 8 (FGF8) durante a maturação in vitro do complexo cumulus-oócito bovino

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Farmacologia) - IBB

Leveduras isoladas de ninhos de Acromyrmex Balzani (Hymenoptera: Formicidade) de áreas de cerrado do Estado do Tocantins

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Efeito do cloprostenol sódico sobre a evolução uterina no puerpério de vacas nelore

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FMVZ

Influence of the dopaminergic system, CREB, and transcription factor-B on cocaine neurotoxicity

Cocaine is a widely used drug and its abuse is associated with physical, psychiatric and social problems. Abnormalities in newborns have been demonstrated to be due to the toxic effects of cocaine during fetal development. The mechanism by which cocaine causes neurological damage is complex and involves interactions of the drug with several neurotransmitter systems, such as the increase of extracellular levels of dopamine and free radicals, and modulation of transcription factors. The aim of this review was to evaluate the importance of the dopaminergic system and the participation of inflammatory signaling in cocaine neurotoxicity. Our study showed that cocaine activates the transcription factors NF-κB and CREB, which regulate genes involved in cellular death. GBR 12909 (an inhibitor of dopamine reuptake), lidocaine (a local anesthetic), and dopamine did not activate NF-κB in the same way as cocaine. However, the attenuation of NF-κB activity after the pretreatment of the cells with SCH 23390, a D1 receptor antagonist, suggests that the activation of NF-κB by cocaine is, at least partially, due to activation of D1 receptors. NF-κB seems to have a protective role in these cells because its inhibition increased cellular death caused by cocaine. The increase in BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) mRNA can also be related to the protective role of both CREB and NF-κB transcription factors. An understanding of the mechanisms by which cocaine induces cell death in the brain will contribute to the development of new therapies for drug abusers, which can help to slow down the progress of degenerative processes.

Avaliação da eficácia de crioprotetores permeantes e não permeantes no descongelamento rápido e lento do sêmen canino

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between cryoprotectants little studied in Brazil such as dimethylformamide and trehalose amid thinner, using protocols of fast and slow defrosting. Three adult Labrador Retrievier male, healthy dogs, weekly submitted to one semen collection during five-weeks period, were used. The base diluent medium used in this study was tris-citrate added with 3% of dimethylformamide + 3% glycerol (D1), 3% dimethylformamide and trehalose (D2) and 4% glycerol (D3). At defrosting, half of the semen samples from each diluent medium was defrosted by rapid method in water-bath at 75 °C for seven minutes, followed by a new immersion at 37 °C for 1 minute. The other half of the samples was defrosted by slow method, in water-bath at 37 °C for 1 minute. The semen was evaluated for sperm progressive motility and vigor, besides membrane integrity. For this, the semen samples were submitted to either hyposmotic and membrane integrity tests of the plasmatic membrane and acrosome (fluorescence). The results indicated that the use of glycerol as cryoprotector in TRIS diluter provides greater efficacy in cryopreserving spermatozoa of the canine species, when compared to dimethylformamide associated with trehalose or glycerol.

Crescimento e acúmulo de nutrientes em porta-enxertos de caramboleira adubados com zinco

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Produção Vegetal) - FCAV

Isolamento, identificação e caracterização de linhagem de levedura quanto ao crescimento e fermentação utilizando meios sintéticos com pentoses e hidrolisado de bagaço de cana-de-açúcar

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Bem-estar e qualidade da carne de suínos alimentados com dietas contendo milho geneticamente modificado

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FMVZ

In vivo embryo production in cows superovulated 1 or 2 days after ovum pick-up

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Starmerella aceti f.a., sp nova, an ascomycetous yeast species isolated from fungus garden of the leafcutter ant Acromyrmex balzani

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Nutrição do porta-enxerto 'Flying Dragon'

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Estudo de estirilpironas de Cryptocarya mandioccana por espectrometria de massas e análise configuracional por ressonância magnética nuclear e dicroísmo circular

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Kinome profiling of osteoblasts on hydroxyapatite opens new avenues on biomaterial cell signaling

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)