Estudo farmacognóstico de folhas e raízes da Spiranthera odoratissima A. St.-Hil. (Rutaceae)
Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais, 2014 A Spiranthera odoratissima A. St.-Hil. (manacá) é um arbusto cujas raízes são utilizadas popularmente contra dores musculares, de estômago e de cabeça, disfunções hepáticas, reumatismo, e como estimulante do apetite.
L.G. Matos +7 more
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Land use impacts on water resources of the Manacás Lake Basin, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Revista Ambiente & Água, 2016 The 134.68 ha campus of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) is in urban area impacted by new developments. The population of 27,600 consumers causes the loss of green areas and generates increasing waste and sewage water.
Cézar Henrique Barra Rocha +5 more
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Safety, immunogenicity and duration of protection of the RTS,S/AS02(D) malaria vaccine: one year follow-up of a randomized controlled phase I/IIb trial. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The RTS,S/AS02(D) vaccine has been shown to have a promising safety profile, to be immunogenic and to confer protection against malaria in children and infants.We did a randomized, controlled, phase I/IIb trial of RTS,S/AS02(D) given at 10, 14 and 18 ...
Pedro Aide +15 more
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Malaria Journal, 2011 Background Multiplex cytokine profiling systems are useful tools for investigating correlates of protective immunity. Several Luminex and flow cytometry methods are commercially available but there is limited information on the relative performance of ...
Puyol Laura +8 more
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Cytokine and antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum in naïve individuals during a first malaria episode: effect of age and malaria exposure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Age- and exposure-dependent immune responses during a malaria episode may be key to understanding the role of these factors in the acquisition of immunity to malaria.
Gemma Moncunill +17 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Hypertension (HTN) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, and its prevalence has been rising in low- and middle-income countries.
Matsuzaki Mika +12 more
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High antibody responses against Plasmodium falciparum in immigrants after extended periods of interrupted exposure to malaria. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundMalaria immunity is commonly believed to wane in the absence of Plasmodium falciparum exposure, based on limited epidemiological data and short-lived antibody responses in some longitudinal studies in endemic areas.MethodsA cross-sectional ...
Gemma Moncunill +19 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 IntroductionTuberculosis (TB) continues to be a leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Mozambique. While diagnostic methods and total notifications are improving, significant gaps remain between total numbers of TB cases annually, and ...
Caroline De Schacht +6 more
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Predictors of personal exposure to black carbon among women in southern semi-rural Mozambique
Environment International, 2019 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest proportion of people using unclean fuels for household energy, which can result in products of incomplete combustion that are damaging for health.
Ariadna Curto +12 more
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Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants of the Pantanal Region (Mato Grosso, Brazil)
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Traditional knowledge is an important source of obtaining new phytotherapeutic agents. Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants was conducted in Nossa Senhora Aparecida do Chumbo District (NSACD), located in Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil using semi‐structured questionnaires and interviews.
Isanete Geraldini Costa Bieski +7 more
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