Universidade Federal de Viçosa

About: Universidade Federal de Viçosa is a education organization based out in Viçosa, Brazil. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Dry matter. The organization has 16012 authors who have published 26711 publications receiving 353416 citations.

Cressdnaviricota: a Virus Phylum Unifying Seven Families of Rep-Encoding Viruses with Single-Stranded, Circular DNA Genomes.

Abstract: Eukaryotic single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses are classified into ten families (Table 1) but many remain 38 unclassified (1, 2).….

[Visceral, subcutaneous or intramuscular fat: where is the problem?].

Abstract: The adipose tissue is a dynamic organ that secrets several factors, denominated adipokines. They are associated, directly or indirectly, in a process that contributes to atherosclerosis, hypertension, insulinic resistance and diabetes type 2, dyslipidemias, presenting the link between adiposity, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. In the obesity, body fat depots are increased, presenting eventual elevation in the adipokines expression and secretion. The different fat depots, visceral, abdominal subcutaneous, gluteal-femoral subcutaneous and intramuscular adipose tissue, have different metabolic and endocrine degrees, interfering, therefore, with specific form in the process associated with body adiposity in obese and diabetics subjects. The present study seeks to discuss the endocrine and metabolic role of each adipose tissue compartment, by way to assess their contribution to the complications linked to obesity.

Soliton solutions for quasilinear Schrodinger equations: the critical exponential case

Abstract: Quasilinear elliptic equations in R 2 of second order with critical exponential growth are considered. By using a change of variable, the quasilinear equations are reduced to semilinear equations, whose respective associated functionals are well defined in H 1 ( R 2 ) and satisfy the geometric hypotheses of the mountain pass theorem. Using this fact, we obtain a Cerami sequence converging weakly to a solution v . In the proof that v is nontrivial, the main tool is the concentration–compactness principle [P.L. Lions, The concentration compactness principle in the calculus of variations. The locally compact case. Part I and II, Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non. Lineaire 1 (1984) 109–145, 223–283] combined with test functions connected with optimal Trudinger–Moser inequality.

Intestinal Microbiota and Probiotics in Celiac Disease

Abstract: SUMMARY Celiac disease (CD) is a common chronic autoimmune enteropathycausedbyglutenintake.Todate,theonlytherapyforCDisthe complete exclusion of dietary sources of grains and any food containing gluten. It has been hypothesized that the intestinal microbiota is somehow involved in CD. For this reason, probiotics are appearing as an interesting adjuvant in the dietetic management of CD. This review aims to discuss the characteristics of the microbiota in CD subjects and the use of probiotics as a novel therapy for CD. Comparisons between children with CD and controls show that their microbiota profiles differ; the former have fewer lactobacilli and bifidobacteria. Specific probiotics have been found to digest or alter gluten polypeptides. It has also been demonstrated that some bacterial species belonging to the genera Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium exert protective properties on epithelial cells from damage caused by gliadin.