Manuscrito ID: 30163. Recebido em: 19/09/2014. Aprovado em: 19/09/2014. ABSTRACT: New lines of geological evidence strongly suggest that the main period of hydrocarbon maturation within Assistência Formation should be Permian-Triassic, stimulated by a high geothermal gradient that also sustained various manifestations of hydrothermal activity. Three main stages of fluid/hydrocarbon migration ca...

Secretory aspartyl proteinases (Saps) of Candida albicans are key virulence traits which cause inflammasome-dependent, aseptic inflammation in a mouse model of vaginitis. In this paper, neutrophil migration in response to Sap2, Sap6 and chemo-attractive products released from Sap-treated vaginal epithelium was measured in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo. Our results show that Sap2 and Sap6 induce ne...

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided hepaticogastrostomy with a fully covered metal stent is an option for malignant biliary obstruction after a failed endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) [1–3]; however, migration of the stent can be a fatal complication [3, 4]. We report a case in which a migrated stent was successful reset using a foreign body forceps. A 73-year-old woman deve...

Pseudoparaproteins were observed in 129 (10.5%) of 1,229 high resolution protein electrophoretic fractionations of serum (N = 847), urine (N = 368), or cerebrospinal fluid (N = 14) performed in this laboratory during a 12-month period. The pseudoparaproteins identified in serum electrophoretic patterns included fibrinogen, C-reactive protein, hemoglobin-haptoglobin complex, elevated beta-globul...

objective(s) air pouch is a well-established inflammatory model in which fluid extravasations; leukocyte migration, angiogenesis and other parameters involved in the inflammatory response can be measured. in this study, the influence of gender on inflammatory parameters has been examined in the air pouch model. materials and methods to induce air pouch, adult male and female wistar rats were an...

BACKGROUND Glioma cells are exposed to elevated interstitial fluid flow during the onset of angiogenesis, at the tumor periphery while invading normal parenchyma, within white matter tracts, and during vascular normalization therapy. Glioma cell lines that have been exposed to fluid flow forces in vivo have much lower invasive potentials than in vitro cell motility assays without flow would ind...

This paper presents a new particle migration principle and demonstrates an analysis of solution density in a microfluidic channel. A particle situated in a microfluidic interface with different fluid density moves toward the lower-density fluid, driven by the asymmetric hydrostatic pressure acting on the submerged particle. Since the hydrostatic pressure is related to the diameter of a particle...

Endometriotic lesions secrete chemokines that recruit immune cells into the peritoneal cavity. The accumulation of these immune cells, especially activated macrophages and T lymphocytes, is thought to mediate inflammatory symptoms associated with endometriosis. Previous studies have demonstrated that RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted) is synthesized by endome...

Many inflammatory processes are characterized by an early phase of neutrophil migration and a later phase of monocyte migration into the inflammatory site. Mechanisms that govern the transition between phases are the subject of these investigations. Acute lung inflammation induced by C5 fragments in the rabbit leads to an initial neutrophil influx and plasma leakage into the alveolar space, fol...