Orientador: Elisabeth da Silva Gelli / Banca: Marilene Proença Rebello de Souza / Banca: João Batista Martins / Resumo: Para se estudar as relações raciais no Brasil é imprescindível reconhecer a construção social e histórica das etnias que formaram, e formam, a nação brasileira. Ter por objetivo conhecer a visão que a escola, a família, as crianças e a própria criança negra tem em ser negra é adentrar um espaço constituído numa sociedade na qual os dizeres sobre o negro são permeados por ideologias e saberes desprovidos de uma visão histórica do problema. Atualmente, a implantação das Ações Afirmativas no Brasil despertou discussões ao redor da polêmica de se reconhecer, ou não, a condição desigual a que se vê submetido o negro brasileiro. A escola, como um espaço da vida cotidiana, está permeada por conceitos e pré-conceitos, podendo tornar-se um espaço de manutenção do racismo. Tendo por orientação teórica a Psicologia Sócio-Histórica, essa pesquisa teve por objetivo conhecer a visão que se tem da criança negra no espaço escolar. Foram realizadas observações livres registradas em um diário de campo, segundo uma metodologia etnográfica, tendo por foco uma turma de 1ª. série do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública da Cidade de Londrina, estado do Paraná. A pesquisa compreendeu, também, um levantamento das principais leis que respaldam o anti-racismo no Brasil tendo por foco a educação. O que se pôde verificar, a partir das observações livres, foi um discurso que culpabiliza o negro por sua condição, corroborando a idéia de mito da democracia racial, assim como a busca por atingir um ideal estético branco devido ao mesmo estar associado a um ideal de caráter e beleza... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: To study the racial relations in Brazil is indispensable to recognize the social and historical from the ethnical constructions that were formed, and still are forming, the brazilian nation. To have as objective to know the opinion that the school, the family, the children and the afrodescending child have about being a afro-descending person is to get inside of a space constituted in a society where the words about the subject "being black" are full of ideologies and speechs without a historical vision of the problem. At present, the implementation of affirmative actions in Brazil brought discussions around the polemical subject about to recognize or not the disproportional condition that seems a afrodescending person is submitted in Brazil. The school, as a space of the routine life, is surrounded by conceptions and preconceptions, becoming this way possible the maintenance of the racism. Having as theoretical orientation the social-historical psychology, this research has as objective to know the vision that people have about the afro-brazilian infant at the school place. There were made free recorded observations in some sort of a field's diary, following an ethnographic methodology, having as focus a 1st grade's group of the public school's fundamental education of Londrina, a city that belong to the state of Paraná. The research agglomerates a selection of the main laws that uphold the anti-racism in Brazil, having as focus the education. What could be verified from the free observations was a speech that blames the afro-descending person by his condition, corroborating the idea of the racial democracy myth, such as the seek to reach a white esthetic ideal due to the fact that this last one is associated to a character and beauty ideal, despite of the most recent... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: José Corrêa de Lacerda Neto / Banca: Rosemeri de Oliveira Vasconcelos / Banca: Rafael Resende Faleiros / Resumo: Avaliou-se por meio de análises clínico-laboratoriais e morfológicas, a evolução cicatricial de dois segmentos distintos do cólon descendente. Os equinos foram alocados em um único grupo e submetidos a três fases experimentais: obstrução experimental (F I), seguida de 13 dias pós-operatórios; anastomose término-terminal (F II) e videolaparoscopia (F III), ambas seguidas, cada uma, de seis dias pós-operatórios. O segmento distendido (SD) foi submetido a 240 minutos de distensão intraluminal, com pressão de 40 mmHg. O segmento controle (SC) não sofreu distensão. Colheram-se amostras do cólon descendente antes da obstrução (M0), após a desobstrução (M1) e durante a anastomose (M2). Realizou-se exame clínico antes de cada cirurgia (M0a, M0b e M0) e nos dias pós-operatórios (M12a-M312a, M24b-M120b e M24-M120). A colheita de sangue foi realizada antes de cada cirurgia (M0a, M0b e M0), durante a obstrução (M2a-M4a) e nos respectivos momentos pós-operatórios (M6a-M240a, M24b- M120b e M24-M120). Dois animais foram a óbito, sendo um durante F I e outro na F II. Verificou-se que a as alterações morfológicas e morfométricas intestinais foram mais evidentes na camada serosa no M2, no SD e SC, com muita semelhança entre os dois segmentos. Não houve diferença (p>0,5) na quantidade de colágeno determinada histologicamente e dosagem espectrofotométrica de hidroxiprolina. Durante a F II e F III, três e dois equinos, respectivamente, apresentaram aderências intestinais. Foram observadas diferenças (p>0,5) nos parâmetros clínicos e hematológicos apenas durante F I e F II. Concluiu-se que os equinos submetidos à obstrução experimental apresentaram pior prognóstico em relação à enteroanastomose ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The healing progression of two distinct segments of equine descending colon was evaluated by clinical, laboratorial and morphological analysis. Horses were allocated in only one group and submitted to three following experimental stages: experimental obstruction (F I) followed by thirteen days of postoperative care; end-toend anastomosis (F II) and the videolaparoscopy (F III), both last stages followed by six days of postoperative care. The distended segment (DS) underwent 40 mmHg intraluminal distension pressure for 240 minutes long. The control segment (CS) didn't suffer any distension. Samples of the tissue of the descending colon was obtained before the obstruction (M0), after the desobstruction (M1) and during the anastomosis (M2). Clinical exam was done before each surgery (M0a, M0b and M0) and during the postoperative care days (M12a-M312a, M24b-M120b e M24-M120). Two animals died, one during F I and the other during F II. The intestinal morphological and morphometric changes were observed markedly on the serous layer on the M2 stage, on the DS and the CS, and it had similarity among the two segments. There was no difference (p>0,5) in the amount of collagen determined by histology and hydroxyproline spectrophotometric analysis. During F II and F III, three and two horses respectively, presented intestinal adhesions. Differences (p<0,5) in some of the clinical and hematological parameters were only observed during F I and F II. In conclusion, the horses that underwent experimental obstruction presented poor prognosis compared to the enteroanastomosis. The serialized clinical exams and the laboratory analyses provided good monitoring of the physiological immune responses during and after the intestinal obstruction or the anastomosis / Mestre

