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A infecção experimental do A. arviculoides através de diferentes vias de penetração das cercárias de Schistosoma mansoni (transcutânea e subeutânea) foi estudada pela cinética de eliminação de ovos nas fezes, pela recuperação dos vermes adultos (no sistema porta e nos vasos mesentéricos) e pelo oograma quantitativo. Demonstrou-se que a infecção do A. arviculoides assemelha-se à dos camundongos albinos que serviram de controle, quanto a eficácia das vias de penetração, ao habitat dos vermes adultos e ao oograma. Esses resultados sugerem que se avaliem outros aspectos da relação parasito-hospedeiro para que o A. arviculoides possa ser indicado como modelo experimental alternativo, nos estudos sobre a esquistossomose.

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Estudos de nosso laboratório surgerem que o ácido tânico (AT) exerce diversos efeitos "in vitro" ou "in vivo", podendo ser responsável por várias ações inespecíficas freqüentemente observadas com extratos brutos de plantas medicinais. O presente trabalho amplia estes estudos em outos modelos biológicos. A administração crônica ou aguda, por vida oral (v.o.), de AT em ratos não produziu alterações gástricas ou no processo inflamatório. Em ratos não-diabéticos observou-se modificações variáveis na glicemia de acordo com a metodologia empregada. O AT, cronicamente (v.o.), não interferiu na reprodução de fêmeas, embora constatou-se redução do número de filhotes de machos tratados. O AT (3mg/kg, v.o.) provocou aumento da diurese, porém doses mais elevadas não modificaram o volume urinário. Os testes hematológicos demonstraram que o AT possui efeito anticoagulante "in vitro", sem modificar a fragilidade de hemácias ou na homeastase sanguínea "in vivo". No músculo esquelético, o AT reduziu a resposta contrátil à acetilcolina, enquanto no músculo cardíaco (átrio esquerdo) observou-se efeito inotrópico positivo ou negativo. Estes resultados estendem os estudos anteriores e reforçam a sugestão de que parte significativa dos efeitos inespecíficos observados com extratos brutos de plantas medicinais podem estar relacionados com a presença de taninos nos mesmos.

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Floristic composition of twelve plots, 25 m by 25 m, was studied in the Peruvian Amazonia in order to investigate if it were possible to use a part of the flora as an indicator of the changes observed in other components of the flora. Floristic similarities among the plots were calculated using six different taxonomic or physiognomic groups: ferns, the families Melastomataceae and Myristicaceae, trees thicker than 2.5 cm diameter at breast hight (DBH), trees between 2.5 cm and 5 cm DBH, and trees thicker than 5 cm DBH. The similarities were used for agglomerati ve classifications of the plots and for analyzing the correlations among the different groups of plants with Mantel's test. The results indicate that floristic changes were similar in all of the groups and therefore every group can potentially be used as an indicator.

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Espécimens de Rostrozetes foveolatus foram obtidos de duas florestas inundáveis (várzea e igapó) e de duas florestas secundárias (terra firme) da Amazônia Central. As populações foram comparadas para a obtenção da taxa de sobrevivência em experimentos de laboratório nas condições submersas e não submersas. As coletas no igapó foram efetuadas em três períodos de 1992: antes (fevereiro: serapilheira não submersa), no início (abril: serapilheira submersa) e no pico da inundação (julho: serapilheira submersa). No igapó, os animais sobreviveram melhor em condição não submersa, significando que a submersão é um fator de estresse. O mesmo não ocorreu na várzea, indicando que esta população está melhor adaptada ao estresse da submersão. A menor resistência à submersão (27 dias) foi registrada nos animais de uma floresta secundária da terra firme, situada longe do igapó. Na população da terra firme próxima ao igapó, a resistência a submersão foi comparável à registrada para as populações das áreas inundáveis e maior do que a registrada em terra firme longe do igapó. Em experimentos com animais coletados em fevereiro de 1996 (mantidos individualmente em recipientes plásticos), as populações das florestas inundáveis tiveram taxa de sobrevivência significativamente maior em relação aos das florestas não inundáveis. Três situações foram registradas quanto a resistência à submersão: a) a da várzea, com população mais resistente, b) a do igapó, com uma população intermediária e c) a da terra-firme longe do igapó, com uma população menos resistente. Em doze das outras quinze espécies estudadas foi registrada alta resistência às condições de submersão.

