914 resultados para Proteína p53
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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Pharmacological treatments currently used in ethanol addiction are inefficient, requiring new drugs for this purpose. The pro-drug N-Acetylcysteine (N-Ac) has shown efficacy in the treatment of addiction to cocaine and nicotine in preclinical research and clinical pilot studies. When administered, N-Ac is subsequently converted to cysteine, and cystine, which has an action on the central nervous system. However, there are few data about the possible application of N-Ac in the ethanol addiction. Behavioral sensitization is the gradual increase of the psychostimulant effects induced by repeated administration of drugs of abuse, including ethanol, and its development has been linked to important neuroadaptations in addiction. These neuroadaptations occur in neural circuits that mediate the reinforcing properties of these drugs and may involve several proteins. The ΔFosB protein accumulates in neurons after repeated activation and mediates long lasting changes in response to drugs of abuse. These changes are manifested mainly in the nucleus accumbens (Acb) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) neurons. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of N-Ac treatment in the development of ethanol behavioral sensitization and in alterations in the ΔFosB protein in mice. Swiss male mice were exposed to a standardized behavioral sensitization protocol to the experimental conditions of the laboratory and treated with N-Ac. At the end of behavioral sensitization procedure, animals were euthanized and their brains removed for ΔFosB quantification by Western blotting. Two experiments of behavioral sensitization were performed to the standardization of the protocol. The first, although effective in demonstrating the development of behavioral sensitization, was not effective in allowing the evaluation of the expression of the behavioral sensitization. The age of the animals and the conditions of luminosity and color of locomotion apparatus were changed and a new...
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Pharmacological treatments currently used in ethanol addiction are inefficient, requiring new drugs for this purpose. The pro-drug N-Acetylcysteine (N-Ac) has shown efficacy in the treatment of addiction to cocaine and nicotine in preclinical research and clinical pilot studies. When administered, N-Ac is subsequently converted to cysteine, and cystine, which has an action on the central nervous system. However, there are few data about the possible application of N-Ac in the ethanol addiction. Behavioral sensitization is the gradual increase of the psychostimulant effects induced by repeated administration of drugs of abuse, including ethanol, and its development has been linked to important neuroadaptations in addiction. These neuroadaptations occur in neural circuits that mediate the reinforcing properties of these drugs and may involve several proteins. The ΔFosB protein accumulates in neurons after repeated activation and mediates long lasting changes in response to drugs of abuse. These changes are manifested mainly in the nucleus accumbens (Acb) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) neurons. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of N-Ac treatment in the development of ethanol behavioral sensitization and in alterations in the ΔFosB protein in mice. Swiss male mice were exposed to a standardized behavioral sensitization protocol to the experimental conditions of the laboratory and treated with N-Ac. At the end of behavioral sensitization procedure, animals were euthanized and their brains removed for ΔFosB quantification by Western blotting. Two experiments of behavioral sensitization were performed to the standardization of the protocol. The first, although effective in demonstrating the development of behavioral sensitization, was not effective in allowing the evaluation of the expression of the behavioral sensitization. The age of the animals and the conditions of luminosity and color of locomotion apparatus were changed and a new...
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Apenas alguns relatos na literatura demonstram que lectinas são importantes nos processos de colonização e infecção por Escherichia coli. A falta de compreensão clara dos mecanismos envolvendo lectinas, no processo de colonização por E. coli, motivou a realização deste estudo para se identificar a presença de outras lectinas não descritas em E. coli. Neste trabalho, isolou-se uma proteína de 75kDa de E. coli em coluna de Sepharose, correspondente ao receptor de aerobactina férrica (IutA). A associação de IutA com virulência de cepas de E. coli é controversa, principalmente em E. coli uropatogênica (UPEC), o que levou a se avaliar a presença do gene iutA em UPECs isoladas de pacientes com infecção urinária. O gene estava presente em 38% dos isolados, sugerindo fraca associação com virulência. Devido à existência de redundância nos sistemas de captura de ferro, sugere-se, aqui, que IutA possa ser vantajosa, mas não essencial para UPEC.
