1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009 Australia [email protected], [email protected] 2 Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, The University of Canberra, ACT, 2601 [email protected] 3 Centro de Álgebra da Universidade de Lisboa Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal csaba.schnei...

Gender, Age, Social Level and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Considerations on the Brazilian Reality Carlos Scherr1,2 and Jorge Pinto Ribeiro3,4 Universidade Gama Filho1, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; Instituto do Coração e do Diabetes2, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; Serviço de Cardiologia do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre3, Porto Alegre, RS; Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul4,...

Myocardial Bridge and Angiotomography of the Coronary Arteries: Perfusion under Pharmacological Stress Wilter dos Santos Ker1,2, Daniel Gama Neves1, Alair Sarmet A. A. Damas1,3, Cláudio Tinoco Mesquita1,2, Marcelo Souto Nacif1,3 Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro (HUAP) Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)1, Niterói; Hospital Pró-Cardíaco2, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; Complexo Hospitalar de Niterói ...

High amounts of acrylamide in some foods result in an estimated daily mean intake of 50 microg for a western style diet. Animal studies have shown the carcinogenicity of acrylamide upon oral exposure. However, only sparse human toxicokinetic data is available for acrylamide, which is needed for the extrapolation of human cancer risk from animal data. We evaluated the toxicokinetics of acrylamid...

The majority of the current data about psoriasis is about immune system elements and role of inflammation in the pathogenesis. The development of psoriasis is associated with genetic predisposition which has a basis of T cell activation secondary to dermal inflammation with abnormal keratinocyte proliferation. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interferon gama (IFN-γ), and interleukin (IL)-8 ...

Dengue is present in the Federal District since 1991 and virological studies of the vector began in 1998. Two strains of DEN1 were isolated from 9 pools of female Aedes aegypti (78 mosq.), collected in April in Gama county, where the Breteau index was 5.4, and 32 autochtonous human cases were notified.

Paolo Pelosi1, Lorenzo Ball1, Marcelo Gama de Abreu2, Patricia R. M. Rocco3 1Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, IRCCS San Martino – IST, Genoa, Italy 2Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany 3Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophisics, Federal U...

Thomas Bruen 1,*, James Michael Hooper 1, James Marco 1, Miguel Gama 2 and Gael Henri Chouchelamane 2 1 Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; [email protected] (J.M.H.); [email protected] (J.M.) 2 Jaguar Land Rover, Banbury Road, Warwick CV35 0XJ, UK; [email protected] (M.G.); [email protected] (G.H.C.) * Corresponde...

PEDRO G. LIND1,2,∗, ALEJANDRO MORA3, JASON A.C. GALLAS4, MARIA HAASE3 1Institute for Computational Physics, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 27, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany, 2Centro de Fı́sica Teórica e Computacional, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal, 3Institut für Höchsleistungsrechnen, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 27, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany, 4Instituto de Fı́...

background after treatment cessation, a high prevalence of relapse was reported in chronic hepatitis b (chb) patients in china, especially in nucleot(s)ide analogues (nucs)-experienced patients. re-treatment for these patients remains unsolved. objectives this study aims to evaluate the efficacy of pegylated interferon in hbeag positive patients with exposure to antiviral therapy. patients and ...