Catharina de Barros Pimentel Villaça

CV Lattes

Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

BSc from Universidade de São Paulo (2019) (Biomedical Sciences). Currently masters student from Life Systems Biology program at Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in General Biology, focusing on Cell Biology Biology, acting on the following subjects: diabetes, beta cell death mechanisms and histology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Type 1 Diabetes mellitus (DM1) is a pathology that occurs due to autoimmune destruction of pancreatic ß cells, initially without clinical manifestations. This autoimmune response is mediated by different proinflammatory cytokines secreted by an islet immune cell infiltrate, such as interleukin (IL) 1ß, interferon (IFN) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), in process known as insulitis. In res…
Analysis of death, proliferation and differentiation of ß-cells in an animal model of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus submitted to physical training, BP.IC

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