Efeitos da toxina botulínica do tipo A isolada ou em associação com a finasterida sobre a próstata do cão e rato Sprague-Dawley

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Leishmaniose visceral no município de Barcarena, Pará: importância do comportamento da enzootia canina por Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi e de outros fatores para a infecção humana

A leishmaniose é uma doença infecciosa não contagiosa de evolução crônica com altos índices de mortalidade, sendo que o Brasil notifica cerca de 90% dos casos do continente Americano. Sua importância no contexto da saúda publica tem aumentado em função do crescente número de casos que vem ocorrendo não só na zona rural como também na periferia de grandes centros urbanos. A epidemiologia do LV no Brasil é baseada na ocorrência de casos clínicos. Neste sentido o presente estudo propôs-se a estudar o comportamento da enzootia como sua importância e de outros fatores para a infecção humana. Pois pouco se conhece sobre os determinantes de infecção e sua importância na manutenção da doença. Para isso foi definido de uma localidade município de Barcarena, onde a população é estável, ocorrendo a doença de forma endêmica. O estudo acompanhou durante um ano duas coortes, sendo uma para caninos, com 172 cães, e uma para humanos, com 1064 pessoas das quais apenas 1012 participaram da coleta de material, pois 52 pessoas estavam fora da faixa de idade compatível para a realização dos procedimentos. A realização do teste sorológico de Reação de Imunofluorescência Indireta (RIFI), teve como finalidade a determinação de prevalência inicial de infecção e as incidências em dois momentos do estudo, tanto da população humana quanto canina. Também foi realizado na população humana a Intradermo Reação de Montenegro (IDRM) com a mesma finalidade, aferir a prevalência e incidência de infecção através deste método. Outros fatores também foram analisados e podem estar associados ao risco para a infecção. A análise estatística dos dados foi realizada com auxilio dos programas EPI INFO versão 6.04 e BIOESTAT versão 3.0 e os testes aplicados foram o Qui - Quadrado e o cálculo de prevalência e incidência. No inquérito sorológico canino foi observado uma prevalência de infecção canina de 37,2% e, a incidência seis meses após, foi de 29,2%. No intervalo da segunda para a terceira coleta foi realizada a eutanásia dos cães sorologicamente positivos, num total de 70 cães, pois 15 haviam morrido antes da intervenção. A incidência calculada após a intervenção mostrou uma taxa de 14,6%, o que caracteriza uma redução de cerca de 50%. Quanto à titulação, em todas as etapas foram observados títulos considerados elevados. Vale ressaltar que dos 54 animais que não apresentavam sinais clínicos, 30 estavam infectados (55,5%). Quando realizado o inquérito sorológico humano, foi observada uma prevalência de infecção humana de 5,25%, e a incidência seis meses após foi de 1,8% e na ultima avaliação 7,0%, com aumento de cerca de 300%. Em relação às características da população foi observado que entre os infectados não houve predomínio de nenhuma faixa etária. A variável sexo não foi significativa para a ocorrência de infecção. Sobre os infectados tanto pela RIFI, quanto a IDRM, destaca-se a significância estatística da variável ocupação, e neste contexto, a categoria agricultor foi a que se apresentou com maior proporção. As variáveis tempo residência no local, proximidade de residência com a mata, destino do lixo e dejetos também mostraram- se significativas. Quanto a variável faixa etária, a distribuição dos infectados pela RIFI não foi predominante em nenhuma faixa; na IDRM, observou-se que à medida que aumenta a idade aumenta também a proporção de infectados. Outros resultados foram observados de grande relevância para a associação ao risco de infecção, mas a observação quanto a infectados pela RIFI e IDRM foi a que mereceu destaque em função da significância estatística. O estudo mostrou-se adequado para o conhecimento da prevalência e incidência de infecção canina e humana na localidade, assim como o comportamento de alguns fatores que associados podem constituir-se em risco para infecção.

Leptospira spp. e Brucella spp. em tartarugas-da-Amazônia (Podocnemis expansa) do Vale do Rio Araguaia - GO

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FCAV

Potencial de remineralização do cálcio e fosfato: revisão de literatura e estudo laboratorial

Pós-graduação em Ciência Odontólogica - FOA

Detection of Shiga toxigenic (STEC) and enteropathogenic (EPEC) Escherichia coli in dairy buffalo

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

Overlapped Sequence Types (STs) and Serogroups of Avian Pathogenic (APEC) and Human Extra-Intestinal Pathogenic (ExPEC) Escherichia coli Isolated in Brazil

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

Educação ambiental e monocultura canavieira: desvendando a compreensão sobre a interação do ser humano com o meio ambiente em alunos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

Avaliação comparativa do uso da furosemida em bolus ou infusão contínua no tratamento de cães com doença degenerativa valvar

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FCAV

O desejo e a indústria cultural no processo de subjetivação: diálogo sobre o corpo na educação física escolar

We analyzed the Cultural Industry and impositions for manners of production of capitalism in subjectivity, exposing the subject to alienated fragility. Because, the consumption doesn't just refer to the contemplation of images for subjects, but also about identification that subjects can have about images. The contemporary society is composed in individualist adoration by self, demanding pledge and self-control to reach the wanted body and idealized spread by media, disseminating idea of corporal pattern. So, we understood that the school physical education, being the field of knowledge of cultural corporal, has as function, also, to act as intercessor in relationship with media, above all when worked with pertinent subjects to corporeality contributing so that student, through exercise of critic, transform the society. Therefore, the educators need to extrapolate hesitation front media and make critical use of formative and informative possibilities, on consumption and impact on the body.

