Life Sciences

Objectives: To describe the clinical characteristics of undergraduate students with severe TMD. Methods: Study case, descriptive, with a convenience sample of 30 students of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Maranhão, classified as severe temporomandibular disorder through the Fonseca’s Anamnesic Index; after the clinical examination (Axis I) of the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorderswas used. Data were analyzed using the Shapiro-Wilk test and the Spearman correlation test considering a significance when p<0,05.

Growth is a very important marker for child’s health, therefore monitoring it with growth charts is essential. The aim of this study is to develop specific growth charts for Lebanese children and to determine the influence of gender, breastfeeding duration and child’s rank in the family on children’s development and the corresponding growth charts. Thus, this retrospective study was performed in Lebanon on 400 infants from birth until 2 years of age. The data was collected from the files of four pediatricians, and analyzed on SPSS. The charts were established on Microsoft Excel.

Introduction: It sought to verify the adequacy of the professional composition of the family health support centers (FHSC), to the needs of the territory of its reference teams, from the professional's perspective of family health strategy (ESF). Methods: We have developed descriptive study, exploratory, retrospective, quantitative, transversal.

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) characterized by stromal fibrosis develops in 90% of cases of liver cirrhosis, during the clinical course of chronic liver inflammation. Arginase-1 (Arg-1), fibronectin (FN), IL-13, and the inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) are important regulators of proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis.. This study was conducted to investigate the progression of liver fibrosis (cirrhosis) to HCC by inducing diethyl-nitrosamine (DEN) and N-nitrosomorpholine (N-Mor) in Spraque-Dawleyrats.

Matrix support, in Brazilian primary health care, is characterized as a device for reorganization of the work processes, which encourages the expansion of the clinical approach, the resolution potentiality in this area and the reflection of established practices. From this perspective, the Family Health Support Centres were created to work in partnership with primary care teams, instituting specialized assistance and aiming to provide comprehensive care. Given this established situation, this study intended to analyse the actions developed by the support centres.

WSSV is one of the most serious viral diseases affecting cultured shrimp worldwide This lethal virus causes formation of white spots in exoskeleton under carapace and can infect not only penaeid shrimps, but also other marine and freshwater crustaceans. The WSSV genome contains at five known major structural proteins: VP39, VP28, VP19, VP26, VP24 and VP15. Studies on WSS viral proteins have demonstrated that VP28 and VP19 are associated with the virion envelope. In the present study ,we investigated the efficacy of recombinant proteins VP39 and VP28 expressed in E.

An ethnobotanical study was carried out from August 2015 to October 2016 for documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge of rural people of Gurugram district about the digestive disorders by using wild plants. For this purpose, many surveys of this district has been conducted for collecting the ethnobotanical data during the year 2015-2016. Four surveys were carried out in throughout the area for collecting traditional uses of plants, local name, plant parts used and medicinal value.

Plants face different abiotic stresses that reduce crop production worldwide. Cold stress is the main abiotic stress that reduce plant yield in hilly areas. Cold resistance in plants is considered to be an interesting phenomenon with complex signaling pathways. Tolerance to cold in plants is acquired by exposing them to a low non freezing temperature and involves extensive changes at molecular level. Understanding the molecular mechanism behind the cold resistance in plants can help us to develop more and more cold tolerant plants.

Objective: To identify the sociodemographic profile of the elderly caregivers and to evaluate their responses to the domains of a workload scale. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of a quantitative approach, where it was used to analyze the domains and their items on the scale of ZARIT BURDEN, the sample was 228 forms, applied to caregivers of the elderly enrolled in the Family Health Program Sanitary District IV, having as inclusion criteria age equal or superior to 28 years old with at least 10 years living together with the elderly.

Introduction: Somatoform disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders in which patients present with clinically significant but unexplained physical symptoms. These disorders often cause significant emotional distress for patients and are a challenge to physicians. Somatization disorder was significantly associated with suicide attempts. Material and Methods: 270 patients with a diagnosis of any of the sub types of somatoform disorders were inducted from those attending the out-patient and in- patient services of deptt.