Due to the inevitable reality that most patients diagnosed with cancer will eventually relapse, modern oncology research has been forced to tackle this outcome primitively using combination therapies. Adoptive T-cell transfer with Oncolytic Virus Vaccination represents a new class of combination therapies that can facilitate the crosstalk of multiple aspects of the immune system such that they work in concert to prevent this outcome for many types of cancer. Despite this, immunosuppressive systems like those characterized in the B16F10-gp33 melanoma model pose a new problem for this approach. Typically, this model has total regression but is subsequently followed by relapse. Previous work from the Wan lab has suggested that this may be an outcome of total target gene deletion. Here we present two approaches to tackle this through the targeting of DNA repair pathways of the host cell. Our data can show that both VSV and Vaccinia infection/ propagation does lead to the generation of DNA damage but in the case of VSV this leads to incomplete cell lysis, and ultimately target gene loss via double-stranded DNA repair mechanisms. We were able to tackle the phenomenon following VSV administration by adding DNA repair inhibitors to the mix and showed that the proportion of cells that escaped after the loss of the target antigen was decreased by half when compared to the standard procedures. Additionally, this work also gave a preliminary understanding of how Vaccinia may achieve a similar outcome to this via its unique cytoplasmic replication mechanisms. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

English abstract The use of propaganda and methods of governing and regulation of the regional press in Czechoslovakia during 1948-1956 (using the example of the guidelines of KV and OV KSČ and the region around Liberec) The presented study follows the development of censorship and the methods of media and press control in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to1953, and in particular during 1956. This study focuses mainly on the methods and processes used by the Czechoslovak Communist Party to dominate the media and how it concentrated namely on the relationship between local and regional media and the centralized governance under the powerful influence of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. After February of 1948, the mass media in Czechoslovakia took on a different role than the one it had up until that time. Even so, up until 1953, there was no official censorship office and the media fell under the jurisdiction of the Party apparatus, or alternately under the Ministries of Education, Science and Arts or Information, which accordingly managed and influenced media content. However, it was still under the curatorship of the UV Czechoslovak Communist Party, as the following work will show. As will also be shown, after February of 1948 the Communist Party was unable to gain influence over society at various levels and...

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-02-03T20:17:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseEdvanDeSouzaJunior_TESE.pdf: 4464573 bytes, checksum: 5324301dc91ae3b1ebc14996e9c4b9df (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-02-03T23:28:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseEdvanDeSouzaJunior_TESE.pdf: 4464573 bytes, checksum: 5324301dc91ae3b1ebc14996e9c4b9df (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-03T23:28:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseEdvanDeSouzaJunior_TESE.pdf: 4464573 bytes, checksum: 5324301dc91ae3b1ebc14996e9c4b9df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-12 / Objetivos: Estimar a preval?ncia de altera??es do filme lacrimal e da doen?a do olho seco (DOS), comparar as mudan?as na press?o intraocular (PIO) e comparar as espessuras macular e da camada de fibras nervosas da retina (CFNR), entre mulheres com s?ndrome dos ov?rios polic?sticos (SOP) e mulheres saud?veis, estratificando-as em condi??es cl?nicas, metab?licas e inflamat?rias. Metodologia: O estudo incluiu 45 mulheres com SOP e 47 mulheres saud?veis ovulat?rias submetidas a avalia??es cl?nico-ginecol?gicas e oftalmol?gicas, incluindo proped?uticas para a avalia??o do filme lacrimal e medida da PIO, e medi??o da espessura macular, da CFNR e par?metros do disco ?ptico