Publications by authors named "J C Xikota"
Describe our experiences using teleconsultation approach to care for pediatric subspecialty follow-up patients during pandemic period. Synchronous teleconsultation solution was developed and implemented as a multiplatform/multimodality service, capable or running on desktop browsers and smartphones, and capable to handle chat, audio, and video. Term of consent was applied.
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- The study aimed to compare various fetal weight formulas and biometric tables to find the most accurate method for estimating the weight of Brazilian newborns.
- Methods used included the evaluation of several commonly used formulas (e.g., Stirnemann, Shepard) with different biometric tables (e.g., Snijders and Nicolaides, Papageorghiou), and the Pedreira database was used as a benchmark.
- Results indicated that the best correlation for estimating newborn weight was achieved using Snijders and Nicolaides' biometric table combined with Stirnemann's weight formula, while Shepard's formula showed the lowest average relative error when paired with multiple biometric tables.
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are a group of serine-threonine kinases, including p38(MAPK), ERK 1/2 and JNK p54/p46, activated by phosphorylation in response to extracellular stimuli. The early postnatal period is characterized by significant changes in brain structure as well as intracellular signaling. In the hippocampus MAPKs have been involved in the modulation of development and neural plasticity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Clinical and experimental evidences indicate that intrauterine inflammation during pregnancy is associated to brain damage. The objective of this study is to determine the effects of lipopolysaccharide in temperature, cytokine production and sickness behavior of pregnant dams.
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