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Serum tissue factor as a biomarker for renal clear cell carcinoma
Silva,Daniel D’Oliveira; Noronha,Jorge A. P.; Costa,Bartira E. Pinheiro da; Zandona,Pedro Caetano Edler; Carvalhal,Gustavo F.ABSTRACT Purpose to determine the usefulness of serum TF as a potential marker for patients with clear cell RCC. Materials and Methods prospective study of 30 patients with clear cell RCC submitted to nephrectomy and 16 controls without clear cell RCC treated surgically for other conditions. TF is a endothelium marker that was correlated with worse prognosis in a variety of solid tumors including RCC. Serum TF ...
Temperature, urbanization and body color polymorphism in South Brazilian popula...
Costa,Bartira E. Pinheiro da; Rohde,Cláudia; Valente,Vera Lúcia da SilvaBody color polymorphism of urban populations of cosmopolite fly Drosophila kikkawai Burla, 1954 was investigated in relation to its possible association with environmental temperature. Samples of D. kikkawai were collected in spring, summer, autumn and winter between 1987 to 1988, in zones with different levels of urbanization in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. A clear associatio...