Marcelo Ferreira Cassini

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Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da USP (HCMRP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

graduate at Medicina from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1996). Has experience in Medicine, focusing on Urology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Introduction: Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is one of the most common genetic disorders in humans, affecting over 500,000 people in the United States alone. It is characterized by progressive growth of kidney cysts leading to end stage renal disease in ~50% of the patients. Polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2) are the protein products of the PKD1 and PKD2 genes respectively, with …
Polycystic kidney disease: the chemical signals of polycystin 1 (PC1) attract monocytes for renal cysts, stimulating its growth and contributing to the deterioration of renal function, BE.PQ

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