During the last decade it was observed an increase of chestnut mortality rates in Portugal, mainly in Trás-os-Montes, the most important chestnut area in the country. Several studies confirmed that mortality is due, among other causes, to "chestnut blight" caused by Cryphonectria parasitica. The validation of available technical and scientific knowledge on disease control measures, mainly preventive ones, depen...
Manometric and pharmacological tests have shown that motor abnormalities may occur in the non-dilated colons of chagasic patients. In order to investigate the presence of abnormalities of colonic function in constipated patients with Chagas disease (ChC) without megaesophagus or megacolon, studies of total and segmental colonic transit time with radiopaque markers were performed on 15 ChC patients, 27 healthy ...
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