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    O PIBID de li como ferramenta para a melhora da oralidade: relato de uma intervenção

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    Anais do II Seminário Seminário Estadual PIBID do Paraná: tecendo saberes / organizado por Dulcyene Maria Ribeiro e Catarina Costa Fernandes — Foz do Iguaçu: Unioeste; Unila, 2014O presente trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar uma sequência didática desenvolvida pelos alunos do Programa Institucional de bolsas à iniciação à docência de uma universidade estadual localizada no norte do Paraná no 9o ano de um colégio da rede básica de ensino, nível ensino médio. Com a finalidade de antecipar o vínculo entre futuros professores e a sala de aula da rede pública bem como tornar o ensino mais efetivo e prazeroso, desenvolvemos em nossa sequência a oralidade por meio do gênero música, uma vez que é um gênero presente no cotidiano do nosso público alvo. A partir do exposto e com base no referencial teórico do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo (BRONCKART, 2009) e da sequência didática a (DOLZ, NOVERRAZ, SCHNEWLY, 2004) contribuímos com a ampliação do vocabulário, aperfeiçoamento da pronúncia, além de outras aptidões específica

    How Different Are Aromatic π Interactions from Aliphatic π Interactions and Non-π Stacking Interactions?

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    We compare aromatic π interactions with aliphatic π interactions of double- and triple-bonded π systems and non-π stacking interactions of single-bonded σ systems. The model dimer systems of acetylene (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>, ethylene (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>, ethane (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>)<sub>2</sub>, benzene (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub>)<sub>2</sub>, and cyclohexane (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>12</sub>)<sub>2</sub> are investigated. The ethylene dimer has large dispersion energy, while the acetylene dimer has strong electrostatic energy. The aromatic π interactions are strong with particularly large dispersion and electrostatic energies, which would explain why aromatic compounds are frequently found in crystal packing and molecular self-engineering. It should be noted that the difference in binding energy between the benzene dimer (aromatic–aromatic interactions) and the cyclohexane dimer (aliphatic–aliphatic interactions) is not properly described in most density functionals

    Aromatic Excimers: <i>Ab Initio</i> and TD-DFT Study

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    Excited dimers (excimers) formed by aromatic molecules are important in biological systems as well as in chemical sensing. The structure of many biological systems is governed by excimer formation. Since theoretical studies of such systems provide important information about mutual arrangement of aromatic molecules in structural biology, we carried out extensive calculations on the benzene excimer using EOM-CCSD, RI-CC2, CASPT2, and TD-DFT approaches. For the benzene excimer, we evaluate the reliability of the TD-DFT method based on the B3LYP, PBE, PBE0, and ωPBEh functionals. We extended the calculations to naphthalene, anthracene, and pyrene excimers. We find that nearly parallel stacked forms are the minimum energy structure. On the basis of the benzene to pyrene excimers, we might roughly estimate the equilibrium layer-to-layer distance for bilayer-long arenes in the first singlet excited state, which is predicted to be bound

    Real Time PCR analysis of HLA gene transcription.

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    @<p>Data represent Mean fold change relative to uninfected.</p><p>controls ± SEM of triplicate assays.</p>*<p>P value <0.001,</p>#<p>P value <0.01.</p

    Stimulation of sHLA-E shedding and HLA-E gene expression in uninfected cells.

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    <p>Panel A: Uninfected (Lanes 3 and 7) and JEV infected ECV cells (Lanes 4 and 8) were cultured in the presence of untreated (Lanes 1 to 4) or UV inactivated culture supernatants (Lanes 5 to 8) obtained from 24 h-infected ECV cells. The supernatants harvested from these cultures after a period of 24 h were concentrated 10× and analysed for the release of sHLA-E by Western blotting on the same gel. Uninfected ECV culture supernatants were loaded on lanes 1 and 5 while the infected ECV culture supernatants used for stimulation were loaded on lanes 2 and 6. Panel B: UV inactivated culture supernatants obtained previously from 24 h-infected ECV cells were added to uninfected ECV cells and cultured in the presence of 3 µg and 6 µg of anti-TNFα, anti-IFNAR antibodies or both for 12 h. Cells were harvested and used for RNA extraction and analysis of HLA-E gene expression by real time quantification. Controls (JEV Con) included infected cells cultured in the presence of 6 µg of the appropriate mouse isotype antibody. Data represent mean fold change over control RNA ± SEM. Panel C: Cell culture supernatants were harvested and concentrated 10× and analysed for sHLA-E by ELISA. Data represent the mean sHLA-E released per culture ± SEM (*P<0.001, <sup>#</sup>P<0.01, <sup>†</sup>P<0.05).</p

