[Dietary risk patterns for non-communicable chronic diseases and their association with body fat - a systematic review].

The article seeks to review studies on unhealthy eating patterns for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD) and its association with body fat in adults, published between 2005 and 2012. The articles were systematically reviewed by two independent researchers in Medline, Lilacs, and Scielo using the following key words: food consumption, chronic diseases, anthropometry, body fat, and adults. Eight studies met the inclusion criteria, all conducted on the Brazilian population.

NADPH-diaphorase histochemical labeling patterns in the hippocampal neuropil and visual cortical neurons in weaned rats reared during lactation on different litter sizes.

Tissue distribution of nitric oxide-synthases was investigated in the rat hippocampus and visual cortex under nutritional changes induced by modification of the litter size. Young (30-45-days-old) rats, suckled in litters formed by 3,6 or 12 pups (called small, medium and large litters, respectively), were studied by using nicotine-adenine-dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase histochemistry (shortly, diaphorase), a simple and robust procedure to characterize tissue distribution of nitric oxide-synthases. We assessed morphometric features of the diaphorase-positive cells in visual cortex, and the neuropil histochemical activity in hippocampal CA1 and dentate gyrus using densitometry analysis.