Three coronaviruses (CoVs) have threatened theworld population by causing outbreaks in the last two decades. In late 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged and caused the coronaviruses to disease 2019 (COVID-19), leading to the ongoing global outbreak. The other pandemic coronaviruses, SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV), share a considerable leve...
The need to increase the demand for food produced brought with it an incorporation of technical-scientific development in agriculture and became a justification for the use of some chemicals in order to obtain a higher production through the manipulation of organic factors. The damage caused by high levels of toxicity of pesticides in a greater number of cases of cancers in farmers, making studies of the mechan...
The association between Xeroderma Pigmentosum DNA repair genes ( XPA rs1800975, XPC rs2228000, XPD rs1799793 and XPF rs1800067) polymorphisms and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) have not been reported. To assess the functional role between these polymorphisms and MDS, we evaluated 189 sam- ples stratified in two groups: 95 bone marrow samples from MDS patients and 94 from healthy elderly volunteers used as contr...
Objective To evaluate the expression of genes related to nuclear excision (ERCC8, XPA and XPC), homologous recombination and non-homologous end-joining (ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2 and LIG4) repair mechanisms, using quantitative PCR methodologies, and it relation with bone marrow cellularity in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Methods and results A total of 51 adult de novo patients with MDS (3 refractory anaemia (RA), 11...