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Pathway to Resolving Allergic Asthma Discovered
Publicado em 06 novembro 2018
A group of Brazilian researchers succeeded in preventing allergic asthma from progressing in experimental models by increasing the amount of a protein. This increase blocked the CD4+ T lymphocytes responsible for producing a cytokine that triggers a cascade of events resulting in the onset and progression of the disease.
This knowledge of how the disease can be resolved in cell cultures and animals will form a basis for the research and development of a drug to control expression of this [...]
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Exercise Aids Elimination of Toxic Proteins From Muscle
Publicado em 27 setembro 2018by FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOver notícia -
Study: Bees Coordinate Strategy for Defending Colony
Publicado em 09 setembro 2018The Brazilian stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula (jataí in Portuguese) deploys a different strategy for defending its nests from other social insect species. In addition to posting sentinels at the nest entrance, as do most social insects, colonies of this species also have guards that hover near the entrance all the time. A study by researchers in the Department of Entomology and Acarology of the University of São Paulo's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ-USP) in Brazil and [...]ver notícia -
Cannabidiol Effective Against Depression in Lab Rats
Publicado em 04 setembro 2018Commercial antidepressants typically take two to four weeks to have a significant effect on a depressed patient. They are also inneffective in approximately 40% of the cases. Finding new drugs for depression that are fast-acting and have more lasting effects is the goal of research conducted by Brazilian scientists in São Paulo State in collaboration with Danish colleagues. Their study found that a single dose of cannabidiol in rats with symptoms of depression was highly effective, [...]ver notícia -
Moderate Dose of Alcohol May Protect the Heart
Publicado em 20 junho 2018by FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - For at least 20 years, research has shown that for many people, moderate consumption of alcohol can protect the heart, but the reason for this is poorly understood. A study conducted at the University of São Paulo's Biomedical Science Institute (ICB-USP) in Brazil suggests that this cardioprotective mechanism may be associated with activation of ALDH2 (aldehyde dehydrogenase-2), a mitochondrial enzyme that helps rid the organism [...]ver notícia -
Consortium Aims to Sequence DNA of all Life on Earth
Publicado em 17 maio 2018Earth is estimated to be home to between 10 million and 15 million eukaryotes with species of plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms with cells in which the chromosomal DNA is organized into a membrane-bound nucleus. Only 14 percent of these species (2.3 million) are known, and under 0.1 percent (15,000) have partially or completely sequenced genomes. Knowledge of this small fraction of Earth’s biodiversity has facilitated enormous advances in agriculture, medicine and [...]ver notícia