D-Pinitol Increases Insulin Secretion and Regulates Hepatic Lipid Metabolism in Msg-Obese Mice.

abstract：:the focus ofthis study was to testthe hypothesisthatthere would be no difference betweenthe biocompatibility of silicon dioxide nanofilms used as antimicrobial agents. Sixty male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups (n=15): Group C (Control,Polyethylene), Group AR (Acrylic Resin), Group NP (Acrylic Resin coated with...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Lacerda-Santos R,Lima ABL,Penha ESD,Santos AD,Carvalho FG,Pithon MM,Dantas AFM

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristic of immersion, involvement and motivation have made serious games an important tool to be used in the medical field. However, there are people that, having some sort of physical disability, are not able to, or do not feel motivated to play. This work presents a strategy to support human- computer int...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Fernandes FG,Cardoso A,Lopes RA

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Upwelling systems contain a high diversity of pelagic microorganisms and their composition and activity are defined by factors like temperature and nutrient concentration. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) technique was used to verify the spatial and temporal genetic variability of Bacteria and Archaea in...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Coelho-Souza SA,Araújo FV,Cury JC,Jesus HE,Pereira GC,Guimarães JR,Peixoto RS,Dávila AM,Rosado AS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the ageing process the enteric nervous system undergoes morphofunctional changes, such as enteric neurodegeneration. Neuronal death can be attributed to increase radicals free, and ascorbic acid (AA), known antioxidant, could minimize damage cause by oxidative stress. The objective of this study is to analyse t...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Mello SA,Marese AC,Brancalhão RM,Zanoni JN,Natali MR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay discusses the problem of the lack of dialogue between theory/empirical reality in the construction of the theoretical structure of dissertations and doctorates in Human Sciences in Brazil; taking Geography as an example, Santos (2000) observed this problem, which persists at the national level. The proposal...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Gomes RD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history traits are considered key indicators of plant invasibility. Among them, the germination behavior of seeds is of major relevance because it is influenced by environmental factors of invaded ecosystem. Here, we investigated how seed traits and seed tolerance to environmental factors on seed germination of C...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Leal LC,Meiado MV,Lopes AV,Leal IR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amazonian biodiversity is increasingly threatened due to the weakening of policies for combating deforestation, especially in Brazil. Loss of animal and plant species, many not yet known to science, is just one among many negative consequences of Amazon deforestation. Deforestation affects indigenous communities, rive...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Ellwanger JH,Kulmann-Leal B,Kaminski VL,Valverde-Villegas JM,Veiga ABGD,Spilki FR,Fearnside PM,Caesar L,Giatti LL,Wallau GL,Almeida SEM,Borba MR,Hora VPD,Chies JAB

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A performance assessment of active magnetocaloric regenerators using entropy generation minimization is presented. The model consists of the Brinkman-Forchheimer equation to describe the fluid flow and coupled energy equations for the fluid and solid phases. Entropy generation contributions due to axial heat conductio...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Trevizoli PV,Barbosa JR

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen grain morphology of Bromeliaceae species collected in areas of the Atlantic Rainforest of southeastern Brazil was studied. The following species were analyzed: Aechmea bambusoides L.B.Sm. & Reitz, A. nudicaulis (L.) Griseb., A. ramosa Mart. ex Schult.f., Ananas bracteatus (Lindl.) Schult.f., Billbergia distachi...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Silva VJ,Ribeiro EM,Luizi-Ponzo AP,Faria AP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonistic interactions among predators have the potential to dampen top-down impacts on a shared pest. Strong cannibalism by adults and larvae on eggs along with a stronger intraguild predation by Eriopis connexa on Cycloneda sanguinea (Coccinellidae) than vice versa had been documented. The intensity and direction...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Rocca M,Rizzo E,Greco NM

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cariniana rubra Miers (Lecythidaceae), popularly known as "jequitibá-vermelho'', is a large Brazilian tree whose bark is used in infusion and decoction for the treatment of inflammatory conditions. This study aims to assess the anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, and antipyretic effects of Cariniana rubra methanolic s...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Santos EN,Lima JC,Noldin VF,Cechinel-Filho V,Rao VS,Lima EF,Schmeda-Hirschmann G,Sousa PT Jr,Martins DT

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advance and popularization of molecular techniques, the identification of genetic mutations that cause diseases has increased dramatically. Thus, the number of laboratories available to investigate a given disorder and the number of subsequent diagnosis have increased over time. Although it is necessary to id...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Velho RV,Sperb-Ludwig F,Schwartz IV

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The centesimal composition and the physical and chemical analyses of Lentinus strigosus, an edible mushroom occurring in the Brazilian Amazon and produced in alternative substrates based on wood and agroindustrial residues, were evaluated. For this purpose, the C, N, pH, soluble solids, water activity, protein, lipids...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Sales-Campos C,Araujo LM,Minhoni MT,Andrade MC

