Wrestling Card - Bobby Becker

The wrestler's name is Bobby Becker.

Dystrophin analysis using a panel of anti-dystrophin antibodies in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.

Dystrophin, the protein product of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene, was studied in 19 patients with Xp21 disorders and in 25 individuals with non-Xp21 muscular dystrophy. Antibodies raised to seven different regions spanning most of the protein were used for immunocytochemistry. In all patients specific dystrophin staining anomalies were detected and correlated with clinical severity and also gene deletion. In patients with Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) the anomalies detected ranged from inter- and intra-fibre variation in labelling intensity with the same antibody or several antibodies to general reduction in staining and discontinuous staining. In vitro evidence of abnormal dystrophin breakdown was observed reanalysing the muscle of patients, with BMD and not that of non-Xp21 dystrophies, after it has been stored for several months. A number of patients with DMD showed some staining but this did not represent a diagnostic problem. Based on the data presented, it was concluded that immunocytochemistry is a powerful technique in the prognostic diagnosis of Xp21 muscular dystrophies.

CHROMOSOME-STUDIES IN MALES AFFECTED BY DUCHENNE OR BECKER MUSCULAR-DYSTROPHY

We studied cytogenetically 48 male patients with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy. All of them showed normal X chromosomes. Fragility of Xp21 was investigated in 1400 G-banded chromosomes of 28 patients and only one break was observed at this band (0.07%). This low frequency of breakage excludes Xp21 as a fragile site in these patients.

Em águas e lendas da Amazônia: os outros brasis de Waldemar Henrique e Mário de Andrade (1922-1937)

Mário de Andrade e Waldemar Henrique são conceituados artistas brasileiros. O primeiro como intelectual de renomada importância dentro do movimento modernista, da agitada Semana de 1922 às inúmeras pesquisas e estudos sobre música e folclore. Foi um intelectual formador de uma inteligência do pensamento nacional. Waldemar Henrique foi o autor de uma gigantesca obra musical, suas primeiras composições remontam a ―Olhos verdes‖, de 1922, no Rio de Janeiro recebendo a denominação de ―Valsinha do Marajó‖, e ―Minha Terra‖, de 1923. Na década de trinta o seu trabalho ampliou-se tematicamente estendendo-se a motivos de folclore negro, a danças dramáticas regionais, a canções e lendas da Amazônia. Seus estudos de música assim confluíram com o folclore e seu nome constantemente é lembrado pela associação que perdura entre seu trabalho artístico e a Amazônia. Este estudo fundamenta-se na ―noção de experiência‖ da Amazônia, nestes dois intelectuais, em um momento de suas obras em que este lugar conflui pelo conjunto de lendas que dá suporte e constrói a narrativa de Macunaíma, em Mário de Andrade, e pela série musical inspirada no universo lendário amazônico de Waldemar Henrique. Um, nascido e criado nesses matos e rios, nos dá conta de um olhar nativo, o outro, um viajante a conhecer coisas novas e a perceber, como afirma, ―outros brasis‖. Semelhanças e diferenças de suas abordagens movem-nos a conclusões sobre a própria Amazônia.

Lendas para cantar: Uma análise dialógica do discurso das canções amazônicas de Waldemar Henrique

Pós-graduação em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa - FCLAR

Avaliação da migração de nifas de Scaptocoris carvalhoi Becker, 1967 (Hemiptera, Cydnidae) em plantas de importância econômica e invasora em teste com oportunidade de escolha

One of the factors that affect the control of brown - roots environmental bedbug is the wide availability of plant species. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the migration of nymphs of the brown - roots between plant species of economic importance and invasive stinkbug. Eight species of plants have been established in a set formed by eight circular PVC containers, connected symmetrically with free communication to a central circular container. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design and consisted of eight treatments and six replications. The test evaluations were performed on 15o , 30o , 45o and 60o days after the release of the nymphs, by counting the insects that migrated to the roots of different plants. It was observed that by the 30o day of early release nymphs, no significant differences (P < 0,05) in the choices nymph by plants. B. alata at 15 days of initial release and B. alata and grass-dictyoneura at 30 days were plants that had higher migration. All counts were carried out on 45o and 60o days, the migration of U. brizantha cv. Marandu presented significantly higher than all other species tested plants nymphs.

Thomsen or Becker myotonia? A novel autosomal recessive nonsense mutation in the CLCN1 gene associated with a mild phenotype

We describe a large Brazilian consanguineous kindred with 3 clinically affected patients with a Thomsen myotonia phenotype. They carry a novel homozygous nonsense mutation in the CLCN1 gene (K248X). None of the 6 heterozygote carriers show any sign of myotonia on clinical evaluation or electromyography. These findings confirm the autosomal recessive inheritance of the novel mutation in this family, as well as the occurrence of phenotypic variability in the autosomal recessive forms of myotonia. Muscle Nerve, 2012