153 resultados para Atra
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All-trans-retinoic acid (atRA) appears to affect Th1-Th2 differentiation and its effects on immune responses might also be mediated by dendritic cell (DC). Nonetheless, studies have been showing contradictory results since was observed either induction or inhibition of DC differentiation. Our aim was to investigate atRA action on human monocyte derived DC differentiation. For this purpose we tested pharmacological and physiological doses of atRA with or without cytokines. Cell phenotypes were analyzed by flow cytometry and function was investigated by phagocytosis and respiratory burst. DC, positive control group, was differentiated with GM-CSF and IL-4 and maturated with TNF-alpha. We demonstrated that atRA effects depend on the dose used as pharmacological doses inhibited expression of all phenotypic markers tested while a physiological dose caused cell differentiation. However, atRA combined or not with cytokines did not promote DC differentiation. In fact, atRA was detrimental on IL-4 property as a DC inductor. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Pela educaçio o homem se apropria do mundo atra vês do exercício processual e consciente do saber e dopoder sobre a realidade e o mundo, realizando-se como sujeito da história em cuja construção se reconhece ao reconhecer sua participação como açio criadora. A divisão da sociedade em classes antagônicas fundamenta a possibilidade e a necessidade de uma proposta de Educação Popular como a forma de retomada pela classe dominada de um direito que lhe foi alienado, que e a Educa ção sem adjetivo, onde saber e poder são qualificados a partir do ser homem e nio a partir da posição que se ocupa em uma sociedade capitalista. A proposta de educação popular, para ter significincia, tem que objetivar a mudança social atrav~s da ne gação de estrutura de poder, assumida numa perspectiva de superação de suas contradições constituídas pela existência de classes antagônicas na sociedade. O sujeito dessa mudança social e a classe dominada que, atraves de grupos:populares organizados, assumem o processo educativo como instrumento de realização de seu projeto de libertaçio, em contraposição ao projeto da classe dominante que usa o sistema educativo-vigente, como for ma de manutenção do status quo ,de dominação. A interferência em educação popular da parte de pessoas de camadas media, que nao pertencem sociologicamen te ã classe dominada, põe problemas serios de viabilidade e eficácia. No entanto, com base em dados experimentais e teóricos, pode-se afirmar que essa interferência e válida e eficaz, mesmo que os educadores nao se integrem em forma de pertença ã classe dominada.Para a eficácia de sua interferência no processo educativo popular, os .educadores de camada media têm que manter na praxis educativa uma constante vigilância para se pôr a serviço da classe dominada e dominante. nao da classe As condições principais para esse intento sao: opçao pela mudança social, convicção consciente de que nao são eles, mas os educandos, os agentes principais da dita mudança e, consequentemente, o empenho na consecuçao, por parte dos educadores, de uma autintica autonomia no saber e no poder. Da interferência posta corretamente em prática sao também beneficiados esses mesmos educadores que, na sua praxis educativa, têm oportunidade de crescer na refor mulação de seu saber, tanto sobre a sociedade como sobre o seu posicionamento concreto diante das exigincias de mudança de uma sociedade cuja organização negaram na base de seu engajamento educativo.
