Antecedentes y Objetivos: El género Phylloporia es morfológicamente diverso; incluye especies que se desarrollan en áreas restringidas, son predominantemente tropicales poseen o no especificidad por sustratos. Para Cuba reportan cinco especies; sin embargo, debido a la heterogeneidad de ecosistemas Isla diversidad del género, estima el número taxones sea superior al registrado. Por ello, presen...

Abstract Objective Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is still a challenge for physicians to manage patient’s circumstances. It assumed that alterations in the normal flora may be involved pathogenesis of T2DM through inducing chronic inflammation. To investigate effect Lactobacillus rhamnosus as common probiotic on T2DM, we induced an experimental model adult male Zebrafish by gradient hyper-gluc...

Há uma grande necessidade de ampliar o conhecimento sobre a micobiota associada à flora da Caatinga. Dentre as espécies vegetais que ocorrem naturalmente no bioma, Syagrus coronata (Mart.) Becc., popularmente conhecido como licurizeiro, é considerado das principais palmeiras região semiárida brasileira. Diante disso, buscando identificar os fungos ascomicetos se desenvolvem em suas folhas, real...

In 2011, at the Society for Integrative Oncology’s international meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, Francis Collins, PhD, head of the National Institutes of Health, shocked the audience when he asserted that although his work in the human genome was exciting, he was more impressed by the potential represented by the National Institutes of Health’s investment in the Human Microbiome Project. “This is t...

Several leaf spotting or blotching fungal diseases occur on forest trees in Guilan province (N Iran). Some of them such as maple tar spot affect health of host trees severely, but many are of minor effect. This study was carried out to identify unknown and less known fungi causing leaf spot and leaf blotch diseases on broad leaf trees in this region. So far numerous fungi were collected. Four s...