更新日期：2013-01-01 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 isolated chick retina provides an in vitro tissue model, in which two protocols were developed to verify the efficacy of a peptide in the excitability control of the central gray matter. In the first, extra-cellular potassium homeostasis is challenged at long intervals and in the second, a wave is trapped in a rin...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Lima VM,Piqueira JR,Hanke W

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural complexity of galls depends on species-specific interaction driven by the galling taxa. However, the host plant and environment stressors can impose limits on gall developmental patterns and impact the establishment of gall morphology. Herein, we employed qualitative and quantitative approaches in order...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Oliveira DC,Martini VC,Moreira ASFP,Fuzaro L,GonÇalves LA

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report for the first time the occurrence of organic-walled microfossils in Ediacaran limestones and marls of the Frecheirinha Formation, Ubajara Group, and the first Precambrian acritarchs so far reported for northeastern Brazil. The assemblage of the Frecheirinha Formation represents a low-diversity microflora com...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Chiglino L,Gaucher C,Sial AN,Ferreira VP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The golden mussel, Limnoperna fortunei, is among the most devastating invasive species in freshwater habitats worldwide, leading to severe environmental disturbances and economic losses. Therefore, management efforts would be greatly improved by methods that efficiently detect and quantify the abundance of the golden ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Pie MR,Ströher PR,Agostinis AO,Belmonte-Lopes R,Tadra-Sfeir MZ,Ostrensky A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The South American Pleistocene mammal fauna includes great-sized animals that have intrigued scientists for over two centuries. Here we intend to update the knowledge on its palaeoecology and provide new evidence regarding two approaches: energetics and population density and relative abundance of fossils per taxa. To...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Fariña RA,Czerwonogora A,di Giacomo M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) is related to lifestyle (e.g. diet, physical activity and smoking) as well as to genetic factors. This study aimed at evaluating the association between CVD risk factors and DNA damage levels in children and adolescents. Anthropometry, diet and serum CVD risk factors...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Kliemann M,Prá D,Müller LL,Hermes L,Horta JA,Reckziegel MB,Burgos MS,Maluf SW,Franke SI,Silva Jd

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study suggests the employment of accumulated sediments in the reservoir of Tucuruí (Pará /Brazil) to remineralize the surrounding degraded soils. The approach was based on the principles of stonemeal technology. It suggests that the soil can be rejuvenated by crushed rocks rich in macro and micronutrients. Remova...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Theodoro SH,Leonardos OH,Rocha E,Macedo I,Rego KG

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:This paper records the first report of Megastigmus transvaalensis Hussey (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) in Brazilian peppertree, Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae) drupes in Sorocaba, state of São Paulo, Brazil. This wasp is an invasive species and was found damaging S. terebinthifolius drupes in urban areas (35...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Ferreira-Filho PJ,Piña-Rodrigues FC,Silva JM,Guerreiro JC,Ghiotto TC,Piotrowski I,Dias LP,Wilcken CF,Zanuncio JC

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Arithmetic map operations are very common procedures used in GIS to combine raster maps resulting in a new and improved raster map. It is essential that this new map be accompanied by an assessment of uncertainty. This paper shows how we can calculate the uncertainty of the resulting map after performing some arithmet...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Yamamoto JK,Kikuda AT,Rampazzo GJ,Leite CBB

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We establish a method for giving lower bounds for the fundamental tone of elliptic operators in divergence form in terms of the divergence of vector fields. We then apply this method to the Lr operator associated to immersed hypersurfaces with locally bounded (r + 1)-th mean curvature Hr + 1 of the space forms Nn+ 1(c...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Bessa GP,Jorge LP,Lima BP,Montenegro JF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genera Hemigrammus and Moenkhausia have been traditionally diagnosed mainly by the former having lateral line completely pored whereas the latter having a lateral line with a few pored scales. Those features have been used to diagnose species of both genera in the upper Paraná River floodplain. Specimens with the ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Mota TFM,Fabrin TMC,Deprá GC,Gasques LS,Oliveira AV,Pavanelli CS,Prioli SMAP,Prioli AJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：: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：:Many essential oils (EOs) of different plant species possess interesting antimicrobial effects on buccal bacteria and antioxidant properties. Eugenia klotzschiana Berg (pêra-do-cerrado, in Portuguese) is a species of Myrtaceae with restricted distribution in the Cerrado. The essential oils were extracted through the h...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Carneiro NS,Alves CCF,Alves JM,Egea MB,Martins CHG,Silva TS,Bretanha LC,Balleste MP,Micke GA,Silveira EV,Miranda MLD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00