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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus Experimental do Litoral Paulista. Instituto de Biociências (IB-CLP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Melina Cardoso dos Santos in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The resistance to antibiotics by microorganisms has increased dramatically and experts have warned about the rapid inefficacy of drugs against super-resistant bacteria strains. Recent studies indicate that bacterial resistance to antibiotics may be directly related to oxidative stress, since distinct antibiotics have the convergent ability to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS), which c…
Typical 2-Cys Peroxiredoxins (Prx) are antioxidant proteins universally distributed among the organisms and present in several cellular compartments. Despite their protective role to the cell, in multicellular eukaryotes, it has been shown that these enzymes are related to various types of cancer, since they are able to maintain levels of hydroperoxides in sufficient amounts to allow cell…
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