Nesse trabalho, discutimos a aplicação de ''O jogo dos biomas'' com alunos de escolas públicas estaduais de Fortaleza. No jogo, cada equipe representou um pesquisador de grande importância para a Biologia como, por exemplo, Charles Darwin e Alfred R. Wallace e explorar, pelos diversos continentes, os biomas mundiais observando suas características, disponíveis em pistas recebidas durante o jogo, afim de cumprir...
This study aimed at evaluating the antidepressant-like action of the marine alga Solieria filiformis lectin (SfL) and to investigate the participation of the monoaminergic system in this action. For this, male Swiss mice (n=10) were pretreated with intravenous injections (i.v.) of SfL (1, 3 or 9mg/kg) and submitted to open field (OFT), tail suspension (TST), forced swimming (FST), elevated plus-maze (EPMT) and ...
The Northeast has always been one of the regions with high coefficients of dengue incidence and epidemics. In Ceará, dengue has a historical series with more than 30 years. The objective of this study was to identify the pattern of temporal and spatial distribution of dengue during the past 19 years. An exploratory ecological study of multiple groups, temporal and mixed, was carried out. The time trend analysis...
Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (L.) is a dipterous insect of the family Culicidae, which in Brazil is mainly responsible for the transmission of dengue virus (DENV), chikungunya fever virus, zika virus and yellow fever virus. The objective of this study was to evaluate in the laboratory a trap for capturing adults of mosquitoes Ae. Aegypti. The trap was made of PET bottles, had capacity for 1 litre, one of them bein...