usando tomografia de coer?ncia ?ptica. Resultados: Tempo de ruptura do filme lacrimal (TRFL; p=0.001) e impregna??o por fluoresce?na (p=0.006) apresentaram diferen?as estatisticamente significantes entre os grupos estudados. A preval?ncia de DOS foi de 44,4% nas portadoras de SOP. Houve redu??o estatisticamente significativa do TRFL na presen?a de SOP (p=0.001). Al?m disso, houve efeito estatisticamente significativo de intoler?ncia ? glicose e s?ndrome metab?lica/inflama??o na impregna??o por fluoresceina (p=0.004; p=0.015, respectivamente). A PIO encontrou-se estatisticamente mais elevada no grupo SOP que no grupo controle (p=0.011). Houve um aumento na m?dia do IPC (?ndice press?o-c?rnea) com a associa??o entre SOP e da s?ndrome metab?lica (p = 0.005); A m?dia da espessura da CNFR superior ao redor do nervo ?ptico foi estatisticamente mais espessa nas volunt?rias com SOP que nas volunt?rias saud?veis (p=0.036); Ap?s estratifica??o pela presen?a de resist?ncia insul?nica, as m?dias dos subcampos das espessuras maculares ?macular interno temporal, macular interno inferior, macular interno nasal e macular externo nasal, foram mais espessas no grupo SOP que no grupo controle (p<0.05); Houve associa??o significativa entre obesidade e resist?ncia insul?nica (p=0.037), e intoler?ncia ? glicose (p=0.001), com aumento m?dio do componente principal 1 (CP1), e, na presen?a de s?ndrome metab?lica (p<0.0001), com aumento m?dio do componente principal 2 (CP2), respectivamente, em rela??o ? espessura macular total. Na presen?a de obesidade e inflama??o, houve redu??o no escore m?dio da CP2 (p=0.034), em rela??o ? espessura da CFNR na m?cula. xviii Conclus?es: H? uma associa??o da SOP, suas altera??es metab?licas e inflamat?rias com altera??es do filme lacrimal e com mudan?as na PIO. A diminui??o na espessura da CFNR macular e aumento da espessura total macular est?o possivelmente associadas ?s altera??es metab?licas, e, o aumento na espessura da CFNR ao redor do nervo ?ptico est?o provavelmente associadas ?s altera??es hormonais, inerentes ? SOP.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-02-29T23:04:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 IsabelleRibeiroBarbosa_TESE.pdf: 2469240 bytes, checksum: 9250242c7a43a110081c54313058a7b6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-02T20:25:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 IsabelleRibeiroBarbosa_TESE.pdf: 2469240 bytes, checksum: 9250242c7a43a110081c54313058a7b6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T20:25:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IsabelleRibeiroBarbosa_TESE.pdf: 2469240 bytes, checksum: 9250242c7a43a110081c54313058a7b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-30 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico - CNPq / Os c?nceres que acometem os ?rg?os genitais masculinos e femininos, em conjunto com o c?ncer de mama, s?o respons?veis por cerca de 20% dos ?bitos por c?ncer no mundo. Conhecer os padr?es de mortalidade por esses c?nceres no Brasil, as mudan?as que se produziram ao longo do tempo, os grupos mais vulner?veis e a carga de mortalidade que se apresentar? no futuro s?o elementos b?sicos para a estrutura??o das a??es assistenciais e de vigil?ncia do c?ncer. O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar as tend?ncias de mortalidade pelos c?nceres que acometem ?rg?os que s?o espec?ficos a cada g?nero e projetar a mortalidade por esses c?nceres at? o ano de 2030, para o Brasil, regi?es e estados da federa??o. Trata-se de um estudo ecol?gico de base populacional que analisou os ?bitos, ocorridos no per?odo 1996 a 2010, decorrentes dos c?nceres de colo do ?tero, corpo do ?tero, mama feminina, ov?rios, vulva, vagina, pr?stata, p?nis e test?culos, registrados no Sistema de Informa??o sobre Mortalidade; as informa??es sobre popula??o foram obtidas do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estat?stica. Foi aplicada a Regress?o loglineal (Joinpoint regression) com taxas padronizadas (popula??o mundial: ASR-W) para estimar o Annual Percentage Change (APC), o Average Annual Percentage Change (AAPC), o intervalo de confian?a 95% e os pontos de inflex?o da curva; as proje??es foram calculadas atrav?s do programa Nordpred, inscrito no programa R, utilizando o modelo idade-per?odo-coorte, analisando posteriormente se