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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (FCF) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Pedro Henrique Scarpelli Pereira in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The initial hypothesis of the work reported in 2014-2016 is that melatonin, the host hormone that accelerates the maturation of P. falciparum during the intra-erythrocytic cycle, would have action on some mechanism of mitochondrial division. This hypothesis was formulated because cell division is accompanied by mitochondrial fission to form new cells. In this way, melatonin would accelera…
Malaria is a potentially serious infectious disease caused by parasites (protozoa of the genus Plasmodium) that are transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Little is known about the signal transduction mechanisms used by the pathogen responsible for malaria infection in humans. Specifically in P. falciparum, Ca2 + and cAMP appear to be important in cell signaling effectors of Pl…
The project described here aims the characterization of the serpentine receptor 12 (PfSR12) of Plasmodium falciparum parasites. Unlike what was described in literature by bioinformatics experiments that showed PfSR12 as a purinergic receptor, we did not observe release of Ca2+ in our HEK297T system after purine treatments, but we did see a statistically significant response in Ca2+ releas…
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