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Altered metabolic fingerprints of Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (DLBCL NOS) may offer novel opportunities to identify new biomarkers and improve the understanding of its pathogenesis. This study aimed to investigate the modified metabolic pathways in extranodal, germinal center B-cell (GCB) and non-GCB DLBCL NOS from the head and neck. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues from eleven DLBCL NOS classified according to Hans' algorithm using immunohistochemistry, and five normal lymphoid tissues (LT) were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based untargeted metabolomics.

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  • - This study investigates how methylmercury (MeHg) exposure impacts tooth enamel in rats, particularly during critical periods of prenatal and postnatal development when enamel forms.
  • - Researchers gave female rats a specific dose of MeHg during pregnancy and lactation, then analyzed their offspring's enamel using advanced techniques like infrared spectroscopy and electron microscopy.
  • - Results showed that MeHg exposure led to significant alterations in the enamel's inorganic and organic composition, affecting its structure and strength, highlighting the potential risks of MeHg exposure on dental health in developing organisms.
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This paper aims to provide a metaheuristic approach to drone array optimization applied to coverage area maximization of wireless communication systems, with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations, in the context of suburban, lightly to densely wooded environments present in cities of the Amazon region. For this purpose, a low-power wireless area network (LPWAN) was analyzed and applied. LPWAN are systems designed to work with low data rates but keep, or even enhance, the extensive area coverage provided by high-powered networks.

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The goal of this study was to verify the effect of heterogeneity of variance (HV) on milk production in up to 305 days of lactation (L305) of daughters of Girolando, Gir and Holstein sires, as well as in the genetic evaluation of these sires and their progenies. in Brazil. The model included contemporary groups (consisting of herd, year and calving season) as a fixed effect, cow age at calving (linear and quadratic effects) and heterozygosity (linear effect) as covariates, in addition to the random effects of direct additive genetic and environmental, permanent and residual.

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Sub-GHz communication provides long-range coverage with low power consumption and reduced deployment cost. LoRa (Long-Range) has emerged, among existing LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Networks) technologies, as a promising physical layer alternative to provide ubiquitous connectivity to outdoor IoT devices. LoRa modulation technology supports adapting transmissions based on parameters such as carrier frequency, channel bandwidth, spreading factor, and code rate.

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Context: Heparin, one of the drugs reused in studies with antiviral activity, was chosen to investigate a possible blockade of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for viral entry through computational simulations and experimental analysis. Heparin was associated to graphene oxide to increase in the binding affinity in biological system. First, the electronic and chemical interaction between the molecules was analyzed through ab initio simulations.

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Capsiate and phenolics present in the free, esterified, glycosylated, and insoluble-bound forms of BRS Moema peppers were characterized and quantified using UHPLC-ESI-MS/MS. Additionally, the antiproliferative activity of BRS Moema extract was evaluated. The peppers showed considerable quantities of capsiate and phenolic compounds.

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  • A study was conducted on a Gram-negative bacterial species known to affect both fish and humans, focusing on newly sequenced isolates from the São Francisco Valley in Brazil.
  • The researchers compared these isolates with complete genomes in public databases to assess their taxonomy, virulence, and antibiotic resistance profiles.
  • They identified 239 virulence genes and 60 resistance genes, highlighting significant similarities with NCBI genomes, and emphasized the need for accurate genomic classification and monitoring of antibiotic resistance, particularly for colistin.
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Quilombola communities are descended from African slaves who escaped in resistance to imperial rule in Brazil. Today, these communities suffer from inadequate health care and health promotion programs due to socioeconomic, geographic, and political factors. This generates greater vulnerability among these groups because they have limited information about prevention to improve their quality of life.

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Purpose: To evaluate the influence of different surface treatments on the clinical behavior of non-carious cervical sclerotic lesions (NCCLs) over an 18-month follow-up period.

Methods: 128 NCCLs from 32 volunteers were randomized into four groups (n=32): G1-control, without preoperative treatment of the dentin surface; G2, dentin conditioning with 17% ethylenediaminetetracetic acid (EDTA) for 2 minutes; G3, increase in dentin surface roughness with diamond bur and G4, increase in dentin surface roughness with diamond bur + dentin conditioning with 17% EDTA for 2 minutes.

