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    Avaliação dos níveis séricos de cortisol e de hidroepiandrosterona em pacientes com malária por Plasmodium falciparum não-complicada
    (Universidade Federal do Pará, 1997) LIBONATI, Rosana Maria Feio; MEDONÇA, Berenice Bilharinho de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8356126875514076; SOUZA, José Maria de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6459204248879587
    The main purpuse of our study was to determine the levels of both cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in serum samples from patients suffering from Plamodium falciparum malaria. Since cortisol is potentially immunesupressive, and, conversely, DHEA is inherently immunopotentiating, we sought to assess the possible association between serum levels of these steroids and patient's clinical conditions. We enrolled to participate in this study 24 patients aged 12 to 47 years, of whom 18 were male and 6 female, suffering from uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria. All patients lived in areas of the Amazon were malaria is endemic. Half of them were found to be primo-infected, whereas the others were being reinfected by P. falciparum when recruited for this investigation. Blood samples were obtained from each patients as follows: at 20-minutes intervals during the pre-treatment phase (i. e. on day 0, D0), 24 hours after starting drug therapy (D1) and at the 8th day of follow-up (D7), when patients were asymptomatic. All patients at D7 presented with negative parasitemia. Serum levels of cortisol and DHEA were measured on D0, Dl and D7 and D0 and D7, respectively. In addition, the determination of IgG antibodies to both P. falciparum and P. vivax was performed only on D0. Our results indicated that levels of cortisol in serum samples collected on D0 were significantly higher than those of D1 and D7. High levels of cortisol on D0/D1 and significant parasitemia on D1 led us to postulated that this corticosteroid may interfere with the initial response of P. falciparum-infected patients to treatment. The cortisol levels did not correlate with the intensity of fever, duration of illness and the levels of IgG antibories to P. falciparum. These findings suggest that temperature does not interfere with the cortisol levels, and these, on the other land, do not significantly ralate to either antibody response or the duration of illness. The DHEA levels were found to be significantly more elevated on D0 than on D7, even though patients were already symptomatic for more than one day when first serum samples was taken. The progressive decrease in the DHEA levels is therefore likely to be mediated by a continuous stimulus from the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Similarly to cortisol, the DHEA levels on D0 correlated significantly with D1 parasitemia. Thus, it is suggested that in cortisol levels paralels that for DHEA. Of interest, the DHEA serum levels seem to inversely correlate with the duration of illness, in spite of high levels of this steroid detected at the pre-treatment phase. A not significant correlation has been noted if cortisol and DHEA serum levels are compared with temperature. This clinical parameter, however, was found to directly interfere with the correlation that exist between both cortisol and DHEA levels. It is known that fever reflects the occasion when erythrocytes disrupt from the schizogony, with release of cytokines , which act as an acute stimulating factor for the HPA axis. It would therefore be proposed that liberation of both hormones has a commom mechanism. The lack of significant interrelationships between DHEA levels and IgG antibodies indicates that this hormone does not seem to interfere with the production of antibodies by P. falciparum infected patients.
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    Efeito do cortisol na produção in vitro de embriões bovinos
    (Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-12-19) ALMEIDA, Nathalia Nogueira da Costa de; MIRANDA, Moysés dos Santos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3354029928888919; OHASHI, Otávio Mitio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5547874183666459
    The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the effect of cortisol in oocyte maturation and bovine embryo culture. In Chapter 1 we analyzed the distribution and location of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) by immunocytochemistry in oocytes, cumulus cells, embryonic cells 2-4, 8-16 cell, morula and blastocyst, and was also verified the presence of mRNA (qualitative RT-PCR) for GR in the stages. The results showed that the GR is present in all cells analyzed. In order to verify the functionality GR in preimplantation embryo development, translation of mRNA for GR zygotes was silenced in the RNAi technique, and subsequent embryo development was analyzed. The embryonic development decreased (P <0.05) after silencing of GR mRNA. The presence of GR oocyte and the cumulus cells indicates that these cells are sensitive to the use of CG. Given this, in Chapter 2, the effects of different cortisol concentrations during in vitro maturation (IVM) of bovine oocytes and embryonic development, apoptosis rate and gene expression (NRF1, COX, TFAM, GLUT1, FASN and HSP70) were analiyzed. The concentrations of cortisol used were 0.01, 0.1 and 1 mg / mL . There was no statistical difference in the number of cells and cleavage rate, but the concentration of 0.1 mg/ml of cortisol increased the blastocyst rate when compared to the control group (without cortisol in IVM) (41 ± 10 versus 21 ± 1.2; p <0.05, respectively). The rate of apoptosis and gene expression in oocytes, cumulus cells and blastocysts was only assessed at a concentration of 0.1 mg / ml of cortisol. There was no statistical difference in the apoptotic index, and not with respect to gene expression in oocytes and cumulus cells for COX genes, NRF1, HSP70 and FASN (p> 0, 05). Regarding embryonic gene expression, only the measurements relative mRNA FASN, GLUT1 and HSP70 were increased in blastocysts treated with 0.1 g/ml during IVM when compared to embryos of the Control group (p <0.05), the other genes showed no change (p> 0.05). In Chapter 3, we investigated the use of cortisol during in vitro culture (IVC) of bovine embryos. As in Chapter 1 was identified GR in all embryonic stages and when the GR expression was silenced and embryonic development was impaired. Thus, in the experiment three different concentrations (0.01, 0.1 and 1 mg / mL) of cortisol in IVC and embryonic development was evaluated same parameters of Chapter 2. There was no statistical difference in the embryos treated with cortisol in different concentrations when compared to the control for the parameters analyzed (p> 0.05). The concentration of 0.1 mg/ml was chosen to evaluate other parameters of embryo quality. Thus, IVC embryos with or without 0.1 mg/mL of cortisol, were analyzed for apoptosis rate and gene expression, not being statistically significant difference in any of the analyzes (p> 0.05). After these studies conclude that oocytes and embryos are responsive to GC, and the addition of cortisol in IVM improves oocyte competence, but the supplementation of IVC with cortisol may not have influence on embryo development.
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