0489 Following last December’s tsunami, Thailand reported 10,385 deaths and missing persons among Thais and foreign tourists, 80% of them in Phang Nga province (Figure 1). These reported tsunami deaths do not include Burmese migrant workers, which one local organisation estimates as being as many as 1,000 individuals [1]. Medical relief to Thai nationals and Western victims was well organised [...

Evaluation of acute oral toxicity of red alga (Gracilaria domingensis sonder ex kützing) in mice C57BL/6 José Ytalo Gomes da Silva, Marcelo Oliveira Holanda, Carla Laine Silva Lima, Paula Alves Salmito Rodrigues, Erlândia Alves Magalhães Queiroz, Raquel Teixeira Terceiro Paim, Thais Vital de Freitas, Juliana Barbosa Dantas, Sandra Machado Lira, Natalia do Vale Canabrava, Mariana de Freitas More...

Ludhmila A. Hajjar, MD, PhD Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD Filomena R. B. G. Galas, MD, PhD Rosana E. Nakamura, MD Carolina M. P. Silva, MD Marilia H. Santos, MD, PhD Julia Fukushima, MSc Roberto Kalil Filho, MD, PhD Denise B. Sierra, MD Neuza H. Lopes, MD, PhD Thais Mauad, MD, PhD Aretusa C. Roquim, MD Marcia R. Sundin, MD Wanderson C. Leão, MD Juliano P. Almeida, MD Pablo M. Pomerantzeff, MD, Ph...

This review aims to compile biological activity including antioxidant, anti-microbial, and anti-inflammatory properties of Thunbergia laurifolia or Rang Jued in Thai. Thais has been using this plant as folk medicine since ancient times. T. laurifolia is recognized mainly for its detoxification property, however, recently anti-inlammatory, antioxidant, anti-microbial, hepatoprotective and anti-d...

Due to morphological comparisons the Tunisian desert ant species Cataglyphis bicolor has been divided into three parapatric species: C. bicolor, C. viatica, and C. savignyi. The species status of the latter is supported by sequence analyses of the mitochondrial CO1 and CO2 region, while analyses of the same mitochondrial region lacked resolution for the separation of C. bicolor and C. viatica. ...

We show that sequence comparisons at different levels of resolution can efficiently guide functional analyses of regulatory regions in the ascidians Ciona savignyi and Ciona intestinalis. Sequence alignments of several tissue-specific genes guided discovery of minimal regulatory regions that are active in whole-embryo reporter assays. Using the Troponin I (TnI) locus as a case study, we show th...