O presente texto pretende traçar a história do estudo do fenômeno religioso para daí mostrar a sua importância na atualidade, encontrando nas Ciências da Religião o seu leitmotiv. Pensar a interface Ciências da Religião e Teologia mostrando a distinção entre elas, e consequentemente retornar às suas origens mostrando que as Ciências da Religião têm competência e estatuto epistemológico para superar preconceitos...
Background and Objectives: Peri-implantitis treatment is still undefined. Regenerative treatment is expensive and technically demanding due to the need to handle biomaterials, membranes and different methodologies of decontamination. Resective treatment and implantoplasty might be a viable solution. This case series presents a 24 month retrospective observational study of 10 peri-implantitis patients treated wi...
Um dos grandes desafios das comunidades humanas na atualidade, é encontrar soluções para estabelecer uma sociedade mais inclusiva e solidária, onde prevaleça as questões éticas. De que forma a Maçonaria pode oferecer um contributo singular neste desafio? O objetivo deste trabalho será rever conceitos e procurar dar uma resposta a este tema na contemporaneidade. Deste modo, serão abordadas as questões referentes...
Background: In mucosal barrier interfaces, flexible responses of gene expression to long-term environmental changes allow adaptation and fine-tuning for the balance of host defense and uncontrolled not-resolving inflammation. Epigenetic modifications of the chromatin confer plasticity to the genetic information and give insight into how tissues use the genetic information to adapt to environmental factors. The ...
Background: The oral mucosa has an important role in maintaining barrier integrity at the gateway to the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. Smoking is a strong environmental risk factor for the common oral inflammatory disease periodontitis and oral cancer. Cigarette smoke affects gene methylation and expression in various tissues. This is the first epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) that aimed to id...
The objective is to analyze the histological bone response to a new synthetic nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite (nHA). Six New Zealand White rabbits were divided into two groups. Bilateral cranial defects were prepared. At each group, five defects were filled with nHA and one was left empty (neg- ative control). Rabbits were euthanized after two (group 1) and four weeks (group 2). Histological samples were pro- ce...