Dedication to Manoel Pimentel Neto --1928-2010.

Main vocal complaints of elderly patients after leprosy treatment Summary

Cytotoxic activity of pisosterol, a triterpene isolated from Pisolithus tinctorius (Mich.: Pers.) Coker & Couch, 1928.

Pisolithus tinctorius (Basidiomycete) is an ectomicorrhizal fungus found in the roots and soil surrounding of many species of eucalyptus and pine trees. The present work verified the cytotoxic potential of pisosterol, a triterpene isolated from P. tinctorius collected in the Northeast region of Brazil, on three different animal cell models: mouse erythrocytes, sea urchin embryos and tumor cells...

Immunotherapy and Bone-Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Hope for the Future

The immune system is inherently equipped to target and destroy tumors due to the potential development of long-term antitumor memory, which may help avoid recurrence of the disease. The complex relationship between cancer cells and the immune system results in an ability to elude immune destruction. Typically, the antitumor response should result in acute inflammation and tumor elimination but ...

[Cardiology in the 21st. Century. Is PDA an indispensable tool for the practice?].

Mailing Address: João Manoel Rossi Neto • Av. Dr. Dante Pazzanese, 500 – 04012-180 – São Paulo, SP Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Received on 10/10/05 • Accepted on 10/21/05 The current advance of medicine and the need to continuously keep pace with new medical developments have led to the use of technologies compatible with these discoveries. Medical doctors can be classifi ed into three ca...

Ciclo de Vida das Capacidades de Tecnologia da Informação na Trajetória dos Sistemas Integrados de uma Universidade Brasileira