Results: Differences between groups were tested using the Friedman test (α= 0.

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Changes in species distribution in response to climate change might challenge the territorial boundaries of protected areas. Amazonia is one of the global regions most at risk of developing long distances between current and future analogous climates and the emergence of climate conditions without analogs in the past. As a result, species present within the network of Protected Areas (PAs) of Amazonia may be threatened throughout the 21st century.

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Elucidating the Mesocarp Drupe Transcriptome of Açai ( Mart.): An Amazonian Tree Palm Producer of Bioactive Compounds.

Int J Mol Sci

May 2023

Centre for Valorization of Amazonian Bioactive Compounds (CVACBA) & Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-750, PA, Brazil.

palm, endemic to the Amazon region, is well known for açai, a fruit violet beverage with nutritional and medicinal properties. During fruit ripening, anthocyanin accumulation is not related to sugar production, contrarily to grape and blueberry. Ripened fruits have a high content of anthocyanins, isoprenoids, fibers, and proteins, and are poor in sugars.

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Revealing the environmental pollution of two estuaries through histopathological biomarkers in five fishes from different trophic guilds of northeastern Brazil.

Mar Pollut Bull

July 2023

Laboratory of Cellular Ultrastructure and Immunohistochemistry, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Correa n° 01, Guamá, CEP 66075-110 Belém, Pará, Brazil.

Estuaries in Brazil are mostly anthropically affected due to the discharge of industrial and domestic effluents. In two of them, the Santa Cruz Channel Estuary (ITAP) and Sirinhaém River Estuary (SIR), historically affected by mercury pollution and sugarcane industry in Northeast Brazil, we assessed environmental pollution using liver and gill histopathological biomarkers in fish from different trophic levels. Liver samples exhibited serious damages such as hepatic steatosis, necrosis, and infiltration.

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Growth curve mixed nonlinear models in quails.

PLoS One

June 2023

Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Postgraduate Program in Animal Science (PPGCAN), Federal University of Para (UFPA), UFRA, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Castanhal, PA, Brazil.

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  • - The study evaluated different nonlinear mixed models for analyzing the growth curves of meat-type quails based on gender, using over 30,000 records of males and females.
  • - Various nonlinear models (such as Brody, Gompertz, and others) were applied, with the Morgan-Mercer-Flodin model emerging as the best fit due to its accurate prediction of asymptotic weight when modeled as a random effect.
  • - Findings suggest that male quails grow at a slower rate than females, indicating that they should be slaughtered later, which could enhance meat quality and improve genetic characteristics over time.
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Despite the cytotoxicity and embryotoxicity previously reported artesunate is a recommended drug to treat malaria for adults, children, and women in the first trimester of pregnancy. To address the putative effects of artesunate on female fertility and preimplantation embryo development, when the pregnancy is not detectable yet, artesunate was added to the oocyte maturation and embryo development of bovine. Briefly, in experiment 1 the cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were matured for 18 h with 0.

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Abdominal wall defects in calves are commonly diagnosed and treated via laparotomy. This technique has witnessed several advancements in the management of these disorders. This study aimed to create a study model and evaluate the feasibility of video-assisted percutaneous correction of abdominal wall defects in bovine fetuses (corpses) compared with the conventional technique.

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Introduction: Human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a zoonosis of great importance to public health due to its epidemiological diversity, with emphasis on the possibility of aggravation by coinfection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Objective: The aim was to study the epidemiological characteristics of VL cases associated with HIV coinfection in Pará. Methods.

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Social, Genetics and Histopathological Factors Related to () Gene Mutation and Survival in Women with Ovarian Serous Cystadenocarcinoma: Bioinformatics Analysis.

Genes (Basel)

May 2023

Postgraduate Program in Health, Environment and Society in the Amazon (PPGSAS), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Street Augusto Corrêa, 01, University City: José Silveira Neto, Health sector: Guamá, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil.

