Novas terapêuticas não farmacológicas da perturbação do pós-stress traumático

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Hipertensão arterial pulmonar : patologia e abordagens terapêuticas

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Desenvolvimento pré-clínico de novas moléculas terapêuticas: tendências na indústria farmacêutica

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre no Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz

Curso de medicina clínica, con la esposicion [sic] de los principios de la medicina orgánica ó Tratado elemental del diagnóstico, pronóstico, indicaciones terapéuticas, & c. /

Contiene: T. 1 (VIII, 360 p.), T. 2 (506 p.), T. 3 (574 p.)

Tratado de aguas minero-medicinales, ó guía para su estudio, análisis y aplicaciones terapéuticas /

Mode of access: Internet.

Estudo in silico das interações da protease NS3-NS2B de DENV-2 com o inibidor peptídico Bz-nKRR-H com finalidades terapêuticas

Dengue virus is an important patogen that causes Dengue desease in all world, and belongs to Flavivirus gender. The virus consists of enveloped RNA with a single strand positive sense, 11Kb genome. The RNA is translated into a polyprotein precursor, wich is cleaved into 3 structural proteins (C, prM e E) and 7 non-structural proteins (NS1, NS2A, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, NS4B e NS5). The NS3 is a multifunctional protein, that besides to promote the polyprotein precursor cleavage, also have NTPase, helicase and RTPase activity. The NS3 needs a hydrophilic segment of 40 residues from the transmembrane NS2B protein (who acts like cofator) to realize this functions. Actually, there's no vacines available on the market, and the treatment are just symptomatic. The tetrapeptide inhibitor Bz-Nle-Lys-Arg-Arg-H (Ki de 5,8-7,0 M) was showed as a potent inhibitor μ for NS3prot in Dengue virus. That is a inteligent alternative to treat the dengue desease. The present work aimed analyse the interactions of the ligand bounded to the activity site to provid a clear and depth vision of that interaction. For this purpouse, it was conducted an in silico study, by using quantum mechanical calculations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT), with Generalized Gradient approximation (GGA) to describe the effects of exchange and correlation. The interaction energy of each amino acid belonging to the binding site to the ligand was calculated the using the method of molecular fragmentation with conjugated caps (MFCC). Besides energy, we calculated the distances, types of molecular interactions and atomic groups involved. The theoretical models used were satisfactory and show a more accurate description when the dielectric constant = 20 ε and 80 was used. The results demonstrate that the interaction energy of the system reached convergence at 13.5 A. Within a radius of 13,5A the most important residues were identified. Met49, Met84 and Asp81 perform interactions of hydrogen with the ligant. The Asp79 and Asp75 residues present high energy of attraction. Arg54, Arg85 and Lys 131 perform hydrogen interactions with the ligand, however, appear in BIRD graph having high repulsion energy with the inhibitor. The data also emphasizes the importance of residue Tyr161 and the involvement of the catalytic triad composed by Asp75, His51 and Ser135

Grado de satisfacción de los pacientes hospitalizados con las dietas basales y terapéuticas en centros sanitarios públicos

