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2. Bivariate binomial conditionals distributions with positive and negative correlations: A statistical study
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Ghosh, Indranil, Marques, Filipe, and Chakraborty, Subrata
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Methodology (stat.ME) ,FOS: Computer and information sciences ,60E, 62F ,Statistics - Methodology - Abstract
In this article, we discuss a bivariate distribution whose conditionals are univariate binomial distributions and the marginals are not binomial that exhibits negative correlation. Some useful structural properties of this distribution namely marginals, moments, generating functions, stochastic ordering are investigated. Simple proofs of negative correlation, marginal over-dispersion, distribution of sum and conditional given the sum are also derived. The distribution is shown to be a member of the multi-parameter exponential family and some natural but useful consequences are also outlined. The proposed distribution tends to a recently investigated conditional Poisson distribution studied by Ghosh et al. (2020). Finally, the distribution is fitted to two bivariate count data sets with an inherent negative correlation to illustrate its suitability., Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures
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- 2023
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3. TestSelector: Automatic Test Suite Selection for Student Projects -- Extended Version
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Marques, Filipe, Morgado, António, Santos, José Fragoso, and Janota, Mikoláš
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Software Engineering (cs.SE) ,FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science ,Computer Science - Software Engineering ,Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) - Abstract
Computer Science course instructors routinely have to create comprehensive test suites to assess programming assignments. The creation of such test suites is typically not trivial as it involves selecting a limited number of tests from a set of (semi-)randomly generated ones. Manual strategies for test selection do not scale when considering large testing inputs needed, for instance, for the assessment of algorithms exercises. To facilitate this process, we present TestSelector, a new framework for automatic selection of optimal test suites for student projects. The key advantage of TestSelector over existing approaches is that it is easily extensible with arbitrarily complex code coverage measures, not requiring these measures to be encoded into the logic of an exact constraint solver. We demonstrate the flexibility of TestSelector by extending it with support for a range of classical code coverage measures and using it to select test suites for a number of real-world algorithms projects, further showing that the selected test suites outperform randomly selected ones in finding bugs in students' code., Comment: 19 pages
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- 2022
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4. Corte de Peças de Pedra: Uma Aplicação da Computação Gráfica
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Silva, Samuel, Marques, Filipe, Raposo, Manuel, Madeira, Joaquim, and Santos, Beatriz Sousa
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Corte de pedra ,modelação tridimensional ,visualização ,OpenGL - Abstract
A indústria de transformação de blocos de pedra em peças decorativas tem evoluído rapidamente, sendo estas realizadas com recurso a máquinas que dispõem de autómatos programáveis, comandos numéricos e aplicações com interfaces de utilizador, que vão desde consolas de operação com duas linhas de texto a computadores industriais com interfaces gráficas. Embora a indústria portuguesa tenha evoluído nas soluções de controlo, melhores interfaces com o utilizador permitiriam uma preparação de trabalho mais rápida e menos erros de programação dos autómatos. Neste artigo descrevem-se os aspectos mais relevantes de uma destas aplicações, que recebeu melhoramentos a vários níveis, no sentido de uma maior usabilidade. Esta aplicação foi desenvolvida em Visual Basic, recorrendo à biblioteca gráfica OpenGL., 12º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica, Comunicações Curtas, 163, 166, Samuel Silva, Filipe Marques, Manuel Raposo, Joaquim Madeira, and Beatriz Sousa Santos, Corte de pedra, modelação tridimensional, visualização, OpenGL
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- 2021
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5. Correction to: The other face of medical globalization? Pharmaceutical data, prescribing trends, and the social localization of psychostimulants
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Angela Marques Filipe
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Health (social science) ,Health Policy - Published
- 2022
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6. Situating atention deficit and hyperactivity in Portugal: social, historical, and ethical dimensions of an emerging global health issue
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Angela Marques Filipe