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taxa de evacuação gástrica é uma variável importante para estimar o consumo diário de alimento e portanto a pressão de predação que um piscívoro exerce sobre as presas. Esta taxa pode ser influenciada pela temperatura, tamanho do predador e pelo tipo de alimento. Neste trabalho medimos experimentalmente os efeitos que estas três variáveis exercem sobre a evacuação gástrica de Pygocentrus nattereri, um dos principais piscívoros da Amazônia. Para isso foram utilizadas temperaturas variando de 27° a 31°C e os seguintes itens alimentares: músculo e nadadeira de Semaprochilodus insignis e gafanhoto da espécie Paulinia sp. Estes alimentos compõem a dieta silvestre da piranha. O tamanho da piranha não influenciou na evacuação gástrica. Músculos obtiveram uma taxa de evacuação gástrica de 18,3% h -1, enquanto que nadadeira e gafanhoto obtiveram uma taxa média de 10,7% h -1. O efeito da temperatura foi mais pronunciado quando o item alimentar era músculo do que com nadadeira e insetos.

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O cultivo de camu-camu Myrciaria dubia (H.B.K.) Mc Vaugh tem apresentado inúmeros problemas fitossanitários, dentre os quais, Tuthillia cognata Hodkinson et al. (Hemiptera: Homoptera, Psyllidae), que constantemente é citada como praga secundária. Os objetivos deste estudo foram determinar o nível e a intensidade de infestação (%) por T. cognata e estudar aspectos do ciclo biológico e do comportamento de T. cognata, em plantios experimentais de camu-camu. Foram selecionados, de forma aleatória, 17 e 14 exemplares nos plantios I e II, respectivamente. Para cada uma das variáveis estudadas, foram calculados a média aritmética, o desviopadrão, a variância e a amplitude de variação. Foi verificado um nível de infestação de 82% (plantio I) e 57% (plantio II), uma intensidade de infestação de 94% (plantio I) e 75% (plantio II) e uma média de seis ninfas/folha em cada plantio, o que indica que T. cognata representa uma das pragas-chave dessa cultura. Foram observados adultos de Chrysoperla sp. (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) e ninfas de Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), que podem atuar como prováveis agentes de controle biológico de T. cognata.

