Search results for "Mania"

First study on trichothecene and zearalenone exposure of the Romanian population through wheat-based products consumption

2018

Abstract In this study, a dietary exposure assessment of mycotoxins was conducted for the Romanian population using the contamination data of a various categories of wheat-based products for direct human consumption. Wheat-based foods (n = 181) commercialized in Romania, including flour, bread, biscuits, breakfast cereals and pasta, were evaluated by GC-QqQ-MS/MS for the occurrence of deoxynivalenol (DON), 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol (3AcDON), 15-acetyldeoxynivalenol (15AcDON), fusarenon-X, nivalenol, HT-2 and T-2 toxins, diacetoxyscirpenol, neosolaniol and zearalenone (ZEA). DON and 15AcDON were detected in 63 and 5% of all the analyzed samples, whereas 13-AcDON, HT-2, T-2, NIV and ZEA were not…

TTAS a New Stilbene Derivative that Induces Apoptosis in Leishmania Infantum

2012

Leishmania parasites are able to undergo apoptosis (programmed cell death), similarly to mammalian cells. Recently it was demonstrated in vitro the anti-leishmanial effect of some natural and synthetic stilbenoids including resveratrol and piceatannol. In this study we evaluated the Leishmanicidal activity of a pool of stilbene derivatives which had previously shown high apoptotic efficacy against neoplastic cells. All the compounds tested were capable to decrease the parasite viability in a dose-dependent manner. Trans-stilbenes proved to be markedly more effective than cis-isomers. This was different from that observed in tumor cells in which cis-stilbenes were more potent cytotoxic agent…

Els cobejats fruits de l'oblit

2009

Los codiciados frutos del olvido

2008

On the reservoirs of Leishmania infantum in urban areas

2020

Leishmania has biologically adapted to specific phlebotomine sand flies through long co-evolution. The ability of Leishmania spp. to bind to sand fly midgut allows each Leishmania species to propagate and differentiate into infectious promastigotes and be transmitted. Sand fly feeding upon a mammalian host is the first step towards being infected and a host of Leishmania. Once deposited into the skin, host susceptibility to infection vs. ability to mount a sterilizing immune response predicts which hosts could be reservoirs of different Leishmania spp. Materials, in addition to parasites, are expelled during sand fly during feeding, including salivary antigens and other factors that promote…

Geocriticism: for an interpretation of the Romanian novel about the Revolution of 1989

2019

Abstract The main aim of this paper is to present a recent approach to literary text- the geocritical method- both from a descriptive and a polemic point of view, and, at the same time, to determine the applicability of this method and the concepts issued by Betrand Westphal on the Romanian novel describing Bucharest during the Revolution of 1989. Following the routes presented in the novels of two contemporary authors, Mircea Cărtărescu and Bogdan Suceava, I will try to propose a new method of topos analysis in the novel, which could re-evaluate the representation of the spaces caught at the boundary between reality and fiction (in the future).

Territorial fragmentation in post-communist Romania: the not so curious case of a de-amalgamation reform

2021

Abstract The efficiency-driven trend towards amalgamation characterising local government reforms in Europe seems to have escaped Romania, which displays a significant increase in the number of local governments post-1989. This is the result of rural first-tier local governments splitting into smaller units. The paper examines objective factors and subjective motivations that have shaped the behaviour of both national and local actors in dealing with territorial reform. First, it explores the rationale and rationality of a central government initiative to facilitate municipal splits against a set of criteria derived from the literature. Second, it examines the municipal splits occurring bet…

Land Snail Fauna of “Porţile de Fier” (“Iron Gates”) Nature Park (Banat, Romania)

2014

Abstract The paper presents an analysis of terrestrial mollusc fauna of the “Iron Gates” Nature Park. Various types of habitats (e.g. forests, rocks, riparian areas) and substrates (e.g. limestone, conglomerate, crystalline schist) were analyzed. A total of 45 species of terrestrial gastropods were identified in 17 sampling points, four of which are mentioned for the first time in the area. Six other species cited in the literature were not found. Limestone substrate allows the development of large populations of terrestrial gastropods, but the specific diversity is larger when it is associated with a forest habitat. The current legal and illegal exploitation of limestone threatens the moll…

Les ammonites du Niger (Afrique occidentale) et la transgression transsaharienne au cours du Cénomanien-Turonien

1992

Resume Notre travail s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une revision de la paleontologie des ammonites liees a la transgression transsaharienne du Cenomanien-Turonien et d’un affinement de la biostratigraphie dans le bassin sedimentaire des Iullemeden (Niger occidental et meridional: Mt Iguelela et Damergou). Plus de 700 ammonites ont ete recoltees avec precision dans 8 localites, Il a ete ainsi possible de mettre en evidence une serie de 9 horizons biostratigraphiques et de decrire egalement 3 taxons nouveaux. En particulier, la presence de Metoicoceras geslinianum (d’ Orbigny ), associe aux Nigericeras gadeni ( Chudeau ) permet de mieux correler les niveaux a N. gadeni avec le nord-ouest de l’Euro…

Astérides du Cénomanien de Charente-Maritime (SW France)

1993

Resume Des restes d'Asterides (plaques infero- et superomarginales) ont ete trouves dans les sediments du Cenomanien deCharente-Maritime (Sud-Ouest de la France). Ils appartiennent a 17 taxons, dont la nouvelle espece Calliderma moreaui nov. sp., et correspondent a 5 familles differentes: Goniasteridae, Pycinasteridae, Stauranderasteridae, Sphaerasteridae et Astropectinidae. Leur description est suivie d'une breve analyse de leurs repartitions stratigraphique et paleobiogeographique.