    Infection of Human Endothelial Cells by Japanese Encephalitis Virus: Increased Expression and Release of Soluble HLA-E

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    <div><p>Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a single stranded RNA virus that infects the central nervous system leading to acute encephalitis in children. Alterations in brain endothelial cells have been shown to precede the entry of this flavivirus into the brain, but infection of endothelial cells by JEV and their consequences are still unclear. Productive JEV infection was established in human endothelial cells leading to IFN-β and TNF-α production. The MHC genes for HLA-A, -B, -C and HLA-E antigens were upregulated in human brain microvascular endothelial cells, the endothelial-like cell line, ECV 304 and human foreskin fibroblasts upon JEV infection. We also report the release/shedding of soluble HLA-E (sHLA-E) from JEV infected human endothelial cells for the first time. This shedding of sHLA-E was blocked by an inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP). In addition, MMP-9, a known mediator of HLA solubilisation was upregulated by JEV. In contrast, human fibroblasts showed only upregulation of cell-surface HLA-E. Addition of UV inactivated JEV-infected cell culture supernatants stimulated shedding of sHLA-E from uninfected ECV cells indicating a role for soluble factors/cytokines in the shedding process. Antibody mediated neutralization of TNF-α as well as IFNAR receptor together not only resulted in inhibition of sHLA-E shedding from uninfected cells, it also inhibited HLA-E and MMP-9 gene expression in JEV-infected cells. Shedding of sHLA-E was also observed with purified TNF-α and IFN-β as well as the dsRNA analog, poly (I:C). Both IFN-β and TNF-α further potentiated the shedding when added together. The role of soluble MHC antigens in JEV infection is hitherto unknown and therefore needs further investigation.</p></div

    JEV infection and expression of HLA antigens.

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    <p>As labeled, ECV, HBMEC and HFF were stained for the cell surface expression of total HLA class I (Panel A) and HLA-E (Panel B) at 30 h after JEV infection. Alterations in cell surface expression of total HLA class I and HLA-E were not observed when tested at earlier times of infection and have not been shown. Filled histograms represent cells stained with control antibody while dotted lines represent antigen-specific staining with uninfected cells and solid lines represent antigen-specific staining with JEV-infected or IFN-γ treated cells. Insets in both panels represent cells treated for 24 h with 500 IU/ml IFN-γ. Panel C represents Western blotting analysis of cell lysates from uninfected cells (Con) and cells infected for the labeled times. Numbers at the bottom indicate the fold change in banding intensities of HLA-E after normalization to β-tubulin.</p

    Real Time PCR analysis of MMP-9 gene transcription.

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    @<p>Data represent Mean fold change relative to untreated.</p><p>controls ± SEM of triplicate assays.</p>§<p>ECV cells that were mock infected for 18, 24 and 30 h.</p><p>did not result in significant changes in gene expression.</p>*<p>P value <0.001,</p>#<p>P value <0.01.</p>†<p>nd: not determined.</p

    JEV infection of human endothelial cells.

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    <p>Top Panel: Total RNA from ECV, HBMEC and HFF cells was subjected to semiquantitative RT-PCR analysis for JEV envelope and control 18s rRNA. Bottom Panel: Cell lysates (100 µg protein) from ECV, HBMEC and HFF were subjected to Western blotting using rabbit anti JEV-NS3 and control goat anti-β-tubulin antibodies. Both panels show uninfected cells (Con) and cells infected for 12 h, 18 h, 24 h or 30 h.</p

    Shedding of sHLA-E into JEV-infected culture supernatants.

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    <p>Panel A: Western blot for sHLA-E in cell-culture supernatants from uninfected (Con) and infected HBMEC and ECV at various times p.i. as labeled. ‘Gelatinase’ represents enzyme activity in normal (Con) ECV cells that were either treated with IFN-γ or infected with JEV for the indicated times. Panel B: Cell-culture supernatants were collected from ECV or HBMEC cells that were infected for 24 h with JEV and cultured in the presence of 0 µM, 5 µM and 10 µM GM6001. Panel C: Cell-culture supernatants were collected from uninfected (Con) and 24 h JEV-infected (Top) or TNF-α treated (Bottom) ECV cells that were left untreated or treated with 10 µM GM6001, 10 µM leupeptin, 1 mM PMSF, and 100 µM chloroquine. Panel D: Total RNA was isolated from uninfected (Con) and 24 h JEV-infected ECV cells that were left untreated or treated with 10 µM GM6001, 10 µM leupeptin, 1 mM PMSF, and 100 µM chloroquine. RT-PCR was performed for the JEV envelope and 18s RNA controls. All inhibitors used in panels B, C and D were present only during the last 8 h of the 24 h-culture.</p
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