Association between occupational stress, markers of inflammation, and oxidative stress in intensive care unit workers: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Health care workers in intensive care units have a high propensity to develop burnout syndrome.

Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between occupational stress and markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in health care workers in intensive care units.

Methods: The sample consisted of 133 intensivists from the city of Colatina, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Effects of different probiotic strains B. lactis, L. rhamnosus and L. reuteri on brain-intestinal axis immunomodulation in an endotoxin-induced inflammation.

The study evaluated the effects of supplementation with three different probiotic strains Bifidobacterium lactis (LACT GB™), Lactobacillus rhamnosus (RHAM GB™) and Lactobacillus reuteri (REUT GB™) on brain-intestinal immunomodulation in an animal model of LPS-induced inflammation. Fifty mice Balb/C were distributed into five groups: control; lipopolysaccharide (LPS); LPS + B. lactis (LACT GB™); LPS + L.

Comparative effects of fresh and sterile fecal microbiota transplantation in an experimental animal model of necrotizing enterocolitis.

Introduction: Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious intestinal disease that affects premature neonates, causing high mortality, despite the technological development in neonatal intensive care, with antibiotics, parenteral nutrition, surgery, and advanced life support. The correction of dysbiosis with fecal microbiome transplantation (FMT) has shown beneficial effects in experimental models of the disease. The different forms of administration and conservation of FMT and mixed results depending on several factors lead to questions about the mechanism of action of FMT.

[Cytological smears of women diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix].

Purpose: To analyze the cytological findings of women with cervical adenocarcinoma, taking into account the patient's history in the year prior to diagnosis and the histopathological aspects of the lesions.

Methods: A retrospective comparative study was conducted using data from women with cervical adenocarcinoma or squamous carcinoma detected between 2002 and 2008. The cytological reports were synthesized according to the Bethesda System revised in 2001 and were compared to the histopathological findings of cervical adenocarcinoma and squamous carcinoma.