Ana Maria Tepedino, Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer, Mauro Morelli, Paulo Fernando Carneiro, Ricardo De Gouveia Correa, Tereza Maria P. Cavalcanti,
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1984 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Sílvia Regina Dias Médici Saldiva, Sônia Isoyama Venâncio, Ana Gabriela Cepeda Gouveia, Ana Lucia da Silva Castro, Maria Mercedes Loureiro Escuder, Elsa Regina Justo Giugliani,
The aim was to assess regional influences on food consumption in infants less than six months of age. A cross-sectional study was conducted in a sample of 18,929 infants participating in the Second Survey on Breastfeeding Prevalence in Brazilian State Capitals and the Federal District in 2008. Consumption rates for tea, fruit juices, formula milk, and porridge were calculated for the State capitals from the five geographic regions of the country. Food consumption was estimated by logit analyses ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
2011 - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz | Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Ana L. Gomes, António Gouveia, Ana Filipa Capelinha, Dionísio de la Cruz, Patrı́cia Silva, Rui Manuel Reis, Amadeu Pimenta, José Manuel Lopes,
Aim: To assess KIT and PDGFRA mutations frequencies in a Portuguese series of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs). Methods: 78 GISTs were evaluated for CD117 expression and screened for mutations in KIT (exons 9, 11, 13, 14 and 17) and PDGFRA (exons 12, 14 and 18) genes. Results: KIT activating mutations were identified in 44 (56%) of the 78 GISTs. Forty cases (91%) presented a mutation in KIT exon 11, and 4 (9%) in exon 9. One case showed a 4 bp deletion in intron 14. PDGFRA mutations were observed ...
Tópico(s): Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
2007 - BMJ | Journal of Clinical Pathology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Caroline Camilo, Mariana Maschietto, Henrique Cursino Vieira, Ana Carolina Tahira, Gisele Rodrigues Gouveia, Ana Cecília Feio dos Santos, André Brooking Negrão, Marcelo Ribeiro, Ronaldo Laranjeira, Homero Vallada, Helena Brentani,
Cocaine use disorders (CUDs) represent a major public health problem in many countries. To better understand the interaction between the environmental modulations and phenotype, the aim of the present study was to investigate the DNA methylation pattern of CUD patients, who had concomitant cocaine and crack dependence, and healthy controls.
Tópico(s): Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
2019 - Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria | Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
Ana Rita Álvaro, Joana Rosmaninho‐Salgado, Ana Raquel Santiago, João Martins, Célia A. Aveleira, Paulo F. Santos, Tiago de Oliveira Simões Pereira, Denisa Gouveia, Ana Luı́sa Carvalho, Eric Grouzmann, António Francisco Ambrósio, Cláudia Cavadas,
NPY is present in the retina of different species but its role is not elucidated yet. In this work, using different rat retina in vitro models (whole retina, retinal cells in culture, microglial cell cultures, rat Müller cell line and retina endothelial cell line), we demonstrated that NPY staining is present in the retina in different cell types: neurons, macroglial, microglial and endothelial cells. Retinal cells in culture express NPY Y1, Y2, Y4 and Y5 receptors. Retina endothelial cells express ...
Tópico(s): Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
2007 - Elsevier BV | Neurochemistry International
Miguel Pinto de Gouveia, Ana Isabel Gouveia, Ana Brinca, Ricardo Vieira,
The reconstruction of facial surgical defects is usually challenging for the dermatologic surgeon. Three different cases of facial defects in which tunneled island flaps were used are reported. In 2 cases, wide defects involving the nasal dorsum and ala were repaired using a nasolabial island flap tunneled through the lateral side of the nose. A tunneled island glabellar flap was used for medial canthus reconstruction in the third case. Despite complex pedicle dissection and frequent trapdoor deformation, ...