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Ciências Sociais ,Ciencias Sociales ,Social Sciences ,Public Policy ,Global Health ,Saúde Global ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Salud Global ,Salud Mental ,Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad ,Philosophy ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Saúde Mental ,Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade ,Mental Health ,Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity ,Política Pública ,Medicine ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 ,Humanities - Abstract
A perturbação de hiperatividade e déficit de atenção (PHDA) é considerada um dos problemas de comportamento e neurodesenvolvimento mais frequentes nas crianças e adolescentes em idade escolar, tanto em Portugal como a nível mundial. Além disso, a categorização diagnóstica da PHDA e a prescrição de psicoestimulantes como tratamento de primeira linha têm sido não só objeto de pesquisa científica e validação clínica, mas também alvo de polêmica e crítica social, sobretudo à luz do conceito de medicalização. Apesar do seu aspecto midiático e relevância em domínios tão diversos quanto os da educação, do medicamento, da saúde mental e dos apoios psicossociais, existe uma lacuna profunda na caracterização das dimensões históricas, socioéticas e institucionais da PHDA em Portugal. Aliando dados historiográficos e etnográficos à análise documental e da mídia, este artigo procura responder a esse desafio, traçando a trajetória social da PHDA neste país - desde a emergência da “hiperatividade” nos anos 1970/1980 ao debate público e político sobre a prescrição de psicoestimulantes. Dessa perspectiva interdisciplinar e por meio do estudo do caso português, procura contextualizar-se a definição, validação e ampliação da PHDA como parte de um processo dinâmico e socialmente situado na interseção de sistemas diagnósticos e farmacêuticos globais, contingências institucionais e socioeconômicas e, ainda, políticas públicas e especificidades locais. Discute-se, por fim, a forma como o caso da PHDA em Portugal contribui para o desenvolvimento de novas linhas de reflexão e de pesquisa interdisciplinar que permitem repensar o escopo social da saúde mental e da saúde global. Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is considered one of the most frequent behavioral and neurodevelopmental problems in school-age children and adolescents, both in Portugal and worldwide. The diagnostic categorization of ADHD and the prescription of psychostimulants as its first-line treatment have been the object not only of scientific research and clinical validation, but also of controversy and social critique, especially in light of the concept of medicalization. Despite its high profile and salience in such diverse fields as education, pharmaceuticals, mental health, and public policy, a significant gap remains in the characterization of social-historical, ethical, and institutional dimensions of ADHD outside English-speaking countries. Combining historical and ethnographic research with document and media analysis, the article addresses that challenge by tracing the social trajectory of ADHD in Portugal, from the emergence of “hyperactivity” in the 1970s and 1980s to the current public and political debates on psychostimulant treatments and prescribing trends. From this interdisciplinary perspective and based on the Portuguese case study, the aim of this article is to contextualize the definition, validation, and expansion of ADHD as part of a dynamic and socially situated process in which global diagnostic and pharmaceutical systems intersect with institutional and socioeconomic contingencies, as well as local specificities and needs. More broadly, the article discusses how the case study of ADHD contributes to the development of interdisciplinary research that helps rethinking the social scope of mental health across local and global health contexts. El trastorno de hiperactividad y déficit de atención (THDA) está considerado uno de los problemas de comportamiento y neurodesarrollo más frecuentes en niños y adolescentes en edad escolar, tanto en Portugal, como a nivel mundial. Asimismo, la categorización diagnóstica del THDA y la prescripción de psicoestimulantes como tratamiento de primera línea ha sido no sólo objeto de investigación científica y validación clínica, sino también objeto de polémica y crítica social, sobre todo a la luz del concepto de medicalización. A pesar de su cariz mediático y relevancia en dominios tan diversos como son los de la educación, del medicamento, de la salud mental y de los apoyos psicosociales, existe una laguna profunda en la caracterización de las dimensiones históricas, socio-éticas e institucionales del THDA en Portugal. Aunando datos historiográficos y etnográficos y al análisis documental, y de los medios de comunicación, este artículo procura responder a este desafío, trazando la trayectoria social del THDA en este país - desde la emergencia de la “hiperactividad” en los años 1970/1980 al debate público y político sobre la prescripción de psicoestimulantes. Desde esta perspectiva interdisciplinar, y a través del estudio del caso portugués, se intenta contextualizar la definición, validación y ampliación del THDA como parte de un proceso dinámico y socialmente situado, que atraviesa sistemas diagnósticos y farmacéuticos globales, contingencias institucionales y socioeconómicas e, incluso, políticas públicas y especificidades locales. Se discute, finalmente, la forma en la que el caso del THDA en Portugal contribuye al desarrollo de nuevas líneas de reflexión y de investigación interdisciplinaria que permiten repensar el campo social de la salud mental y de la salud global.
