Brazil: International Biochemistry

The 15th Iranian National Congress of Biochemistry & 6th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

International Journal of Modern Biochemistry

Application of green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a molecular biosensor or reporter is limited by several factors especially its poor fluorescence at low pH conditions. There are conflicting data on this limitation, however, systematic studies to assess the importance of this factor for growing bacterial cultures are lacking. In this study, effect of low pH on GFP green and red fluorescence int...

BIOCHEMISTRY and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Aurintricarboxylic acid (AT A) is an endonuclease inhibitor which has been shown to block apoptotic cell death. We have now demonstrated that ATA is also an inhibitor of the Ca2+activated neutral protease (calpain), a class of cytosolic enzyme that may also be activated during apoptosis. The two major calpain isoforms (~and m-calpain) were both inhibited by A T A with IC50's of 22 ~M and 10 ~M,...

Impact of International Training of Medical Specialists for underdeveloped Countries: Brazil– Angola experience

Introduction: Angola has about 28 million inhabitants andapproximately 0.21 physicians/1,000 population. There is onlyone specialist in some medical fields in the whole country whilethere is not even one specialist in some other fields. The objectiveof this study is to investigate the significance of the CooperationProgram for Foreign Doctors (Brazil) and its impac...

Comparative biochemistry and physiology in Brazil: a critical appraisal.

Brazil stood out as the country with the highest number of submissions to the editorial project dedicated to Latin America by the journal Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Therefore, we felt that it was important to critically discuss the state of comparative biochemistry and physiology in this country. Our study is based on data collected from the ISI Web-of-Science. We analyzed publica...