BACKGROUND Motor imagery (MI) when combined with physiotherapy can offer functional benefits after stroke. Two MI integration strategies exist: added and embedded MI. Both approaches were compared when learning a complex motor task (MT): 'Going down, laying on the floor, and getting up again'. METHODS Outpatients after first stroke participated in a single-blinded, randomised controlled trial...

Critical cell cycle transitions are controlled by the coordinate actions of the p34cdc2 protein kinase and its regulatory subunits, cyclins. Recently we identified another human p34 homolog, cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) by complementation of a cdc28-4 mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a lambda YES human cDNA expression library. CDK2 is 66% identical to CDC2Hs and 89% identical to t...

Low back pain (LBP) prevalence in children and adolescents is high during their lives. School-based interventions have reported effectiveness on health. The study aimed to determine the effect of an educational back-health intervention knowledge, postural habits trunk muscle endurance regarding low prevention for a group 12 13-year-old students using 6-month follow-up. A non-randomized experime...

INTRODUCTION Although corticosteroid therapy for asthma improves lung function and reduces airway inflammation, the relation between these two events is unclear. This article investigates associations between changes in bronchial inflammation and lung function during high-dose inhaled corticosteroid therapy for asthma. METHODS Nine subjects with atopic asthma received high-dose inhaled flutic...

Abstract Introduction Firefighters’ (FFs) cardiorespiratory fitness is considered an important capacity for workability. To successfully complete safety standards and rescue protocols, FFs are required to accomplish minimum values of relative VO 2max . Physical programs must take into consideration physiological demands, being essential not only professional tasks but also as a guarantee their ...

Piptoporus betulinus is a common wood-rotting fungus parasitic for birch (Betula species). It is able to cause fast mass loss of birch wood or other lignocellulose substrates. When grown on wheat straw, P. betulinus caused 65% loss of dry mass within 98 days, and it produced endo-1,4-beta-glucanase (EG), endo-1,4-beta-xylanase, endo-1,4-beta-mannanase, 1,4-beta-glucosidase (BG), 1,4-beta-xylosi...

ABSTRACT: Objective: To analyze the convergent validity and invariance of a scale to measure adherence eating practices recommended by Dietary Guidelines for Brazilian Population. Methods: A subsample (n=1309) NutriNet-Brasil cohort (self-filled web-based study) answered 24-items based on Guide, as well socioeconomic dietary questionnaires. The score in (eGuia) was compared Spearman’s correlati...

Measures of airway inflammation are increasingly being used as outcome measures in asthma intervention studies. Meaningful interpretation of observed changes in bronchial mucosal cell numbers should depend, in part, on the reproducibility of repeat measures over time. We wanted to investigate the reproducibility of immunopathologic and physiologic parameters after short and long measurement int...