CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduation at Biomedicina from Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (2006), master's at Biochemistry from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2009) and doctorate at Nefrology from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2013). He is currently pesquisadora at Universidade de São Paulo and pós-doutorando at Universidade Federal de São paulo-Escola paulista de medicina. Has experience in General Biology, acting on the following subjects: câncer, bioquimica, biologia molecular, dna and polimorfismo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The incidence of progressive chronic kidney disease has grown considerably in recent decades. In Brazil, in 2006 it was spent U.S. $ 1.4 billion to treat patients on chronic dialysis and renal transplantation. There are 32,375 new patients estimated with end stage renal disease a year in Brazil. The tubule-interstitial fibrosis is a major event of chronic kidney disease and is also an imp…
Fibroblasts are key mediators of fibrosis in the kidney and other organs but their origin during fibrosis is still not completely clear. Activated fibroblasts likely arise from resident quiescent cells via epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and directly from bone marrow. We have studying a third origin of fibroblasts in renal fibrosis: the endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (En…
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