A espécie Lippia sidoides (Verbenaceae) é conhecida no Brasil como alecrim-pimenta, um arbusto típico da vegetação do nordeste brasileiro. Este trabalho foi realizado no Instituto de Ciências Agrárias da UFMG, em Montes Claros, Brasil, com a finalidade de estudar a propagação vegetativa do alecrim-pimenta em leito de enraizamento com umidade controlada. Estacas da planta foram submetidas às seguintes concentrações de ácido indolbutírico (IBA): 0, 250, 500, 750 e 1000 mg L-1 durante 24 horas. O experimento foi conduzido em delineamento inteiramente casualizado (DIC) com cinco repetições, sendo dez estacas por repetição. Após 45 dias de implantação foram avaliados o número de raízes, o número de brotações, o comprimento da maior raiz, o índice de enraizamento e a porcentagem de enraizamento. Observou-se que as variáveis comprimento de raiz, número de raízes e índice de enraizamento apresentaram diferenças significativas entre as diversas concentrações de IBA. No entanto, a porcentagem de enraizamento não foi afetada significativamente, provavelmente pelo controle da umidade relativa e pela manutenção das folhas das estacas.

The species Lippia sidoides Cham. (Verbenaceae) is known in Brazil as "alecrim-pimenta", a typical shrub from the Northeastern Brazil vegetation. This work was carried out in the Agronomical Sciences Institute from Minas Gerais State University (UFMG), Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, in order to study the vegetative propagation of this species in rooting bed under controlled humidity. Herbaceous cuttings were treated with the following concentrations of indolebutyric acid (IBA): 0, 250, 500, 750, and 1000 mg L-1 for 24 hours. The experimental design was completely randomized (CRD) with five replicates of 10 cuttings each. After 45 days, root and sprout numbers, the highest root length, and rooting index and percentage were evaluated. Root length and number and rooting index had significant differences among IBA concentrations. However, rooting percentage was not significantly affected, probably due to the control of relative humidity and the maintenance of cuttings from leaves.

Avaliou-se a eficácia de lactonas macrocíclicas (ivermectina e moxidectina) sobre a eventual ocorrência de efeitos colaterais e acompanharam-se, após a alta parasitológica, por 12 meses, os cães tratados, visando detectar a recidiva do quadro dermatopático. Dos 63 animais, 59% eram fêmeas, 76% apresentavam precisa definição racial e 67% tinham pelame curto. A ivermectina (0,6mg/kg/dia) foi administrada por via oral a 31 cães, e a moxidectina (0,5mg/kg/cada 72 horas), pela mesma via, a 32 animais. Os tempos médios para a obtenção da primeira negativação do exame parasitológico do raspado cutâneo e para a consecução da alta foram, respectivamente, de 90 e 130 dias para a ivermectina e de 108 e 147 dias para a moxidectina. A ivermectina acarretou menos (16,1%) efeitos colaterais em relação à moxidectina (37,5%) (P=0,03). As recidivas foram, respectivamente, 10,3% e 13% para ivermectina e moxidectina. Não houve diferença entre os dois protocolos de terapia quanto aos percentuais de recidiva (P=0,67) e eficácia (P=0,61). Ambas as lactonas macrocíclicas mostraram-se eficazes: ivermectina 89,7% e moxidectina 87%.

The efficacy of ivermectin and moxidectin for treatment of generalized canine demodicosis, was evaluated to detect the eventual occurrence of side effects caused by the use of these drugs, and to follow the treated dogs for 12 months after obtaining parasitologic cure. Of 63 dogs, 59% were females, 76% were defined as purebred and 67% had short hair. Ivermectin (0.6mg/kg/daily) was orally administered to 31 dogs and moxidectin (0.5mg/kg/every 72 hours) to 32 dogs. The average number of days to obtain the first negative skin scraping results and the parasitologic cure were, respectively, 90 and 130 days for ivermectin, and 108 and 147 days for moxidectin. Ivermectin caused fewer side effects (16.1%) than moxidectin (37.5%) (P<0.05). The percentages of relapse were, respectively, 10.3% and 13.0% when ivermectin and moxidectin were administered. No difference between protocols of therapy was found for percentage of relapse (P>0.67) and efficacy (P>0.61). Both drugs were effective and safe to treat generalized canine demodicosis: ivermectin 89.7% and moxidectin 87.0%.

Objective: To determine the association between chronic lead intoxication and growth and cognitive-emotional development alterations in children at "María Reiche" school - Callao. Design: Crossectional study. Material and Methods: To 70 children 8 to 12 year-old from "María Reiche" school (A.A.H.H. "Puerto Nuevo"- Callao), who had participated in a survey blood lead screening (General Direction of Environmental Health, in 1999), we applied instructions monitoring tests, communicative, motor, manipulator, and academic abilities test as well as anxiety checkup list. The intellectual coefficient and BMI (body mass index) were measured. Chi square, t-Student and simple lineal correlation tests were employed for prosecution of data using the statistical package SPSS version 11.0 with a 95% confidence level. Results: By chi square test there was a significant (p=0,025) relation between blood lead levels and degrees of anxiety. There was significant difference between anxiety check-up list score averages and categorization of lead levels by t-Student test (p=0,031). The relation between blood lead levels and intellectual coefficient, as well as communicative, motor, academic, manipulator abilities, monitoring of instructions and body mass index did not turn out to be significant. Conclusion: There is an association between chronic lead intoxication and anxiety degree (emotional development). However, there was no association with growth or cognitive development.

