There is strength in numbers. The 100 trillionstrong human-gut bacterial population, referred to as microbiota, validate this aphorism with the growing recognition of their effect on health and disease…

Animal experimentation is limited by unethical procedures, time-consuming protocols, and high cost. Thus, the development of innovative approaches for disease treatment based on alternative models in a fast, safe, and ...

OBJECTIVES: To compare the new tools to evaluate the energy dissipated to the lung parenchyma in mechanically ventilated children with and without lung injury. We compared their discrimination capability between both ...

There is very little information about the effect of inspiratory muscle training on inspiratory how (V'I) and thus an power output (PO) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this study me aimed ...

Muscle weakness is a secondary motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), especially in the subtype characterized by postural instability and gait difficulty (PIGD). Since the PIGD subtype also presents worse bradykinesia, ...

The colonization of the tooth surface and epithelial cells in the interior of the gingival sulcus or periodontal pocket by bacterial biofilms is a complex process that occurs even following adequate oral hygiene. The ...