as mudan?as que se produzir?o no futuro ser?o decorrentes da exposi??o aos fatores de risco e/ou da estrutura da popula??o exposta ao risco. Todas as an?lises tamb?m foram aplicadas para o conjunto de todos os ?bitos por c?ncer (com exce??o dos c?nceres de pele n?o-melanoma). Para o Brasil, a mortalidade pelos c?nceres de p?nis (APC=1,5% IC95% 0,7;2,3 p<0,05), test?culos (APC=1,6% IC95% 0,5;2,8 p<0,05) e ov?rios (APC=0,8% IC95% 0,1; 1,5 p<0,05), mostraram tend?ncia de aumento, enquanto os c?nceres de vulva e vagina (APC=-0,1% IC95% -0,9; 0,7 p=0,8), corpo de ?tero (APC= -0,3 IC95% -1,0; 0,5 p=0,4), mama (APC=0,4% IC95% -0,2;1,0 p=0,2) e de pr?stata (AAPC= 1,1% IC95% -0,2; 2,4 p=0,1) apresentaram tend?ncia de estabilidade. A mortalidade por c?ncer de colo de ?tero apresentou tend?ncia de redu??o (APC=-1,7% IC95%-2,2; -1,1 p<0,05). A an?lise do agrupamento de todos os ?bitos por c?ncer observou tend?ncia de aumento na mortalidade para o sexo masculino at? o ano de 2006 (APC= 1,2% IC95% 0,6;1,8 p<0,01), seguido de um per?odo de estabilidade. Para o sexo feminino, a tend?ncia ? de estabilidade (APC=0,4% IC95% -0,2;-1,8 p=0,2). As taxas de mortalidade para todos os c?nceres analisados mostraram, de maneira geral, tend?ncia de redu??o nas regi?es sul e sudeste, tend?ncia de aumento nas regi?es norte e nordeste, e estabilidade para a regi?o centro oeste. Na proje??o da mortalidade para o ano 2030, as regi?es norte e nordeste responder?o pelas maiores taxas de mortalidade para os c?nceres analisados; todavia, para as demais regi?es, ser? observada redu??o nas taxas em compara??o com o ?ltimo per?odo observado. Destacase o c?ncer de test?culo, para o qual ser? observado aumento de 33% na carga da mortalidade at? o ano 2030. Para os demais c?nceres, n?o ser?o observadas varia??es consider?veis nas taxas de mortalidade para o Brasil entre o ?ltimo per?odo observado e o ?ltimo per?odo projetado. A estrutura e o tamanho da popula??o brasileira ser?o os fatores que explicar?o os padr?es de mortalidade por esses c?nceres no futuro, embora para a regi?o nordeste, as varia??es ser?o explicadas, em maior medida, pelo aumento do risco para esses c?nceres. Conclui-se, portanto, que existe uma marcante desigualdade na distribui??o da mortalidade pelos c?nceres espec?ficos ao g?nero no Brasil, onde as regi?es mais pobres apresentam um quadro de aumento significativo do n?mero de ?bitos ao longo de uma s?rie hist?rica, e que em 2030, essas regi?es responder?o pelas maiores taxas de mortalidade no pa?s, com ?nfase para os c?nceres de p?nis, test?culos e ov?rios.

<p>Doktorska disertacija je posvećena primeni teorije polugrupa operatora na re&scaron;avanje dve klase Cauchy-jevih početnih problema. U prvom delu smo<br />ispitivali parabolične stohastičke parcijalne diferencijalne jednačine (SPDJ-ne), odredjene sa dva tipa operatora: linearnim zatvorenim operatorom koji<br />generi&scaron;e <em>C</em>₀&minus;polugrupu i linearnim ograničenim operatorom kombinovanim<br />sa Wick-ovim proizvodom. Svi stohastički procesi su dati Wiener-It&ocirc;-ovom<br />haos ekspanzijom. Dokazali smo postojanje i jedinstvenost re&scaron;enja ove klase<br />SPDJ-na. Posebno, posmatrali smo i stacionarni slučaj kada je izvod po<br />vremenu jednak nuli. U drugom delu smo konstruisali kompleksne stepene<br /><em>C</em>-sektorijalnih operatora na sekvencijalno kompletnim lokalno konveksnim<br />prostorima. Kompleksne stepene operatora smo posmatrali kao integralne<br />generatore uniformno ograničenih analitičkih <em>C</em>-regularizovanih rezolventnih<br />familija, i upotrebili dobijene rezultate na izučavanje nepotpunih Cauchy-jevih problema vi&scaron;3eg ili necelog reda.</p> / <p>The doctoral dissertation is devoted to applications of the theory<br />of semigroups of operators on two classes of Cauchy problems. In the first<br />part, we studied parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs),<br />driven by two types of operators: one linear closed operator generating a<br /><em>C</em>₀&minus;semigroup and one linear bounded operator with Wick-type multipli-cation. All stochastic processes are considered in the setting of Wiener-It&ocirc;<br />chaos expansions. We proved existence and uniqueness of solutions for this<br />class of SPDEs. In particular, we also treated the stationary case when the<br />time-derivative is equal to zero. In the second part, we constructed com-plex powers of <em>C</em>&minus;sectorial operators in the setting of sequentially complete<br />locally convex spaces. We considered these complex powers as the integral<br />generators of equicontinuous analytic <em>C</em>&minus;regularized resolvent families, and<br />incorporated the obtained results in the study of incomplete higher or frac-tional order Cauchy problems.</p>