Tópico(s): Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
2017 - Elsevier BV | Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
Kelly Gouveia, Ana Magalhães, Liliana de Sousa,
Many cats that are rendered to a shelter fail to find a new home. Older and other less desirable cats may face a significant amount of time in the shelter prior to adoption. Therefore, the present study compared the behaviour of domestic cats subjected to different lengths of time, room density (RD) and sex ratio in a shelter. Forty-six cats from a local shelter (Porto, Portugal) were included in the study. All subjects lived in group housing enclosures. Each cat's behaviour was recorded during 5 ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2011 - Elsevier BV | Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Carla Araújo, Carla Silva‐Matos, Albertino Damasceno, Maria Lídia Gouveia, Ana Azevedo, Nuno Lunet,
To describe the use of different types of tobacco (manufactured and hand-rolled cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco) in the adult Mozambican population, across regions. A representative sample of 12,902 Mozambicans aged 25–64 years was evaluated in a national household survey conducted in 2003 using a structured questionnaire. The patterns of tobacco consumption were described to highlight the sex-specific differences by age and between urban and rural settings, and between the north, where most of ...
Tópico(s): HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
2011 - Elsevier BV | Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Luı́s Gouveia, Ana Paias, Dushyant Sharma,
In this paper we discuss models and methods for solving the rooted distance constrained minimum spanning tree problem which is defined as follows: given a graph G=(V,E) with node set V={0,1,…,n} and edge set E, two integer weights, a cost ce and a delay we associated with each edge e of E, and a natural (time limit) number H, we wish to find a spanning tree T of the graph with minimum total cost and such that the unique path from a specified root node, node 0, to any other node has total delay not ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Graph Theory Research
2006 - Elsevier BV | Computers & Operations Research
Rute Almeida, Sónia Gouveia, Ana Paula Rocha, Esther Pueyo, Juan Pablo Martínez, Pablo Laguna,
In this paper, a dynamic linear approach was used over QT and RR series measured by an automatic delineator, to explore the interactions between QT interval variability (QTV) and heart rate variability (HRV). A low-order linear autoregressive model allowed to separate and quantify the QTV fractions correlated and not correlated with HRV, estimating their power spectral density measures. Simulated series and artificial ECG signals were used to assess the performance of the methods, considering a respiratory- ...
Tópico(s): Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
2006 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Carla Alexandra Gouveia, Ana Oliveira, Sandra Pinho, Carlos Vasconcelos, Félix Carvalho, Roxana Moreira, Ricardo Jorge Dinis‐Oliveira,
ABSTRACT The development of analytical techniques that enable the use of hair as an alternative matrix for the analysis of drugs of abuse is useful for confirming the exposure in a larger time window (weeks to months, depending on the length of the hair shaft). In the present study a methodology aimed at the simultaneous quantification of cocaine and morphine in human hair was developed and validated. After decontamination, hair samples (20 mg) were incubated with a mixture of methanol/hydrochloric ...
Tópico(s): Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
2012 - Wiley | Biomedical Chromatography
José Pinto‐Gouveia, Ana Galhardo, Marina Cunha, Marcela Matos,
Little is known about emotional regulation processes of psychological flexibility/acceptance, self-compassion, and coping styles in infertility and the way they may exert a protective function towards depression. The aim of the current study was to explore how these emotion regulation processes are related to depression and to the sense of self-efficacy to deal with infertility in infertile patients. Gender differences were also considered. One hundred couples without known fertility problems and ...
