[The influence of the institutions on local health councils].

Objective: To analyze the influences of the institutions in the operation of the Local Health councils.

Design: qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study.

Study Setting: 02 Primary Health Care services of a municipality in the inland of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

A new immunochemotherapy schedule for visceral leishmaniasis in a hamster model.

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment with a recombinant cysteine proteinase from Leishmania, rldccys1, associated with allopurinol or miltefosine on Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi-infected hamsters. Golden Syrian hamsters infected with L. (L.

Interleukin-9 in Immunopathology of Experimental Infection.

Chagas' disease is a parasitosis caused by , which affects approximately 8 million people worldwide. The balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines produced during immunological responses contributes to disease prognosis and progression. Parasite tissue persistence can induce chronic inflammatory stimuli, which can cause long-term tissue injury and fibrosis.

Matrix support in children's mental health in Primary Health Care: institutional socio-clinical intervention research.

Objective: To analyze matrix support for Family Health Strategy teams in relation to Mental Health in Children and Adolescents.

Method: This is a research-intervention with a qualitative approach, based on the Institutional Analysis framework, Socio-clinic, carried out with eighteen health workers from two Family Health Strategy and Psychosocial Care Center teams of a small municipality in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, through eleven reflection meetings.

Results: The following themes emerged: The dynamics of relations in the FHS territory; Matrix Support as a technological device: unveiling established practices.

Protective Cellular Immune Response Induction for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis by a New Immunochemotherapy Schedule.

The palladacycle complex DPPE 1.2 was previously shown to inhibit infection and . The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of DPPE 1.

Biological Actions, Electrical Conductance and Silicon-Containing Microparticles of Arsenicum Album Prepared in Plastic and Glass Vials.

Introduction:  According to the "silica hypothesis" formulated to explain homeopathy, the information of starting materials would be transferred to cells by silica nanoparticles detached from the glassware walls by serial dilution and agitation through epitaxy. We compared the biological activity, electrical current and silicon microparticle content (by means of scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) of high dilutions (HDs) of arsenic prepared in plastic and glass vials to investigate the role of silica in their biological effects in vitro.

Materials And Methods:  Co-cultures of macrophages and yeast () were treated with different HDs of arsenic prepared in plastic and glass vials.

M1 homeopathic complex trigger effective responses against Leishmania (L) amazonensis in vivo and in vitro.

Leishmaniasis is a term referring to a range of clinical conditions caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania, Trypanosomatidae family, Kinetoplastida order that is transmitted by the bite of certain species of mosquitoes Phlebotominae subfamily. These parasites infect hosts wild and domestic mammals, considered as natural reservoirs and can also infect humans. Leishmania are obligate intramacrophage protozoa that have exclusively intracellular life style.

Homeopathic medicine Cantharis modulates uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC)-induced cystitis in susceptible mice.

Objective: This is a random blinded placebo controlled murine experimental model to study the effects of Cantharis 6 CH, a homeopathic medicine, on E coli-induced cystitis.

Methods: 24 adult susceptible female BALB/c mice were inoculated with E coli - UPEC O4:K-:H5 by a transurethral catheter. Cantharis 6cH or vehicle (placebo) was offered to mice by free access into the drinking water (1:100), during 24 h after infection.

High dilutions of antimony modulate cytokines production and macrophage - Leishmania (L.) amazonensis interaction in vitro.

Background: In previous results mice treated with high dilutions of antimony presented reduction of monocyte migration to the site of infection with increase in B lymphocytes population in the local lymph node.

Aims: To know the mechanisms involved, a series of in vitro studies was done, using co-cultures of macrophages (RAW 264.7) and Leishmania (L.

Meaning of leprosy for people who have experienced treatment during the sulfonic and multidrug therapy periods.

Objective: to analyze the meanings of leprosy for people treated during the sulfonic and multidrug therapy periods.

Method: qualitative nature study based on the Vigotski's historical-cultural approach, which guided the production and analysis of data. It included eight respondents who have had leprosy and were submitted to sulfonic and multidrug therapy treatments.

[Supervision of Community Health Agents in the Family Health Strategy: the perspective of nurses].

Objective: Analyzing the conceptions of supervision of nurses in the Family Health Strategy (ESF - Estratégia Saúde da Família) in relation to community health workers (ACS - Agente Comunitário de Saúde), taking for reference the work process and the power relations.

Method: A qualitative study, in which 18 interviews were carried out with nurses from the ESF in the countryside of the state of Goiás. Following transcription, the data were subjected to thematic content analysis and the following categories were identified: Supervision with that sees it all and Supervision is participating and working together.

Immunomodulation of Homeopathic Thymulin 5CH in a BCG-Induced Granuloma Model.

The present study analyzed the immune modulation mechanisms of thymulin 5CH in a granuloma experimental model. Male adult Balb/c mice were inoculated with BCG into the footpad to induce granuloma, which was quantitatively evaluated. The phenotypic characterization of phagocyte, T- and B-lymphocyte populations in the peritoneum, and local lymph node was done by flow cytometry.

[Care completeness: conceptions and practice of nursing graduation professors in Goiás State].

Care completeness has been defined as a leading axle of the changing process into the nurse formation. In this context, a descriptive-exploratory study was performed aiming to analyze the conceptions of completeness care present in the professors speech and the used strategies to the apprehension of care completeness by students. The research involved three institutions of higher education (HE).