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1) It may seem rather strange that, in spite of the efforts of a considerable number of scientists, the problem of the origin of indian corn or maize still has remained an open question. There are no fossil remains or archaeological relics except those which are quite identical with types still existing. (Fig. 1). The main difficulty in finding the wild ancestor- which may still exist - results from the fact that it has been somewhat difficult to decide what it should be like and also where to look for it. 2) There is no need to discuss the literature since an excellent review has recently been published by MANGELSDORF and REEVES (1939). It may be sufficient to state that there are basically two hypotheses, that of ST. HILAIRE (1829) who considered Brazilian pod corn as the nearest relative of wild corn still existing, and that of ASCHERSON (1875) who considered Euchlaena from Central America as the wild ancestor of corn. Later hypotheses represent or variants of these two hypotheses or of other concepts, howewer generally with neither disproving their predecessors nor showing why the new hypotheses were better than the older ones. Since nearly all possible combinations of ideas have thus been put forward, it har- dly seems possible to find something theoretically new, while it is essential first to produce new facts. 3) The studies about the origin of maize received a new impulse from MANGELSDORF and REEVES'S experimental work on both Zea-Tripsacum and Zea-Euchlaena hybrids. Independently I started experiments in 1937 with the hope that new results might be obtained when using South American material. Having lost priority in some respects I decided to withold publication untill now, when I can put forward more concise ideas about the origin of maize, based on a new experimental reconstruction of the "wild type". 4) The two main aspects of MANGELSDORF and REEVES hypothesis are discussed. We agree with the authors that ST. HILAIRE's theory is probably correct in so far as the tunicata gene is a wild type relic gene, but cannot accept the reconstruction of wild corn as a homozygous pod corn with a hermaphroditic tassel. As shown experimentally (Fig. 2-3) these tassels have their central spike transformed into a terminal, many rowed ear with a flexible rachis, while possessing at the same time the lateral ear. Thus no explanation is given of the origin of the corn ear, which is the main feature of cultivated corn (BRIEGER, 1943). The second part of the hypothesis referring to the origin of Euchlaena from corn, inverting thus ASCHERSON's theory, cannot be accepted for several reasons, stated in some detail. The data at hand justify only the conclusion that both genera, Euchlaena and Zea, are related, and there is as little proof for considering the former as ancestor of the latter as there is for the new inverse theory. 5) The analysis of indigenous corn, which will be published in detail by BRIEGER and CUTLER, showed several very primitive characters, but no type was found which was in all characters sufficiently primitive. A genetical analysis of Paulista Pod Corn showed that it contains the same gene as other tunicates, in the IV chromosome, the segregation being complicated by a new gametophyte factor Ga3. The full results of this analysis shall be published elsewhere. (BRIEGER). Selection experiments with Paulista Pod Corn showed that no approximation to a wild ancestor may be obtained when limiting the studies to pure corn. Thus it seemed necessary to substitute "domesticated" by "wild type" modifiers, and the only means for achieving this substitution are hybridizations with Euchlaena. These hybrids have now been analysed init fourth generation, including backcrosses, and, again, the full data will be published elsewhere, by BRIEGER and ADDISON. In one present publication three forms obtained will be described only, which represent an approximation to wild type corn. 6) Before entering howewer into detail, some arguments against ST. HILAIRE's theory must be mentioned. The premendelian argument, referring to the instability of this character, is explained by the fact that all fertile pod corn plants are heterozygous for the dominant Tu factor. But the sterility of the homozygous TuTu, which phenotypically cannot be identified, is still unexplained. The most important argument against the acceptance of the Tunicata faetor as wild type relic gene was removed recently by CUTLER (not yet published) who showed that this type has been preserved for centuries by the Bolivian indians as a mystical "medicine". 7) The main botanical requirements for transforming the corn ear into a wild type structure are stated, and alternative solutions given. One series of these characters are found in Tripsacum and Euchlaena : 2 rows on opposite sides of the rachis, protection of the grains by scales, fragility of the rachis. There remains the other alternative : 4 rows, possibly forming double rows of female and male spikelets, protection of kernels by their glumes, separation of grains at their base from the cob which is thin and flexible. 