CARLOS AUGUSTO GONCALVES PASQUALUCCI
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Departamento de Patologia, Faculdade de Medicina - Docente
ATCIENT-50, SVOC
LIM/22 - Laboratório de Patolologia Cardiovascular, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Líder
ATCIENT-50, SVOC
LIM/22 - Laboratório de Patolologia Cardiovascular, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Líder
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- Could Raman spectroscopy discriminate the biochemical alterations among prostate carcinoma and benign prostate tissues? An in vitro study(2012) SILVEIRA JR., Landulfo; LEITE, Katia Ramos M.; SROUGI, Miguel; SILVEIRA, Fabricio L.; PACHECO, Marcos Tadeu T.; PASQUALUCCI, Carlos A.This work evaluated possible alterations in the Raman spectra of human prostate tissues in vitro, by developing a Principal Components Analysis algorithm for discriminating prostate carcinoma (PrCa) and benign prostate tissue. Raman spectrum was measured using a Raman spectrometer (830 nm) with a fiber Raman probe. Most of the samples exhibited a very strong background fluorescence, which was decreased by photobleaching the fragment during 5 min. and the remaining fluorescence was removed by polynomial filtering. The spectra of prostate in the fingerprint region are dominated by bands of proteins (mainly collagen, elastin, actin). By comparing the spectra of PrCa with the benign prostate tissue, we found a very small difference, indicating similar biochemical constitution of benign and malignant prostate tissue. Principal Components Analysis and Mahalanobis distance could discriminate the spectra of both benign and PrCa tissues with reasonable sensitivity and specificity.
- Determination of Opiates in Whole Blood and Vitreous Humor: A Study of the Matrix Effect and an Experimental Design to Optimize Conditions for the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Glucuronides(2012) SANCHES, Livia Rentas; SEULIN, Saskia Carolina; LEYTON, Vilma; PARANHOS, Beatriz Aparecida Passos Bismara; PASQUALUCCI, Carlos Augusto; MUNOZ, Daniel Romero; OSSELTON, Michael David; YONAMINE, Mauricio
- Basal ganglia lesions in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis(2012) ALMEIDA, Kelson James; BRUCKI, Sonia Maria Dozzi; DUARTE, Maria Irma Seixas; PASQUALUCCI, Carlos Augusto Gonçalves; ROSEMBERG, Sérgio; NITRINI, RicardoABSTRACT The parieto-occipital region of the brain is the most frequently and severely affected in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). The basal ganglia, cerebellum and corpus callosum are less commonly involved. We describe a patient with SSPE confirmed by neuropathology based on brain magnetic resonance imaging showing extensive basal ganglia involvement and no significant involvement of other cortical structures. Though rarely described in SSPE, clinicians should be aware of this involvement. SSPE should be kept in mind when changes in basal ganglia signal are seen on brain magnetic resonance imaging with or without involvement of other regions of the human brain to avoid erroneous etiological diagnosis of other pathologies causing rapidly progressive dementia.
- Brazilian psychiatric brain bank: a new contribution tool to network studies(2012) OLIVEIRA, K. C. de; NERY, F. G.; FERRETI, R. E. L.; LIMA, M. C.; CAPPI, C.; MACHADO-LIMA, A.; POLICHISO, L.; CARREIRA, L. L.; AVILA, C.; ALHO, A. T. D. L.; BRENTANI, H. P.; MIGUEL, E. C.; HEINSEN, H.; JACOB-FILHO, W.; PASQUALUCCI, C. A.; LAFER, B.; GRINBERG, L. T.There is an urgent need for expanding the number of brain banks serving psychiatric research. We describe here the Psychiatric Disorders arm of the Brain Bank of the Brazilian Aging Brain Study Group (Psy-BBBABSG), which is focused in bipolar disorder (BD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Our protocol was designed to minimize limitations faced by previous initiatives, and to enable design-based neurostereological analyses. The Psy-BBBABSG first milestone is the collection of 10 brains each of BD and OCD patients, and matched controls. The brains are sourced from a population-based autopsy service. The clinical and psychiatric assessments were done by an expert team including psychiatrists, through an informant. One hemisphere was perfused-fixed to render an optimal fixation for conducting neurostereological studies. The other hemisphere was comprehensively dissected and frozen for molecular studies. In 20 months, we collected 36 brains. A final report was completed for 14 cases: 3 BDs, 4 major depressive disorders, 1 substance use disorder, 1 mood disorder NOS, 3 obsessive compulsive spectrum symptoms, 1 OCD and 1 schizophrenia. The majority were male (64%), and the average age at death was 67.2 +/- 9.0 years. The average postmortem interval was 16 h. Three matched controls were collected. The pilot stage confirmed that the protocols are well fitted to reach our goals. Our unique autopsy source makes possible to collect a fairly number of high quality cases in a short time. Such a collection offers an additional to the international research community to advance the understanding on neuropsychiatric diseases.
