Global warming is causing an intensification of extreme climate events with significant changes in frequency, duration, and intensity over many regions. Understanding the current future influence this northeastern Brazil (NEB) important due to region’s greater vulnerability natural disasters, as historical records show. In paper, characteristics change projections (precipitation air temperature...

Pulmonary neuroepithelial bodies (NEB) form innervated cell clusters that express voltage-activated currents and function as airway O(2) sensors. We investigated A-type K(+) currents in NEB cells using neonatal rabbit lung slice preparation. The whole cell K(+) current was slowly inactivating with activation threshold of approximately -30 mV. This current was blocked approximately 27% by blood-...

Primigravid Syrian golden hamsters were exposed in a Walton smoking machine to the smoke from either weak or strong cigarettes for 10 minute periods, 4 times a day from the 3rd to 14th (2nd last) day of pregnancy. Control hamsters were either similarly restrained in a Walton machine equipped with an unlit cigarette, or were not placed in the machine or restrained. Examination of the progeny in ...

Postpartum dairy cows enter a period of negative energy balance (NEB) associated with low circulating IGF1, during which the uterus must undergo extensive repair following calving. This study investigated the effects of NEB on expression of IGF family members and related genes in the involuting uterus. Cows were allocated to two treatments using differential feeding and milking regimes to produ...

Research on genetic influences on human fertility outcomes such as number of children ever born (NEB) or the age at first childbirth (AFB) has been solely based on twin and family-designs that suffer from problematic assumptions and practical limitations. The current study exploits recent advances in the field of molecular genetics by applying the genomic-relationship-matrix based restricted ma...

Neuroepithelial bodies (NEB) are small groups of cells bound together by desmosomes and which form part of the epithelium lining the bronchopulmonary ducts. The cells have an irregular, columnar shape often with laterally placed microvilli and unspecialized cytoplasmic protrusions into the intercellular spaces. Their most distinctive cytoplasmic feature is the numerous dense cored vesicles (DCV...

The sequence-specific DNA cleavage activity of restriction endonucleases (REases), combined with other enzymatic activities that amplify and ligate nucleic acids, have enabled modern molecular biology. After more than half a century of research and development, the applications of REases have evolved from the cloning of exogenous DNA and genome mapping to more sophisticated applications, such a...

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterized by chronic airway inflammation. CD4(+) T-helper 9 (Th9) cells are closely linked to asthma, helping to regulate inflammation and immunity. Epidemiological studies showed that mycobacteria infections are negatively associated with asthma. Our previous research showed that inactivated Mycobacterium phlei nebulization alleviated the airway hyperrespo...

Resumo Os Vórtices Ciclônicos de Altos Níveis (VCAN) são um dos principais sistemas que provocam alterações no tempo durante a pré-estação chuvosa do Nordeste Brasil (NEB). O principal objetivo deste estudo é compreender configuração VCAN se desenvolveu 26 dias em janeiro 2016 através da análise sinótica e termodinâmica. Além vórtice, diferentes escalas espaciais temporais como Zona Convergênci...