Tópico(s): Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Human Fertility
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Patrícia Páscoa, Célia M. Gouveia, Ana Russo, Roxana Bojariu, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Ricardo M. Trigo,
We evaluated the response of vegetation’s photosynthetic activity to drought conditions from 1998 to 2014 over Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The connection between vegetation stress and drought events was assessed by means of a correlation analysis between the monthly Standardized Precipitation Evaporation Index (SPEI), at several time scales, and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), as well as an assessment of the simultaneous occurrence of extremes in both indices. The analysis ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Anil Gupta, Christian von Heymann, Anders Magnuson, Seppo Alahuhta, Roshan Fernando, Marc Van de Velde, F.J. Mercier, Alexandra M.J.V. Schyns-van den Berg, Isabelle Casier, Bart Bryon, Filiep Soetens, Pierre-Yves Dewandre, Géraldine Lambert, Jan Christiaen, Roel Schepers, Patrick Van Houwe, Alain F. Kalmar, Henk Vanoverschelde, Monique Bauters, Eva Roofthooft, Sarah Devroe, Marc Van de Velde, Ana Jadrijevic, Aleksandra Jokić, Damjan Marin, Ivan Šklebar, Slobodan Mihaljević, Martina Kosinová, Petr Štourač, Milan Adamus, Christian Kufa, Ivana Volfová, Blažena Zaoralová, Christina Froeslev-Friis, Bjoern Mygil, Charlotte Albrechtsen, Tomi Kavasmaa, Seppo Alahuhta, Anne Mäyrä, Susanna Mennander, Kati Rautaneva, Tuula Hiekkanen, Vesa K. Kontinen, Kirsti Linden, Sara Toivakka, Emmanuel Boselli, Pierre-Édouard Greil, Olivier Mascle, Aurelie Courbon, Jean Michel Lutz, Thérèse Simonet, Marie Barbier, Tarik Hlioua, Fleur Meniolle d’Hauthville, Christine Quintin, Karim Bouattour, Agnès Lecinq, Mickaël Soued, Marie‐Pierre Bonnet, Mathieu Carbonniere, C. E. Fischer, Paola-Carla Picard, Martine Bonnin, B. Storme, Anne-Sophie Bouthors, Thomas Detente, Minh Nguyen Troung, H. Keïta, S. Nebout, Lauranne Ossé, Anne Delmas, F. Vial, Lutz Kaufner, Christoph Hoefing, Stefan M. Mueller, Karin Becke, Manfred Blobner, Heidrun Lewald, Stefan J. Schaller, Ellis Muggleton, Birgit Bette, Claudia Neumann, Stefan Weber, Matthias Grünewald, Henning Ohnesorge, Antonia Helf, Yvonne Jelting, Peter Kranke, Christian von Heymann, Sabine Welfle, Chryssoula Staikou, Antonia Stavrianopoulou, Athanasia Τsaroucha, Konstantina Kalopita, Anastasia Loukeri, Dimitrios Valsamidis, Paraskevi Matsota, Adalbjörn Thorsteinsson, Riad Tome, Leonid A. Eidelman, Atara Davis, Sharon Orbach‐Zinger, Alexander Ioscovich, Iacob Ramona, Luigi De Simone, Barbara Pesetti, Luca Brazzi, Alessandro Zito, M. Camorcia, Giorgio Della Rocca, Marco Aversano, Maria Grazia Frigo, Cristina Todde, Qamile Morina, Andrius Macas, Gražina Keraitienė, Kęstutis Rimaitis, Francis Borg, Carl Tua, Agnes Geertje Kuijpers-Visser, Alexandra Schyns-van den Berg, Markus W. Hollmann, Tijs van den Berg, Eric Koolen, Ilse Dons, Anouk van der Knijff, Caroline van der Marel, Nele Ruysschaert, Michal Pelka, Christine Pluymakers, Seppe Koopman, Aart-Jan Teunissen, Dick Cornelisse, N van Dasselaar, Bastiaan Verdouw, Ingrid C. M. Beenakkers, Vegard Dahl, Robert Hagen, Francesco Vivaldi, John Reidar Eriksen, Radovan Wiszt, Naz Aslam Tayyaba, Else-Marie Ringvold, Radosław Chutkowski, Tomasz Skirecki, Bartłomiej Wódarski, Maria Aida Faria, Amélia Ferreira, Ana Catarina Sampaio, Irene Ferreira, Bernardo Matias, Joana Teixeira, Rita Araújo, Hermínia Cabido, Rosário Fortuna, Paulo Lemos, Carolina da Silva Cardoso, F Moura, Cristiana Pereira, Sandra Pereira, Francisca Tavares, Pedro Vasconcelos, Manuel Abecasis, Filipa Lança, Paulo Muchacho, Lucindo Ormonde, Isabel Guedes-Araujo, Vítor Pinho-Oliveira, Paulo Paredes, Carla Bentes, Francisco