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Leptin, Obesity, and Leptin Resistance: Where Are We 25 Years Later? by Izquierdo, Andrea G, Crujeiras, Ana B, Casanueva, Felipe F, Carreira, Marcos C

“…Leptin, a hormone that is capable of effectively reducing food intake and body weight, was initially considered for use in the treatment of obesity. However,…”
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Detection and sequencing of Zika virus from amniotic fluid of fetuses with microcephaly in Brazil: a case study by Calvet, Guilherme, PhD, Aguiar, Renato S, PhD, Melo, Adriana S O, PhD, Sampaio, Simone A, BSc, de Filippis, Ivano, PhD, Fabri, Allison, BSc, Araujo, Eliane S M, BSc, de Sequeira, Patricia C, PhD, de Mendonça, Marcos C L, PhD, de Oliveira, Louisi, PhD, Tschoeke, Diogo A, PhD, Schrago, Carlos G, PhD, Thompson, Fabiano L, PhD, Brasil, Patricia, PhD, dos Santos, Flavia B, PhD, Nogueira, Rita M R, PhD, Tanuri, Amilcar, Prof, de Filippis, Ana M B, Dr

“…Summary Background The incidence of microcephaly in Brazil in 2015 was 20 times higher than in previous years. Congenital microcephaly is associated with…”
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Echolocation characteristics of franciscana dolphins (Pontoporia blainvillei) by Barcellos, Diogo D., Santos, Marcos C.

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An eosimiid primate of South Asian affinities in the Paleogene of Western Amazonia and the origin of New World monkeys by Marivaux, Laurent, Negri, Francisco R, Antoine, Pierre-Olivier, Stutz, Narla S, Condamine, Fabien L, Kerber, Leonardo, Pujos, François, Ventura Santos, Roberto, Alvim, André M V, Hsiou, Annie S, Bissaro, Jr, Marcos C, Adami-Rodrigues, Karen, Ribeiro, Ana Maria

“…Recent fossil discoveries in Western Amazonia revealed that two distinct anthropoid primate clades of African origin colonized South America near the…”
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Molecular basis of immune evasion by the Delta and Kappa SARS-CoV-2 variants by McCallum, Matthew, Walls, Alexandra C, Sprouse, Kaitlin R, Bowen, John E, Rosen, Laura E, Dang, Ha V, De Marco, Anna, Franko, Nicholas, Tilles, Sasha W, Logue, Jennifer, Miranda, Marcos C, Ahlrichs, Margaret, Carter, Lauren, Snell, Gyorgy, Pizzuto, Matteo Samuele, Chu, Helen Y, Van Voorhis, Wesley C, Corti, Davide, Veesler, David

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission leads to the emergence of variants, including the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant of…”
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Leptin resistance in obesity: An epigenetic landscape by Crujeiras, Ana B., Carreira, Marcos C., Cabia, Begoña, Andrade, Sara, Amil, Maria, Casanueva, Felipe F.

“…Leptin is an adipocyte-secreted hormone that inhibits food intake and stimulates energy expenditure through interactions with neuronal pathways in the brain,…”
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Simplified 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine spectrophotometric assay for quantification of carbonyls in oxidized proteins by Mesquita, Cristina S., Oliveira, Raquel, Bento, Fátima, Geraldo, Dulce, Rodrigues, João V., Marcos, João C.

“…This work proposes a modification of the 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) spectrophotometric assay commonly used to evaluate the concentration of carbonyl…”
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Reproductive parameters of franciscana dolphins (Pontoporia blainvillei) of Southeastern Brazil by Silva, Débora F., Barbosa, Rodrigo A., Conversani, Valéria R. M., Botta, Silvina, Hohn, Aleta A., Santos, Marcos C.

“…Reproductive parameters of 168 franciscana dolphins, Pontoporia blainvillei (73 females and 95 males) incidentally caught (n = 163) or stranded (n = 5) between…”
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A study about management of drugs for leprosy patients under medical monitoring: A solution based on AHP-Electre decision-making methods by Falcão, Igor W S, Souza, Daniel S, Cardoso, Diego L, Costa, Fernando A R, Leite, Karla T F, de M, Junior, Harold D, Salgado, Claudio G, da Silva, Moisés B, Barreto, Josafá G, da Costa, Patricia F, Santos, Adriano M Dos, Conde, Guilherme A B, Seruffo, Marcos C da R

“…Leprosy, also known as Hansen's, is one of the listed neglected tropical diseases as a major health problem global. Treatment is one of the main alternatives,…”
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De novo design of modular and tunable protein biosensors by Quijano-Rubio, Alfredo, Yeh, Hsien-Wei, Park, Jooyoung, Lee, Hansol, Langan, Robert A., Boyken, Scott E., Lajoie, Marc J., Cao, Longxing, Chow, Cameron M., Miranda, Marcos C., Wi, Jimin, Hong, Hyo Jeong, Stewart, Lance, Oh, Byung-Ha, Baker, David

“…Naturally occurring protein switches have been repurposed for the development of biosensors and reporters for cellular and clinical applications 1 . However,…”
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Optic nerve sheath diameter and ophthalmic artery doppler in pregnant patients. Can ocular sonography play a role as a point-of-care ultrasound for anaesthesiologists?: A pilot study by Yamaguchi, Eduardo, Ferraz, Alexandre, Lange, Marcos C.

