Sialometric and Sialochemical Analysis in Individuals With Pulp Stones.

The aim of this study was to analyze the saliva of patients with pulp stones, with sialometric and sialochemical tests. Eighty individuals, aged between18 and 65 years, of both sexes, were investigated. Patients were included in the pulp stone group when radiographic examination was suggestive of pulp stones in at least one permanent tooth, whereas those without this alteration were considered controls.

Do pacifiers increase the risk of nosocomial diarrhoea? A cohort study.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Teaching paediatric hospital-Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira (IMIP), Recife, Northeast Brazil.

Antimalarial activity of betulinic acid and derivatives in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum and in vivo in P. berghei-infected mice.

Malaria is one of the most important tropical diseases and mainly affects populations living in developing countries. Reduced sensitivity of Plasmodium sp. to formerly recommended antimalarial drugs places an increasing burden on malaria control programs as well as on national health systems in endemic countries.

Tetrahydroprotoberberine and aporphine alkaloids from rollinia leptopetala.

Tetrahydrojatrorrhizine, discretamine, anonaine and roemerine were isolated from the roots of Rollinia leptopetala R. E. Fries.