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Nutritional status is an important determinant to the response against Leishmania infection, although few studies have characterized the molecular basis for the association found between malnutrition and the disease. Vitamin A supplementation has long been used in developing countries to prevent mortality by diarrheal and respiratory diseases, but there are no studies on the role of vitamin A in Leishmania infection, although we and others have found vitamin A deficiency in visceral Leishmaniasis (VL). Regulatory T cells are induced in vitro by vitamin A metabolites and are considered important cells implicated T CD4+ cell suppression in human VL. This work aimed to examine the correlation of nutritional status and the effect of vitamin A in the response against Leishmania infantum infection. A total of 179 children were studied: 31 had active VL, 33 VL history, 44 were DTH+ and 71 were DTH- and had negative antibody to Leishmania (DTH-/Ac-). Peripheral blood monuclear cells were isolated in a subgroup of 10 active VL and 16 DTH-/Ac- children and cultivated for 20h under 5 different conditions: 1) Medium, 2) Soluble promastigote L. infantum antigens (SLA), 3) All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), 4) SLA + ATRA and 5) Concanavalin A. T CD4+CD25highFoxp3+, T CD4+CD25-Foxp3- and CD14+ monocytes were stained and studied by flow cytometry for IL-10, TGF-β and IL-17 production. Nutritional status was compromised in VL children, which presented lower BMI/Age and retinol concentrations when compared to healthy controls. We found a negative correlation between nutritional status (measured by BMI/Age and serum retinol) and anti-Leishmania antibodies and acute phase proteins. There was no correlation between nutritional status and parasite load. ATRA presented a dual effect in Treg cells and monocytes: In healthy children (DTH-/Ac-), it induced a regulatory response, increasing IL-10 and TGF-β production; in VL children it modulated the immune response, preventing increased IL-10 production after SLA stimulation. Furthermore, we found a positive correlation between BMI/Age and IL-17 production and negative correlation between serum retinol and IL-10 and TGF-β production in T CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ cells after SLA stimulus. Our results show a potential dual role of vitamin A in the immune system: improvement of regulatory profile during homeostasis and down modulation of IL-10 in Treg cells and monocytes during symptomatic VL. Therefore, the use of vitamin A concomitant to VL therapy might improve recovery from disease status in Leishmania infantum infection
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The biochemical and functional characterization of wasp venom toxins is an important prerequisite for the development of new tools both for the therapy of the toxic reactions due to envenomation caused by multiple stinging accidents and also for the diagnosis and therapy of allergic reactions caused by this type of venom. PLA(1) was purified from the venom of the neotropical social wasp Polybia paulista by using molecular exclusion and cation exchange chromatographies; its amino acid sequence was determined by using automated Edman degradation and compared to the sequences of other vespid venom PLA(1)'s. The enzyme exists as a 33,961.40 da protein, which was identified as a lipase of the GX class, liprotein lipase superfamily, pancreatic lipases (ab20.3) homologous family and RP2 sub-group of phospholipase. P. paulista PLA(1) is 53-82% identical to the phospholipases from wasp species from Northern Hemisphere. The use restrained-based modeling permitted to describe the 3-D structure of the enzyme, revealing that its molecule presents 23% alpha-helix, 28% beta-sheet and 49% coil. The protein structure has the alpha/beta fold common to many lipases; the core consists of a tightly packed beta-sheet constituted of six-stranded parallel and one anti-parallel beta-strand, surrounded by four alpha-helices. P. paulista PLA(1) exhibits direct hemolytic action against washed red blood cells with activity similar to the Cobra cardiotoxin from Naja naja atra. In addition to this, PLA(1) was immunoreactive to specific IgE from the sera of P. paulista-sensitive patients. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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The neotropical wasp Polybia paulista is very aggressive and endemic in south-east Brazil, where it frequently causes stinging accidents. By using gel filtration on Sephadex G-200, followed by ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Cellulose under a pH gradient, a group of four toxins (designated as polybitoxins-I, II, lII and IV) presenting phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activities was purified. These toxins are dimeric with mol. wts ranging from 115,000 to 132,000 and formed by different subunits. The four toxins contain very high sugar contents attached to their molecules (22-43% w/w) and presented different values of pH optimum from 7.8 to 9.0; when dissociated, only residual catalytic activities were maintained. The catalytic activities of polybitoxins (from 18 to 771 μmoles/mg per minute) are lower than that of PLA2 from Apis mellifera venom and hornetin from Vespa basalis. The polybitoxins presented a non-linear steady-state kinetic behavior for the hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine at pH 7.9, compatible with the negative co- operativity phenomena. All of the polybitoxins were very potent direct hemolysins, especially the polybitoxins-III and IV, which are as potent as the lethal toxin from V. basalis and hornetin from Vespa flavitarsus, respectively; polybitoxin-IV presented hemolytic action 20 times higher than that of PLA2 from A. mellifera, 17 times higher than that of neutral PLA2 from Naja nigricolis and about 37 times higher than that of cardiotoxin from Naja naja atra venom.