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OBJECTIVES The aim of this analysis was to assess the 7-year long-term safety and effectiveness of a randomized comparison of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) versus minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) surgery for the treatment of isolated proximal left anterior descending lesions. BACKGROUND Long-term follow-up data comparing PCI by SES and MIDCAB surgery for isolated proximal left anterior descending lesions are sparse. METHODS Patients were randomized either to PCI with SES (n ¼ 65) or MIDCAB (n ¼ 65). Follow-up data were obtained after 7 years with respect to the primary composite endpoint of death, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revas- cularization. Angina was assessed by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society classification and quality of life with Short Form 36 and MacNew quality of life questionnaires. RESULTS Follow-up was conducted in 129 patients at a median time of 7.3 years (interquartile range: 5.7, 8.3). There were no significant differences in the incidence of the primary composite endpoint between groups (22% PCI vs. 12% MIDCAB; p ¼ 0.17) or the endpoints death (14% vs. 17%; p ¼ 0.81) and myocardial infarction (6% vs. 9%, p ¼ 0.74). However, the target vessel revascularization rate was higher in the PCI group (20% vs. 1.5%; p < 0.001). Clinical symptoms and quality of life improved significantly from baseline with both interventions and were similar in magnitude between groups. CONCLUSIONS At 7-year follow-up, PCI by SES and MIDCAB in isolated proximal left anterior descending lesions yielded similar long-term outcomes regarding the primary composite clinical endpoint and quality of life. Target vessel revascularization was more frequent in the PCI group. (Randomied Comparison of Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Drug-Eluting Stents in Patients With Proximal Stenosis of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery; NCT00299429) (J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2014;-:-–-) © 2014 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.

Although the drug-eluting stent (DES) has dramatically reduced the rate of coronary restenosis, it still occurs in up to 20% of patients with a DES. Monitoring drug delivery could be one way to decrease restenosis rates. We demonstrate real-time photoacoustic imaging and spectroscopy (PAIS) using a wavelength-tunable visible laser and clinical ultrasound scanner to track cardiac drug delivery. The photoacoustic signal was initially calibrated using porcine myocardial samples soaked with a known concentration of a drug surrogate (Dil). Next, an in situ coronary artery was perfused with DiI for 20 min and imaged to monitor dye transport in the tissue. Finally, a partially DiI-coated stent was inserted into the porcine brachiocephalic trunk for imaging. The photoacoustic signal was proportional to the DiI concentration between 2.4 and 120 mu g/ml, and the dye was detected over 1.5 mm from the targeted coronary vessel. Photoacoustic imaging was also able to differentiate the DiI-coated portion of the stent from the uncoated region. These results suggest that PAIS can track drug delivery to cardiac tissue and detect drugs loaded onto a stent with sub-mm precision. Future work using PAIS may help improve DES design and reduce the probability of restenosis. (C) 2017 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

