Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health.

abstract：:The present study aimed to perform a systematic literature review to determine if there is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that interferes less within tooth movement. This research was performed according to the PRISMA statement. Articles were searched in eight electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, Emba...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Corrêa AS,Almeida VL,Lopes BMV,Franco A,Matos FR,Quintans-Júnior LJ,Rode SM,Paranhos LR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aged skin, featured with dryness and wrinkles, has received mounting attention due to its adverse influences on beauty. β-Sitosterol and vermicularin are two common active ingredients of Thamnolia vermicularis (Sw.) Ach., a traditional Chinese medicine, of which the anti-aging effect has been discovered. Their protect...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Haiyuan YU,Shen X,Liu D,Hong M,Lu Y

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, the record of South American unenlagiine dromaeosaurids was substantially increased both in quantity as well as in quality of specimens. Here is presented a summary review of the South American record for these theropods.Unenlagia comahuensis, Unenlagia paynemili, and Neuquenraptor argentinu...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Gianechini FA,Apesteguia S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiopharmaceuticals play a critical role in modern medicine primarily for diagnostic purposes, but also for monitoring disease progression and response to treatment. As the use of image has been increased, so has the use of prescription medications. These trends increase the risk of interactions between medications a...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Santos-Oliveira R,Smith SW,Carneiro-Leão AM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence that, during song learning, birds do not only acquire 'what to sing' (the inventory of behavior), but also 'how to sing' (the singing program), including order-features of song sequencing. Common Nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos acquire such serial information by segmenting long strings of ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Hultsch H,Todt D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cesium atomic beam clocks have been the workhorse for many demanding applications in science and technology for the past four decades. Tests of the fundamental laws of physics and the search for minute changes in fundamental constants, the synchronization of telecommunication networks, and realization of the satellite...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Ahmed M,Magalhães DV,Bebeachibuli A,Müller ST,Alves RF,Ortega TA,Weiner J,Bagnato VS

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estuarine sediments represent important pools of trace metals, released from both anthropogenic and natural sources. Fluctuations in the water column physicochemical conditions, on the other hand, may transfer metals from solid to liquid compartment and resulting in contamination of the surrounding environment. The pr...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Silva CARE,Fonseca EMD,Grotto BW,Souza FES,Baptista JA Neto

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes Tereancistrum flabellum n. sp. (Dactylogyridae, Ancyrocephalinae) from the gills of the anostomid fishes Leporinus friderici, Leporinus amblyrhynchus and Leporinus elongatus from two freshwater ecosystems in the south east of Brazil. This new species is mainly characterized by the morpholog...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Zago AC,Yamada FH,Franceschini L,Bongiovani MF,Yamada POF,Silva RJD

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goniopsis cruentata is a common semi-terrestrial crab in Brazilian mangroves and an important fishery resource for traditional communities in the northeastern Brazilian coast. Aiming to contribute to the knowledge about the species, this study evaluated the carapace width and weight growth curves, the relative growth ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Reis CR,Taddei FG,Cobo VJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work was carried out in two small fishing communities, Barra de Mamanguape and Tramataia, Northeastern Brazil. The aim was to study these traditional fishermen's knowledge and perception about tide and wind classifications, as well as their fishing strategies and techniques. Our research methodology involved vari...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Bezerra DM,Nascimento DM,Ferreira EN,Rocha PD,Mourão JS

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate potential DNA damage and cytotoxicity in pathology laboratory technicians exposed to organic solvents, mainly xylene. Peripheral blood and buccal cells samples were collected from 18 technicians occupationally exposed to organic solvents and 11 non-exposed individuals. The technic...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： de Aquino T,Zenkner FF,Ellwanger JH,Prá D,Rieger A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at describing daily and seasonal variation in the activity of a population of South-American rattlesnakes (Crotalus durissus) in a savanna like habitat (Cerrado) in Southeastern Brazil. Seasonal and daily activities of snakes were evaluated by the number of captures of snakes during road surveys, acci...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Tozetti AM,Martins M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Shannon information theory is a common strategy to measure any kind of variability in a signal or phenomenon. Some methods were developed to adapt information entropy measures to bird song data trying to emphasize its versatility aspect. This classical approach, using the concept of bit, produces interesting res...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Piqueira JR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the bioreduction of six β-ketoesters by whole cells of Kluyveromyces marxianus and molecular investigation of a series of 13 β-ketoesters by hologram quantitative structure-activity relationship (HQSAR) in order to relate with conversion and enantiomeric excess of β-stereogenic-hydroxyesters obtain...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Oliveira SSS,Bello ML,Rodrigues CR,Azevedo PL,Ramos MCKV,Aquino-Neto FR,Fiaux SB,Dias LRS

