Anti-ganglioside antibodies in patients with Zika virus infection-associated Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Brazil.

Zika virus infection is associated with the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a neurological autoimmune disorder caused by immune recognition of gangliosides and other components at nerve membranes. Using a high-throughput ELISA, we have analyzed the anti-glycolipid antibody profile, including gangliosides, of plasma samples from patients with Zika infections associated or not with GBS in Salvador, Brazil. We have observed that Zika patients that develop GBS present higher levels of anti-ganglioside antibodies when compared to Zika patients without GBS. We also observed that a broad repertoire of gangliosides was targeted by both IgM and IgG anti-self antibodies in these patients. Since Zika virus infects neurons, which contain membrane gangliosides, antigen presentation of these infected cells may trigger the observed autoimmune anti-ganglioside antibodies suggesting direct infection-induced autoantibodies as a cause leading to GBS development. Collectively, our results establish a link between anti-ganglioside antibodies and Zika-associated GBS in patients

A GESTÃO COMPARTILHADA NO SUAS: DESAFIOS PARA O ALCANCE DA UNIDADE NO COMANDO

Resumo O presente artigo busca apresentar as reflexões desenvolvidas por um coletivo de trabalhadores sobre os desafios enfrentados na gestão do órgão gestor e das unidades estatais, visando a efetivação da gestão compartilhada da Política de Assistência Social no município de Salto (SP). Para além das referências apontadas nos marcos legais do SUAS e na perspectiva de fortalecer e consolidar a identidade do SUAS municipal, buscou-se imputar uma nova cultura de gestão, horizontalizada e participativa entre os gestores, ampliando o escopo técnico-político no desenvolvimento de competências. Adotando estratégias diversificadas de educação permanente, fomentou-se o aprimoramento dos processos de articulação, corresponsabilidade e complementariedade entre a instância central, os CRAS e o CREAS. A abordagem em 2013 debateu as concepções prevalentes sobre a gestão compartilhada no SUAS. Em 2015, a reflexão pautou os instrumentos necessários à gestão com vistas a efetivação das ofertas socioassistenciais ao cidadão, tais como, os dados do orçamento, organização e leitura das informações

A Economia da República Velha,1889-1930

1. Preâmbulo: transição, legado e desafios 2. Do Encilhamento ao Funding Loan 3. O Convênio de Taubaté: a defesa do café e do câmbio 4. O desempenho da economia de 1889 a 1913 em perspectiva 5. A primeira Guerra Mundial, e os “choques adversos” 6. A reconstrução da normalidade nos anos 1920 7. A economia brasileira ao final da República Velha 8. Bibliografia

Contribution of the imaging methods in the evaluation of spondylolysis

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Departamento de Diagnóstico por ImagemUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)UNIFESP, Depto. de Diagnóstico por ImagemUNIFESPSciEL

Electron collisions with the HCOOH...(H2O)n (n=1, 2 and 3) complexes in liquid phase: the influence on the π* shape resonance of formic acid

In this conference we report cross sections for elastic collisions of low-energy electrons with the HCOOH…(H2O)n complexes, with n = 1, 2 and 3. The scattering cross sections were computed with the Schwinger multichannel method [K. Takatsuka and V. McKoy, Phys. Rev. A 24 , 2473 (1981); Phys. Rev. A 30 , 1734 (1984)] with pseudopotentials [M. H. F. Bettega, L. G. Ferreira, and M. A. P. Lima, Phys. Rev. A 47,\ud 1111 (1993)] in the static-exchange and static-exchange plus polarization approximations, for energies from 0.5 eV to 6 eV. We considered some diÆerent hydrogen-bonded structures for the complexes that were generated with classical Monte Carlo simulations [K. Coutinho and S. Canuto, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 9132, (2000)]. The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of the surrounding water molecules on the π* shape resonance of the solute. Previous theoretical and experimental studies carried out in the gas phase reported a π* state for HCOOH at around 1.9 eV. For the n = 1 case and for all complexes, the stabilization of the resonance was observed (it appears at lower energy compared to the value obtained in the gas phase), as reported previously for the CH2O…H2O complexes [T. C. Freitas, M. A. P. Lima, S. Canuto, and M. H. F. Bettega, Phys. Rev. A 80, 062710 (2009)]. This result indicates that the presence of the solvent may affect the processes related to the π* state, such as the molecular dissociation by electron impact. For the n = 2 case we have observed both stabilization and destabilization of the π* resonance, that is associated with the hydrogen bond donor or acceptor role of the water molecules in the complexes. For the n = 3 case, preliminary static-exchange results show the stabilization of the π* state. We propose an explanation of the stabilization/destabilization of the π* state in terms of the polarization of the solute due to the surrounding water molecules and the net charge in the solute.CNPqFINE

Field theories with anisotropic scaling in 2D, solitons and the microscopic entropy of asymptotically Lifshitz black holes

Field theories with anisotropic scaling in 1+1 dimensions are considered. It is shown that the isomorphism between Lifshitz algebras with dynamical exponents z and 1/z naturally leads to a duality between low and high temperature regimes. Assuming the existence of gap in the spectrum, this duality allows to obtain a precise formula for the asymptotic growth of the number of states with a fixed energy which depends on z and the energy of the ground state, and reduces to the Cardy formula for z=1. The holographic realization of the duality can be naturally inferred from the fact that Euclidean Lifshitz spaces in three dimensions with dynamical exponents and characteristic lengths given by z, l, and 1/z, l/z, respectively, are diffeomorphic. The semiclassical entropy of black holes with Lifshitz asymptotics can then be recovered from the generalization of Cardy formula, where the ground state corresponds to a soliton. An explicit example is provided by the existence of a purely gravitational soliton solution for BHT massive gravity, which precisely has the required energy that reproduces the entropy of the analytic asymptotically Lifshitz black hole with z=3. Remarkably, neither the asymptotic symmetries nor central charges were explicitly used in order to obtain these results.Comment: 17 pages, no figures, references corrected and update

Imaging evaluation of the ribs

UNIFESP Departamento de Diagnóstico por ImagemUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM)UNIFESP, Depto. de Diagnóstico por ImagemUNIFESP, EPMSciEL