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Efeitos de um programa de treinamento de força sobre variáveis da composição corporal, concentrações plasmáticas de leptina e resistina e qualidade de vida em mulheres pós-menopáusicas
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2010-05-14) Botero, João Paulo; Perez, Sergio Eduardo de Andrade; https://lattes.cnpq.br/9408953831211309; https://lattes.cnpq.br/5429159170761764
Objective: To determine the effect of a resistance training program on body composition andplasmatic concentrations of leptin and resistin in pos-menopausal women.Methods: Twenty-three post-menopausal women (mean age = 56.52 ± 4.42 years) were submitted to12 months of resistance training, twice a week. The training program was performed in 3 sets of 8-10RMs maximal repetitions with an intensity of 75-85% of 1RM. Body composition (DXA), musclestrength (bench press, leg press 45º, arm curl), plasmatic concentration of resistin and leptin wereassessed before and after the training program. Paired Student s t test was used for Bodycomposition, muscle strength and plasmatic concentration of resistin and leptin and non-parametricWilcoxon test for variables of quality of life. Significance level was set at 5%.Results: After the resistance training program, there was a significant increase in muscle strengthand lean mass, and a significant reduction in body weight, fat percentage, fat mass, andconcentrations of leptin and resistin with consequent improvement in quality of life.Conclusions: the interpretation of the results shows that resistance exercise can have significanthealth benefits and quality of life and reduce the concentrations of Leptin and Resistin induced byaging in postmenopausal women.
Aplicação das técnicas espectroscópicas e quimiométricas no estudo do controle de qualidade das drogas vegetais: embaúba, malva e ginseng brasileiro
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2010-05-14) Leão, Katyúscya Veloso; Ferreira, Antonio Gilberto; https://lattes.cnpq.br/3676462220401452; https://lattes.cnpq.br/1584302888502091
In the last few years the phytotherapy has emerged as a drug form well accepted and accessible, causing the increase in demand for drugs based on plants throughout the world, becoming an attraction for the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore the investment in quality control have become of extreme importance to ensure safety and efficacy of products. Among many herbal drugs available on the market, this study evaluated commercial samples of embaúba, Brazilian ginseng and mallow, using NMR spectroscopic techniques, 1H NMR in solution, HRMAS 1H and IR allied to chemometric methods. For commercial samples of embaúba, observed by chemometric analysis of data obtained by 1H NMR in solution and IR, most commercial samples were grouped with the species Cecropia glaziovii. By 1H NMR in solution and 2D experiments and comparisons with literature data, it was possible the identification of α-glucose e β-glucose, β-frutofuranose and β-frutopyranose, valine, alanine, threonina, 4-aminobutanoic acid, glutamine and caffeoylquinic acid. For commercial samples of Brazilian ginseng, analyzed by the three techniques, it was observed that most commercial samples were grouped with the species Pfaffia glomerata and by 1H NMR in solution it was possible to identify valine, alanine, threonine and 4-aminobutanoic acid and the sugars: sucrose, α-glucose e α-glucose. For commercial samples of mallow two adulterated samples were detected and grouping of most commercial samples with specie Sida cordifolia. By NMR in solution it was possible to identify valine, threonine, alanine, sucrose, α-glucose and β-glucose, 4-aminobutanoic acid and the ephedrine compound in the aqueous extract of specie Sida cordifofia and in aqueous extract the of specie Malva silvestris valine, threonine, alanine and the malvone A compound were identified. It was found that NMR techniques combined with chemometrics where more efficient than infrared, demonstrating a great potential for quality control, enabling the evaluation of the chemical profile of a extract vegetable as a whole and highlighting the compounds with a greater contribution to the discrimination of species and the indication of a chemical marker.