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7. Towards a feminist philosophy of engagements in health-related research
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Sonja Erikainen, Ellen Stewart, Angela Marques Filipe, Sarah Chan, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Sophie Ilson, Gabrielle King, Carol Porteous, Stephanie Sinclair, and Jamie Webb
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Engagement ,Feminist ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Epistemology ,Involvement ,Evaluation ,Health research ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Abstract
Engagement with publics, patients, and stakeholders is an important part of the health research environment today,and different modalities of ‘engaged’ health research have proliferated in recent years. Yet, there is no consensus on what, exactly, ‘engaging’ means, what it should look like, and what the aims, justifications, or motivations for it should be. In this paper, we set out what we see as important, outstanding challenges around the practice and theory of engaging and consider the tensions and possibilities that the diverse landscape of engaging evokes. We examine the roots, present modalities and institutional frameworks that have been erected around engaging, including how they shape and delimit how engagements are framed, enacted, and justified. We inspect the related issue of knowledge production within and through engagements, addressing whether engagements can, or should, be framed as knowledge producing activities. We then unpack the question of how engagements are or could be valued and evaluated, emphasising the plural ways in which ‘value’ can be conceptualised and generated. We conclude by calling for a philosophy of engagements that can capture the diversity of related practices, concepts and justifications around engagements, and account for the plurality of knowledges and value that engagements engender, while remaining flexible and attentive to the structural conditions under which engagements occur. Such philosophy should be a feminist one, informed by feminist epistemological and methodological approaches to equitable modes of research participation, knowledge production, and valuing. Especially, translating feminist tools of reflexivity and positionalityinto the sphere of engagements can enable a synergy of empirical, epistemic and normative considerations in developing accounts of engaging in both theory and praxis. Modestly, here, we hope to carve out the starting points for this work.
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- 2022
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8. Specific Ion Channels Control Sensory Gain, Sensitivity, and Kinetics in a Tonic Thermonociceptor
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Saro, Gabriella, Lia, Andrei-Stefan, Thayliyal, Saurabh, Marques, Filipe, Busch, Karl Emanuel, and Glauser, Dominique A
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Animals, Genetically Modified ,Optogenetics ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,Temperature ,Animals ,Nociceptors ,Thermosensing ,Caenorhabditis elegans ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Ion Channels - Abstract
Summary: Pain sensation and aversive behaviors entail the activation of nociceptor neurons, whose function is largely conserved across animals. The functional heterogeneity of nociceptors and ethical concerns are challenges for their study in mammalian models. Here, we investigate the function of a single type of genetically identified C. elegans thermonociceptor named FLP. Using calcium imaging in vivo, we demonstrate that FLP encodes thermal information in a tonic and graded manner over a wide thermal range spanning from noxious cold to noxious heat (8°C–36°C). This tonic-signaling mode allows FLP to trigger sustained behavioral changes necessary for escape behavior. Furthermore, we identify specific transient receptor potential, voltage-gated calcium, and sodium “leak” channels controlling sensory gain, thermal sensitivity, and signal kinetics, respectively, and show that the ryanodine receptor is required for long-lasting activation. Our work elucidates the task distribution among specific ion channels to achieve remarkable sensory properties in a tonic thermonociceptor in vivo. : Saro et al. ask how sensory information is encoded in a tonic thermonociceptor neuron. The work highlights a distribution of tasks among different ion channels controlling the detection, amplification, stabilization, and termination of signals and reveals the importance of their orchestration to control short- and long-term aversive behaviors. Keywords: thermosensation, heat sensation, cold sensation, TRP, NALCN, VGCC, RyR, optogenetics
