En la Primera carta a los Corintios, Clemente de Roma establece una correlación entre cultura helenístico-romana y revelación, través cosmología estoica el mito del Fénix. Tal sostiene que cada elemento lo real es solidario con restantes, fundamento para lectura simbólica mundo. El Fénix presentado como un signo prodigioso resurrección; por ello, nuestro autor no se pregunta si historia cierta ...

Vascular catheters are a major cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections. ChloraLock (ATTWILL Medical Solutions, Inc, West Jordan, UT, and ICU Medical, Inc, San Clemente, CA) is a novel antimicrobial device containing chlorhexidine digluconate (CHG) that is fitted onto a syringe and infuses CHG into the catheter lumen during locking. The objective of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobia...

Rogério Lacerda dos Santos1, Marcos Farina de Souza2, Renato Torres Gonçalves3, Marco Aurélio Martins4, Margareth Maria Gomes de Souza5 1 Specialist in Orthodontics, Universidade Federal de Alfenas (Unifal), Alfenas (MG), Brazil; Master of Orthodontics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil 2 Doctor of Biological Sciences, UFRJ; Titular Professor, UFRJ; Chie...

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Human red blood cells (RBCs) are normally phagocytized by macrophages of splenic and hepatic sinusoids at 120 days of age. The destruction of RBCs is ultimately controlled by antagonist effects of phosphatidylserine (PS) and CD47 on the phagocytic activity of macrophages. In this work, we introduce a conceptual model that explains RBC lifespan as a consequence of the dynamics of these molecules...