Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic fungal infection affecting mainly Latin American countries that is caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and Paracoccidioides lutzii. During the study of fungal pathogenesis, in vivo ...

Caffeine is present in large amount of products consumed in the diet and it has been considered the most widely used psychoactive drug worldwide. In mammals, low doses of caffeine promote antagonism of adenosine receptors, ...

The cell biology of sumoylation has mostly been studied using transformed cultured cells and yeast. Inrecent years, genetic analysis has demonstrated important roles for sumoylation in the biology of C. elegans. Here, we ...

Determining an accurate count of intestinal bacteria from Caenorhabditis elegans is onecritical way to assess colonization proficiency by a given bacteria. This can be accomplished by culturingappropriate dilutions of worm ...

Circadian rhythms govern a wide variety of physiological and metabolic functions in most organisms through neural networks, hormones and gene expression. In this work, we studied the circadian variation in metabolic variables ...