8) Three successive stages in the reconstruction of wild corn, obtained experimentally, are discussed and illustrated, all characterized by the presence of the Tu gene. a) The structure of the Fl hybrids has already been described in 1943. The main features of the Tunicata hybrids (Fig. -8), when compared with non-tunicate hybrids (Fig. 5-6), consist in the absence of scaly protections, the fragility of the rachis and finally the differentiation of the double rows into one male and one female spikelet. As has been pointed out, these characters represent new phenotypic effects of the tunicate factor which do not appear in the presence of pure maize modifiers. b) The next step was observed among the first backcross to teosinte (Fig. 9). As shown in the photography, Fig. 9D, the features are essencially those of the Fl plants, except that the rachis is more teosinte like, with longer internodes, irregular four-row-arrangement and a complete fragility on the nodes. c) In the next generation a completely new type appeared (Fig. 10) which resembles neither corn nor teosinte, mainly in consequence of one character: the rachis is thin and flexible and not fragile, while the grains have an abscission layer at the base, The medium sized, pointed, brownish and hard granis are protected by their well developed corneous glumes. This last form may not yet be the nearest approach to a wild grass, and I shall try in further experiments to introduce other changes such as an increase of fertile flowers per spikelet, the reduction of difference between terminal and lateral inflorescences, etc.. But the nature of the atavistic reversion is alveadwy such that it alters considerably our expectation when looking for a still existing wild ancestor of corn. 9) The next step in our deductions must now consist in an reversion of our question. We must now explain how we may obtain domesticated corn, starting from a hypothetical wild plant, similar to type c. Of the several changes which must have been necessary to attract the attention of the Indians, the following two seem to me the most important: the disappearance of all abscission layers and the reduction of the glumes. This may have been brought about by an accumulation of mutations. But it seems much more probable to assume that some crossing with a tripsacoid grass or even with Tripsacum australe may have been responsible. In such a cross, the two types of abscission layer would be counterbalanced as shown by the Flhybrids of corn, Tripsacum and Euchlaena. Furthermore in later generations a.tu-allele of Tripsacum may become homozygous and substitute the wild tunicate factor of corn. The hypothesis of a hybrid origin of cultivated corn is not completely new, but has been discussed already by HARSHBERGER and COLLINS. Our hypothesis differs from that of MANGELSDORF and REEVES who assume that crosses with Tripsacum are responsible only for some features of Central and North American corn. 10) The following arguments give indirects evidence in support of our hypothesis: a) Several characters have been observed in indigenous corn from the central region of South America, which may be interpreted as "tripsacoid". b) Equally "zeoid" characters seem to be present in Tripsacum australe of central South-America. c) A system of unbalanced factors, combined by the in-tergeneric cross, may be responsible for the sterility of the wild type tunicata factor when homozygous, a result of the action of modifiers, brought in from Tripsacum together with the tuallele. d) The hybrid theory may explain satisfactorily the presence of so many lethals and semilethals, responsible for the phenomenon of inbreeding in cultivated corn. It must be emphasized that corn does not possess any efficient mechanism to prevent crossing and which could explain the accumulation of these mutants during the evolutionary process. Teosinte which'has about the same mechanism of sexual reproduction has not accumulated such genes, nor self-sterile plants in spite of their pronounced preference for crossing. 11) The second most important step in domestication must have consisted in transforming a four rowed ear into an ear with many rows. The fusion theory, recently revived byLANGHAM is rejected. What happened evidently, just as in succulent pXants (Cactus) or in cones os Gymnosperms, is that there has been a change in phyllotaxy and a symmetry of longitudinal rows superimposed on the original spiral arrangement. 12) The geographical distribution of indigenous corn in South America has been discussed. So far, we may distinguish three zones. The most primitive corn appears in the central lowlands of what I call the Central Triangle of South America: east of the Andies, south of the Amazone-Basin, Northwest of a line formed by the rivers São Prancisco-Paraná and including the Paraguay-Basin. The uniformity of the types found in this extremely large zone is astonishing (BRIEGER and CUTLER). To the west, there is the well known Andian region, characterized by a large number of extremely diverse types from small pop corn to large Cuszco, from soft starch to modified sweet corn, from large cylindrical ears to small round ears, etc.. The third region extends along the atlantic coast in the east, from the Caribean Sea to the Argentine, and is characterized by Cateto, an orange hard flint corn. The Andean types must have been obtained very early, and undoubtedly are the result of the intense Inca agriculture. The Cateto type may be obtained easily by crosses, for instance, of "São Paulo Pointed Pop" to some orange soft corn of the central region. The relation of these three South American zones to Central and North America are not discussed, and it seems essential first to study the intermediate region of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. The geograprical distribution of chromosome knobs is rapidly discussed; but it seems that no conclusions can be drawn before a large number of Tripsacum species has been analysed.

