Dance is a professional activity that requires high performance and capacity, generating the numerous functions that trigger pain and inflammatory processes. Pain and inflammation are factors that compromise the performance ...

Methylmalonic acidemias are inherited metabolic disorders characterized by methylmalonate (MMA) accumulation and neurological dysfunction, including seizures. Dietary fatty acids are known as an important energy source and ...

Decline cognitive related to neurodegenerative diseases are very commom in patients, probably in function of aging. Since there are few effectives therapeutics approaches to loss memory treatment, but studies about new ...

The methylmalonic acidemia is an inborn error of metabolism (IEM) characterized by methylmalonic acid (MMA) accumulation in body fluids and tissues, causing neurological dysfunction, mitochondrial failure, oxidative stress ...

The aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is one of the main mycotoxins that can be identified in foods, and has relevance for agricultural economics and public health because of its immunotoxic properties. A functional immune system is a ...

Malaria is considered a neglected disease and public health problem, affecting more than 200 million people worldwide. Plasmodium falciparum, one of the four human parasitic species, is responsible for the development of ...

The human aging is associated to risk of chronical degenerative diseases. Among these morbidities that occur in elderly subjects is visual diseases, mainly age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which leads to irreversible ...

Na+,K+-ATPase is ubiquitously expressed in the plasma membrane of all animal cells where serves as the principal regulator of intracellular ion homeostasis. Na+,K+-ATPase activity is activated by Na+ and K+ and current ...

Parkinsonism is a neurological syndrome characterized by resting tremor, stiffness in cogwheels, postural instability and bradykinesia. Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and the ...

Stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted by an embolic or thrombotic occlusion of a cerebral artery (ischemic stroke) or by bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel (hemorrhagic stroke). Oxidative stress and ...