Anteroposterior cephalometric studies show evidence of an enlarged nasal cavity following maxillary expansion.

A deficiência transversal da maxila é uma anomalia dentofacial relacionada à diminuição do diâmetro do arco maxilar. Este tipo de deformidade está muitas vezes associado a deficiência respiratória nasal, sendo um importante fator etiopatogênico. O tratamento desta atresia pode ser realizado através da Expansão Rápida da Maxila ou Expansão Rápida da Maxila Cirurgicamente Assistida, ficando na dependência da idade do paciente. Ambos os procedimentos levarão a mudanças na estrutura craniofacial, especialmente na cavidade nasal. OBJETIVO: Através da descrição de trabalhos levantados na literatura, procurou-se relatar a relação existente entre a expansão maxilar, cavidade nasal e resistência aérea nasal. MÉTODO: Foi realizada uma tradicional revisão assistemática da literatura, utilizando trabalhos do tipo experimentais, incluindo os que utilizaram Expansão Rápida da Maxila e Expansão Rápida da Maxila Cirurgicamente Assistida, e excluindo os que utilizaram Expansão Maxilar por Osteotomia Segmentada para o tratamento da atresia maxilar. RESULTADO: Tanto a Expansão Rápida da Maxila quanto a Expansão Rápida da Maxila Cirurgicamente Assistida levam a mudanças dentofaciais, especialmente sobre a cavidade nasal, causando um aumento da largura nasal, o que pode levar à diminuição da Resistência Aérea Nasal. CONCLUSÃO: Através dos estudos cefalométricos ântero-posteriores, fica evidente o aumento da largura da cavidade nasal após expansão maxilar.

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Involvement of the caudal raphe nuclei (raphe pallidus, RPa; raphe magnus, RMg, and raphe obscurus, ROb) in feeding behavior of adult rats was studied by measuring c-Fos protein expression, in animals submitted to the meal-feeding model of food restriction in which the rats were fed ad libitum only from 7:00 to 9:00 h, for 15 days. The experimental groups submitted to chronic fasting, named search for food (SF), ingestion of food (IF) and satiety of food (SaF) were scheduled after a previous study in which the body weight and the general and feeding behaviors were evaluated by daily monitoring. Acute, 48-h fasting (AF) was used as control. In the chronic group, the animals presented a 16% reduction in body weight in the first week, followed by a continuous, slow rise in weight over the subsequent days. Entrainment of the sleep-wake cycle to the schedule of food presentation was also observed. The RPa was the most Fos immunopositive nucleus in the chronic fasting group, followed by the RMg. The ANOVA and Tukey test (P<0.05) confirmed these results. The IF group was significantly different from the other three groups, as also was the number of labeled cells in the RPa in SF and IF groups. Nevertheless, no significant difference was observed between RMg and RPa, or RMg and ROb in the SaF and AF. However, it is interesting to observe that the groups in which the animals were more active, searching for or ingesting food, presented a larger number of labeled cells. These results suggest a different involvement of the caudal raphe nuclei in the somatic and autonomic events of feeding behavior, corroborating the functions reported for them earlier. Feeding behavior is a complex group of functions that comprise the search, capture and ingestion of the organic and inorganic matter necessary for the sustenance of life. This behavior consists of many different components, and different brain systems are involved in the regulation of its specific aspects. As a biological rhythm, feeding behavior is organized mainly in the diencephalon by the lateral and medial hypothalamus subdivisions and the paraventricular nucleus (1-3). The lateral hypothalamus seems to control blood glucose homeostasis through glucoreceptors (also present in the nucleus tractus solitarius and the liver). Once stimulated, these receptors trigger reflexes that restore glycemia through metabolic activity of the liver, which in turn, initiates feeding behavior, particularly the searching and ingestion phases (4). Satiety, however, seems to be driven by the ventromedial hypothalamic subdivision through the release of gut hormones and cholecystokinin, and also by the distension of the gastrointestinal tract