Programa de Pós-Graduação em Doenças Tropicais - PPGDT/NMT
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O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Doenças Tropicais (PPGDT) integra o Núcleo de Medicina Tropical (NMT) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), realizando atividades de ensino, pesquisa e extensão e atuando na formação de docentes-pesquisadores para o estudo e o ensino das doenças tropicais e das patologias regionais no estado do Pará e na Amazônia.
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Tese Acesso aberto (Open Access) Caracterização da resposta imune citocínica na infecção humana pelo vírus oropouche e sua relação com o padrão de soroconversão e a presença de sintomas(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-12-19) OLIVEIRA, Euzébio de; VASCONCELOS, Pedro Fernando da Costa; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0973550817356564This thesis is the first global study that researches and analyzes the immune response of cytokine in human infections by Orthobunyavirus Oropuche virus. The study used 320 samples of human serum. Sixty were from the Blood Bank (negative control) and 260 were obtained from two outbreaks of the Oropouche virus in the State of Pará and Amapá (Brazil). The latter was divided into 8 subgroups for better data accuracy. The collected samples were analyzed for clinical data/symptoms with serologic testing by titration of antibodies by the hemagglutination inhibition (IgM/IgG) and the detection cytokines plasma levels by flow cytometry. This allowed for the technical description of cytokine. The data obtained allowed for the observation of the characteristics and the behavior of the cytokines signatures expressed by patients by the presence or not of the virus. This also allowed for the observation of changes to serum through the presence of specific symptoms such as fever, chills, headache and dizziness. This led to the following conclusions a) there is a pattern in the synthesis of pro-inflammatory and regulatory cytokines; b) there is a balance in the profile of the immune response between pro-inflammatory cytokines (Th1) and modulators (Th17); c) an infection by the Oropouche virus alters the production of cytokines in individuals; d) the results also show that whem comparing individuals no responders with early responders, there was an increase of IL-1β and decreased IL- 12; no responders with late responders, there was a decrease of IL-8, and increased IFN-α, IL-23 and IL-17; No responders occurred early responders compared with the increase IL-4 and IFN-g; However, when compared early responders and late responders, decreased IFN-α and IL-6; early responders generally showed a decrease in IL-10 and late responders showed an increase in IL-5; e) The results also show the expression of IL-5 in patients who showed symptoms specific for Oropouche infection (fever, chills, headache and dizziness), suggesting this signal to be directly associated with pathogenesis of the virus; f) there is a need to complement this research with more studies such as those related to the expression of chemokines.Dissertação Acesso aberto (Open Access) Determinação de mefloquina e carboximefloquina em pacientes com malária por plasmodium falciparum no estado do Amapá(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008) BORGES, Larissa Maria Guimarães; VIEIRA, José Luiz Fernandes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2739079559531098The determination of plasmatic and erythrocyte concentrations of mefloquine (MQ) and carboxymefloquine (CMQ) were studied in children and adults with malaria by Plasmodium falciparum not complicated in the Amapa state. The adult patients received oral outline of MQ 20 mg/kg divided in two days and artesunate 4 mg/kg/day for three days. For children the dose of MQ followed the schedule recommended by the manual of malaria therapy. Concentrations of MQ and CMQ in erythrocytes were quantified by high performance liquid chromatography on the third day of treatment (D3) and plasma levels were measured in the third and second fortieth day after the institution of therapy (D3 and D42). The average concentration of MQ and CMQ in plasma of children in D3 were 1.84 ± 0.83 μg/mL and 1.44 ± 0.70 μg/mL, and in erythrocytes 5.26 ± 1.46 μg/mL and 1.18 ± 0.65 μg/mL. In D42 the plasma concentrations were 0.45 ± 0.11 μg/mL and 0.51 ± 0.10 μg/mL, respectively. The relationship between plasma and erythrocytes concentrations of MQ and CMQ were 2.86 ± 1.27 and 0.75 ± 0.26. In adults, concentrations of MQ and CMQ in plasma were 2.43 ± 1.13 μg/mL and 1.10 ± 0.38 μg/mL, and in erythrocytes 5.51 ± 1.92 μg/mL and 1.08 ± 0.35 μg/mL, respectively. The plasma concentrations in D42 were 0.54 ± 0.15 μg/mL and 0.58 ± 0.93 μg/mL, respectively. The relationship erythrocyte:plasma for MQ was 3.03 ± 1.56 and 1.12 ± 0.29 to CMQ. The correlation coefficient between plasma and erythrocytes concentrations of MQ in children was 0.035 and adults 0.0436. For CMQ the correlation coefficient in children was 0.8722 and in adults 0.5155. The higher accumulation of MQ in the red blood cells allows us to emphasize the importance of the simple diffusion for the entry of the drug in the cell because of their physical and chemical characteristics.
