Introduction: Oncotic colpocytology is a preventive examination responsible for detecting one of the main diseases that affect women around the world, which is cervical cancer, in addition to other vaginal infections. It is a test of great importance in women's health, but it still has low adherence, either because of low education, little access to information, as well as the reluctance to undergo the test. Gi...
Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, degenerative, autoimmune disease that generates inflammation in brain and spinal cord regions. The disease can affect any region of the central nervous system, with a variety of symptoms. Its causes are multifactorial, being related to genetic, behavioral, environmental, and immunological components mediated by vitamin D biochemistry. Vitamin D has a function ...
The Pilocarpus microphyllus Stapf ex Wardlew spe cie is a native plant from north and northeast of Brazil occurring in eastern of Pará state, n orthwest and north of Maranhão and Piauí. It is one of the most important Brazilian medicinal species presents in pharmacopoeia of the entire world due to the use of its active pilocarpine. When using the Web of Science periodic base with Pilocarpus genus the result was...
Eight new peptides were isolated from the skin secretion of the frog Leptodactylus pustulatus and their amino acid sequences determined by de novo sequencing and by cDNA cloning. Structural similarities between them and other antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretion of Leptodactylus genus frogs were found. Ocellatins-PT1 to -PT5 (25 amino acid residues) are amidated at the C-terminus, while ocellatins-PT6...