Obesity can be defi ned as a chronic disease with serious impact on an individual’s quality of life, but moreover, it is a leading risk factor for global death. Bariatric surgery has already proven its effi cacy in rendering the patient a healthier life. Nonetheless, failure of an initiated treatment is possible in medical practice. We can and should offer our patients a correct revisional pati...

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play pivotal roles in spermatogenesis. MicroRNA-210 (miR-210) expression was up-regulated in the testes of sterile men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA). However, the underlying mechanisms of miR-210 involved in the spermatogenesis in patients with NOA are unknown. MATERIAL AND METHODS Expression of miR-210 and insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2) in the teste...

MicroRNA-210 (miR-210), a master and pleiotropic hypoxia-microRNA, plays multiple roles in brain ischemia. However, miR-210 expression and its function in humans have not been explored. The aim of our study is to evaluate the correlation of blood miR-210 with clinical findings in acute ischemic stroke. Blood samples were obtained from stroke patients (n=112) and healthy controls (n= 60). MiR-21...

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs play important roles in regulation of the initiation and progression of AML. MiR-210 is closely related with cancer development; however, whether miR-210 expression level correlates with clinical correlation in AML is unknown. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the potential relationship between miR-210 expression and AML prognosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Real-t...

BACKGROUND Primaquine (PQ) is used against relapses of vivax malaria (RVM) but several aspects about dosage are unknown, as the total effective dose (TD) in a number of days. OBJECTIVE To compare PQ regimens against RVM in randomized or non randomized controlled clinical trials (CCTs). METHODOLOGY Meta analysis. Information was sought until 31 December, 2012 in Lilacs, SciELO, PubMed (Medli...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by degradation of articular cartilage and joint inflammation. MicroRNAs have been proved to play an important role in the regulation of chondrogenesis. Previous study showed that microRNA-210 (miR-210) was probably associated with osteoarthritis, while the function of miR-210 in osteoarthritis still remains unknown. The aim of the present study was to invest...

Circulating cell-free(cf) microRNAs (miRNAs) have been reported to exist in plasma. MicroRNA-210(miR-210) is known to play important roles in the tumor hypoxic state. We hypothesized that the expression levels of cf-miR-210 in plasma would predict early clinical recurrence in melanoma patients. A direct miRNA assay on plasma (RT-qPCR-DP) was developed to improve cf-miRNA assay logistics, elimin...