Lisboa ainda / Still Lisbon

Coqueluche -- ainda um desafio

Globally, whooping cough (pertussis) is still an important cause of death in infancy and continues to be a public health concern even in countries with high vaccination coverage. In 2008, over 80% of all infants worldwide received three doses of pertussis vaccines.1 Despite this, 15 million pertussis cases occurred worldwide, 95% of them in developing countries, and about 200,000 children died ...

Prurido: ainda um desafio

Prurido é um sintoma que pode estar associado a uma gama ampla de patologias, sejam elas cutâneas, sistêmicas ou mesmo sem causa definida . Conforme sua intensidade e evolução pode comprometer de forma significativa a qualidade de vida dos pacientes. Novas abordagens terapêuticas estão sendo descritas para o controle do prurido, onde a liberação da histamina não é o fator principal. Assim, base...

Universidade De Lisboa

The understanding of biological systems is dependent on the study of the mechanisms that regulate gene expression. These mechanisms control when and for how long the information coded in a gene is used, and can act on several of the steps in the gene expression process. In the present work, the step of interest is the transcription, where the DNA sequence of a gene is transformed into an RNA se...

Universidade De Lisboa

x actions upon neural maturation require PI3K, MAPK and PLC signalling pathways for maximal neurite elongation and PI3K, MAPK and PKA for branching.

Estimation of Fetal Weight during Labor: Still a Challenge Estimativa do peso fetal intraparto: ainda um desafio