La satisfacción de las necesidades y expectativas de los pacientes se considera un indicador fundamental de la calidad de la asistencia proporcionada, entendida como una medida de eficacia, confort, pertinencia y control del funcionamiento del sistema sanitario (Donabedian, 1966; Monteagudo et al., 2003; Feldman et al., 2007). Los hospitales españoles están enfocados en la mejora de los cuidados y atención al paciente ingresado; por ello, la alimentación que el hospital presta está reconocida como un indicador importante de la satisfacción de los pacientes. La Alimentación Hospitalaria tiene como objetivo ayudar al personal sanitario a que el paciente se encuentre bien lo antes posible. Para lograr esto, es necesario proporcionar alimentos de buena calidad que hayan sido preparados y cocinados cuidadosamente para retener al máximo el valor nutritivo y presentados al paciente de forma apetitosa (Herrera et al., 2004). Es problemático definir la calidad de los alimentos porque depende de la evaluación del consumidor. A pesar de ello, se ha demostrado que las percepciones de un alimento están afectadas por muchos factores individuales que incluyen el sabor, olor, información del etiquetado, actitudes y recuerdos de experiencias anteriores (Imran, 1999). Las características sensoriales como aspecto, flavor, textura y temperatura se ha visto que son también importantes para los pacientes hospitalarios cuando juzgan la calidad de la comida (Clark, 1998). Textura y flavor tienen un efecto profundo sobre la percepción y la aceptabilidad; sin embargo, el papel de la textura es muy dependiente del producto de que se trate. Adjetivos sobre sus atributos como empapado, acuoso, grumoso, pegajoso, baboso, desmoronado y duro que proporcionan una pérdida de control en la boca no suelen normalmente gustar (Cardello, 1996b). La importancia relativa de un atributo es dependiente de un alimento particular. Las comidas de los pacientes son una parte integral del tratamiento hospitalario y el consumo de una dieta equilibrada es crucial para ayudar a su recuperación (Stratton et al., 2006). En los servicios de alimentación de los hospitales se sirven millones de comidas a diario (solamente en España, donde ese estima que existen unos 1000 hospitales, podemos esperar que el número de pensiones completas cada día ronde las 300.000) y el número atendido en un establecimiento puede variar de 20 a 2.000 personas...

O Ofício das Rezadeiras: um estudo antropológico sobre as práticas terapêuticas e a comunhão de crenças em Cruzeta/RN

The present Master´s dissertation aims to study the practices of the rezadeiras, Brazilian women healers, through an anthropological perspective. Special attention will be given to the understanding of these practices as a dynamic process in relation to those women who heal in Cruzeta (Seridó, Rio Grande do Norte), where is located our ethnographic research. For this research, twenty four rezadeiras were contacted and colaborated with our work plan. Among them, two were pentecostal rezadeiras and another one was member of the Jurema cult, an afro-brazilian religious cult. Similarities among these women healers were perceived in the research process, mostly in terms of their learning process and the use of certain objects and ritual techniques. However, apparent differences among them gave us the chance for understanding and reflecting on the actual heterogeneity of this world of specialists. Furthermore, i tried to capture the relations between the rezadeiras and the therapeutic practices from health professionals or the religious practices of religious leaders (Catholic, pentecostal, etc). It is possible to ascertain about the complementarity between therapeutic practices from different cultural logics. This complementarity is also perceived through the religious interchanges and transits among different healers, including those who have different religious beliefs. In this work, rituals are also described and they are a crucial factor to the understanding of this particular religious and therapeutic practice conducted by women. Following these ideas, our basic aim is to understand how the rezadeiras make interpretations about health and illness, specially those ones which are particular associated with their practices, the so called "doenças de rezadeiras"

¿Qué son los microARNs?: posibles biomarcadores y dianas terapéuticas en la enfermedad osteoporótica

Los micro-ARN (miRs) son pequeñas moléculas de ARN no codificantes que regulan la expresión génica a nivel post-transcripcional. Generalmente actúan sobre la expresión genética mediante el silenciamiento o degradación de los ARNm, y están implicados en la regulación de varios procesos biológicos, como la diferenciación celular, la proliferación, la apoptosis y en el desarrollo embrionario y tisular. Actualmente son un importante foco de interés para el estudio de diversas enfermedades como el cáncer o la diabetes mellitus tipo 2. A nivel del metabolismo óseo, están surgiendo diversos miRs implicados en su regulación, abriendo un campo de investigación importante para identificar nuevos biomarcadores para el diagnóstico de la enfermedad osteoporótica, de su evolución, así como para diseñar nuevas terapias farmacológicas.

