Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:45:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-10-10; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); One of the most impact issues in recent years refers to the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences of which thousands of deaths recorded worldwide, are still inferior understood. Its impacts on the environment and aquatic biota constitut...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:46:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-04-01; There have been significant impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic on society including high health and economic costs. However, little is known about the potential ecological risks of this virus despite its presence in freshwater systems. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the exposure of Poecilia r...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:33:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-10-30; Acute kidney injury pathogenesis in envenoming by snakes is multifactorial and involves immunologic reactions, hemodynamic disturbances, and direct nephrotoxicity. Sildenafil (SFC), a phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor, has been reported to protect against pathological kidney changes. Objective: This study a...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:38:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-02-20; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Bothrops spp. is responsible for about 70% of snakebites in Brazil, causing a diverse and complex pathophysiological condition. Bothrops leucurus is the main species of medical relevance found in the Atlantic coast in the Brazilian No...
Photoperiod is an important environmental characteristic involved in the regulation of circadian physiological processes in living organisms. This experiment verified the effect of photoperiod on biomass gain and mortality in juvenile scorpions of the species Jaguajir rochae (Borelli, 1910). We maintained the juvenile scorpions under two different photoperiod conditions; group A under a light and dark cycle (LD...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T11:09:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-30; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); University of Cambridge; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); The envenomation caused by the Bothrops pauloensis snake leads to severe loca...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:14:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-11-01; Sea anemones contain a variety of interesting biologically active compounds, including some potent toxins. PLA2 from Bunodosoma caissarum, a sea anemone endemic in the Brazilian southern coast, has shown renal alterations on isolated kidney. The aim of this study was to evaluate the renal and vascular e...
ABSTRACT Bothrops erythromelas snake is a species of medical importance responsible for snakebites, predominantly in the Northeast of B razil. This study aimed to conduct a comparative proteomic study of venoms pool of this species from five geographical regions of the Northeast: Ceará, Pernambuco, Juazeiro, Paraíba and Itaparica Island. In addition, we investigated the ability of Bothrops antivenom (SAB) of th...
It’s a qualitative study whose objective was to analyze the understanding of nurses and users of the primary care about the adherence to uterus cancer prevention. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview, in the period of September to November, 2008, with seven nurses and 17 users from Uruburetama, Ceara, Brazil, who were analyzed according to the content analysis method. The findings showed ...