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Neste trabalho são descritas várias experiências de combate à "saúva limão", também conhecida como "saúva comum" (Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel, 1908), formiga mais prejudicial à agricultura de São Paulo.

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Com o objetivo de ampliar o uso dos ensaios com parcelas subdivididas na pesquisa agropecuária, realizou-se um estudo de tais ensaios delineados em blocos incompletos balanceados. Adotou-se, para tanto, o modelo tradicionalmente usado no delineamento completo. Optou-se pela existência de correlação constante entre subparcelas distintas. A obtenção das estimativas para efeitos de blocos ocorreu como nos ensaios em blocos incompletos balanceados, enquanto que as estimativas para efeitos de tratamentos secundários e para a interação tratamentos principais x tratamentos secundários portaram-se como nos ensaios com parcelas subdivididas em blocos (completos), casualizados.

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Rhésus foram infectados com culturas recentemente isoladas de L. brasiliensis. As inoculações foram feitas por via intradérmica nas arcadas superciliares e, excepcionalmente, na superfícia do nariz. O prazo da incubação foi de 1 a 2 mêses. A marcha da infecção varia conforme as lesões se limitam à pele ou se estendem às mucosas. No primeiro caso, a duração da infecção foi de 3 a 8 meses e terminou sempre pela cura espontânea. Quando as lesões se estendem às mucosas elas persistem e se agravam, enquanto as lesões cutâneas observadas no mesmo animal, regridem, tendendo para cicatrização e cura. Cães também foram injetados com resultados positivos. As inoculações foram praticadas por via intradérmica na superfície do nariz. O prazo de incubação foi de cêrca de 2 mêses e as lesões observadas se limitaram à pele e terminaram pela cura. Uma cotia (Dasyprocta agouti) foi inoculada não se mostrando infectada. Um rhésus, curado de uma infecção pela L. brasiliensis, inoculado de novo com outra amostra do mesmo parasito, não se mostrou infectado. A extensão das lesões às mucosas nas infecções experimentais do rhésus pela L. brasiliensis, fato ainda não veificado na L. trópica, constitue mais um argumento em favor da independência daquela espécie.

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Arrangement of potassium in the tissues having been mentioned, as well as the rôle it plays in some pathological processes such as suprarenal insufficiency, anaphylactic shock and shock caused by hemorrhage or traumatism, experiences were undertaken to establish the rates of plasma potassium during bacteria infections artificially developed in rabbits by K. pneumoniae. P. aeruginosa and S. enteridits. It was concluded that during the period of the infections, the rate of potassium of the plasma increases almost immediately after the inoculation and stays high when the infections are of a serious or mortal character; the rate continue to increase until the death of the animal occurs. When these infections are not very serious, as in the cases of infections resulting from inoculations of bacteria as not recent — and consequently with attenuated virulence — K pneumoniae, or P aeruginosa and S enteriditis, to which rabbits are naturally very resistant, the rate of potassium of the plasma increases after an intravenous inoculation of germs according to the septicemic period of the infection; however, when, because of its natural resistance, the animal overcomes the infection, the amount of potassium gradually decreases and finally gets back to the normal rate. The action of cortin on potassium of the plasma was also tested on animals suffering from acute infections caused by K. pneumoniae, which, under normal conditions cause death of the rabbits, nor did it increase the rate of potassium of the plasma when a larger amount of bacteria (300,000,000) was inoculated. However, cortin inoculated several times prevented a higher rate of potassium in the plasma during the development of the infection when a smaller number of bacteria (150,000,000) was inoculated, which quantity, under normal conditions, always causes mortal infections. When cortin is discontinued 20 hours after the inoculation of germs, the infection increases fastly and the animal dies in a very short time. Now, if the injections of cortin continue to be given every hour until the 26th hour instead of only until the 20th hour, the amount of potassium in the plasma — very high if the hormones substance is no longer inoculated — gradually becomes smaller and finally comes back to the normal rate if the inoculations continue to be made; it will increase again only if the substance is no longer injected; after a few hours the injection is gone, potassium is found to come back to its former rate, and in consequence the animal is perfectly cured of an infection otherwise mortal. ln view of the results thus obtained, it was concluded that, during the development of those infections, the checking of the rate of potassium of the plasma provided a means of controlling the resistance of a body suffering from an infection, that rate increasing when the infection is developing and becoming more severe, or getting back to normal when the infection decreases. The checking of the rate of potassium of the plasma also made known the action of cortin on the tissues, which is found to control the permeability of the cells to potassium. Suggestions were made that potassium of the plasma be thereofre checked during infections in the human body, to make possible proving that the phenomena studied in those animals also take place in the human body. In case this is found to be true, we sould possess an important element to check organic vitality during infections.

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The effect of testosterone propionate in different treatments was tested in adult male rats (250 g.) with mechanical skin experimental lesions. The whole period of cicatrization was investigated in normals, castrated and testosterone treated animals. We could not detect any alteration in the regeneration process in both treated and untreated rats (normals and castrated). Diffusing factor obtained from homologous testis, directly applied upon the lesions also do not change the healing period. Related to the course of the healing process, little evidence is presented by variance analysis that significative differences could be detected in the first periods, in both castrated and testosterone treated groups; however new well planed experiments should be carried to test this point.