Transplante multivisceral em suínos: modelo de pesquisa e treinamento

Objective: To present a model for research and training in multivisceral transplantation in pigs. Methods: Eight Large White pigs (four donors and four recipients) were operated. The multivisceral transplant with stomach, duodenum, pancreas, liver and intestine was performed similarly to transplantation in humans with a few differences, described below. Anastomoses were performed as follows: end-to-end from the supra-hepatic vena cava of the graft to the recipient juxta diaphragmatic vena cava; end-to-end from the infra-hepatic vena cava of the graft to the inferior (suprarenal) vena cava of the recipient; and endto-side patch of the aorta of the graft to the infrarenal aorta of the recipient plus digestive reconstruction. Results: The performance of the multivisceral transplantion was possible in all four animals. Reperfusions of the multivisceral graft led to a severe ischemia-reperfusion syndrome, despite flushing of the graft. The animals presented with hypotension and the need for high doses of vasoactive drugs, and all of them were sacrificed after discontinuing these drugs. Conclusion: Some alternatives to minimize the ischemia-reperfusion syndrome, such as the use of another vasoactive drug, use of a third pig merely for blood transfusion, presence of an anesthesia team in the operating room, and reduction of the graft, will be the next steps to enable experimental studies.

Comportamento materno e câncer de bexiga urinária: implicações da modulação de eixos hormonais e receptores de esteroides na fisiopatologia de lesões neoplásicas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Patofisiologia de osteonecrose induzida por bisfosfonatos e inibidores de RANK-L

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

Induction of chronic non-inflammatory widespread pain increases cardiac sympathetic modulation in rats

Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by chronic non-inflammatory widespread pain (CWP) and changes in sympathetic function. In attempt to elucidate the pathophysiological mechanisms of FM we used a well-established CWP animal model. We aimed to evaluate changes in cardiac autonomic balance and baroreflex function in response to CWP induction in rats. CWP was induced by two injections of acidic saline (pH 4.0, n = 8) five days apart into the left gastrocnemius muscle. Control animals were injected twice with normal saline (pH 7.2, n = 6). One day after the second injection of acidic saline or normal saline, the animals had pulse interval (PI) and systolic arterial pressure (SAP) variability, and spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) evaluated. After induction of CWP, there was an increase of power in the low frequency (LF) band of PI spectrum (12.75 +/- 1.04 nu), a decrease in the high frequency (HF) band (87.25 +/- 1.04 nu) and an increase of LF/HF ratio (0.16 +/- 0.01), when compared to control animals (7.83 +/- 1.13 nu LF; 92.16 +/- 1.13 nu HF; 0.08 +/- 0.01 LF/HF). In addition, there was an increase of power in the LF band of SAP spectrum (7.93 +/- 1.39 mmHg(2)) when compared to control animals (2.97 +/- 0.61 mmHg(2)). BRS was lower in acidic saline injected rats (0.59 +/- 0.06 ms/mmHg) when compared to control animals (0.71 +/- 0.03 ms/mmHg). Our results showed that induction of CWP in rats shifts cardiac sympathovagal balance towards sympathetic predominance and decreases BRS. These data corroborate findings in humans with FM. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Letteratura postmoderna e comunicazione pubblicitaria, problemi teorici e analisi testuali

