Background: Increased oxidative stress by persistent hyperglycemia is a widely accepted factor in vascular damage responsible for type 2 diabetes complications. The plant Vochysia rufa (Vr) has been used in folk medicine in Brazil for the treatment of diabetes. Thus; the protective effect of a Vr stem bark extract against a challenge by a high glucose concentration on EA.hy926 (EA) endothelial ...

Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disorder of multifactorial etiology characterized by the loss articular cartilage, hypertrophy bone at margins, subchondral sclerosis and range biochemical morphological alterations synovial membrane joint capsule.Homoeopathic philosophy does not favour use temporary pain killers or short cuts in treating diseases. Homoeopathy treats patients as whole co...

humans. Additionally, Mycobacteria spp. can occasionally cause disease in humans through contact with fi sh (M. marinum), and pedicure treatments have previously been associated with M. fortuitum infections (10). Recently, the risks associated with exposure to G. rufa fi sh were reported to be low (1). To date, there are only a limited number of reports of patients who might have been infected ...

Doctor fish (Garra rufa) have recently been used for aesthetic purposes and as a medical treatment in patients with psoriasis (ichthyotherapy). For this particular kind of human therapy it is essential to guarantee adequate hygienic conditions for both people and fish. The aim of this study was to test two concentrations of water disinfectants, chloramine T and peracetic acid, on Garra rufa to ...

McKinnon, L., L. Schmaltz, Y. Aubry, Rochepault, C. Buidin, and Juillet. 2022. Female migration phenology climate conditions explain juvenile Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) counts during fall migration. Avian Conservation Ecology 17(1):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-02021-170109

Detection of Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) is reported for the first time in two species of ants (Camponotus vagus and Formica rufa) and in Varroa destructor. A quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) method was used to detect and quantify CBPV in infected bees, ants and mites. A minus-strand-specific RT-PCR was used to assess viral replication. These results suggest a new way by which the infec...

From workers of the red wood ant Formica rufa L. 68 compounds could be identified by com bined gas chrom atography-m ass spectrometry. Abdom ina contain a row of bishom ologue saturated and unsaturated uneven numbered hydrocarbons with undecane as the major product. In addition, 13 formic acid esters could be identified among which hexadecyl formate is present in particularly large amounts. Mai...

The Point Arena mountain beaver ( Aplodontia rufa nigra ) is an endangered subspecies. Efforts to recover this subspecies will be aided by advances in molecular genetics, specifically the ability to estimate population size using noninvasive genetic sampling. Here we report on the development of nine polymorphic loci for the Point Arena mountain beaver. These markers provide us sufficient power...