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the existing collaboration networks in the Brazilian scientific output in Evolutionary Biology, considering articles published during the period from 2000 to 2012 in journals indexed by Web of Science. The methodology integrates bibliometric techniques and Social Network Analysis resources to des...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Santin DM,Vanz SA,Stumpf IR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Leuconostoc belongs to a group of lactic acid bacteria usually isolated from fermented vegetables, which includes species involved in the production of exopolysaccharides (EPS). These biopolymers possess considerable commercial potential. Because of the wide variety of industrial applications of EPS, this st...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Paulo EM,Boffo EF,Branco A,Valente AM,Melo IS,Ferreira AG,Roque MR,Assis SA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance to chemotherapy is a major obstacle in the treatment of cancer patients. The best characterised mechanism responsible for multidrug resistance involves the expression of the MDR-1 gene product, P-glycoprotein. However, the resistance process is multifactorial. Studies of multidrug resistance mecha...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Rumjanek VM,Trindade GS,Wagner-Souza K,de-Oliveira MC,Marques-Santos LF,Maia RC,Capella MA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro metabolism of a widespread natural product, trachyloban-19-oic acid (1), by the fungal species Mucor plumbeus was studied in a sucrose-yeast liquid medium. Two products were isolated, and their structures were determined by spectroscopic means as 7β-hydroxytrachyloban-19-oic acid (5) and trachyloban-19-O-...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Santos GFD,Takahashi JA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each animal species selects specific microhabitats for protection, foraging, or micro-climate. To understand the distribution patterns of small mammals on the ground and in the understorey, we investigated the use of microhabitats by small mammals in a deciduous forest of southern Brazil. Ten trap stations with seven ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Melo GL,Miotto B,Peres B,Cáceres NC

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper promotes a reflection on the relationship between daily practices and consumption. Understanding how conflicts, resistance and consensus are generated from daily consumption practices opens up possibilities for reflecting on the construction of sustainability in the context of diversity, one of the landmark...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Mazzarino JM,Morigi VJ,Kaufmann C,Farias AM,Fernandes DA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The atmospheric dispersion atmospheric plume of the metropolitan region and neighborhoods of the city of Rio de Janeiro was investigated through elemental analyzes (Na, K, Al, Mn, Pb, Ni, Cr) and stable lead isotopes in two epiphytes; the lichen Parmotrema crinitum (Ach.) and the bromeliad Tillandsia usneoides (L.). A...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Marques Junior AN,Panetto DP,Lamego F,Nepomuceno FO,Monna F,Losno R,Guillon R

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lutzomyia longipalpis is the most important vector of AmericanVisceral Leishmaniasis (AVL) due to Leishmania chagasi in the New World. Despite its importance, AVL, a disease primarily of rural areas, has increased its prevalence and became urbanized in some large cities in Brazil and other countries in Latin America. ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Soares RP,Turco SJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Epinephelidae form a group of species of high biological and economical interests. It´s phylogeographic patterns are not well known especially the distributed populations in the western region of the Atlantic Ocean. Among the representatives is a small species called Cephalopholis fulva, Coney, which presents a wi...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： De Souza AS,Dias Júnior EA,Galetti PM Jr,Machado EG,Pichorim M,Molina WF

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides are remarkably reactive molecules produced by a great variety of species and able to display a number of functions in uni-and multicellular organisms as mediators, agonists and regulating substances. Some of them exert cytotoxic effects on cells other than those that produced them, and may have a role in cont...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Rodrigues EG,Dobroff AS,Taborda CP,Travassos LR

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) is cultivated mainly for biodiesel production because of its oil-rich seeds; it is assumed to be an anemophylous species. But pollination deficit can lead to low productivity often attributed to other reasons. In this paper, we investigated pollination requirements, pollination mechan...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Rizzardo RA,Milfont MO,Silva EM,Freitas BM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memora nodosa is popularly known as "caroba" and widely found in the Cerrado regions of Brazil. In traditional medicine, the leaves and stems are used for the healing of external ulcer and the roots for abdominal pain. This study investigated the effect of ethanolic roots extract of Memora nodosa (EMN) on the gastric ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Silva DM,Martins JL,Florentino IF,Oliveira DR,Fajemiroye JO,Tresnvenzol LM,Paula JR,Costa EA

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a dentary of a new titanosaur sauropod, Baalsaurus mansillai, gen. et sp. nov. from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. The material comes from the Portezuelo Formation, Neuquén Group. Titanosaur sauropods lower jaws are scarce and only nine taxa with dentaries have been described. There are two t...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Calvo JO,Riga BG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypostomus commersoni Valenciennes 1836, Hypostomus cordovae (Günther 1880) and Hypostomus laplatae (Eigenmann 1907) have been little studied since their original descriptions. This study shows a comprehensive review of these species from the Lower La Plata Basin, including their taxonomic history, distribution, color...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Cardoso YP,Brancolini F,Protogino L,Paracampo A,Bogan S,Posadas P,Montoya-Burgos JI

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligatory intracellular parasites such as Plasmodium sp, Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii and Leishmania sp are responsible for the infection of hundreds of millions of individuals every year. These parasites can deliver antigens to the host cell cytoplasm that are presented through MHC class I molecules to prote...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Rodrigues MM,Boscardin SB,Vasconcelos JR,Hiyane MI,Salay G,Soares IS

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Commelina erecta L. (C. erecta) also known as erva-de-santa-luzia is reported by local population to have medical properties against some pathological conditions. In this study, two extracts of C. erecta leaves (aqueous and ethanolic) were phytochemically analysed and evaluated for their in-vitro antioxidant activ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Otsuka FAM,Santos RB,Chaves LF,Santos RS,Chaves Filho AB,Miyamoto S,Matos HR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00