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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Vanessa Martins da Silva in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Instillation of silica instillation in mice results in pathological changes that mimic the pattern of human silicosis, an occupational lung disease characterized by restrictive airway obstruction, inflammation and fibrosis. FIZZ1 belongs to the class of secreted proteins and is highly expressed in the lung parenchyma by alveolar epithelial cells. It is directly involved in the differentia…
In the proposed project the hypothesis is that myofibroblast differentiation is a key factor in driving fibrosis and its de novo emergence is regulated by a complex mechanism involving transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of gene expression by both local and bone marrow derived cells. Two specific directions are proposed, namely analysis of transcriptional and epigenetic regulation o…
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