Social skills: a factor of protection against eating disorders in adolescentes.

The purpose of this study is to provide a review of the literature on the relationship between eating disorders and social skills in adolescents. A search was made on the Medline, SciELO and Lilacs databases, for items combining the terms 'eating disorders', 'anorexia nervosa', 'bulimia nervosa' and 'food behavior', with the terms 'social psychology' and 'social isolation', and with the keywords 'social competence', 'social skill' and 'interpersonal relations'. The following were included: studies on adolescents; in Portuguese, English and Spanish; published in the years 2007 through 2012.

[Comparative characteristics of cyclodextrin glycosyltransferases from various groups of microorganisms].

Cyclodextrin glycosyltransferases (CGT-ase, 1.4-alpha-glucanotransferase, cyclizing, EC 2.4.