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The CD4:CD8 ratio is associated with markers of age‐associated disease in virally suppressed HIV‐infected patients with immunological recovery by Serrano‐Villar, S, Moreno, S, Fuentes‐Ferrer, M, Sánchez‐Marcos, C, Ávila, M, Sainz, T, Villar, NGP, Fernández‐Cruz, A, Estrada, V

“…Objectives Inversion of the CD4:CD8 ratio (< 1) has been identified as a hallmark of inmmunosenescence and an independent predictor of mortality in the general…”
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Germline-encoded specificities and the predictability of the B cell response by Vieira, Marcos C, Palm, Anna-Karin E, Stamper, Christopher T, Tepora, Micah E, Nguyen, Khoa D, Pham, Tho D, Boyd, Scott D, Wilson, Patrick C, Cobey, Sarah

“…Antibodies result from the competition of B cell lineages evolving under selection for improved antigen recognition, a process known as affinity maturation…”
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Mortality Rates after Tuberculosis Treatment, Georgia, USA, 2008-2019 by Gorvetzian, Sarah, Pacheco, Antonio G, Anderson, Erin, Ray, Susan M, Schechter, Marcos C

“…Limited data exist on mortality rates after tuberculosis (TB) treatment in the United States. We analyzed mortality rates for all adults in Georgia, USA, who…”
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Coastal urbanization leads to remarkable seaweed species loss and community shifts along the SW Atlantic by Scherner, Fernando, Horta, Paulo Antunes, de Oliveira, Eurico Cabral, Simonassi, José Carlos, Hall-Spencer, Jason M., Chow, Fungyi, Nunes, José Marcos C., Pereira, Sonia Maria Barreto

“…•Large declines of calcareous algal cover were observed in urban areas.•Carbonate in the sediment was significantly lower in urban areas.•Seaweed richness…”
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Yellow fever epizootics in non-human primates, Southeast and Northeast Brazil (2017 and 2018) by Mares-Guia, Maria Angélica Monteiro de Mello, Horta, Marco A, Romano, Alessandro, Rodrigues, Cíntia D S, Mendonça, Marcos C L, Dos Santos, Carolina C, Torres, Maria C, Araujo, Eliane S M, Fabri, Allison, de Souza, Everton R, Ribeiro, Roberta O R, Lucena, Fabiana P, Junior, Luiz C A, da Cunha, Rivaldo V, Nogueira, Rita M R, Sequeira, Patricia C, de Filippis, Ana M Bispo

“…Yellow fever (YF) is a severe, infectious, but non-communicable arboviral hemorrhagic disease. In the last decades, yellow fever virus (YFV) infections have…”
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IL-33 contributes to sepsis-induced long-term immunosuppression by expanding the regulatory T cell population by Nascimento, Daniele C., Melo, Paulo H., Piñeros, Annie R., Ferreira, Raphael G., Colón, David F., Donate, Paula B., Castanheira, Fernanda V., Gozzi, Aline, Czaikoski, Paula G., Niedbala, Wanda, Borges, Marcos C., Zamboni, Dario S., Liew, Foo Y., Cunha, Fernando Q., Alves-Filho, Jose C.

“…Patients who survive sepsis can develop long-term immune dysfunction, with expansion of the regulatory T (Treg) cell population. However, how Treg cells…”
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The evolutionary origins of Lévy walk foraging by Wosniack, Marina E, Santos, Marcos C, Raposo, Ernesto P, Viswanathan, Gandhi M, da Luz, Marcos G E

“…We study through a reaction-diffusion algorithm the influence of landscape diversity on the efficiency of search dynamics. Remarkably, the identical optimal…”
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The GH/IGF1 axis and signaling pathways in the muscle and bone: mechanisms underlying age-related skeletal muscle wasting and osteoporosis by Perrini, Sebastio, Laviola, Luigi, Carreira, Marcos C, Cignarelli, Angelo, Natalicchio, Annalisa, Giorgino, Francesco

“…The widespread increase in life expectancy is accompanied by an increased prevalence of features of physical frailty. Signs and symptoms may include sarcopenia…”
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Selection and Neutral Mutations Drive Pervasive Mutability Losses in Long-Lived Anti-HIV B-Cell Lineages by Vieira, Marcos C, Zinder, Daniel, Cobey, Sarah

“…High-affinity antibodies arise within weeks of infection from the evolution of B-cell receptors under selection to improve antigen recognition. This rapid…”
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