El uso de la Realidad Virtual dentro del campo de la Rehabilitaci on Motora en pacientes con Da~no Cerebral Adquirido (DCA) es un hecho cient camente contrastado en los ultimos a~nos. Los prometedores y satisfactorios resultados que se est an obteniendo en esta l nea de investigaci on (tanto a nivel cognitivo, como a nivel motor), en conjunci on con los procesos terap euticos tradicionales, proporcionan el auge de un nuevo hito dentro de la rehabilitaci on tradicional conocido como Virtual Motor Rehabilitation cuyo acr onimo es (VMR), describi endolo como Rehabilitaci on Virtual Motora (RVM). Hoy en d a, el Da~no Cerebral Adquirido es uno de los principales problemas de discapacidad y muerte en el mundo, donde las metodolog as propuestas dentro del campo de la rehabilitaci on tradicional, proporcionan resultados prometedores y esperanzadores. No obstante, este tipo de terapias presentan inconvenientes como son la falta de motivaci on del paciente, que lleva a una limitada adherencia al tratamiento, o las limitaciones de tiempo, espacio o coste que surgen en el proceso rehabilitador. Tradicionalmente, los principales experimentos realizados dentro del campo de la Rehabilitaci on Motora, se han realizado en pacientes DCA post-agudos y agudos, con escasas publicaciones basadas en el proceso rehabilitador motor de pacientes DCA cr onicos. En la presente tesis se han desarrollado sistemas de Rehabilitaci on Virtual para que, gracias al uso de dispositivos de bajo coste y las aportaciones obtenidas por los especialistas cl nicos, se haya validado la hip otesis: Mediante t ecnicas de rehabilitaci on virtual es posible obtener en pacientes cr onicos una recuperaci on del equilibrio estad sticamente signi- cativa, y similar a la que es posible obtener en pacientes agudos. Los experimentos realizados en el proceso rehabilitador, junto con las validaciones cl nicas realizadas en el Hospital Valencia al Mar, y el Instituto Valenciano de la Discapacidad, han servido para obtener unos resultados contrastables y satisfactorios, que corroboran la hip otesis de trabajo planteada. / Albiol Pérez, S. (2014). Rehabilitación Virtual Motora: una Evaluación al tratamiento de pacientes con Daño Cerebral Adquirido [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/38450 / TESIS

<p>&nbsp;У оквиру ове докторске дисертације испитан је хемијски састав и биолошке активности ЕtOH, H₂Oи CHCl_3&nbsp; екстраката четири врсте гљива рода<em> Ganoderma</em>&nbsp; (Basidiomycota):&nbsp;<em> G. applanatum,&nbsp; G. lucidum,G. pfeifferi,&nbsp; G. resinaceum</em>&nbsp; са територије Војводине.Хемијски састав анализираних врста је одређен<br />применом: ААЅ методе (састав макро-&nbsp; имикроелемената у сувим остацима гљива) и LC-MS/MS технике (квантитативни састав фенолних једињења и флавоноида) при чему је детектовано 12 једињења. Спектрофотометријским методама је одређен садржај протеина, шећера, укупних фенола и флавоноида, код којих је највећи садржај протеина утврђен за ЕtOH екстракте&nbsp;<em> G. applanatum&nbsp; </em>и&nbsp; <em>G. pfeifferi</em>. Испитивања биолошких активности екстраката обухватила су: одређивање<span id="cke_bm_779S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><em>&nbsp; in vitro</em><span id="cke_bm_779E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp; и&nbsp;<em> in vivo</em> антиоксидантне, антимикробне, антиинфламаторне, антипролиферативне и антијабето<span id="cke_bm_780E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>гене&nbsp;&nbsp; aктивности.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Антиоксидантна активност (способност неутрализације слободних радикала и редукциони потенцијал) је одређена спектрофотометријским методама, при којој су најбољу активност остварили Н₂О екстракти&nbsp;<em> G</em>. <em>applanatum.