Cross sectional studies on malaria prevalence was performed in 2001, 2002, and 2004 in Vila Candelária, an urban riverside area of Porto Velho, Rondônia, in the Brazilian Western Amazon, followed by longitudinal surveys on malaria incidence. Vila Candelária is a working class district, provided with electricity, water supply, and basic sanitation. Previous preliminary surveys indicated high mal...

The present issue of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (AABC) publishes several papers on paleontology. Among them is the study of Priscilla da Silva (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) and colleagues who have made quite an interesting discovery: a new parasite in a coprolite of 240 million years (Da Silva et al. 2014). Coprolites or fossilized feces are not particularly rare, being constantl...

Address: 1Department of Chemistry and CQ-VR, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal, 2Institute of Chemistry, ICCF – UMR CNRS 6296, University Clermont Auvergne, 24 av. des Landais, BP 80026, Aubière 63171, France, 3Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Physique et Chimie de Matériaux de Strasbourg, F-67034 Strasbourg, France and 4Institute of Chemistry, U...

T HREE ENZYME/COFACTOR complexes form on cell surfaces in tightly regulated reactions during normal blood coagulation in vivo. The enzymes of these complexes, factor VIla, factor IXa, and factor Xa, are ancestrally related serine proteases that are members of the vitamin K-dependent group of clotting factors. Each is generated during blood coagulation by limited proteolysis of a zymogen precurs...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.06.007 0957-4174/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Science & Technology Park for Tourism and Leisure, C/ Joanot Martorell, 15, 43480 Vila-Seca, Catalonia, Spain. Tel.: +34 977394754. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J. Borràs), antonio.moreno@urv. cat (A. Moreno), [email protected] (A. Valls). Joan Borràs a,b...

Francesc Jiménez-Altayó, Anna María Planas, and Elisabet Vila Departament de Farmacologia, Terapèutica i Toxicologia, Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra; and Departament d’Isquèmia Cerebral i Neurodegeneració, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi...

1 Médico Otorrinolaringologista. Residência Médica e Fellowship pelo Departamento de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço da UNIFESP/Escola Paulista de Medicina. 2 Médico Otorrinolaringologista. Doutor em Otorrinolaringologia pelo Departamento de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço da UNIFESP/Escola Paulista de Medicina. Setor Interdepartamental de Laringologia e ...

PURPOSE To assess the perception of epilepsy stigma in different regions of Brazil. METHOD The Stigma Scale of Epilepsy (SSE) questionnaire was applied to people in different Brazilian urban settings. The survey was performed on individual basis; an interviewer read the questions to the subjects and wrote down the answers. The same procedure was applied to all the subjects and took around 10 ...