Diferencia en la evolución de pacientes con diagnóstico de problemas de columna vertebral tratados con crioterapia y baños de parafina, complementados con otras modalidades terapéuticas del sector académico y administrativo de la Facultad Multidisciplinaria Oriental Universidad de El Salvador, período de julio a septiembre de 2010.

La columna vertebral es la estructura más importante del sistema esquelético, encargada de dar equilibrio y sostén al cuerpo humano, en ella se insertan los músculos de la espalda, por lo que cualquier alteración da origen a diversas afecciones entre las cuales están, cervicalgia, dorsalgia y lumbalgia. Las alteraciones de la columna vertebral pueden aparecer de forma brusca o progresiva, la mayoría de estos problemas se manifiestan por, dolor, inflamación y espasmos musculares, producido especialmente por el Stress laboral en ciertas actividades de la vida diaria que en algunos casos puede manifestarse de tal forma que llegan a ser incapacitantes.

O Ofício das Rezadeiras: um estudo antropológico sobre as práticas terapêuticas e a comunhão de crenças em Cruzeta/RN

The present Master´s dissertation aims to study the practices of the rezadeiras, Brazilian women healers, through an anthropological perspective. Special attention will be given to the understanding of these practices as a dynamic process in relation to those women who heal in Cruzeta (Seridó, Rio Grande do Norte), where is located our ethnographic research. For this research, twenty four rezadeiras were contacted and colaborated with our work plan. Among them, two were pentecostal rezadeiras and another one was member of the Jurema cult, an afro-brazilian religious cult. Similarities among these women healers were perceived in the research process, mostly in terms of their learning process and the use of certain objects and ritual techniques. However, apparent differences among them gave us the chance for understanding and reflecting on the actual heterogeneity of this world of specialists. Furthermore, i tried to capture the relations between the rezadeiras and the therapeutic practices from health professionals or the religious practices of religious leaders (Catholic, pentecostal, etc). It is possible to ascertain about the complementarity between therapeutic practices from different cultural logics. This complementarity is also perceived through the religious interchanges and transits among different healers, including those who have different religious beliefs. In this work, rituals are also described and they are a crucial factor to the understanding of this particular religious and therapeutic practice conducted by women. Following these ideas, our basic aim is to understand how the rezadeiras make interpretations about health and illness, specially those ones which are particular associated with their practices, the so called "doenças de rezadeiras"

Síndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford ou progéria: passado, presente e abordagens terapêuticas futuras

Dissertação de Mestrado, Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2014

El fenotipo "basal-her2" en el cáncer de mama: caracterización clínico-molecular e implicaciones terapéuticas

Clinically HER2+ (cHER2+) breast cancer (BC), as exclusively determined by immunohistochemistry of HER2 protein overexpression and/or fluorescence in situ hybridization of HER2 gene amplification, has been largely considered a single disease entity in terms of clinical outcome and in the susceptibility to the anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin). However, although the adjuvant/neoadjuvant use of the trastuzumab has been shown to significantly reduce recurrence risk when added to standard chemotherapy in women with early-stage cHER2+ BC, not all cases derive similar benefit from trastuzumab because a significant number of cHER2+ BC patients develop disease recurrence. Unfortunately, the identification of a robust clinical predictor of trastuzumab benefit, including HER2 itself, has proven challenging in the adjuvant/neoadjuvant setting. Thus, we suggest that a new generation of research needs to refine the prognostic taxonomy of cHER2+ BC and develop easy-to-use, clinicbased prediction algorithms to distinguish between good- and poor- responders to trastuzumab-based therapy ab initio. This study offered two hypotheses: 1.) HER2 overexpression can unexpectedly take place in a molecular background owned by basal-like BC (a commonly HER2-negative BC subtype which possesses many epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) characteristics and exhibits robust cancer stem cell [CSC]-like features), thus generating a so-called basal/cHER2+ BC subtype; 2.) the basal/cHER2+ phenotype confers poor prognosis and delineates a subgroup of intrinsically aggressive cHER2+ BC with primary resistance to trastuzumab...