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- 2019
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9. Through the looking-glass: a critical review of sociology and medicine towards the diagnosis of ADHD1
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Ângela Marques Filipe
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medicine ,le TDAH ,diagnosis ,diagnostic ,PHDA ,Developmental psychology ,Plea ,Medicalization ,ADHD ,Sociality ,sociologia ,sociology ,Medical sociology ,antropociência ,sociologie ,Historiography ,General Medicine ,diagnóstico ,Epistemology ,Categorization ,Sociology of health and illness ,Psychology ,la médecine ,anthroposcience ,medicina ,Deviance (sociology) - Abstract
In the last decades the domain of medicine assumed a central place within social science debates, particularly in Europe and North-America. Analyses of the professional dominance of medicine, the medicalization of sociality, and the categorization of deviance as psychiatric condition were at the onset of medical sociology and historiography. Such critiques aimed at shedding light on the ways we have come to consider not only what is health and illness but also what counts as normal or pathological behavior. In this sense, cases such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [ADHD] exemplify a complex relation between biological and sociological explanations of human behavior. The paper looks at ADHD diagnosis as a heuristics for the critical review of the relationship between social and life sciences. That relationship, often thorny, will be then articulated with a wider hermeneutic and epistemological critique of the real and the constructed, the normal and the pathological, and their reconfigurations. In conclusion, a plea will be left with the intent of debunking conventional suspicions of sociology with regards to medicine through the recovery of an ‘anthroposcientific’ perspective. Nas últimas décadas o domínio da medicina assumiu um lugar central nos debates em ciências sociais, nomeadamente na Europa e América do Norte. A análise da dominação da medicina, da medicalização da socialidade ou mesmo da categorização do desvio como condição psiquiátrica estiveram na origem da sociologia e historiografia médica. Estas críticas procuraram esclarecer o modo pelo qual pudemos não só delimitar o que é considerado como saúde e doença mas também o que é comportamento normal ou patológico. Nesta linha de análise, casos controversos como os da perturbação de hiperactividade com défice de atenção [PHDA] vêm apontar para uma complexa relação biologia-sociedade, assim como para a dificuldade em separar aqui argumentos biológicos de argumentos sociais e culturais do comportamento humano. Este artigo aborda o caso de estudo da PHDA e do seu diagnóstico como modelo heurístico com vista a um entendimento crítico sobre a relação entre sociologia e medicina. Esta relação, muitas vezes conturbada, surge neste sentido como parte de alguns posicionamentos hermenêuticos e epistemológicos mais amplos, por exemplo sobre o real e o construído, o normal e o patológico, e as suas reconfigurações. Finalmente, apela-se reconsideração da postura de ambos os campos de conhecimento através da recuperação duma proposta ou perspectiva ‘antropocientífica’. Durant les dernières décennies, le domaine de la médecine a pris une place centrale dans les sciences sociales, en particulier en Europe et en Amérique du Nord. L’analyse de la prédominance professionnelle des médecins, de la médicalisation des relations sociales et de la catégorisation psychiatrique du comportement a contribué à l’émergence de la sociologie et de l’historiographie de la médecine. La critique de la psychiatrie et de ses catégorisations du comportement humain met en jeu la manière dont nous sommes venus à considérer non seulement la santé et la maladie, mais aussi ce qui est perçu comme un comportement normal ou pathologique. Le diagnostic du trouble du déficit de l’attention avec hyperactivité [TDAH] illustre la relation complexe qui existe entre les explications biologiques et sociologiques. Cet article prend pour étude de cas le TDAH pour revoir de manière critique la relation entre sciences sociales et sciences de la vie qui demeure encore souvent nébuleuse. Cette critique prend aussi place dans les débats herméneutiques et épistémologiques qui concernent certaines dichotomies comme le réel et le construit ou le normal et le pathologique. En conclusion, l’article suggère un réexamen de la recherche à la fronteire de la sociologie et la médicine en s’inspirant d’une perspective ‘anthroposcientifique’.