Objetivo: Determinar la asociación entre intoxicación plúmbica crónica y alteraciones del crecimiento y desarrollo cognitivo-emocional en niños del colegio "María Reiche"- Callao. Diseño: Estudio observacional de corte transversal. Material y Métodos: A 70 niños de 8 a 12 años de edad del C.E. Nº 5045 "María Reiche" del A.A.H.H. "Puerto Nuevo"- Callao, que participaron en el estudio de dosaje de plomo en sangre hecho por la Dirección General de Salud Ambiental en 1999, se les aplicó pruebas de seguimiento de instrucciones, habilidades motoras, comunicativas, manipulativas, académicas y la lista de chequeo de ansiedad. Se midió el coeficiente intelectual e índice de masa corporal. Para el procesamiento de los datos se empleó las pruebas chi-cuadrado, t de Student, correlación y regresión lineal simple, usando el paquete estadístico SPSS versión 11.0, con un nivel de confianza de 95%. Resultados: Los niveles de plomo en sangre y los grados de ansiedad se relacionaron significativamente mediante la prueba chi-cuadrado (p=0,025); se encontró diferencias significativas entre las medias del puntaje de la lista de chequeo de ansiedad y la categorización de los niveles de plomo, mediante la prueba t de Student (p= 0,031). La relación entre los niveles de plomo en sangre y el coeficiente intelectual, las habilidades académicas, motoras, comunicativas, manipulativas, seguimiento de instrucciones e índice de masa corporal no resultaron significativos. Conclusiones: Se encontró asociación significativa entre la intoxicación plúmbica crónica y el grado de ansiedad (desarrollo emocional). Sin embargo, no se encontró asociación con el crecimiento ni con el desarrollo cognitivo.

Salivary cortisol is an index of plasma free cortisol and is obtained by a noninvasive procedure. We have been using salivary cortisol as a tool for physiological and diagnostic studies, among them the emergence of circadian rhythm in preterm and term infants. The salivary cortisol circadian rhythm in term and premature infants was established between 8 and 12 postnatal weeks. In the preterm infants the emergence of circadian rhythm was parallel to the onset of sleep rhythm. We also studied the use of salivary cortisol for screening for Cushing's syndrome (CS) in control and obese outpatients based on circadian rhythm and the overnight 1 mg dexamethasone (DEX) suppression test. Salivary cortisol was suppressed to less than 100 ng/dl after 1 mg DEX in control and obese patients. A single salivary cortisol measurement at 23:00 h and again after 1 mg DEX above the 90th percentile of the obese group values had sensitivity and specificity of 93 and 93% (23:00 h), and 91 and 94% (after DEX), respectively. The sensitivity improved to 100% when we combined both parameters. We also studied 11 CS children and 21 age-matched primary obese children for whom salivary cortisol sensitivity and specificity were 100/95% (23:00 h), and 100/95% (1 mg DEX), respectively. Similar to adults, sensitivity and specificity of 100% were obtained by combining 23:00 h and 1 mg DEX. The measurement of salivary cortisol is a useful tool for physiological studies and for the diagnosis of CS in children and adults on an outpatient basis.

Compararam-se dezesseis linhagens mutantes tolerantes à toxicidade de alumínio em solução nutritiva, uma linhagem mutante sensível e os cultivares Anahuac, IAC-60 e IAC-24, de trigo. As linhagens mutantes foram originárias de seleções realizadas em populações do cultivar Anahuac (sensível ao Al3+) cujas sementes foram submetidas ao tratamento de irradiação gama com as doses de 260 e 310 Gy. As comparações foram realizadas em dois locais através de seis experimentos em épocas diferentes, analisando-se a produção de grãos, características agronômicas e tolerância a solos ácidos. Quinze linhagens mutantes foram mais produtivas que o cultivar Anahuac e a linhagem mutante sensível ao Al3+, em Capão Bonito, em solo ácido e em condição de sequeiro. Nestas condições, o cultivar IAC-60 foi o que exibiu a maior produtividade, diferindo dos demais. Todos os genótipos estudados não diferiram entre si, quanto à produtividade de grãos, em Tatuí, em solo corrigido e com irrigação por aspersão. Irradiação gama no cultivar Anahuac foi eficiente possibilitando a seleção de linhagens mutantes com características agronômicas (altura de planta, ciclo da emergência ao florescimento, comprimento da espiga, número de espiguetas por espiga, número de grãos por espiga e espigueta e peso de 100 grãos) similares às do cultivar original, porém com tolerância à toxicidade de Al3+, tornando possível o seu cultivo em solos ácidos.

Sixteen mutant lines tolerant to Al3+ toxicity in nutrient solutions, and a mutant line, sensitive to Al3+ originated from selections of a population of the cultivar Anahuac (sensitive to Al3+) previously submitted to gamma irradiation (260 and 310Gy), and the check cultivars Anahuac, IAC-24 and IAC-60, were evaluated in two locations and six trials, for grain yield, agronomic characteristics and tolerance to acid soils. ln Capão Bonito, in an acid soil and upland conditions, fifteen mutant lines presented higher grain yield in comparison to the cultivar Anahuac and the Al3+ sensitive mutant line. The cultivar IAC-60 exhibited the highest productivity. ln Tatuí, in a limed soil, sprinkler irrigated, no difference was observed in grain yield among the tested genotypes. Gamma irradiation of seeds of the Anahuac cultivar was efficient to select mutant lines with similar agronomic characteristics (plant height, days from emergence to flowering, spike length, number of spiklets per spike, number of grains per spike and spiklet, and weight of 100 grains) in relation to the cultivar Anahuac, presenting however tolerance to Al3+ toxicity, which enables them to be cutivated in acid soil conditions.