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Prostate cancer
Full text linkThe prostate is the largest accessory gland of the male reproductive tract. Together with seminal vesicles and bulbourethral glands, the prostate is responsible for the production of an alkaline fluid that forms part of the seminal fluid. The prostate of men over 40 years of age is commonly affected by several pathologies, such as benign prostate hyperplasia and cancer.
Prostate cancer is one of the most frequent cancers among the male population worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the year 2020, prostate cancer affected approximately 1.41 million men and was responsible for the death of 375,304 of them. Prostate cancer development is associated with several risk factors including older age, black ethnicity, a family history of the disease, an increased body mass index, and obesity. The risk of prostate cancer development may be reduced through the consumption of a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables, practice of physical exercise, and maintenance of a healthy weight.
Despite several approaches being available for prostate cancer treatment, the number of prostate cancer deaths is continuously increasing, which emphasizes the need to search for new methods for precocious diagnosis and more effective treatment. Animal models including rodents have greatly contributed to the study of biopathology and the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer.
This Special Issue entitled “Prostate Cancer II” aims to publish original research works and reviews concerning the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of prostate cancer, highlighting new advances in this field
Chemical carcinogens: an overview.
No full textFaustino-Rocha AI. 2023. Chemical carcinogens: an overview. 8th Edition of Global Conference on Pharmaceutics and Novel Drug Delivery Systems, 13 a 14 de mai
Animal models of disease: useful or not?
Full text linkFaustino-Rocha AI. 2021. Animal models of disease: useful or not? From in silico to animal models for the study of human diseases. 17 de março, Aveiro, Portugal
Addressing the importance of animal models for breast cancer Research
No full textFaustino-Rocha AI. 2023. Addressing the importance of animal models for breast cancer Research. 13th World Congress on Breast Cancer, 02 de maio (online
Are animal models important? An overview of animal models of cancer
No full textFaustino-Rocha AI. 2023. Are animal models important? An overview of animal models of cancer. International Conference on Veterinary Science, 28 a 29 de agosto
Animal models of skin cancer: the example of a chemically- induced rat model
No full textFaustino-Rocha AI. 2023. Animal models of skin cancer: the example of a chemically- induced rat model. 3rd Global Virtual Congress on Cancer research & Drug Development, 15 de maio
Modelos animais de cancro da mama: importância e aplicabilidade.
Full text linkFaustino-Rocha AI. 2020. Modelos animais de cancro da mama: importância e aplicabilidade. IV Workshop Internacional em Doenças Crônicas e Negligenciadas - PROCAD/Amazônia, 26 de novembro, São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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