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Abstract Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been considered the standard care in locally advanced breast cancer. However, about 20% of the patients do not benefit from this clinical treatment and, predictive factors of response were not defined yet. This study was designed to evaluate the importance of biological markers to predict response and prognosis in stage II and III breast cancer patients treated with taxane and anthracycline combination as neoadjuvant setting. Methods Sixty patients received preoperative docetaxel (75 mg/m2) in combination with epirubicin (50 mg/m2) in i.v. infusion in D1 every 3 weeks after incisional biopsy. They received adjuvant chemotherapy with CMF or FEC, attaining axillary status following definitive breast surgery. Clinical and pathologic response rates were measured after preoperative therapy. We evaluated the response rate to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and the prognostic significance of clinicopathological and immunohistochemical parameters (ER, PR, p51, p21 and HER-2 protein expression). The median patient age was 50.5 years with a median follow up time 48 months after the time of diagnosis. Results Preoperative treatment achieved clinical response in 76.6% of patients and complete pathologic response in 5%. The clinical, pathological and immunohistochemical parameters were not able to predict response to therapy and, only HER2 protein overexpression was associated with a decrease in disease free and overall survival (P = 0.0007 and P = 0.003) as shown by multivariate analysis. Conclusion Immunohistochemical phenotypes were not able to predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Clinical response is inversely correlated with a risk of death in patients submitted to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and HER2 overexpression is the major prognostic factor in stage II and III breast cancer patients treated with a neoadjuvant docetaxel and epirubicin combination.
Análise da expressão do mRNA da proteína S100β em adipócitos de pacientes com diabetes melito tipo 2
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OBJETIVO: O presente trabalho objetiva compreender a possível relação do nível de expressão gênica do mRNA da proteína S100β em adipócitos com o diabetes melito do tipo 2, pela comparação de dados de portadores dessa doença com os de indivíduos normoglicêmicos. MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS: Foram selecionadas amostras de tecido adiposo de oito pacientes da Seção de Coronárias do Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia (IDPC), sendo quatro do grupo diabetes e quatro do grupo de normoglicêmicos. Essas amostras foram submetidas à técnica de RT-PCR em tempo real. RESULTADOS: Por meio do Test-t de Student para os valores de diferença entre os ciclos threshold (ΔCt), observou-se que houve aumento de aproximadamente 15 vezes (p = 0,015) da expressão do mRNA da proteína S100β nos adipócitos dos indivíduos do grupo diabetes quando comparado aos do grupo controle. CONCLUSÃO: Nossos resultados evidenciam, de forma inédita, coexistência entre o aumento da expressão do gene S100β e a patologia do diabetes melito do tipo 2.
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Objetivou-se nesta revisão de literatura apresentar informações recentes de pesquisas sobre teores de proteína bruta e fontes nitrogenadas na alimentação de vacas leiteiras. O Brasil é atualmente o maior produtor de cana-de-açúcar do mundo, e este volumoso tem grande destaque para a alimentação animal, pois apresenta vantagens como facilidade de cultivo, alta produtividade em condições de clima tropical, manutenção do seu valor nutritivo, possibilidade de colheita no período de escassez de forragens, e menor custo por unidade de matéria seca. A suplementação proteica de vacas leiteiras é um dos tópicos mais estudados na área de nutrição de ruminantes. Atualmente, busca-se maximizar o desempenho animal por meio de avaliações relacionadas a fontes proteicas, teores de proteína na dieta, degradabilidade ruminal da proteína e perfil de aminoácidos, o que pode possibilitar maior síntese de proteína microbiana no rúmen, adequada quantidade e qualidade da proteína metabolizável para o animal. Adequar a concentração e o tipo de fonte de proteína bruta (PB) dietética para vacas leiteiras pode ser uma alternativa para diminuir os custos de produção e as perdas de compostos nitrogenados para o ambiente. Neste sentido, pesquisas recentes sugerem que vacas leiteiras em final de lactação podem ser alimentadas com dietas com < 15% de PB sem alterações na produção e composição do leite
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Premio Extraordinario, Área de Experimentales
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[ES] Se estudia la utilización nutritiva de niveles crecientes de cuatro fuentes proteicas, harina de soja, de altramuz, harina de gluten de maíz y harina de carne y huesos, alternativas a la harina de pescado en dietas de engorde para dorada, especie que junto con la lubina ha experimentado uno de los mayores índices de crecimiento en el terreno de la acuicultura en los últimos 20 años en Europa
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Programa de doctorado: Cáncer: Biología y Clínica
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[ES] Se describe el desarrollo de una técnica que permite la identificación de proteínas que se unen a p55 c-fgr y p59 fyn. Concretamente se destaca la interacción con proteínas del peso molecular 51, 59, 60, 70, 95 y 114 kDalton en la línea celular HL60.
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Programa de doctorado: Sanidad y patología animal
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Programa de doctorado: Avances en Traumatología. Medicina del deporte. Cuidados de heridas