Premise: In the literary works of our anthropological and cultural imagination, the various languages and the different discursive practices are not necessarily quoted, expressly alluded to or declared through clear expressive mechanisms; instead, they rather constitute a substratum, a background, now consolidated, which with irony and intertextuality shines through the thematic and formal elements of each text. The various contaminations, hybridizations and promptings that we find in the expressive forms, the rhetorical procedures and the linguistic and thematic choices of post-modern literary texts are shaped as fluid and familiar categories. Exchanges and passages are no longer only allowed but also inevitable; the post-modern imagination is made up of an agglomeration of discourses that are no longer really separable, built up from texts that blend and quote one another, composing, each with its own specificities, the great family of the cultural products of our social scenario. A literary work, therefore, is not only a whole phenomenon, delimited hic et nunc by a beginning and an ending, but is a fragment of that complex, dense and boundless network that is given by the continual interrelations between human forms of communication and symbolization. The research hypothesis: A vision is delineated of comparative literature as a discipline attentive to the social contexts in which texts take shape and move and to the media-type consistency that literary phenomena inevitably take on. Hence literature is seen as an open systematicity that chooses to be contaminated by other languages and other discursive practices of an imagination that is more than ever polymorphic and irregular. Inside this interpretative framework the aim is to focus the analysis on the relationship that postmodern literature establishes with advertising discourse. On one side post-modern literature is inserted in the world of communication, loudly asserting the blending and reciprocal contamination of literary modes with media ones, absorbing their languages and signification practices, translating them now into thematic nuclei, motifs and sub-motifs and now into formal expedients and new narrative choices; on the other side advertising is chosen as a signification practice of the media universe, which since the 1960s has actively contributed to shaping the dynamics of our socio-cultural scenarios, in terms which are just as important as those of other discursive practices. Advertising has always been a form of communication and symbolization that draws on the collective imagination – myths, actors and values – turning them into specific narrative programs for its own texts. Hence the aim is to interpret and analyze this relationship both from a strictly thematic perspective – and therefore trying to understand what literature speaks about when it speaks about advertising, and seeking advertising quotations in post-modern fiction – and from a formal perspective, with a search for parallels and discordances between the rhetorical procedures, the languages and the verifiable stylistic choices in the texts of the two different signification practices. The analysis method chosen, for the purpose of constructive multiplication of the perspectives, aims to approach the analytical processes of semiotics, applying, when possible, the instruments of the latter, in order to highlight the thematic and formal relationships between literature and advertising. The corpus: The corpus of the literary texts is made up of various novels and, although attention is focused on the post-modern period, there will also be ineludible quotations from essential authors that with their works prompted various reflections: H. De Balzac, Zola, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Calvino, etc… However, the analysis focuses the corpus on three authors: Don DeLillo, Martin Amis and Aldo Nove, and in particular the followings novels: “Americana” (1971) and “Underworld” (1999) by Don DeLillo, “Money” (1984) by Martin Amis and “Woobinda and other stories without a happy ending” (1996) and “Superwoobinda” (1998) by Aldo Nove. The corpus selection is restricted to these novels for two fundamental reasons: 1. assuming parameters of spatio-temporal evaluation, the texts are representative of different socio-cultural contexts and collective imaginations (from the masterly glimpses of American life by DeLillo, to the examples of contemporary Italian life by Nove, down to the English imagination of Amis) and of different historical moments (the 1970s of DeLillo’s Americana, the 1980s of Amis, down to the 1990s of Nove, decades often used as criteria of division of postmodernism into phases); 2. adopting a perspective of strictly thematic analysis, as mentioned in the research hypothesis, the variations and the constants in the novels (thematic nuclei, topoi, images and narrative developments) frequently speak of advertising and inside the narrative plot they affirm various expressions and realizations of it: value ones, thematic ones, textual ones, urban ones, etc… In these novels the themes and the processes of signification of advertising discourse pervade time, space and the relationships that the narrator character builds around him. We are looking at “particle-characters” whose endless facets attest the influence and contamination of advertising in a large part of the narrative developments of the plot: on everyday life, on the processes of acquisition and encoding of the reality, on ideological and cultural baggage, on the relationships and interchanges with the other characters, etc… Often the characters are victims of the implacable consequentiality of the advertising mechanism, since the latter gets the upper hand over the usual processes of communication, which are overwhelmed by it, wittingly or unwittingly (for example: disturbing openings in which the protagonist kills his or her parents on the basis of a spot, former advertisers that live life codifying it through the commercial mechanisms of products, sons and daughters of advertisers that as children instead of playing outside for whole nights saw tapes of spots.) Hence the analysis arises from the text and aims to show how much the developments and the narrative plots of the novels encode, elaborate and recount the myths, the values and the narrative programs of advertising discourse, transforming them into novel components in their own right. And also starting from the text a socio-cultural reference context is delineated, a collective imagination that is different, now geographically, now historically, and from comparison between them the aim is to deduce the constants, the similarities and the variations in the relationship between literature and advertising.

Mental states monitoring through passive Brain-Computer Interface systems

The monitoring of cognitive functions aims at gaining information about the current cognitive state of the user by decoding brain signals. In recent years, this approach allowed to acquire valuable information about the cognitive aspects regarding the interaction of humans with external world. From this consideration, researchers started to consider passive application of brain–computer interface (BCI) in order to provide a novel input modality for technical systems solely based on brain activity. The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate how the passive Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) applications can be used to assess the mental states of the users, in order to improve the human machine interaction. Two main studies has been proposed. The first one allows to investigate whatever the Event Related Potentials (ERPs) morphological variations can be used to predict the users’ mental states (e.g. attentional resources, mental workload) during different reactive BCI tasks (e.g. P300-based BCIs), and if these information can predict the subjects’ performance in performing the tasks. In the second study, a passive BCI system able to online estimate the mental workload of the user by relying on the combination of the EEG and the ECG biosignals has been proposed. The latter study has been performed by simulating an operative scenario, in which the occurrence of errors or lack of performance could have significant consequences. The results showed that the proposed system is able to estimate online the mental workload of the subjects discriminating three different difficulty level of the tasks ensuring a high reliability.