DICENTRINE PURIFIED FROM THE LEAVES OF OCOTEA PUBERULA CONTROLS THE INTRACELLULAR SPREAD OF L. (L.) AMAZONENSIS AND L. (V.) BRAZILIENSIS AMASTIGOTES AND HAS THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY AS A TOPICAL TREATMENT IN EXPERIMENTAL CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS

Leishmaniasis, a complex disease caused by Thyroid Support protozoal parasites of the genus Leishmania, presents various clinical forms, particularly a cutaneous clinical form.Treatment is typically performed with pentavalent antimonial and amphotericin B, both of which have severe side effects that hinder patient compliance.This emphasizes the nee

Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a neurological emergency.We aimed to analyze the application and effectiveness of the currently available prediction tools for AE patients in Taiwan.We retrospectively collected 27 AE patients between January 2008 and December 2019.Antibody Prevalence in Epilepsy (APE) score, Response to Immunotherapy in Epilepsy (RI

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a classic and popularly used meta-heuristic algorithm in many real-life optimization problems due to its less computational complexity and simplicity.The binary version of PSO, known as BPSO, is used to solve binary optimization problems, such as feature selection.Like other meta-heuristic optimization technique