One of the main clinical problems during chemotherapy is the occurrence of severe systemic toxicities, including those related to the stomatognathic system, which contribute to reducing the patient's quality of life. The most frequent oral complications are mucositis, dysgeusia, inflammation, gingival bl...
The dimensions of the alveolar bone surrounding the tooth are not maintained post tooth-extraction probably as a consequence of the bone remodeling process and the biomechanical demands on bone. The use of biomaterials as bone substitutes in the post-tooth-extraction socket promotes bone repair, regardle...
The genus Fusarium is known to produce mycotoxins that cause fusariosis in plants, animals and humans. Mycotoxins are among the virulence factors of this genus. Metabolic extracts of Fusarium oxysporum, isolated from a patient with onychomycosis and sterilized by filtration or autoclave, were inoculated ...
OBJETIVO: Avaliar o efeito do dinitrato de isossorbida (DNI) sobre a hiperalgesia corneana e a infiltração de neutrófilos em um modelo experimental de ceratite superficial induzida pelo lipopolissacarídeo (LPS). MÉTODOS: A hiperalgesia foi estudada através da indução de uma ceratite inflamatória...
Azadirachta indica is a tree whose medicinal value is unquantifiable. Any part of the tree can be used in the treatment of malarial infection. Reports have indicated its antifertility effects, and this necessitated this study on the effects of the methanol leaf extract on serum luteinizing (LH) and folli...
Thioacetamide (TAA) can induce various types of cirrhosis in the rat, including bridging fibrosis, biliary fibrosis, perisinusoidal/pericellular fibrosis and centrilobular fibrosis, in which different populations of hepatic myofibroblasts (MFs) are involved. The hepatic MFs can be classified into 3 group...