Gouveia, Ana Vaz Milheiro, Cláudia Castanheira, Miriam Neves, Vânia Pacheco, Mara Cortez, Raquel Tranquada, Glória Tareco, Inês Furtado, Estela Pereira, Luísa Marinho, Manue Seabra, Aleksandra Bulasevic, Mirjana Kendrišić, Lidija Jovanovic, Borislava Pujić, Marija Kutlešić, Monika Grochová, J Šimonová, Gordána Pavlović, Aleš Rozman, Iva Blajić, Dragan Graovac, Tatjana Stopar Pintraic, Teresa Chiquito, Pablo Monedero, De Joaquin Carlos-Errea, Roque Guillén-Casbas, Leonor Veiga-Gil, Morena Anna Basso, Carolina Garcia Bartolo, Cristian Hernandez, Laura Ricol, Maroto Pinar De Santos, Josep A. Gràcia Solsona, Manuel López-Baamonde, Marta Magaldi Mendaña, Ana María Plaza Moral, Marina Vendrell, Lourdes Trillo, Anibal Ricardo Perez Garcia, Clara Alamillo Salas, E. Moret, Laura Ramió‐Lluch, José Luis Aguilar Sánchez, Maria Soler Pedrola, María Inmaculada Hernández, Gorka Aldalur, Estíbaliz Bárcena, Julia Herrera, F. Iturri, Alberto Martínez, Leire Martínez, Rosa Serna, F. Gilsanz, E. Guasch, Fabrizio Iannuccelli, Julieta Latorre, Cristina Rodriguez Roca, Osvaldo Ceferino Pérez Pardo, Natalia Sierra Biddle, Ceferina Suárez Cendaña, Lourdes Hernández González, Caridad Remacha González, Raquel Sánchez Nuez, Diego Anta, José M. Beleña, Carmen García-Cuadrado, Irene García, Susana Manrique, Elena Suarez, Anette Hein, Elisabet Arbman, Helena Hansson, Monika Tillenius, Ruaa Al-Taie, Susanne Ledin-Eriksson, Anja Lindén-Søndersø, Ola Rosén, Evija Austruma, Lars Gillberg, Bijan Darvish, Anil Gupta, Johan L. Nordstöm, Jan Persson, Jan Rosenberg, Lars Brühne, Johan Forshammar, Malin Ugarph Edfeldt, Håkan Rolfsson, Anna Hellblom, Katarina Levin, Sofus Rabow, Karin Thorlacius, Peter Bansch, Moira Robertson, Ulrike M. Stamer, Stanislas Mathivon, Georges L. Savoldelli, Pia Auf der Maur, Miodrag Filipovic, Alexander Dullenkopf, Maya Brunner, Thierry Girard, Claudia Vonlanthen, Şule Özbilgin, Berrin Gunaydin D, Pelin Çorman Dinçer, Ayça Taş Tuna,
Abstract Background Accidental dural puncture is an uncommon complication of epidural analgesia and can cause postdural puncture headache (PDPH). We aimed to describe management practices and outcomes after PDPH treated by epidural blood patch (EBP) or no EBP. Methods Following ethics committee approval, patients who developed PDPH after accidental dural puncture were recruited from participating countries and divided into two groups, those receiving EBP or no EBP. Data registered included patient and procedure ...
Elsevier BV | British Journal of Anaesthesia
Carolina Gouveia, Ana Maria Tomé, Filipa Barros, Sandra C. Soares, José Vieira, Pedro Pinho,
Non-contact vital signs monitoring has a wide range of applications, such as in safe drive and in health care. In mental health care, the use of non-invasive signs holds a great potential, as it would likely enhance the patient's adherence to the use of objective measures to assess their emotional experiences, hence allowing for more individualized and efficient diagnoses and treatment. In order to evaluate the possibility of emotion recognition using a non-contact system for vital signs monitoring, ...
Tópico(s): Emotion and Mood Recognition
2020 - Elsevier BV | Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Luísa Gouveia, Ana Evangelista Marques, Teresa Lopes da Silva, Alberto Reis,
Energy crises, global warming, and climatic changes call for technological and commercial advances in manufacturing high-quality transportation fuels from unconventional feedstocks. Microalgae is one of the most promising sources of biofuels due to the high yields attained per unit area and because it does not displace food crops. Neochloris oleabundans (Neo) microalga is an important promising microbial source of single-cell oil (SCO). Different experimental growth and lipid production conditions ...