Propriedades inter e intragranulares de amostras mesoscópicas de YBa2Cu3O7-δ ; preparadas por síntese química
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2010-05-14) Deimling, Cesar Vanderlei; Ortiz, Wilson Aires; https://lattes.cnpq.br/0241177338066307; https://lattes.cnpq.br/3543120613457891
This work consists of a systematic study of the evolution of the morphological characteristics and the superconducting properties of YBCO samples prepared using the Modified Polymeric Precursors Method (MPPM). Aiming at producing YBCO powder exhibiting the smallest possible intergranular contribution, we have studied, through scanning micrographs, x-ray difractograms and magnetic measurements; the effects of milling, ultrasonic treatments and the pelletizing pressure; the influence of the chelating agents citric acid, tartaric acid ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; as well as the calcinating temperature, on the morphology and the superconducting properties of this class of samples. From this studies we could conclude that the powder presents mesoscopic granulometry, being formed by aggregates, very difficult to dismantle without insertion a large amount of defects. AC-susceptibility measurements as a function of temperature were used to monitor the evolution of the line, Hc wl(T), which in a field versus temperature magnetic phase diagram, H x T, delineates the region above which the intergranular critical current density of the sample vanishes. Studying the effects of calcinating temperatures below 900°C, we have verified the possibility of monitoring the intergranular characteristics of powder YBCO samples. Above this temperature, the aggregates coalesce in such a way that the intergranular magnetic response is totally suppressed. In order to produce samples exhibiting a narrow intergranular critical current distribution, we have adopted the preparation route involving the chelating agent citric acid since, among all studied samples, those prepared using this route gave the best intergranular contribution to the magnetic response. Due to the mesoscopic granulometry and the high coalescence presented by those powders, sintering under temperatures in the interval from 920°C to 980°C resulted in pellets with the largest degree of inhomogeneity associated with the magnetic response, so that the line Hc wl(T) was impossible to determine. Preparing pellets pressed under 1500 kgf/cm2, 3000 kgf/cm2, 6000 kgf/cm2 and sintered in temperatures ranging from 870°C to 900°C, we could observe several kinds of singular behavior, such as a double superconducting transition, the Paramagnetic Meissner effect (PME) and the occurrence of two minima in magnetization versus magnetic field curves, M x H. Such effects are related with the intergranular properties, being more evident in superconducting granular samples presenting a narrow intergranular critical current distribution. Due to the narrow intergranular critical current distribution, which is a consequence of similar properties of the weak links (WLs), it became possible to build a phase diagram containing the Hc wl(T) line for such samples, including also Hc1(T), which separates the Meissner from the Mixed states. Both lines are extrinsic properties of the samples, since they depend on specific procedures adopted during sample preparation. Associating Hc wl(T) with the upper limit of superconductivity for the intergranular matrix, and Hc1(T) with the frontier of the Meissner state, we have verified two major classes of WLs were present. We were then able to model those boundary lines as if they were type II superconductors. The Ginzburg-Landau parameters obtained from this modeling process are: _0 wl = 19,7 for the WL class having Tc wl = 85,5 K and _1 wl = 238,2 for the class presenting Tc wl = 51,4 K. Simulations of ac-susceptibility measurements as a function of the excitation field, _ac x T, were in good agreement with the experimental results for the powder samples, revealing that such specimens have broad intergranular critical current distributions. For pellets sintered in the 870°C - 900°C temperature interval, simulations of _ac x T are inefficient, since they do not take into account the positive component of the magnetic moment associated to flux trapped at intergranular regions of samples exhibiting PME.
Fracionamento de Ba, Cr, Cu, Ni e Zn em solos tratados com lodo de esgoto em experimentos de longa duração
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2010-05-14) Santos, Larissa Macedo dos; Nogueira, Ana Rita de Araújo; https://lattes.cnpq.br/7034773971317045; https://lattes.cnpq.br/9439814411927273
As the agronomic importance of the provision of agricultural sewage sludge, and its growing concerning environmental point of view, in this work decomposition procedures of soil samples subjected to the addition of sewage sludge were evaluated for total content determination of Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn; the contents of the aforementioned elements present in two tropical soils, Typic Eutrorthox and Typic Haplorthox, collected through 11 years of experiment were determined and compared, in order to evaluate the accumulation and dynamic of these analytes; the availability of Ba, Cr, Cu, Ni and Zn in the soils subjected to the addition of sewage sludge after 11 consecutive years were evaluated by means of sequential extraction, and a methodology for determining the availability of elements potentially toxic in soils subjected to the addition of sewage sludge from the assessment of humic fractions, fulvic acid 1, fulvic acid 2, humic acid and humin + mineral obtained during the chemical fractionation of soil organic matter was proposed. The use of reversed aqua regia, H2O2, predigestion and agitation after the addition of HF presented above of 90% of recovery for Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn and the complete dissolution of silicate compounds for the tropical evaluated soils. The addition of sludge resulted in significant increase of total contents of Cr, Cu, Ni and Zn to Typic Eutrorthox and Ba, Cu and Zn to Typic Haplorthox. Availability studies presented significant amount of Cr, Cu, Ni and Zn bounded to the Mn and Fe oxides and residual fractions, indicating the low availability of these elements in the evaluated soils. The chemical fractionation of soil organic matter obtained results confirm the high concentration of potentially toxic elements in the oxides in the Typic Eutrorthox soil and in the humic acid in the Typic Haplorthox soil. Although the sewage sludge added to soil increase the levels of potentially toxic elements, these are present in the most stable fractions of soil. In other words, less available or less mobile.