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Background: Ethanol (EtOH) alters the all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) levels in some tissues. Retinol and ATRA are essential for cell proliferation, differentiation, and maintenance of prostate homeostasis. It has been suggested that disturbances in retinol/ATRA concentration as well as in the expression of retinoic acid receptors (RARs) contribute to benign prostate hyperplasia and prostate cancer. This study aimed to evaluate whether EtOH consumption is able to alter retinol and ATRA levels in the plasma and prostate tissue as well as the expression of RARs, cell proliferation, and apoptosis index. Methods: All animals were divided into 4 groups (n = 10/group). UChA: rats fed 10% (v/v) EtOH ad libitum; UChACo: EtOH-naïve rats without access to EtOH; UChB: rats fed 10% (v/v) EtOH ad libitum; UChBCo: EtOH-naïve rats without access to EtOH. Animals were euthanized by decapitation after 60 days of EtOH consumption for high-performance liquid chromatography and light microscopy analysis. Results: EtOH reduced plasma retinol concentration in both UChA and UChB groups, while the retinol concentration was not significantly different in prostate tissue. Conversely, plasma and prostate ATRA levels increased in UChB group compared with controls, beyond the up-regulation of RARβ and -γ in dorsal prostate lobe. Additionally, no alteration was found in cell proliferation and apoptosis index involving dorsal and lateral prostate lobe. Conclusions: We conclude that EtOH alters the plasma retinol concentrations proportionally to the amount of EtOH consumed. Moreover, high EtOH consumption increases the concentration of ATRA in plasma/prostate tissue and especially induces the RARβ and RARγ in the dorsal prostate lobe. EtOH consumption and increased ATRA levels were not associated with cell proliferation and apoptosis in the prostate. © 2012 by the Research Society on Alcoholism.
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A educação financeira, tema constante de programas de TV de grande audiência, é analisada nesta obra como uma crença produzida pelo mundo das finanças, segundo a qual a financeirização é um processo que envolve valores morais, culturais, políticos, simbólicos e sociais presentes no mercado e que se configuram e se reconfiguram, colaborando assim para a transformação cognitiva da sociedade e do capitalismo contemporâneo. No Brasil o tema ganhou relevância durante o Governo Lula, com a criação da Estratégia Nacional de Educação Financeira, em 2007, e do Comitê Nacional de Educação Financeira, em 2010. As iniciativas foram seguidas pelo setor privado, com a instituição pela Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo, em 2011, do projeto Bovespa Vai Até Você, visando a democratização e popularização do mercado de capitais. É a partir desse programa, que a bolsa paulista institui o programa Mulheres em Ação, voltado para o público feminino. A autora observa que a criação de uma nova crença que esteja em consonância com o mundo das finanças é essencial para que o capitalismo se produza e se reproduza. E cita o sociólogo Roberto Grün: [...] o Brasil vive no início do século 21 a instauração de um modo de dominação financeiro. Mais que um simples money talks, estamos diante da dominação cultural das finanças, que impõem a proeminência das suas maneiras de enxergar a realidade brasileira e enquadrar os problemas do país. Tomando como base esse contexto, a autora realiza uma abordagem sociológica do tema, privilegiando as questões sociais, culturais e simbólicas pertinentes. Mais que analisar uma suposta mudança de hábitos das mulheres que procuram pelo curso de educação financeira da BM&FBovespa, o objetivo do estudo é enfatizar estratégias e mecanismos utilizados pela bolsa de valores para atraí-las. Entre estes, está o Mulheres em Ação, projeto que adota com...
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Este trabalho analisa aspectos do contexto das políticas públicas culturais contemporâ-neas relacionadas com as ações de mobilização que envolvem a sociedade civil. A aná-lise engloba conhecimento sobre o papel do profissional de Relações Públicas na con-tribuição da execução de políticas culturais que incentivem o protagonismo social atra-vés do Programa Cultura Viva, desenvolvido pelo Ministério da Cultura, com a imple-mentação de Pontos e Pontões de Cultura, e no âmbito de movimentos sociais indepen-dentes. Os resultados apontam a importância estratégica do Relações Públicas na expan-são das políticas públicas culturais
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Pós-graduação em Engenharia Elétrica - FEIS
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Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)