Tales Alexandre Aversi-Ferreira

Anatomia comparativa dos nervos da coxa de Cebus libidinosus (Rylands et al., 2000)

Non-human primates have constituted an important group among animals subjected to various studies. Ethological, evolutionary and paleontological studies have revealed changes in anatomical structures linked to the evolution of primates, considered in studies on the comparative anatomy between Cebus libidinosus and other neotropical monkeys or those from the Old World, and the detailed knowledge on their anatomy may represent an important factor for their preservation and protection when the animals are brought to veterinary clinics after accidents or illnesses. In terms of veterinary importance, sometimes these animals arrive in the veterinary medical clinics after accidents, needing surgery or clinical treatment, but the little data available on anatomy has impaired the correct proceedings. The main justification for studies on C. libidinosus, is due to little information about the anatomy related to C. libidinosus in Brazilian and worldwide scientific literature. In this study, the distribution, enervation and path of the femoral and sciatic nerves of the pelvic limb (thigh) of C. libidinosus were studied and these results were compared with literature on the anatomy of humans, chimpanzees and baboons. In general, the enervation model of the four primates is identical, but in specific terms, the differences in enervations indicate evolution convergence closer to the branch of baboons in the evolutionary tree, and these data corroborate other comparative studies in relation to the same primates to vessels, muscles and nerves. In conclusion, the nerve organization in the thigh of C. libidinosus is identical to baboon, chimpanzee and homo, but more similar to baboon. The specific differences found indicate an ancient phylogenic origin to C. libidinosus and baboons (data corroborated by other studies).

A experiência do professor orientador de estudante indígena em enfermagem

The Permanent Program for Monitoring of Indian Students (PPAEIND) aims to serve indigenous students in the State of Mato Grosso (MT) who join the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in undergraduate courses, through special and differential selection process. The program provides a Faculty Mentor as a link between the university’s indigenous and non-indigenous students. This is an experience report of a Faculty Mentor in the nursing course at the Campus Rondonópolis, where two vacancies were filled by indigenous students in 2007. The experience to work as Faculty Mentor brought a challenge of cultural diversity in relation to the knowledge of care. Therapeutic communication was an effective tool in the process.The Permanent Program for Monitoring of Indian Students (PPAEIND) aims to serve indigenous students in the State of Mato Grosso (MT) who join the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in undergraduate courses, through special and differential selection process. The program provides a Faculty Mentor as a link between the university’s indigenous and non-indigenous students. This is an experience report of a Faculty Mentor in the nursing course at the Campus Rondonopolis, where two vacancies were filled by indigenous students in 2007. The experience to work as Faculty Mentor brought a challenge of cultural diversity in relation to the knowledge of care. Therapeutic communication was an effective tool in the process.

The effect of acute and chronic exposure to ethanol on the developing encephalon: a review

OBJECTIVES: to compare the acute and chronic effects of ethanol on the neural development, by analysis of the ontogenetic neural structure of mammals. METHODS: searches were performed in the following electronic databases: MEDLINE, SciElo, PubMed, LILACS, CAPES periodical, and the Open Journal System. The descriptors used were: chronic ethanol toxicity, chronic alcohol toxicity, acute ethanol toxicity, acute alcohol, neural ontogenic development, neuronal migration disturbances, neural structure. The following inclusion criteria were used: articles published between 2003 and 2007, some classic articles in the field and an important neuropsychology textbook. RESULTS: the analysis of papers revealed that, although several studies of the chronic effects of ethanol exposure on the mammalian nervous system have been conducted, only a few have investigated the acute effects of ethanol on specific days of gestation, and these studies have revealed important disorders relating to the cerebral tissue. CONCLUSIONS: it should be recommended that women refrain from the consumption of ethanol during gestational phase to protect the fetus health. Furthermore, the acute consumption of ethanol by women nearing the eighth or ninth week of gestation has been shown to be potentially harmful to the nervous tissue of the fetus.

A Statistic Method for Anatomical and Evolutionary Analysis

Rules, formulas, and statistical tests have been widely used in studies that analyze continuous variables with the normal (Gaussian) distribution or defined parameters. Nevertheless, in some studies such as those in gross anatomy, only statistics with discrete or nominal variables are available. In fact, the existence or absence of an anatomical structure, its features and internal aspects, innervation, arterial and vein supplies, etc. can be analyzed as discrete and/or nominal variables. However, there have been no adequate methods, which allow transformation of data with qualitative/nominal variables in gross anatomy to those with quantitative variables. To resolve the issue, we have purposed a new method that allows, in order, descriptions based on numerical analyses, the statistical method for comparative anatomy (SMCA), and proposed the formula for comparison of groups of anatomical structures among different species that allows to infer evolutionary perspective. The important features of this method are as follows: (1) to allow to analyze numerical data, which are converted from discrete or nominal variables in morphological areas and (2) to quantitatively compare identical structures within the same species and across different species. The SMCA fills the lack of a specific method for statistical works in comparative anatomy, morphology, in general, and evolutional correlations.

La experiencia del profesor orientador del estudiante indígena en enfermería

The Permanent Program for Monitoring of Indian Students (PPAEIND) aims to serve indigenous students in the State of Mato Grosso (MT) who join the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in undergraduate courses, through special and differential selection process. The program provides a Faculty Mentor as a link between the university’s indigenous and non-indigenous students. This is an experience report of a Faculty Mentor in the nursing course at the Campus Rondonópolis, where two vacancies were filled by indigenous students in 2007. The experience to work as Faculty Mentor brought a challenge of cultural diversity in relation to the knowledge of care. Therapeutic communication was an effective tool in the process.The Permanent Program for Monitoring of Indian Students (PPAEIND) aims to serve indigenous students in the State of Mato Grosso (MT) who join the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in undergraduate courses, through special and differential selection process. The program provides a Faculty Mentor as a link between the university’s indigenous and non-indigenous students. This is an experience report of a Faculty Mentor in the nursing course at the Campus Rondonopolis, where two vacancies were filled by indigenous students in 2007. The experience to work as Faculty Mentor brought a challenge of cultural diversity in relation to the knowledge of care. Therapeutic communication was an effective tool in the process.

The experience of a faculty mentor to indigenous nursing student

The Permanent Program for Monitoring of Indian Students (PPAEIND) aims to serve indigenous students in the State of Mato Grosso (MT) who join the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in undergraduate courses, through special and differential selection process. The program provides a Faculty Mentor as a link between the university’s indigenous and non-indigenous students. This is an experience report of a Faculty Mentor in the nursing course at the Campus Rondonópolis, where two vacancies were filled by indigenous students in 2007. The experience to work as Faculty Mentor brought a challenge of cultural diversity in relation to the knowledge of care. Therapeutic communication was an effective tool in the process.The Permanent Program for Monitoring of Indian Students (PPAEIND) aims to serve indigenous students in the State of Mato Grosso (MT) who join the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in undergraduate courses, through special and differential selection process. The program provides a Faculty Mentor as a link between the university’s indigenous and non-indigenous students. This is an experience report of a Faculty Mentor in the nursing course at the Campus Rondonopolis, where two vacancies were filled by indigenous students in 2007. The experience to work as Faculty Mentor brought a challenge of cultural diversity in relation to the knowledge of care. Therapeutic communication was an effective tool in the process.