78 resultados para MacRitchie, Finlay


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About the editorial of the Professor Guillermo Llanos: "Carlos J. Finlay: the forgotten Pasteur of America", a hundred years after his death and through a documental review, a summary of the life and work of this great man of science was conducted. Finlay was a notable figure of the American medicine, he conceived a new infection way able to explain the propagation of the yellow fever, and added the possibility of their scientific confirmation by an experimental method. For all the above-mentioned Finlay was recognized as the humanity's benefactor.

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Se procesan "a ciegas" 511 muestras de heces por las técnicas de Kato-Katz, Willis, Ritchie y directo. Al comparar los resultados obtenidos en el diagnóstico de Trichuris trichiura, Necator americanus y Ascaris lumbricoides, vimos que la de Kato-Katz fué más sensible, revelando el mayor número de casos, siguiéndole en orden sucesivo, el Willis, el Ritchie, y el examen directo. Si se tiene en cuenta que el método de Kato-Katz es además cuantitativo, podemos recomendar-lo como técnica de elección para el diagnóstico de las geohelmintiasis intestinales.

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Toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE) is a mayor cause of central nervous system infection in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Toxoplasma antibodies were detected in 56 of 79 patients with AIDS (71%), in the present study. Fourteen out of 57 seropositive patients developed TF (25%) and had Toxoplasma gondii antigen detected in their urine. For this, most of them received an effective therapy, with the subsequent disappearance of the symptoms and discontinuity of excretion of the T. gondii antigens. Our results suggest that the monitoring of T. gondii antigen in the urine of AIDS patients may be useful to decide on the proper time for therapy, as well as to avoid the beginning of neurologic signs in these patients.

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Pinworm infection was prospectively studied during one year in 469 children attending three day care centers. Each child was examined at six months intervals using up to three perianal swabs with adhesive tape. Those found infected were treated with mebendazole. At the beginning of the study we found a prevalence of 28% that dropped to 13% and 12% in the following study periods. The reinfection rate was twice the incidence rate in both study periods. We also found a small percentage (10%) of the children reinfected in most or all study periods. There was a high correlation between reinfection and perianal itching. Our results add further knowledge to the epidemiology of intestinal parasites in day care centers.

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Dissertation to obtain a Master Degree in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine

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Eosinophils have long been thought to be effectors of immunity to helminths but have also been implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma. Patterns of cytokine production in the host may influence the pathogenesis of these diseases by regulating the activities of eosinophils and other components of the immune response. Mice which constitutively over-express IL-5 have profound and life-long eosinophilia in a restricted number of tissues. Although eosinophils from IL-5 transgenics are functionally competent for a number of parameters considered to be important in inflammation, untreated animals are overtly normal and free of disease. In addition, the responses of these animals when exposed to aeroallergens and helminths present a number of apparent paradoxes. Eosinophil accumulation in tissues adjacent to major airways is rapid and extensive in transgenics exposed to the aeroallergen, but even after treatment with antigen over many months these mice show no evidence of respiratory distress or pathology. Helminth-infected IL-5 transgenics and their non-transgenic littermates develop similar inflammatory responses at mucosal sites and are comparable for a number of T cell and antibody responses, but they differ considerably in their ability to clear some parasite species. The life-cycle of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis is significantly inhibited in IL-5 transgenics, but that of Toxocara canis is not. Our results also suggest that eosinophilia and/or over-expression of IL-5 may actually impair host resistance to Schistosoma mansoni and Trichinella spiralis. The pathogenesis of diseases in which eosinophils are involved may therefore be more complex than previously thought.

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O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar os métodos estatísticos de análise da interação de genótipos com ambientes (GxA), enfatizando a adaptabilidade e a estabilidade fenotípica. Utilizaram-se dados de produtividade de grãos de soja de sete experimentos em Goiás, testando 28 genótipos, dos quais quatro cultivares comerciais. Avaliaram-se os métodos Tradicional, Plaisted & Peterson, Wricke, Finlay & Wilkinson, Eberhart & Russell, Verma, Chahal & Murty, Toler, AMMI (additive main effect and multiplicative interaction), Hühn, Annicchiarico e Lin & Binns. Avaliou-se a associação entre os métodos pela correlação de Spearman. Observou-se forte associação entre os de Plaisted & Peterson e Wricke, cujo uso concomitante foi contra-indicado. A mesma conclusão é atribuída aos métodos Annicchiarico e Lin & Binns, também fortemente associados, o que implica em classificações fenotípicas muito semelhantes. O uso de um deles, entretanto, é recomendado. Métodos baseados, exclusivamente, em coeficientes de regressão, devem ser utilizados em associação com outro, fundamentado na variância da interação GxA, ou em medidas estatísticas como a variância dos desvios da regressão. O uso combinado do método de Eberhart & Russell e AMMI é outra indicação, em razão de suas correlações significativas com a maioria dos outros métodos e uma associação relativamente fraca entre eles.

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Durant la dècada dels 80 la DGA (Diputación General de Aragon), va engegar una xarxa d’assaigs experimentals. La major part d’aquests assaigs es troben a la vall de l’Ebre. Padró el 1992 publica les dades de creixement i aporta informació sobre el comportament clonal de cada assaig. Malgrat tot, la enorme desestructura dels assaigs dificultà, en el seu moment, l’anàlisi simultani de les dades. En el treball es proposa un reanàlisi de les dades de la xarxa de la DGA basat en l’ús de models mitxes, amb l’objecte d’interpretar patrons adaptatius i amb especial interès en la descripció de la interacció genotip-ambient. S’utilitzen el models de estabilitat de Shukla, regressions de Finlay-Wilkinson y Eberhart-Russell, AMMI a on el factor ambient és aleatori i el genotip fixe.

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Genome-wide linkage studies have identified the 9q22 chromosomal region as linked with colorectal cancer (CRC) predisposition. A candidate gene in this region is transforming growth factor beta receptor 1 (TGFBR1). Investigation of TGFBR1 has focused on the common genetic variant rs11466445, a short exonic deletion of nine base pairs which results in truncation of a stretch of nine alanine residues to six alanine residues in the gene product. While the six alanine (*6A) allele has been reported to be associated with increased risk of CRC in some population based study groups this association remains the subject of robust debate. To date, reports have been limited to population-based case-control association studies, or case-control studies of CRC families selecting one affected individual per family. No study has yet taken advantage of all the genetic information provided by multiplex CRC families. Methods: We have tested for an association between rs11466445 and risk of CRC using several family-based statistical tests in a new study group comprising members of non-syndromic high risk CRC families sourced from three familial cancer centres, two in Australia and one in Spain. Results: We report a finding of a nominally significant result using the pedigree-based association test approach (PBAT; p = 0.028), while other family-based tests were non-significant, but with a p-value < 0.10 in each instance. These other tests included the Generalised Disequilibrium Test (GDT; p = 0.085), parent of origin GDT Generalised Disequilibrium Test (GDT-PO; p = 0.081) and empirical Family-Based Association Test (FBAT; p = 0.096, additive model). Related-person case-control testing using the 'More Powerful' Quasi-Likelihood Score Test did not provide any evidence for association (M-QL5; p = 0.41). Conclusions: After conservatively taking into account considerations for multiple hypothesis testing, we find little evidence for an association between the TGFBR1*6A allele and CRC risk in these families. The weak support for an increase in risk in CRC predisposed families is in agreement with recent meta-analyses of case-control studies, which estimate only a modest increase in sporadic CRC risk among 6*A allele carriers.