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10. Additional file 1: Table S1. of Studies in the mouse model identify strain variability as a major determinant of disease outcome in Leishmania infantum infection
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Marques, Filipe, Sílvia Vale-Costa, Cruz, Tânia, Marques, Joana, Silva, Tânia, Neves, João, Cortes, Sofia, Fernandes, Ana, Rocha, Eduardo, Appelberg, Rui, Rodrigues, Pedro, Tomás, Ana, and Gomes, Maria
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body regions ,nervous system ,fungi - Abstract
Primers used to amplify mouse genes. (PDF 8 kb)
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- 2015
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11. Additional file 1: Table S1. of Studies in the mouse model identify strain variability as a major determinant of disease outcome in Leishmania infantum infection
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Marques, Filipe, Sílvia Vale-Costa, Cruz, Tânia, Marques, Joana, Silva, Tânia, Neves, João, Cortes, Sofia, Fernandes, Ana, Rocha, Eduardo, Appelberg, Rui, Rodrigues, Pedro, Tomás, Ana, and Gomes, Maria
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body regions ,nervous system ,fungi - Abstract
Primers used to amplify mouse genes. (PDF 8 kb)
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- 2015
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12. Biopolitics
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Angela Marques Filipe
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- 2014
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13. The dynamics of causes and conditions: the rareness of diseases in French and Portuguese patients' organizations' engagement in research
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Rabeharisoa, Vololona, Callon, Michel, Marques Filipe, Angela, Arriscado Nunes, João, Paterson, Florence, Vergnaud, Frédéric, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3 (CSI i3), MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of Coimbra, University of Coimbra [Portugal] (UC), European Project: 230307,EC:FP7:SiS,FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1,EPOKS(2009), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,Portugal ,singularization-generalization ,delegation model ,rare diseases ,patients’ organizations ,France ,hybrid collective model ,patients' organizations ,jel:Z10 ,jel:I10 - Abstract
http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Items/WorkingPapers/Download/DLWP.php?wp=WP_CSI_026.pdf; Highlights the emergence of a "hybrid collective model" of collaboration between patients and experts through a systematic study in the field of rare diseases in France and Portugal, with attention to the reflexive work carried out by patients' organizations on the notion of rareness.
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- 2012
14. As organizações de pacientes como atores emergentes no espaço da saúde: o caso de Portugal
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Ângela Marques Filipe, João Arriscado Nunes, and Marisa Matias
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International level ,Portugal ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Context (language use) ,General Medicine ,Saúde ,Public relations ,Deliberation ,Pesquisa ,Intervention (law) ,Associações de pacientes ,Political science ,Intervenção ,business ,media_common - Abstract
As associações e organizações de pacientes emergiram em diferentes partes do mundo como atores centrais na abertura de novos espaços de participação e deliberação no campo da saúde, desenvolvendo formas de intervenção inovadoras, atuando como mediadoras entre participantes heterogêneos no campo da saúde, promovendo e organizando plataformas e coalizões à escala nacional e transnacional e envolvendo-se ativamente em áreas antes reservadas a especialistas e profissionais, como a pesquisa. Este texto apresenta uma pesquisa em curso sobre as associações de pacientes em Portugal, como parte de uma pesquisa mais ampla à escala européia dos novos atores no espaço da saúde. Patient associations and organizations have emerged in different parts of the world as central actors in the opening up of new spaces for participation and deliberation in the field of health, developing innovative ways of intervention, mediating between heterogeneous participants in the health field, promoting and organizing platforms and coalitions on a national and international level and taking an active role in areas previously reserved for specialists and professionals, such as research. This article presents research currently underway into patient associations in Portugal, as part of wider research into new actors in the health arena in the European context.
