Publications by authors named "Camilla F Mendes"
Article Synopsis
- Pelvic pain, located below the umbilical scar, often requires additional treatments like electric stimulation due to the limitations and side effects of pharmacological therapy.
- A comprehensive literature review up to April 2024 evaluated the effectiveness of various electrostimulation methods for pelvic pain, assessing risk of bias and evidence quality through established tools.
- Findings revealed that while various electrical stimulation methods showed some promise, only Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) demonstrated significant effectiveness for reducing acute pelvic pain and primary dysmenorrhea, indicating a need for more rigorous studies on other techniques.
One challenge in point-of-care (POC) diagnostics is the lack of room-temperature methods for RNA detection based on enzymatic amplification and visualization steps. Here we perform reverse transcription lesion-induced DNA amplification (RT-LIDA), an isothermal amplification method that only requires T4 DNA ligase. RT-LIDA involves the RNA-templated ligation of DNA primers to form complementary DNA (cDNA) followed by toehold-mediated strand displacement of the cDNA and its exponential amplification via our isothermal ligase chain reaction LIDA.
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