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• Spatial distribution of leprosy in the Amazon region of Brazil.

  To detect areas with increased case-detection rates, we used spatial scan statistics to identify 5 of 10 clusters of leprosy in the Amazon region of B…

  Authors: Maria L F Penna, Maria L Wand-Del-Rey-de-Oliveira, Gerson Penna

  Source: Emerging infectious diseases. 2009 Apr

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• Mechanisms of clofibrate-induced apoptosis in Yoshida AH-130 hepatoma cells.

  Peroxisome proliferators (PPs) are a class of compounds that exert their nominal effects through the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors. PPs,…

  Authors: F Penna, P Reffo, G Muzio, R A Canuto, F M Baccino, G Bonelli, P Costelli

  Source: Biochemical pharmacology. 2009 Jan 15

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• Muscle myostatin signalling is enhanced in experimental cancer cachexia.

  BACKGROUND/AIMS: Myostatin belongs to the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily and negatively regulates skeletal muscle mass. Its deletion indu…

  Authors: P Costelli, M Muscaritoli, A Bonetto, F Penna, P Reffo, M Bossola, G Bonelli, G B Doglietto, F M Baccino, F Rossi Fanelli

  Source: European journal of clinical investigation. 2008 Jul

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• The additional benefit of the ML Flow test to classify leprosy patients.

  The use of the skin lesion counting classification leads to both under and over diagnosis of leprosy in many instances. Thus, there is a need to compl…

  Authors: Samira Bührer-Sékula, Ximena Illarramendi, Rose B Teles, Maria Lucia F Penna, José Augusto C Nery, Anna Maria Sales, Linda Oskam, Elizabeth P Sampaio, Euzenir N Sarno

  Source: Acta tropica. 2009 Aug

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• Trend of case detection and leprosy elimination in Brazil.

  Only six countries did not meet the leprosy elimination target during 2005, amongst them Brazil. In 2006, the Brazilian Ministry of Health announced a…

  Authors: Maria L F Penna, Gerson O Penna

  Source: Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH. 2007 May

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• Dynamical correlations in Brownian hard rods.

  We analyze the time decay of small amplitude density perturbations in systems of highly packed Brownian hard rods, relaxing towards a uniform density …

  Authors: F Penna, P Tarazona

  Source: The Journal of chemical physics. 2006 Apr 28

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• Use of an artificial neural network for detecting excess deaths due to cholera in Ceará, Brazil

  OBJECTIVE: To evaluate recurrent neural networks as a predictive technique for time-series in the health field. METHODS: The study was carried out dur…

  Authors: Maria Lúcia F Penna

  Source: Revista de saúde pública. 2004 Jun

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• Are antioxidants useful for treating skeletal muscle atrophy?

  Changes in the skeletal muscle protein mass frequently occur in both physiological and pathological states. Muscle hypotrophy, in particular, is commo…

  Authors: Andrea Bonetto, Fabio Penna, Maurizio Muscaritoli, Valerio G Minero, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Francesco M Baccino, Paola Costelli

  Source: Free radical biology & medicine. 2009 Oct 1

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• Deacetylase inhibitors modulate the myostatin/follistatin axis without improving cachexia in tumor-bearing mice.

  Muscle wasting, as occurring in cancer cachexia, is primarily characterized by protein hypercatabolism and increased expression of ubiquitin ligases, …

  Authors: A Bonetto, F Penna, V G Minero, P Reffo, G Bonelli, F M Baccino, P Costelli

  Source: Current cancer drug targets. 2009 Aug

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• A dynamic density functional theory for particles in a flowing solvent.

  We present a dynamic density functional theory (dDFT) which takes into account the advection of the particles by a flowing solvent. For potential flow…

  Authors: Markus Rauscher, Alvaro Domínguez, Matthias Krüger, Florencia Penna

  Source: The Journal of chemical physics. 2007 Dec 28

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