Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(5):265-9. O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Míriam Raquel Diniz Zanetti Rodrigo de Aquino Castro

The suppression of hepatic cytochrome P450 (P450) expression during inflammatory and infectious diseases and the relief of this suppression by successful disease treatment have been previously demonstrated to impact drug disposition. To address this clinically relevant phenomenon preclinically, the effect of proinflammatory cytokines on P450 isoenzymes in human hepatocytes has been examined by ...

Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(5):286-8. R E V IE W A R T IC L E Komal Bhatia

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Postoperative infections should be detected earlier. We investigated the effi cacy of the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) score, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and various acute-phase proteins for predicting postoperative infections. DESIGN AND SETTING: Case series study at the Júlio Müller University Hospital. METHODS: Thirty-two patients who underwent major gast...

Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(4):237-41. O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Domingos Dias Cicarelli Joaquim Edson Vieira Fábio Ely Martins Benseñor Early dexamethasone treatment for septic shock patients: a prospective randomized clinical trial Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Anesthesia Division, Department of Surgery, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HC/FMUSP), São ...

Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(4):215-9. O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Karla Luciana Magnani Antônio José Maria Cataneo Respiratory muscle strength in obese individuals and infl uence of upper-body fat distribution Department of Surgery, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (FMB), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Pulmonary dysfunction in obese indi...

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Hormones are agents of biological coordination that circulate systemically to signal diverse cells and tissues, thereby influencing nearly all aspects of the phenotype, including behavior, morphology, physiology, and life history. Hormonal phenotypes can be both heritable and subject to natural selection (Bonier et al. 2009; McGlothlin et al. 2010; Ouyang et al. 2011; Pavitt et al. 2014; Cox et...

Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(6):338-42. O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Camila Toffoli Ribeiro Júlio César Rosa-e-Silva Marcos Felipe Silva-de-Sá Ana Carolina Japur de Sá Rosa-e-Silva Omero Benedicto Poli Neto Francisco José Candido dos Reis Antonio Alberto Nogueira Hysteroscopy as a standard procedure for assessing endometrial lesions among postmenopausal women Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics,...