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Novos adjuvantes vacinais: importante ferramenta para imunoterapia da leishmaniose visceral

HU Rev. (Online); 44 (3), 2018
Atualmente, muitas das vacinas em desenvolvimento são aquelas compostas de proteínas antigênicas individuais de parasitas ou uma combinação de vários antígenos individuais que são produzidos como produtos recombinantes obtidos por técnicas de biologia molecular. Dentre elas a Leish-1...

The safety and clinical efficacy of recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor injection for colon cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy

Summary Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate safety and efficacy of recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) injection and whether this regimen could reduce the incidence of adverse events caused by chemotherapy. Method: A total of 100 patients with colon cancer ...

Activador tisular del plasminógeno recombinante para el tratamiento de la vegetación intracardíaca en un lactante de muy bajo peso al nacer

Arch. argent. pediatr; 115 (5), 2017
Las nuevas opciones de tratamiento prolongan la hospitalización y aumentan las infecciones intrahospitalarias bacterianas y fúngicas, pero también mejoran la sobrevida de los recién nacidos hospitalizados en la unidad de cuidados intensivos neonatales. Las infecciones fúngicas invasivas en neonatos ...

Compras públicas de medicamentos para hepatite C no Brasil no período de 2005 a 2015

Resumo O artigo analisa as compras de medicamentos para hepatite C, feitas pelo Ministério da Saúde (MS), de 2005 a 2015. Os dados são do Sistema Integrado de Administração de Serviços Gerais (SIASG). Para estimar o gasto contratado anual selecionou-se medicamentos previstos nos Protocolos Clínico...

Heterologous protein production in the moss Physcomitrella patens

Over the last decades plants have been used for the heterologous production of pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and edible vaccines. The moss Physcomitrella patens is considered as an experimental model of choice for basic molecular, cytological and developmental questions in plant biology, as well as...

IL-10 down-regulates the expression of survival associated gene hspX of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in murine macrophage

Braz. j. infect. dis; 21 (4), 2017
Abstract Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) adopts a special survival strategy to overcome the killing mechanism(s) of host immune system. Amongst the many known factors, small heat shock protein 16.3 (sHSP16.3) of MTB encoded by gene hspX has been reported to be critical for the survival of MTB. In the pr...

Cultivation of Pichia pastoris carrying the scFv anti LDL (-) antibody fragment. Effect of preculture carbon source

Braz. j. microbiol; 48 (3), 2017
Abstract Antibodies and antibody fragments are nowadays among the most important biotechnological products, and Pichia pastoris is one of the most important vectors to produce them as well as other recombinant proteins. The conditions to effectively cultivate a P. pastoris strain previously genetically m...

Cúrcuma em combinação com os regimes de terapia tríplice melhora o estresse oxidativo e as alterações histopatológicas em gastrite crônica associada à infecçäo por Helicobacter pylori

Arq. gastroenterol; 54 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) gastric infection is a main cause of inflammatory changes and gastric cancers. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was finding the effects of curcumin on oxidative stress and histological changes in chronic gastritis associated with H. pylori. METHODS ...

Impact of alcohol consumption among patients in hepatitis C virus treatment

Arq. gastroenterol; 54 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Recent studies have questioned the recommendation of abstinence from alcohol for at least 6 months for alcoholic patients to be treated for hepatitis C. OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to assess the impact of alcohol consumption among patients undergoing hepatitis C treatment. ...

Improvement of clavulanic acid production in Streptomyces clavuligerus F613-1 by using a claR-neo reporter strategy

Background: Streptomyces clavuligerus was the producer of clavulanic acid, claR, a pathway-specific transcriptional regulator in S. clavuligerus, positively regulates clavulanic acid biosynthesis. In this study, the promoter-less kanamycin resistance gene neo was fused with claR to obtain strain NEO from...