Samples of 10 and 14 Ctenocephalides felis felis fleas were collected on dogs from Pedreira and Mogi das Cruzes municipalities, respectively, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, for detection of Rickettsia spp. Individual fleas were submitted to Polymerase Chain Reaction targeting the 17-kDa and the 190-kDa (OmpA) genes of Rickettsiae. This later gene is specific for spotted fever group. Nine fl...

Departamento de Quı́mica e Bioquı́mica, Faculdade de Ciências da UniVersidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal, Grupo de Fı́sica Matemática da UniVersidade de Lisboa, AV. Professor Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal, UniVersidade de Mogi das Cruzes, CP 411, 08701-970 Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil, Instituto de Fı́sica, UniVersidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, São Paul...

In this work, we analyzed the karyotypes of five Hypostomus species. Hypostomus cf. heraldoi, from the Mogi-Guaçu River, had 2n = 72 chromosomes, with a nucleolar organizer region (NOR) in one chromosomal pair. Hypostomus regani, from the Mogi-Guaçu River had 2n = 72 chromosomes with NORs in two chromosomal pairs. Hypostomus sp., from the Mogi-Guaçu River basin, had 2n = 68 chromosomes, with NO...

Pore gas has a significant influence on rock strength. This study performed triaxial compression tests of gas-infiltrated sandy shale samples to investigate the strength characteristics under gas pressures of 0 and 2 MPa. The effective stress coefficient was evaluated while considering the gas and solid coupling effect, and was found to decrease with increasing confining pressure. The calculate...

1Department of Biosciences and Oral Diagnosis, Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (Unesp), São José dos Campos, São Paulo 12245-000, Brazil. 2University Braz Cubas, Mogi das Cruzes 08773-380, Brazil. 3Universidade Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes 08780-911, Brazil. 4Human Anatomy and Embriology Area, Functional Biology and Health Sciences Department, University of V...

1Cancer Metabolism Research Group, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Avenida Professor Lineu Prestes 1524, 05508-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale dell’Università 37, 00185 Rome, Italy 3Cancer Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biology Faculty, University of Barcelona, Avenida Diagonal 6...

A new species of Seticornuta from Brazil is described and illustrated, the first record of this genus for the Brazilian fauna. This new species was found in a study that aimed to enhance knowledge of the Brazilian fauna of Metopiinae, analysing samples from the hydrographic basin of Rio Mogi Guaçu. A diagnosis, along with distribution information for Seticornuta species are provided.

OBJECTIVE To compare two thoracotomy closure techniques (pericostal and transcostal suture) in terms of postoperative pain and pulmonary function. METHODS This was a prospective, randomized, double-blind study carried out in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Luzia de Pinho Melo Hospital das Clínicas and at the University of Mogi das Cruzes, both located in the city of Mogi das Cruzes,...

volcanoes and their eruption indicate dynamic process of the inside of ground, which are often located along the boundaries of tectonic plates. study of movements and surface deformation of the volcano is essential because surface deformation reflects changes in the subsurface. in the studies of crustal deformation, volcanic models provide valuable insights of the features of volcanoes and thei...

Magma movements are almost universally associated with volcanic deformation. The Mogi (1958) and McTigue (1987) models link observed surface displacements to behaviour within inaccessible magmatic plumbing systems. well-used due their computational simplicity ease of application, but both limited by assumptions about the deformation source its embedding domain. Domain assumptions, including ela...