Tópico(s): Process Optimization and Integration
2009 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
Sónia Gouveia, Ana Paula Rocha, Pablo Laguna, P.J.A. Lago,
The sequences technique is frequently used for time domain assessment of the arterial-cardiac baroreceptor reflex sensitivity (BRS). The BRS is estimated by the slope between systolic blood pressure and RR interval values in baroreflex sequences (BSs) and an overall estimate is obtained by slope averaging. However, only 25% of all beats are in BSs with 60% of those located in 3-beat length segments. Also, in cases of BSs absence (usually associated with poor BRS function), the BRS cannot be quantified. ...
Tópico(s): Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
2009 - Elsevier BV | Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Teresa Santiago, J.oão Q Melo, Rosa Gouveia, Ana Paula Martins,
Because of the limited information on the effects of ablation in human tissues, we studied intraatrial temperatures during endocardial radiofrequency applications. We correlated the intra-tissue temperatures with the tissue thickness and with the histologic appearance of the lesions. Radiofrequency currents were delivered to human atrial tissue, simulating conditions in endocardial ablation during surgery at set temperature of 70° and 80°C, and intra-tissue temperatures were measured with thermocouples. ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
2003 - Elsevier BV | The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Paula C. Castilho, Sandra Gouveia, Ana Isabel Rodrigues,
Artemisinin is a polycyclic sesquiterpene lactone that is highly effective against multidrug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum, the etiological agent of the most severe form of malaria. Determination of artemisinin in the source plant, Artemisia annua, is a challenging problem since the compound is present in very low concentrations, is thermolabile and unstable, and lacks chromophoric or fluorophoric groups. The ain of this study was to develop a simple protocol for the quantification ...
Tópico(s): Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
2008 - Wiley | Phytochemical Analysis
Luísa Gouveia, Ana Cristina Oliveira,
Tópico(s): Biodiesel Production and Applications
2008 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
Luísa Gouveia, Ana Paula Batista, Anabela Raymundo, Narcisa M. Bandarra,
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop microalgae vegetable‐based gelled desserts (similar to “dairy desserts”) prepared with pea protein isolate, Spirulina maxima and Diacronema vlkianum biomass, rich in essential fatty acids (omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acid's (PUFA)). The effect of microalgae concentration and gelling temperature on the colour, texture and fatty acid profile of the gels was investigated. Design/methodology/approach Pea protein isolate (4 per cent), κ‐carrageenan (0.15 per ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2008 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Nutrition & Food Science
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
André Lacerda Ulysses de Carvalho, Fábio Henrique Portella Corrêa de Oliveira, Rosa de Lima Ramos Mariano, Ester Ribeiro Gouveia, Ana Maria Souto-Maior,
The physiology of B. subtilis R14 was investigated in minimal medium under excess-oxygen and oxygen-limited conditions. Growth and efficient sporulation could be achieved in excess-oxygen culture on medium with readily metabolizable carbon and nitrogen sources, which allowed high growth rate and high biomass yield. A short transition phase between the exponential growth and sporulation could be attained by formulating a medium with a well-balanced C/N ratio. Under oxygen-limitation, but in the presence ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Inactivation Methods
2010 - Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
Luísa Gouveia, Ana Evangelista Marques, João Marcelo de Castro e Sousa, Patrícia Moura, Narcisa M. Bandarra,
AbstractMicroalgae can provide an untapped number of important bioactive molecules (functional ingredients), and their incorporation in traditional foods (e.g. breakfast cereals, spreads, breads, cookies, brownies, energy bars, mayonnaises, gelled desserts, pastas, emulsions, ice creams, and beverag
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2010 - | Food Science & Technology Bulletin Functional Foods
Luı́s Gouveia, Ana Paias, Stefan Voß,
The traveling purchaser problem (TPP) is the problem of determining a tour of a purchaser that needs to buy several items in different shops such that the total amount of travel and purchase costs is minimized. Motivated by an application in machine scheduling, we study a variant of the problem with additional constraints, namely, a limit on the maximum number of markets to be visited, a limit on the number of items bought per market and where only one copy per item needs to be bought. We present ...
