Alterations in salivary parameters may increase the caries risk in diabetic children, but, contradictory data on this issue have been reported. The aims of this study were to compare salivary parameters (flow rate, pH and calcium concentration) between healthy and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) individuals. The sample consisted of 7- to 18-year-old individuals divided into two groups: 30 subjects with T1DM (gr...
In scaffold-based tissue engineering strategies, the successful regeneration of tissues from matrixproducing connective tissue cells or anchorage-dependent cells (e.g. osteoblasts) relies on the use of a suitable scaffold. This study describes the development and characterization of SPCL (starch with !-polycaprolactone, 30 : 70%) and SPLA [starch with poly(lactic acid), 30 : 70%] fibre-meshes, aimed at applicat...
In the present work we originally tested the suitability of corn starch-polycaprolactone (SPCL) scaffolds for pursuing a cartilage tissue engineering approach. Bovine articular chondrocytes were seeded on SPCL scaffolds under dynamic conditions using spinner flasks (total of 4 scaffolds per spinner flask using cell suspensions of 0.5×106 cells/ml) and cultured under orbital agitation for a total of 6 weeks. Pol...
Relata de um caso com verificação cirúrgica de cisticercose espinhal, forma leptomeníngea restrita à cauda eqüina, em paciente adulto. É discutido o papel do sistema venoso vertebral na infestação dos espaços subaracnóideos na neurocisticercose, originando formas clínicas primariamente espinhais.
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