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Bacterial vaginosis: prevalence, risk profile and association with sexually tra...
Teixeira, Pedro Moregola; Vital, Wendel Coura; Lima, Angélica Alves; Silva, Nayara Nascimento Toledo; Carneiro, Cláudia MartinsBackground and Objectives: Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of vaginal discharge in the world. The study aimed to estimate the prevalence and to identify risk factors associated with bacterial vaginosis. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Ouro Preto, Brazil, between February and December 2017. Three hundred and forty-one women aged 18 years or older, users of the Brazilian Unifie...
Oral Ang-(1-7) treatment improves white adipose tissue remodeling and hypertens...
Barbosa, Maria Andréa; Sousa, Graziele Galdino de; Castro, Uberdan Guilherme Mendes de; Carneiro, Cláudia Martins; Figueiredo, Vivian PaulinoObjective: Angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7) has preventive effects on metabolic syndrome (MetS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic effect of oral Ang-(1-7) on mean arterial pressure (MAP), insulin resistance (IR), inflammatory process, and remodeling of white adipose tissue (WAT) in rats with establishedMetS. Methods: Rats were subjected to control (CT; AIN-93M) or high-fat (HF) diets for 13 wk to in...
The effect of benznidazole dose among the efficacy outcome in the murine animal...
Molina, Israel; Melo, Luísa Helena Perin de; Aviles, Augusto Sao; Vieira, Paula Melo de Abreu; Fonseca, Kátia da Silva; Cunha, Lucas MacielDespite more than 100 years since it was firstly described Chagas disease, only two drugs are available to treat Chagas disease: Nifurtimox launched by Bayer in 1965 and benznidazole launched by Roche in 1971. Drug discovery initiatives have been looking for new compounds as an alternative to these old drugs. Although new platforms have been used with the latest technologies, a critical step on that process sti...
Mayaro virus induction of oxidative stress is associated with liver pathology i...
Caetano, Camila Carla da Silva; Camini, Fernanda Caetano; Almeida, Letícia Trindade; Ferraz, Ariane Coelho; Silva, Tales Fernando daMayaro virus (MAYV) causes Mayaro fever in humans, a self-limiting acute disease, with persistent arthralgia and arthritis. Although MAYV has a remerging potential, its pathogenic mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we characterized a model of MAYV infection in 3–4-week BALB/c mice. We investigated whether the liver acts as a site of viral replication and if the infection could cause histopathological alterations ...
Performance of recombinant chimeric proteins in the serological diagnosis of Tr...
Leony, Leonardo Maia; Freitas, Natália Erdens Maron de; Del-Rei, Rodrigo Pimenta; Carneiro, Cláudia Martins; Reis, Alexandre Barbosa; Jansen, Ana MariaBackground: Dogs are considered sentinels in areas of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission risk to humans. ELISA is generally the method of choice for diagnosing T. cruzi exposure in dogs, but its performance substantially depends on the antigenic matrix employed. In previous studies, our group has developed four chimeric antigens (IBMP-8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4) and evaluated their potential for diagnosing T. cruzi exp...
Obesity impairs resistance to Leishmania major infection in C57BL/6 mice.
Martins, Vinicius Dantas; Campos, Franciele Carolina Silva; Moreira, Felipe Caixeta; Carneiro, Matheus Batista Heitor; Goes, Grazielle RibeiroAn association between increased susceptibility to infectious diseases and obesity has been described as a result of impaired immunity in obese individuals. It is not clear whether a similar linkage can be drawn between obesity and parasitic diseases. To evaluate the effect of obesity in the immune response to cutaneous Leishmania major infection, we studied the ability of C57BL/6 mice fed a hypercaloric diet (...
Experimental steering of electron microscopy studies using prior X-ray computed...
Starborg, Tobias; O'Sullivan, James; Carneiro, Cláudia Martins; Behnsen, Julia; Else, Kathryn; Grencis, Richard; Withers, Philip JohnTransmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) can provide unrivalled high-resolution images of specific features and volumes of interest. However, the regions interrogated are typically very small, and sample preparation is both time-consuming and destructive. Here we consider how prior X-ray micro-computed tomography (microCT) presents an opportunity to increase the efficiency o...
Extracellular nucleotide metabolism in Leishmania: influence of adenosine in th...
Fietto, Juliana Lopes Rangel; Marques-da-Silva, Eduardo de Almeida; Oliveira, Jamile Camargos de; Figueiredo, Amanda Braga; Lima Júnior, Djalma de SouzaLeishmaniasis is a parasitic disease with a variety of clinical forms, which are related to the Leishmania species involved. In the murine model, Leishmania amazonensis causes chronic non-healing lesions in Leishmania braziliensis- or Leishmania major-resistant mouse strains. In this study, we investigated the involvement of the pathway of extracellular nucleotide hydrolysis, with special focus on the role of e...
Anti-serum validation for use in immunohistochemistry for Trypanosoma cruzi det...
Azevedo, Paulo Hernane Rabelo; Xavier, Marcelo Antônio Pascoal; Silva, Glenda Nicioli da; Costa, Priscilla Almeida da; Carneiro, Cláudia MartinsIntroduction: The detection of Trypanosoma cruzi in tissue samples is important in many situations, such as testing of the reactivation of the infection. The detection of T. cruzi nests in endomyocardial biopsies (EMB) may be useful to evaluate graft rejection. Given their scarcity, such nests are not routinely identified. To increase the diagnosis sensitivity, immunohistochemistry (IHC) may serve as a promisin...
The schistosomiasis spleenOME : unveiling the proteomic landscape of splenomega...
Cosenza Contreras, Miguel de Jesus; Castro, Renata Alves de Oliveira e; Mattei, Bruno; Campos, Jonatan Marques; Silva, Gustavo GonçalvesSchistosomiasis is a neglected parasitic disease that affects millions of people worldwide and is caused by helminth parasites from the genus Schistosoma. When caused by S. mansoni, it is associated with the development of a hepatosplenic disease caused by an intense immune response to the important antigenic contribution of adult worms and to the presence of eggs trapped in liver tissue. Although the importanc...