Tópico(s): Transportation and Mobility Innovations
2010 - Elsevier BV | Computers & Operations Research
Luísa Gouveia, Ana Paula Batista, Ana F. Miranda, José Empis, Anabela Raymundo,
A study was undertaken to determine the effects of Chlorella vulgaris biomass as a colouring ingredient in traditional butter cookies. The cookies were manufactured at a pilot scale and stored for 3 months at room temperature, protected from light and air. The effects of C. vulgaris incorporation on the biscuits' colour were tested weekly during the first month, and monthly afterwards, for a total period of 3 months. C. vulgaris cookies presented an accentuated green tonality, which increased with ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2007 - Elsevier BV | Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies
Célia M. Gouveia, Ana Bastos, Ricardo M. Trigo, Carlos C. DaCamara,
Abstract. The present work aims to study the combined effect of drought and large wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula relying on remotely sensed data of vegetation dynamics and leaf moisture content, in particular monthly NDVI, NDWI and NDDI time series from 1999–2009, derived from VEGETATION dataset. The impact of the exceptional 2004/2005 drought on vegetation was assessed for vegetation recovering from the extraordinary fire season of 2003 and on the conditions that contributed to the onsetting ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2012 - Copernicus Publications | Natural hazards and earth system sciences
Manuela Gouveia, Ana I. Ribeiro‐Barros, Vítor Várzea, Carlos Rodrigues,
Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used to assess the genetic structure of Hemileia vastatrix populations. Forty-five rust isolates with different virulence spectra and from different hosts and geographical regions were analyzed. Out of 45 bands, generated with three RAPD primers, 35 (78%) were polymorphic and scored as molecular markers. Cluster analysis exhibits unstructured variability of this pathogen with regard to physiological race, geographical origin or host. The genotypic diversity ( ...
Tópico(s): Fungal and yeast genetics research
2005 - Taylor & Francis | Mycologia
Anabela Raymundo, Luísa Gouveia, Ana Paula Batista, J. Empis, Isabel Sousa,
Vegetable proteins proved to be good emulsifiers for food emulsions with dietetic advantages. The use of these emulsions as carriers for healthy ingredients, such as colourings, with antioxidant and other beneficial properties, is an interesting subject. In this work, the capacity of the biomass of the microalga Chlorella vulgaris (which has been widely used as a food supplement) as a fat mimetic, and its emulsifier ability, was evaluated. Pea protein emulsions with C. vulgaris addition (both green ...
Tópico(s): Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
2005 - Elsevier BV | Food Research International
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Edmundo Pessoa Lopes, Ericson Cavalcanti Gouveia, Ana Cecília Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Luís Henrique Bezerra Cavalcanti Sette, Luciano Albuquerque Mello, Regina Célia Moreira, Maria Rosângela Cunha Duarte Coêlho,
Elevated liver enzymes are infrequent in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection undergoing chronic hemodialysis (HD), suggesting that the alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is a poor predictor of hepatocellular damage in this population.To establish a more appropriate cut-off value of ALT to identify biochemical activity due to HCV infection in HD patients.A total of 217 patients, with an average age of 51.2 years, were evaluated between January and October 2002; 130 were males (60%). Serum ALT ...
Tópico(s): Hepatitis B Virus Studies
2005 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Clinical Virology
Manuela Gouveia, Ana I. Ribeiro‐Barros, Vítor Várzea, Carlos Rodrigues,
Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used to assess the genetic structure of Hemileia vastatrix populations. Forty-five rust isolates with different virulence spectra and from different hosts and geographical regions were analyzed. Out of 45 bands, generated with three RAPD primers, 35 (78%) were polymorphic and scored as molecular markers. Cluster analysis exhibits unstructured variability of this pathogen with regard to physiological race, geographical origin or host. The genotypic diversity ( ...
Tópico(s): Coffee research and impacts
2005 - Taylor & Francis | Mycologia