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Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) - IBRC
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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A partir da hipótese de que a salinidade influencia fortemente a comunidade zooplanctônica, o objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a influência deste fator sobre essa comunidade no estuário do rio Quatipuru, Estado do Pará. Foram realizadas amostragens zooplanctônicas e de variáveis físicas e químicas da água ao longo do estuário, contemplando diferentes faixas de salinidade. As coletas foram realizadas em marés vazantes e enchentes. Os resultados mostraram que este estuário possui uma variação temporal de características física, química e biológica. A salinidade, em especial, sofreu variações decorrentes das mudanças de marés, bem como da variação sazonal da pluviosidade. A salinidade variou de 1,4 a 33,5 ups no período seco e de 0 a 17,9 ups no período chuvoso. Esta amplitude de salinidade possibilitou determinar para área diferentes condições hidrológicas (limnética, oligohalina, meso-polihalina e euhalina). Foram identificados 48 taxa, destacando os Copepoda como o grupo mais importante em termos quali-quantitativos, sendo adultos de Parvocalanus crassirostris, Pseudodiaptomus richardi, Acartia tonsa, Acartia lilljeborgi, Paracalanus quasimodo, Euterpina acutifrons e copepoditos os principais responsáveis pela sua dominância. Mollusca foi o segundo grupo dominante, onde véligeres de gastrópodes representaram 95% do total. A densidade total do zooplancton variou entre 993, 9 e 13254,7 Ind. m-3 no verão e entre 944, 3 e 35908,8 Ind. m-3 no inverno. As maiores abundância em maio e novembro foram em ocasião de maré vazante e enchente, respectivamente. Os baixos valores de diversidade e equitabilidade encontrados na faixa zero na condição de enchente mostram o predomínio de determinado grupo sobre os demais (larvas de Gastropoda). A maior diversidade e uniformidade da comunidade zooplanctônica ocorreram no verão. A comunidade zooplanctônica respondeu as variações de salinidade com espécies adaptadas aos maiores valores de salinidade na porção inferior do estuário, no verão, assim como espécies adaptadas as condições de mixohalinização na porção mais a montante, em maio. A maior abundância de copepoditos esteve associada negativamente com a salinidade, demonstrando que as espécies que estão recrutando os copepoditos são mais estuarinas verdadeiras do que costeiras. As análises de agrupamento e de componentes principais revelou grupos definidos, distribuídos em diferentes faixas de salinidade, este parâmetro sozinho explicou 56% (p=0,028) da variação da fauna no estuário do rio Quatipuru. A distribuição dos organismos, de uma maneira geral, esteve de acordo com a hipótese de que a salinidade influencia fortemente a comunidade zooplanctônica no sistema estuarino de Quatipuru - Pará.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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In the United States, composites accounted for nearly 70% of the 173.2 million composite and amalgam restorations placed in 2006 (Kingman et al., 2012), and it is likely that the use of composite will continue to increase as dentists phase out dental amalgam. This trend is not, however, without consequences. The failure rate of composite restorations is double that of amalgam (Ferracane, 2013). Composite restorations accumulate more biofilm, experience more secondary decay, and require more frequent replacement. In vivo biodegradation of the adhesive bond at the composite-tooth interface is a major contributor to the cascade of events leading to restoration failure. Binding by proteins, particularly gp340, from the salivary pellicle leads to biofilm attachment, which accelerates degradation of the interfacial bond and demineralization of the tooth by recruiting the pioneer bacterium Streptococcus mutans to the surface. Bacterial production of lactic acid lowers the pH of the oral microenvironment, erodes hydroxyapatite in enamel and dentin, and promotes hydrolysis of the adhesive. Secreted esterases further hydrolyze the adhesive polymer, exposing the soft underlying collagenous dentinal matrix and allowing further infiltration by the pathogenic biofilm. Manifold approaches are being pursued to increase the longevity of composite dental restorations based on the major contributing factors responsible for degradation. The key material and biological components and the interactions involved in the destructive processes, including recent advances in understanding the structural and molecular basis of biofilm recruitment, are described in this review. Innovative strategies to mitigate these pathogenic effects and slow deterioration are discussed.
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Inflammation is an immune complex-related tissue damage and / or cell caused by chemical, physical, immunological or microbial. The inflammatory process involves a complex cascade of biochemical and cellular events, including awareness and receptor activation, lysis and tissue repair. In general, tissue damage trigger a local inflammatory response by recruiting leukocytes, which release inflammatory mediators. These substances are able to sensitize nociceptors. After synaptic transmission and signal modulation by nociceptive sensory neurons, these signals are perceived as pain. Pain is an experience that involves multiple factors. The route of the supraspinal pain control originates in many brain regions, such as substance periarquedutal gray (PAG), median raphe nucleus and rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) and have a critical role in determining the chronic and acute pain. Anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are used to control inflammation, which inhibit the inflammatory mediators, but can cause side effects such as stomach ulcers and cardiovascular damage. An alternative for the treatment of pain and inflammation is the use of plant species. The genus Eugenia belongs to the family Myrtaceae, one of the largest botanical families of expression in the Brazilian ecosystems. From the pharmacological point of view, studies of similar species crude extracts showed the presence of anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antifungal, hypotensive, antidiabetic and antioxidant activity of some species. As a class of importance in therapeutic phytochemical, the flavonoids has represented an important group with significant anti-inflammatory and gastroprotective, and are present in a significant way in the chemical composition of genus Eugenia. The project´s overall objective is to evaluate the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities from hydroalcoholic extract of leaves of Eugenia punicifolia (EHEP). In this work we performed acute toxicity ...
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Early detection assays play a key role in the successful treatment of most diseases. Redox capacitive biosensors were recently introduced as a potential electroanalytical assay platform for point-of-care applications but alternative surfaces (besides a mixed layer containing ferrocene and antibody receptive component) for recruiting important clinical biomarkers are still needed. Aiming to develop alternative receptive surfaces for this novel electrochemical biosensing platform, we synthesized a ferrocene redoxtagged peptide capable of self-assembly into metallic interfaces, a potentially useful biological surface functionalization for bedside diagnostic assays. As a proof of concept we used C-reactive protein (CRP), as a model biomarker, and compared the obtained results to those of previously reported capacitive assays. The redox-tagged peptide approach shows a limit of detection of 0.8 nmol L 1 (same as 94 ng mL 1 ) and a linear range (R2 ∼98%) with the logarithm of the concentration of the analyte comprising 0.5–10.0 nmol L 1 , within a clinical relevant range for CRP.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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Recruiting and retaining new residents is critically important to communities that are experiencing either job growth or a declining population. City councils and village boards across the state often ask the question, “How can we bring in and keep new people today?” This issue has not gone unnoticed by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development or the University of Nebraska.