- Discrimination of Basal Cell Carcinoma and Melanoma from Normal Skin Biopsies in Vitro Through Raman Spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis(2012) BODANESE, Benito; SILVEIRA, Fabricio Luiz; ZANGARO, Renato Amaro; PACHECO, Marcos Tadeu T.; PASQUALUCCI, Carlos Augusto; SILVEIRA JR., LandulfoObjective: Raman spectroscopy has been employed to discriminate between malignant (basal cell carcinoma [BCC] and melanoma [MEL]) and normal (N) skin tissues in vitro, aimed at developing a method for cancer diagnosis. Background data: Raman spectroscopy is an analytical tool that could be used to diagnose skin cancer rapidly and noninvasively. Methods: Skin biopsy fragments of similar to 2 mm(2) from excisional surgeries were scanned through a Raman spectrometer (830 nm excitation wavelength, 50 to 200 mW of power, and 20 sec exposure time) coupled to a fiber optic Raman probe. Principal component analysis (PCA) and Euclidean distance were employed to develop a discrimination model to classify samples according to histopathology. In this model, we used a set of 145 spectra from N (30 spectra), BCC (96 spectra), and MEL (19 spectra) skin tissues. Results: We demonstrated that principal components (PCs) 1 to 4 accounted for 95.4% of all spectral variation. These PCs have been spectrally correlated to the biochemicals present in tissues, such as proteins, lipids, and melanin. The scores of PC2 and PC3 revealed statistically significant differences among N, BCC, and MEL (ANOVA, p < 0.05) and were used in the discrimination model. A total of 28 out of 30 spectra were correctly diagnosed as N, 93 out of 96 as BCC, and 13 out of 19 as MEL, with an overall accuracy of 92.4%. Conclusions: This discrimination model based on PCA and Euclidean distance could differentiate N from malignant (BCC and MEL) with high sensitivity and specificity.
- Hollow-fiber liquid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of barbiturates in whole blood samples(2012) ALMEIDA, Rafael Menck de; LIMA, Diogenes Saulo de; SEULIN, Saskia Carolina; LEYTON, Vilma; PASQUALUCCI, Carlos Augusto; MUNOZ, Daniel Romero; OSSELTON, Michael David; YONAMINE, MauricioHere, we present a method for measuring barbiturates (butalbital, secobarbital, pentobarbital, and phenobarbital) in whole blood samples. To accomplish these measurements, analytes were extracted by means of hollow-fiber liquid-phase microextraction in the three-phase mode. Hollow-fiber pores were filled with decanol, and a solution of sodium hydroxide (pH 13) was introduced into the lumen of the fiber (acceptor phase). The fiber was submersed in the acidified blood sample, and the system was subjected to an ultrasonic bath. After a 5 min extraction, the acceptor phase was withdrawn from the fiber and dried under a nitrogen stream. The residue was reconstituted with ethyl acetate and trimethylanilinium hydroxide. An aliquot of 1.0 mu L of this solution was injected into the gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, with the derivatization reaction occurring in the hot injector port (flash methylation). The method proved to be simple and rapid, and only a small amount of organic solvent (decanol) was needed for extraction. The detection limit was 0.5 mu g/mL for all the analyzed barbiturates. The calibration curves were linear over the specified range (1.0 to 10.0 mu g/mL). This method was successfully applied to postmortem samples (heart blood and femoral blood) collected from three deceased persons previously exposed to barbiturates.