Young Investigators Grants (JP-FAPESP)

• Abstract

  Brazil is the third country in the world in total tons of pesticides use per year. Pesticides are toxic substances or a mixture of substances that are naturally or chemically synthesized. They are widely used in agriculture to control plagues; however, since they are toxic to life, they are inevitably toxic to humans. Heavy use of pesticides has contaminated ecosystems. In Brazil, at leas…

  Assessment of acute and chronic toxicity of the heart and brain exposed to pesticides found in potable water in Brazil, AP.JP2

• Abstract

  Heart failure is a public health problem and is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Despite current advances, the prognosis is poor, and there remains no cure for heart failure. Heart failure is characterised by breathlessness (respiratory irregularities), bronchoconstriction, leg oedema, a progressive loss in cardiac output, left ventricular hypertrophy, sleep apnoea, and raise…

  Role of purinergic receptors in the carotid body in heart failure, AP.JP2

• Abstract

  Bacteria have sophisticated mechanisms to survive in hostile environments. Bacterial pathogens must deal with harsh stress conditions inside the host, such as oxidative stress and limitation of the essential metals iron, zinc, and manganese. This project aims to unravel how the environmental opportunistic pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum coordinates adaptive responses of metal homeostas…

  Bacterial transcription factors involved in metal homeostasis, oxidative stress and virulence: investigating how Chromobacterium violaceum switches from the environment to the host, AP.JP2

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)