</em> Антимикробнa активност&nbsp; анализираних екстраката одређена је испитивањем антибактеријског, антифунгалног и антивиралног потенцијала где се издвојила<em> G. pfeifferi</em> врста. Антиинфламаторни потенцијал EtOH и&nbsp; CHCl₃екстраката одређен је<em>&nbsp; ex vivo&nbsp;</em> методом мерењем способности инхибиције продукције медијатора инфламације&nbsp; (продукти&nbsp; метаболизма арахидонске киселине) при којој су бољу активност испољили CHCl₃ екстракти.</p><p>Ефекат EtOH и H₂O екстраката врста рода Ganoderma&nbsp;&nbsp; на раст MCF ћелијске линије испитан је MTT тестом, а посебно су се издвојили&nbsp; EtOH&nbsp; екстракти врста после 72h.</p><p>Остварена антидијабетогена активност EtOH и Н₂О екстраката врста&nbsp; <span id="cke_bm_795S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><em>G. pfeifferi&nbsp; </em><span id="cke_bm_795E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>и&nbsp;<em> G. resinaceum</em>&nbsp; код алоксан-индукованог&nbsp;<em> D. mell<span id="cke_bm_796E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>itus-a&nbsp;</em> на&nbsp; експерименталним&nbsp; животињама&nbsp; праћена je регенерацијом&nbsp; &szlig;- ћелија&nbsp; Лангерхансових острваца панкреаса. Као потенцијални нефро-&nbsp; и&nbsp; хепатопротективни агенси се издвајају екстракти<em>&nbsp; G. resinaceum.</em></p><p>Сумарно, укупни биопотенцијал анализираних врста рода&nbsp; Ganoderma&nbsp; на основу спроведених анализа хемијске&nbsp;&nbsp; kарактеризације и биолошке активности упућује&nbsp; на&nbsp; могућност њихове потенцијалне примене као нутрацеутика и додатака исхрани, у будућности уз неопходност додатних микохемијских истраживања ових врста, посебно терпеноида и полисахарида, као и других биолошких активности као што је неуропротективна.</p> / <p>&nbsp;U okviru ove doktorske disertacije ispitan je hemijski sastav i biološke aktivnosti EtOH, H₂Oi CHCl_3&nbsp; ekstrakata četiri vrste gljiva roda<em> Ganoderma</em>&nbsp; (Basidiomycota):&nbsp;<em> G. applanatum,&nbsp; G. lucidum,G. pfeifferi,&nbsp; G. resinaceum</em>&nbsp; sa teritorije Vojvodine.Hemijski sastav analiziranih vrsta je određen<br />primenom: AAЅ metode (sastav makro-&nbsp; imikroelemenata u suvim ostacima gljiva) i LC-MS/MS tehnike (kvantitativni sastav fenolnih jedinjenja i flavonoida) pri čemu je detektovano 12 jedinjenja. Spektrofotometrijskim metodama je određen sadržaj proteina, šećera, ukupnih fenola i flavonoida, kod kojih je najveći sadržaj proteina utvrđen za EtOH ekstrakte&nbsp;<em> G. applanatum&nbsp; </em>i&nbsp; <em>G. pfeifferi</em>. Ispitivanja bioloških aktivnosti ekstrakata obuhvatila su: određivanje<span id="cke_bm_779S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><em>&nbsp; in vitro</em><span id="cke_bm_779E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp; i&nbsp;<em> in vivo</em> antioksidantne, antimikrobne, antiinflamatorne, antiproliferativne i antijabeto<span id="cke_bm_780E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>gene&nbsp;&nbsp; aktivnosti.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Antioksidantna aktivnost (sposobnost neutralizacije slobodnih radikala i redukcioni potencijal) je određena spektrofotometrijskim metodama, pri kojoj su najbolju aktivnost ostvarili N₂O ekstrakti&nbsp;<em> G</em>. <em>applanatum.</em> Antimikrobna aktivnost&nbsp; analiziranih ekstrakata određena je ispitivanjem antibakterijskog, antifungalnog i antiviralnog potencijala gde se izdvojila<em> G. pfeifferi</em> vrsta. Antiinflamatorni potencijal EtOH i&nbsp; CHCl₃ekstrakata određen je<em>&nbsp; ex vivo&nbsp;</em> metodom merenjem sposobnosti inhibicije produkcije medijatora inflamacije&nbsp; (produkti&nbsp; metabolizma arahidonske kiseline) pri kojoj su bolju aktivnost ispoljili CHCl₃ ekstrakti.</p><p>Efekat EtOH i H₂O ekstrakata vrsta roda Ganoderma&nbsp;&nbsp; na rast MCF ćelijske linije ispitan je MTT testom, a posebno su se izdvojili&nbsp; EtOH&nbsp; ekstrakti vrsta posle 72h.</p><p>Ostvarena antidijabetogena aktivnost EtOH i N₂O ekstrakata vrsta&nbsp; <span id="cke_bm_795S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><em>G. pfeifferi&nbsp; </em><span id="cke_bm_795E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>i&nbsp;<em> G. resinaceum</em>&nbsp; kod aloksan-indukovanog&nbsp;<em> D. mell<span id="cke_bm_796E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>itus-a&nbsp;</em> na&nbsp; eksperimentalnim&nbsp; životinjama&nbsp; praćena je regeneracijom&nbsp; &szlig;- ćelija&nbsp; Langerhansovih ostrvaca pankreasa. Kao potencijalni nefro-&nbsp; i&nbsp; hepatoprotektivni agensi se izdvajaju ekstrakti<em>&nbsp; G. resinaceum.