Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T18:56:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-03-01; Objective: We investigated the in vitro and skin lesions production of cytokines in non-treated borderline tuberculoid (BT) and borderline lepromatous (BL) patients. Patients and Methods: Seven untreated, non-reactional BT patients and 12 untreated, non-reactional BL patients were studied. Levels of the...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:46:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-02-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); We established three immunocompetent murine models of pulmonary mucormycosis to determine the involvement of the adaptive immune response in host resistance in pulmonary mucormycosis, a rapidly fatal disease caused mainly by Rhizopus spp. Im...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:46:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-11-08; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Over the years, several drugs have been developed deriving from plants to investigate possible therapeutic roles. Among them, curcuminoids and coumarins, which, display a wide range of biological activity against several strains. There...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T07:58:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-10-01; New rare-earth complexes with the general formula [LnIII(sul)3]∙nH2O, where sul− is the anti-inflammatory drug sulindac and Ln3+ = Ce3+, Pr3+, Gd3+, Tb3+, and Ho3+, were synthesized, characterized, and had their cytotoxic activity and anti-inflammatory profile assessed. Characterization employing elemen...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T09:00:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-08-01; Background Pulmonary sequelae (PS) in patients with chronic paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) typically include pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. Knowledge of the molecular pathways involved in PS of PCM is required for treatment and biomarker identification. Methodology/Principal findings This non-concurren...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:44:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-10-30; Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic granulomatous fungal infection caused by thermally dimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides. Endemic in Latin America, PCM presents with high incidence in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, especially among rural workers. The main clinical types are acute/su...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:34:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-06-01; Aim: To investigate the immune response of disseminated Ryzopus oryzae infection in immunocompetent mice. Methods: C57Bl/6, BALB/c and Swiss wild-type mice were intravenously infected with R. oryzae; the parameters of infection and immune response were determined. Transcriptional signature of Th17 immun...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:31:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-04-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic mycosis caused by thermally dimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides that affects predominantly 30-60-year-old male r...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:32:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-04-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); New lanthanum(III) and neodymium(III) complexes with the anti-inflammatory drug sulindac (Sul) were synthesized and characterized, and their biological activity was evalua...
Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-06T16:42:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-08-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Gliotoxin (GTX) is the major and the most potent mycotoxin that is secreted by Aspergillus fumigatus, which is capable of injuring and killing microglial cells, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. During the last years, studies with patients a...