Desempenho, qualidade de carcaça e da carne de cordeiros alimentados com dietas contendo silagens de milho consorciadas ou não com capins tropicais

Pós-graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Animal - FEIS

Efeitos do treinamento funcional sobre a composição corporal, aptidão funcional e perfil lipídico de mulheres na pós-menopausa

Pós-graduação em Fisioterapia - FCT

Desenvolvimento de sistemas líquido cristalinos lamelares contendo diferentes concentrações de Ac-Wahx-kttks para o tratamento do envelhecimento cutâneo

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

Desordens osteomusculares em alunos de odontologia

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

Características da carne de cordeiros alimentados com glicerina proveniente da produção de biodiesel

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FCAV

Efeitos do FK-506 na regeneração de nervos após neurorrafia láteo-terminal: estudo em ratos

Pós-graduação em Bases Gerais da Cirurgia - FMB

Antidepressivo modula o comportamento e a expressão gênica das cadeias de miosina, serca2 e fosfolambam em ratos com insuficiência aórtica?

Introduction: Aortic insufficiency (AoI), a volume overload, is characterized by the diastolic reflux of blood from the regurgitating aorta to the left ventricle. This effect results from malfunctioning aortic cusps. The main cause of AoI in developing countries is rheumatic fever, including Brazil, and valvar degeneration in developed countries. There is a strong association between cardiovascular diseases and depression. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) are one of the most prescribed antidepressants in the world. Previous studies of our laboratory showed that the utilization of a SSRI, paroxetine, improved cardiac function in rats with sub-chronic AoI and reduced the daily ingestion of hypertonic sodium (NaCl 0,3M). Cardiovascular diseases can determine behavior changes like increase of anxiety, and it is yet unknown if AoI would determine anxiety or anhedonia, incapacity of obtaining pleasure through physical or sensorial experiences. A possible target for SSRI action could be a change in the expression of enzyme isoforms that collaborate in the contractile function of the heart muscle, like the heavy chains of myosine, the sarcoplasmatic reticulum Ca2+/ATPase (SERCA) and its regulator protein, phospholamban (PLB). Objectives: Evaluation of behavior parameters for anxiety and anhedonia state and genic expression of a-myosine, b-myosine, SERCA2a and PLB in the heart tissue of rats with subchronic AoI that received treatment with an SSRI (paroxetine) for 4 weeks. Methods: Surgery to induce AoI was performed on male Wistar rats, anxiety was evaluated by the elevated plus-maze (EPM) and state of anhedonia was tested by ingestion of 2% sucrose solution. After euthanasia the heart tissue was collected and total RNA was extracted to be analyzed by the RT-qPCR method. Results: Heart fractional shortening was preserved in rats with AoI that were treated compared to rats with AoI that were not treated. There was no statistically ...

Musculoskeletal disorders in upper limbs in dental students: exposure level to risk factors

Aim: This study assessed the risk factors of undergraduate students to develop musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in the upper limbs, regarding gender, type of dental clinical procedure, mouth region treated, and the four-handed dentistry practice. Methods: Dental students enrolled in the 8th semester in the Araraquara School of Dentistry, UNESP, Brazil, were photographed while practicing 283 dental procedures. The Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) method was used to evaluate the working postures of each student. The photographs were evaluated and a final risk score was attributed to each analyzed procedure. The prevalence of risk factors of developing MSD was estimated by point and by 95% confidence interval. The association between the risk factor of developing disorders and variables of interest were assessed by the chi-square test with a significance level of 5%. Results: The risk factors of developing MSD were high, regarding most dental procedures performed by the undergraduate students (score 5: 7.07%, CI95%: 4.08- 10.06%; score 6: 62.54%, CI95%: 56.90-68.18%). There was no significant association between the RULA final score and gender (p=0.559), and type of dental procedure (p=0.205), and mouth regions by arch (p=0.110) or hemi-arch (p=0.560), and the use of four-handed dentistry (p=0.366). Conclusions: It can be concluded that gender, type of dental clinical procedure, mouth region treated, and practice of four-handed dentistry did not influence the risk of developing MSD in the upper limbs among the dental students evaluated; however, they are at a high risk of developing such disorders.

Treatment of Dyslipidemia with Statins and Physical Exercises: Recent Findings of Skeletal Muscle Responses

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Expressão de microRNAs envolvidos com o crescimento muscular do pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus): análises in vivo e in vitro

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

Análise da modulação do reflexo H do vasto medial em mulheres com síndrome da dor femoropatelar

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

Desempenho produtivo e respostas hematológicas da Tilápia- do-Nilo submetida a diferentes níveis de proteína e condições de estresse

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FMVZ

Comparação dos parâmetros de força e propriocepção entre indivíduos com e sem instabilidade funcional de tornozelo

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

Estocagem tecidual e utilização de lipídeos em Matrinxã, Brycon cephalus (Günther, 1869)

Lipids have important biological functions, suchas membrane constituents, hormone precursors, and are efficient energy reserves, due to thers high caloric content. In fish, but not in mammals, lipid storage patterns are quite diverse. The aim of this study was to determine lipid distribution in somatic and reproductive tissues of matrinxã, Brycon cephalus, both male and female, highlighting somatic indices related to lipid dynamics. From Oct 98 to Jan 99, a total of 174 fish (8-12 each month) were sampled. After fish anesthesia, heparinized blood was collected for plasma triacylglycerol determination. Fish were individually weighed and measured, and liver, gonads and visceral fat were collected and weighed for HSI (hepatosomatic index), GSI (gonad somatic index) and MFI (mesenteric fat index) calculation. The highest values of total lipids were found in red muscle (about 18%), liver and gonads (about 16.5%). The white muscle had a lower concentration (2.5%). Analyses of variance of HSI and MFI showed fluctuations along the experimental period with lowest concentrations in the periods of highest temperatures. Matrinxã store lipids in several body tissues, including mesenteric fat, liver, muscles and gonads.

Clinicopathological and immunohistochemical evaluation of oesophageal leiomyosarcoma in a dog

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