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15. Evaluation of prevention of DNA damage and induction of DNA repair by natural compounds
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Marques, Filipe Alberto Gonçalves, Oliveira, Rui Pedro Soares de, Johansson, Björn, and Universidade do Minho
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Dissertação de mestrado em Biotecnologia e Bioempreendorismo em Plantas Aromáticas e Medicinais (área de especialização em Genética Molecular), As células estão permanentemente expostas a stresse ambiental (radiação e agentes químicos) e do metabolismo oxidativo nas mitocôndrias. Um dos alvos deste stresse é o ADN genómico para o qual os seres vivos desenvolveram mecanismos moleculares de reparação dos danos resultantes que envolvem enzimas como glicosilases, nucleases, polimerases e ligases. O equilíbrio entre o stresse que provoca danos de ADN e a capacidade de reparação do ADN é crucial para a sobrevivência celular. De entre estes stresses, o stresse oxidativo tem sido relacionado com muitas doenças, envelhecimento e morte celular. Uma vez detectados danos de ADN, o ciclo celular é parado o que permite a actuação destes mecanismos de reparação de danos de ADN. Esta capacidade de regular o ciclo celular em função da presença de danos de ADN é fundamental no desenvolvimento de organismos multicelulares uma vez que previne o surgimento de proliferação não controlada de qualquer célula (carcinogénese). Neste trabalho o objectivo foi estudar o efeito protector do ADN de um extracto vegetal obtido a partir das folhas de uma árvore da espécie Gingko biloba L.. Os ensaios envolveram células de Saccharomyces cerevisiae como modelo experimental incubadas com o extracto das folhas da Gingko biloba L., antes e durante o choque oxidativo provocado pelo peróxido de hidrogénio. Os danos e reparação do ADN foram determinados através do ensaio cometa, como também se calculou a sobrevivência com o ensaio de viabilidade e se mediu a oxidação intracelular pela citometria de fluxo. Neste trabalho o ensaio cometa provou ser um método sensível e robusto na detecção dos danos no ADN nas células de levedura, tal como tem sido descrito para células animais. Os nossos resultados demonstraram a capacidade protectora do extracto da Gingko biloba L. contra os danos no ADN causados pelo peróxido de hidrogénio. Para além disso, o extracto protegeu as células da morte celular e reduziu a oxidação intracelular. Por fim, a actividade do extracto parece estar envolvida aos mecanismos de reparação do ADN, já que a reparação foi mais rápida quando as células foram submetidas ao tratamento com o extracto., Cells are exposed permanently to stress imposed by the environment (radiation, chemicals) and by the oxidative metabolism in mitochondria. One of the targets of this stress is genomic DNA. Cells have developed molecular repair mechanisms involving specific enzymes such as glycosylases, nucleases, polymerases and ligases, allowing efficient removal of damage. The balance between DNA damage-causing stress and DNA repair capacity is crucial for life. Oxidative stress, one of these stresses, has been related to many diseases, aging process and cell death. Once DNA damage is sensed the cell cycle is arrested so that molecular repair mechanisms can operate, or induction of programmed cell death may take place if damage cannot be repaired. These features are essential for the right development of a multicellular organism that avoids the “selfish” uncontrolled proliferation of a given cell (carcinogenesis). In this work we aimed to study the DNA protective effect of extracts of Ginkgo biloba L. leaves from oxidative stress. Typical experiments involved incubation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells with Ginkgo biloba L. leaf extract, before and during the oxidative shock by hydrogen peroxide. Subsequent determination of DNA damage and repair by the comet assay was performed, as well as cell death estimation through the viability assay and measurement of intracellular oxidation by flow cytometry. The comet assay proved to be a robust and sensitive technique for detection of DNA damage in yeast cells. Our results indicate that Ginkgo biloba L. extracts protect yeast cells against DNA damage imposed by hydrogen peroxide. In addition, Ginkgo biloba L. extract has protected yeast cells against cell death and has reduced intracellular oxidation. Finally, Ginkgo biloba L. extract possibly interferes with the DNA repair system of yeast, because DNA repair kinetics was improved when cells were exposed to this extract.
16. Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries
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Angela Marques Filipe
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