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Animal models of depression and drug delivery with food as an effective dosing method: Evidences from studies with celecoxib and dicholine succinate

  • Autores: Araújo-Correia M, Cline BH, Costa-Nunes JP, Dolgov O, Kubatiev A, Markova N, Steinbusch HW, Strekalova T, Valença A, Yeritsyan N
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: BioMed Research International
  • Link: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2015/596126/%20

Multiple models of human neuropsychiatric pathologies have been generated during the last decades which frequently use chronic dosing. Unfortunately, some drug administration methods may result in undesirable effects creating analysis confounds hampering model validity and preclinical assay outcomes. Here, automated analysis of floating behaviour, a sign of a depressive-like state, revealed that mice, subjected to […]
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Control of Vector-Borne Human Parasitic Diseases

  • Autores: Diaz-Albiter H, Genta F, Gomes B, Salgueiro P
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: BioMed Research International
  • Link: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/si/278216/cfp/%20

Vector-borne diseases (VBD) transmitted by arthropods are responsible for over 1 billion cases and 1 million deaths every year, corresponding to at least 17% of all infectious diseases in human populations [1]. Among them, we can find malaria, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, Chagas disease, and African trypanosomiases, as well as several arboviral diseases (arthropod-borne virus) […]
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Reduction of Mosquito Survival in Mice Vaccinated with Anopheles stephensi Glucose Transporter

  • Autores: Antunes S, Couto J, de la Fuente J, Domingos A, Ferrolho J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: BioMed Research International
  • Link: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2017/3428186/

Despite the fact that recent efforts to control/eradicate malaria have contributed to a significant decrease in the number of cases and deaths, the disease remains a global health challenge. Vaccines based on mosquito salivary gland antigens are a potential approach for reducing vector populations and malaria parasites. The Anopheles AGAP007752 gene encodes for a glucose transporter that […]
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Plague: A Millenary Infectious Disease Reemerging in the XXI Century

  • Autores: Grácio AJDS, Grácio MAA
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: BioMed Research International
  • Link: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2017/5696542/%20

Plague, in the Middle Ages known as Black Death, continues to occur at permanent foci in many countries, in Africa, Asia, South America, and even the USA. During the last years outbreaks were reported from at least 3 geographical areas, in all cases after tens of years without reported cases. The recent human plague outbreaks […]
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Molecular Tech- niques for Dicistrovirus Detection without RNA Extraction or Purification

  • Autores: Agirre J, Guérin DMA, Marti GA, Querido JFB, Silva MS
  • Journal: BioMed Research International
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23710438

Dicistroviridae is a new family of small, nonenveloped, and +ssRNA viruses pathogenic to both beneficial arthropods and insect pests as well. Triatoma virus (TrV), a dicistrovirus, is a pathogen of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), one of the main vectors of Chagas disease. In this work, we report a single-step method to identify TrV, a dicistrovirus, isolated from fecal samples of triatomines. The identification method proved to be quite sensitive, even without the extraction and purification of RNA virus.
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