Citotoxicidade transamelodentinária de uma fita clareadora com 10% de peróxido de hidrogênio sobre células de linhagem odontoblástica

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

Otimização do meio de transporte de oócitos bovinos destinados à produção in vitro de embriões

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FCAV

Mecanismos de toxicidade do fipronil em hepatócitos isolados de rato

Pós-graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Animal - FEIS

Impaired protamination and sperm DNA damage in a Nellore bull with high percentages of morphological sperm defects in comparison to normospermic bulls

The routine semen evaluation assessing sperm concentration, motility and morphology, does not identify subtle defects in sperm chromatin architecture. Bulls appear to have stable chromatin, with low levels of DNA fragmentation. However, the nature of fragmentation and its impact on fertility remain unclear and there are no detailed reports characterizing the DNA organization and damage in this species. The intensive genetic selection, the use of artificial insemination and in vitro embryo production associated to the cryopreservation process can contribute to the chromatin damage and highlights the importance of sperm DNA integrity for the success of these technologies. Frozen-thawed semen samples from three ejaculates from a Nellore bull showed high levels of morphological sperm abnormalities (55.8±5.1%), and were selected for complementary tests. Damage of acrosomal (76.9±8.9%) and plasma membranes (75.7±9.3%) as well as sperm DNA strand breaks (13.8±9.5%) and protamination deficiency (3.7±0.6%) were significantly higher compared to the values measured in the semen of five Nellore bulls with normospermia (24.3±3.3%; 24.5±6.1%; 0.6±0.5%; 0.4±0.6% for acrosome, plasma membrane, DNA breaks and protamine deficiency, respectively) (P<0.05). Motility and percentage of spermatozoa with low mitochondrial potential showed no differences between groups. This study shows how routine semen analyses (in this case morphology) may point to the length and complexity of sperm cell damage emphasizing the importance of sperm function testing.

Estudo da Estrutura da Proteína SH do Vírus Sincicial Respiratório Humano: análise funcional da estrutura pentamérica por ferramentas de bioinformática

Pós-graduação em Biofísica Molecular - IBILCE

Estudos das interações do peptídeo antimicrobiano Polybia MP1 com membranas modelo: mecanismo de ação e especificidade

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação da fosforilação da Akt e do conteúdo da proteína transportadora de glicose GLUT4 em músculo esquelético de ratos adultos com lesão periapical

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

Estudo físico-químico da atividade fungicida de derivados anfifílicos de quitosana contra fungos do gênero Aspergillus : interação com modelos de membranas

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

Aplicação da equação de Fokker-Planck no estudo de canais iônicos

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Características físicas e morfológicas do sêmen de Bos taurus e Bos indicus antes e após a criopreservação

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FCAV

Fipronil na bioenergética de mitocôndrias isoladas de figado de rato

Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal - FMVA

Caracterização das proteínas caveolinas -1 e -2 na placenta de conceptos bovinos clonados transgênicos

The transgenic application of green fluorescent protein (GFP) as fetal cell marker on cattle cloned placenta could provide an exclusive model for studying the morphologic and immunologic maternal-fetal interactions, providing information about its mapping, distinguishing the fetal from maternal cells. This model will have direct application, mainly because these animals present problems during its development. With this model's support, we intend to verify the substances transport between mother and fetus during endocytosis, through the immunolocalization of protein named caveolae. For these, we used 06 cloned bovine and 30 cattle samples of artificial insemination (AI) with 90 days of pregnancy, which had been their development interrupted by humanitarian slaughter of the recipient and recovery of the pregnant uterus. We collected the placentome and the chorion. A part of the samples was cut and fixed, by immersion, on a solution containing 4% of parafomaldehyde or 10% of formaldehyde on a sodium phosphate buffer (PBS), at 0,1 M pH 7.4, Zamboni solution (4% of paraformaldehyde, 15% of picric acid, on sodium phosphate buffer 0,1 M pH 7.4), metacarn (60% of metanol, 30% of chloroform, and 10% glacial acetic acid), for morphologic and immunohistochemistry verification for caveolinas proteins -1 and -2 (CAV -1 and CAV-2). The caveolins -1 were found in fetal and maternal villi, but its strongest staining was observed in the endometrial stroma. The caveolins -2 had positive staining in trophoblast and chorioallantoic membrane, and specifically in giant trophoblastic binucleated cell. Therefore the results were compared between cloned cattle and from AI or natural mating, for assisting on detection of the reason of many placental alterations, embryonic losses, spontaneous abortion, post-natal mortality and large offspring syndrome on laboratory-manipulated animals. The result suggests that the proteins caveolins -1 and -2 (CAV-1 and CAV-2) are part of the caveolae composition and important structures related to the molecule transfer to the fetus, nourish it through endocytosis and pinocytosis.

Caracterização histoquímica e imuno-histoquímica das alterações fibróticas nas endometroses das éguas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Migração e invasão celular in vitro de células humanas expressando variantes da oncoproteína LMP1 do vírus de Epstein-Barr (EBV)

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

Terapia gênica com interferon-alfa no controle do câncer colorretal

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)