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  • The study explored factors that may heighten the risk of ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma, focusing on the connection between social, genetic, and histopathological elements in women with titin mutations.
  • Researchers analyzed data from 585 patient samples to determine if the mutation in the titin gene could serve as a predictor of outcomes, using statistical methods such as logistic regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.
  • Findings revealed that titin mutations did not vary by age, tumor stage, or race but were linked to several genetic markers and metrics related to cancer cell metabolism, revealing a significant impact on mutation frequency and survival indicators.
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We aimed to identify , , and alleles/haplotypes associated with European, African, or Native American genomic ancestry (GA) in admixed Brazilian patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). This exploratory nationwide study enrolled 1599 participants. GA percentage was inferred using a panel of 46 ancestry informative marker-insertion/deletion.

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The use of lignocellulosic biomass as a raw material for the production of lipids has gained increasing attention, especially in recent years when the use of food in the production of biofuels has become a current technology. Thus, the competition for raw materials for both uses has brought the need to create technological alternatives to reduce this competition that could generate a reduction in the volume of food offered and a consequent commercial increase in the value of food. Furthermore, the use of microbial oils has been studied in many industrial branches, from the generation of renewable energy to the obtainment of several value-added products in the pharmaceutical and food industries.

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L. is an edible plant widespread in Amazonian cuisine and its leaves have high levels of promising phenolic compounds for the production of extracts to be used as natural antioxidant additives. In this study, the in vitro scavenging capacity of three freeze-dried extracts of leaves, obtained by ultrasound-assisted extraction using green solvents [water (HO), ethanol (EtOH), and ethanol/water (EtOH/HO)], was investigated against the most common reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) generated in both physiological and food systems.

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A NEW SPECIES OF PNEUMOATRACTIS (COSMOCERCOIDEA: ATRACTIDAE) FROM TWO SPECIES OF FRESHWATER TURTLES FROM THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON.

J Parasitol

May 2023

Laboratory of Cellular Biology and Helminthology "Profa. Dra. Reinalda Marisa Lanfredi", Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Av. Augusto Correa 01, Guamá, Belém, Pará, 66075-110, Brazil.

The monotypic genus PneumoatractisBursey, Reavill, and Greiner, 2009 was erected to allocate nematodes collected from the lungs of the freshwater turtle Podocnemis unifilis Troschel. During a helminthological survey of parasites from freshwater turtles of Tocantins and Xingu rivers, Pará State, eastern Amazon, Brazil, we found nematodes parasitizing the stomach and large intestine of Po. unifilis and Podocnemis expansa Schweigger.

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Background: Domestic cats have been implicated as accidental hosts of sp. However, in recent years, the recurrent description of new cases in endemic and nonendemic areas draw attention to the potential epidemiological role of cats as reservoir hosts. Although dogs are considered urban reservoirs, cats could act as a secondary natural reservoirs in these areas.

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Oogenesis and in vitro reproduction of the twospot astyanax Astyanax bimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) exposed to conspecific alarm substance.

Anim Reprod Sci

June 2023

Research Group of Studies on the Reproduction of Amazon Fish (GERPA/LANEC), Biology Faculty (FACBIO), Federal University of South and Southern of Pará (Unifesspa), Av. dos Ipês, S/N, 68507-590 Marabá, PA, Brazil; Neuroscience and Behavior Laboratory "Frederico Guilherme Graeff" (LANEC), Psychology University, Institute of Healthy and Biologics Studies, Federal University of South and Southern of Pará, Av. dos Ipês, S/N, 68507-590 Marabá, PA, Brazil; Graduate Program in Animal Reproduction in the Amazon (ReproAmazon) of the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (Ufra) and Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Av. Presidente Tancredo Neves, Nº 2501, Terra Firme, 66.077-830 Belém, PA, Brazil. Electronic address:

Stress situations can be essential to trigger reproduction in fish; however, it may also inhibit it. One of those situations involves the release of the conspecific alarm substance (CAS), a natural stressor, into the water by specific fish epidermal cells after a predator attack. Little is known about the effects of that substance on fish reproduction.

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Modern wireless communication systems rely heavily on multiple antennas and their corresponding signal processing to achieve optimal performance. As 5G and 6G networks emerge, beamforming and beam management become increasingly complex due to factors such as user mobility, a higher number of antennas, and the adoption of elevated frequencies. Artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning, offers a valuable solution to mitigate this complexity and minimize the overhead associated with beam management and selection, all while maintaining system performance.

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