</em></p><p>Sumarno, ukupni biopotencijal analiziranih vrsta roda&nbsp; Ganoderma&nbsp; na osnovu sprovedenih analiza hemijske&nbsp;&nbsp; karakterizacije i biološke aktivnosti upućuje&nbsp; na&nbsp; mogućnost njihove potencijalne primene kao nutraceutika i dodataka ishrani, u budućnosti uz neophodnost dodatnih mikohemijskih istraživanja ovih vrsta, posebno terpenoida i polisaharida, kao i drugih bioloških aktivnosti kao što je neuroprotektivna.</p> / <p>Whitin this doctoral thesis the chemical composition and biological activity of EtOH, H<span id="cke_bm_699S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>₂<span id="cke_bm_699E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>O and CHCl₃extracts of four fungal species which belong to genus<em> Ganoderma&nbsp;</em> (phylum Basidiomycota)<span id="cke_bm_700E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>:&nbsp;<em> G. applanatum,&nbsp; G. lucidum,&nbsp; G. pfeifferi,&nbsp; G. resinaceum</em>&nbsp; were determinated. The samples were collected from different localities in Vojvodina. Chemical characterization included: AAS methods (compositon of macro- and&nbsp; microelements in d.w. of fungi) and LC-MS/MS technique (quantitative analysis of phenolic compounds and flavonoids) wherein the 12 selected phenolic compounds were detected. The total proteins, sugars, phenolics and flavonoids content were&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; determined using spectrophotometric methods. The highest protein content was determined in EtOH extracts of<span id="cke_bm_707S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><em> G. applanatum&nbsp; </em><span id="cke_bm_707E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>and <em>G. pfeifferi</em>&nbsp; species. In order to assess the biological potential, the in vitro&nbsp; and in vivo antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative and antidiabetic activities of the extracts were investigated.<span id="cke_bm_708E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; The antioxidant activity (the ability of neutralizing free radicals and reduction potential) estimated byspectrophotometric methods. The highest&nbsp;&nbsp; antioxidant potential was noticed in H₂O extracts of&nbsp; <em>G. applanatum.</em> Evaluation of antimicrobial activity included the estimation of antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activity, whereby the&nbsp; species&nbsp;<em> G. pfeifferi&nbsp;</em> showed the highest potential The anti-inflammatory activity of EtOH and&nbsp; CHCl₃&nbsp; extracts was determined by&nbsp; ex vivo&nbsp; method measuring the ability of production inhibition of inflammation mediators&nbsp; (products of arachidonic acid metabolism), where the CHCl₃&nbsp; extracts were exhibited better activity.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; The effect of EtOH and H₂O extracts of<em>&nbsp; Ganoderma</em> species on the growth of the cell line MCF-7, has been examined using MTT assay (stand out ethanolic extracts of analyzed species after 72h incubation period).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; Achieved antidiabetic activity of EtOH and H₂O extracts o<em>f<span id="cke_bm_725S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span> G. pfeifferi<span id="cke_bm_725E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp; </em>an<em>d G. resinaceum</em>&nbsp; at alloxan-i<span id="cke_bm_726E" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>nduced D. mellitus in experimental animals was followed by regeneration of&nbsp; cells of Langerhans pancreatic islets. Extracts of&nbsp;<em> G.&nbsp;&nbsp; resinaceum&nbsp;</em> were allocated as a potential nephro- and&nbsp; hepatoprotective agents.<br />In summary, the overall biological potential of the analyzed species of the genus&nbsp; <em>Ganoderma</em>&nbsp; based on results for chemical and biological characterization indicate that they could be used&nbsp; as a nutraceuticals and food supplements in the future, with further the necessity of additional mycochemical investigation (especially terpenoids and polysaccharides) and other biological activity such as neuroprotective.</p>