CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Eliza Maria Rodrigues Fortes Almeida in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The skin pigmentation in human is widely variable between individuals, especially due tomelan in which synthesis is under genetic control. The two main types of this polymer are pheomelan in, responsible for lighter pigmentation, and eumelanin, related to the dark pigmentation. The main genes involved in pigmentation are the MC1R, ASIP and OCA2, and their polymorphisms have been highly st…
The adverse effects of the cadmium, an environmental heavy metal contaminant, on human prostate gland and in the experimental animals have been widely investigated, however little attention has been given to the stromal changes. Puberty is a major phase of prostate development and growth, which exogenous factors may act favoring the onset of prostate diseases in the adult and old ages. …
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