Lors de la locomotion, la commande rythmique envoyée aux muscles des membres est organisée de manière spatiale et temporelle par les générateurs centraux du patron locomoteur (CPGs) localisés dans la moelle épinière. Ces derniers sont sous le contrôle des centres supraspinaux impliqués dans l'aspect motivationnel du comportement locomoteur dont l’activité est constamment modulée par des afférences sensorielles afin de permettre d'adapter les mouvements aux changements environnementaux. L’objectif majeur de mon travail doctoral était d’explorer les mécanismes des interactions dynamiques entre (1) les centres supraspinaux, (2) les CPGs et (3) les afférences sensorielles dans le contrôle de la locomotion chez le rat nouveau-né intact et spino-lésé. En nous appuyant sur le modèle de préparation de tronc cérébral / moelle épinière isolée in vitro, nous avons montré que la manipulation de l’organisation temporelle de la commande locomotrice en provenance de la formation réticulée (située dans le tronc cérébral) est efficace pour ajuster finement l’activité des CPGs locomoteurs. Nous avons ensuite mis en lumière l’importance des voies descendantes sérotonergiques dans l’intégration de l’information sensorielle par les CPGs locomoteurs durant la première semaine postnatale. Enfin, en combinant des approches comportementales, neurochimiques et électrophysiologiques, nous avons mis en évidence des effets différents mais complémentaires des neuromodulateurs monoaminergiques (sérotonine, dopamine et noradrénaline) dans la réexpression du comportement locomoteur après une lésion spinale. Notre travail ouvre de belles perspectives pour la compréhension du contrôle afférent de la moelle épinière, à la fois dans un contexte non-pathologique et après un traumatisme médullaire. / Located within the spinal cord, the locomotor central pattern generators (CPGs) organize the rhythmical activation of limb muscles according to specific gait pattern requirements. These CPGs are under the control of supraspinal centers that are involved in the motivational aspect of locomotor behavior, and their activity is constantly modulated by sensory inputs to adapt the locomotor activities to environmental changes. The aim of my doctoral work was to further understand the dynamic interactions between (1) the supraspinal centers, (2) the CPGs and (3) the sensory inputs in both healthy and spinalized newborn rats. Using the isolated brainstem / spinal cord preparation as an in vitro experimental model, we first showed that manipulating the periodicity and the relative durations of left and right descending reticulospinal commands at the brainstem level is efficient to set the locomotor speed and sustain directional changes. We next established the interaction between the descending serotonergic pathways and sensory feedback to shape the spinal locomotor outputs during the first postnatal week. Finally, by combining behavioral, neurochemical and electrophysiological techniques, we showed different but complementary effects of monoaminergic neuromodulators (serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine) in the expression of locomotor behavior after a spinal cord injury. Our work brings additional data to better understand the afferent control of locomotor spinal CPGs in healthy and spinalized newborn rats.

Non invasive in vivo imaging will lead to better understanding of Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor’s (AT1R) role in disease progression and may guide therapy in cardiovascular patients. Two models were used in this project: 5/6 nephrectomy and transient left anterior descending (LAD) ligation. Rats were scanned with [13N]ammonia and [11C]methyl-candesartan, both of which are Positron Emission Tomography (PET) tracers, at 8 weeks (nephrectomy) and 2 weeks (LAD ligation) after surgery. Western blot analysis was used to corroborate PET data. Nephrectomy: Renal AT1R image analysis displayed a 40% decrease in kidney AT1R in nephrectomized animals compared to sham (p<0.05) which was confirmed with Western blot and biodistribution. LAD ligation: Left Ventricle AT1R Western blot analysis exhibited a 60% increase in 20min ligation (p<0.05) with maintained myocardial blood flow. In conclusion, changes in renal AT1R were successfully imaged using [11C]methyl-candesartan in nephrectomized animals, and 20min LAD ligation/reperfusion is an appropriate model to image an increase in cardiac AT1R following ischemic injury.

Non invasive in vivo imaging will lead to better understanding of Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor’s (AT1R) role in disease progression and may guide therapy in cardiovascular patients. Two models were used in this project: 5/6 nephrectomy and transient left anterior descending (LAD) ligation. Rats were scanned with [13N]ammonia and [11C]methyl-candesartan, both of which are Positron Emission Tomography (PET) tracers, at 8 weeks (nephrectomy) and 2 weeks (LAD ligation) after surgery. Western blot analysis was used to corroborate PET data. Nephrectomy: Renal AT1R image analysis displayed a 40% decrease in kidney AT1R in nephrectomized animals compared to sham (p<0.05) which was confirmed with Western blot and biodistribution. LAD ligation: Left Ventricle AT1R Western blot analysis exhibited a 60% increase in 20min ligation (p<0.05) with maintained myocardial blood flow. In conclusion, changes in renal AT1R were successfully imaged using [11C]methyl-candesartan in nephrectomized animals, and 20min LAD ligation/reperfusion is an appropriate model to image an increase in cardiac AT1R following ischemic injury.

Non invasive in vivo imaging will lead to better understanding of Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor’s (AT1R) role in disease progression and may guide therapy in cardiovascular patients. Two models were used in this project: 5/6 nephrectomy and transient left anterior descending (LAD) ligation. Rats were scanned with [13N]ammonia and [11C]methyl-candesartan, both of which are Positron Emission Tomography (PET) tracers, at 8 weeks (nephrectomy) and 2 weeks (LAD ligation) after surgery. Western blot analysis was used to corroborate PET data. Nephrectomy: Renal AT1R image analysis displayed a 40% decrease in kidney AT1R in nephrectomized animals compared to sham (p<0.05) which was confirmed with Western blot and biodistribution. LAD ligation: Left Ventricle AT1R Western blot analysis exhibited a 60% increase in 20min ligation (p<0.05) with maintained myocardial blood flow. In conclusion, changes in renal AT1R were successfully imaged using [11C]methyl-candesartan in nephrectomized animals, and 20min LAD ligation/reperfusion is an appropriate model to image an increase in cardiac AT1R following ischemic injury.