Correspondence to: Giuseppe Alexandre Romito Faculdade de Odontologia – Universidade de São Paulo. Disciplina de Periodontia Av. Lineu Prestes, 2227 Cidade Universitária São Paulo S.P. Brazil CEP 05508-900 Telefone: 55 (11) 5084-9949 ou 55 (11) 8174-3639 e-mail: [email protected] Abstract Vickers micro hardness was assessed on root dentin and cementum in 30 canines obtained from the Periodontics ...

Narcolepsy-Cataplexy (NC) is a neurological disorder associated with the human leukocyte antigen HLA DR2. This is a prerequisite for the disease in 95 to 98% of Caucasian patients. It has been demonstrated that the HLA DQB1*0602 allele is a better marker for narcolepsy than DRB1*1501 (DR2). We present a DR-negative and DQB1*0602-positive Caucasian Spanish patient with a very unusual genotype. A...

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is a hypersensitivity lung disease characterized by Aspergillus fumigatus (Af) colonization, IgE and IgG anti-Af antibodies, pulmonary infiltrates, bronchiectasis, and pulmonary fibrosis. Little is known regarding T cell responses and their role in the pathogenesis of ABPA. To examine T cell reactivity to Af antigens, T cell clones (TCC) specific t...

INTRODUCTION Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) is frequently associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) as one of extra-articular manifestations. Many studies for Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) allelic association with RA have been reported, but few have been validated in an RA subpopulation with ILD. In this study, we investigated the association of HLA class II alleles with ILD in RA. METHODS A...

Narcolepsy is considered a homogeneous clinical entity when excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy are present. Cataplexy is a polymorphic symptom that can be very mild and is thus subjectively defined. The Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) is widely used as a diagnostic test for narcolepsy. A short mean sleep latency and multiple sleep onset REM periods (SOREMPs) are typically observed in...

We calculate photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2 (SDSS DR2) Galaxy Sample using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Different input sets based on various parameters (e.g. magnitude, color index, flux information) are explored. Mainly, parameters from broadband photometry are utilized and their performances in redshift prediction are compared. While any paramete...

Abstract Precise measurement of the fundamental parameters stellar systems, including mass and radius, depends critically on how well distances are known. Astrometry from space provides parallax measurements unprecented accuracy, which can be derived, initially Hipparcos mission, with a further refinement that analysis provided by van Leeuwen in 2007. The publication Gaia DR2 catalogue promises...

Abstract Gaia data release 2 (DR2) provides the best non-rotating optical frame aligned with radio (ICRF) thanks to inclusion of about half-million quasars in five-parameter astrometric solution. We cross-match DR2 from Large Quasar Astrometric Catalogue, Sloan Digital Sky Survey and LAMOST, obtaining 208,743 new sources (denominated as KQCG), most them are fainter than G = 19. Given their cruc...

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is an ongoing survey of $\sim$9300 deg$^2$ in the southern sky a 12-band photometric system. This paper presents second data release (DR2) S-PLUS, consisting 514 tiles covering area 950 deg$^2$. has been fully calibrated using new calibration technique suitable for generation wide-field multi-filter surveys. consists $\chi^2$ minimisation ...

Abstract Dual supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at ?kiloparsec scales are the progenitor population of SMBH mergers and play an important role in understanding pairing dynamical evolution massive galaxy mergers. Because stringent resolution requirement apparent rareness these small-separation pairs, there scarce observational constraints on this population, with few confirmed dual SMBHs <10 k...