Recent Publications

Recent Research Papers of Interest

Santos AK, Scalzo S, de Souza RTV, Santana PHG, Marques BL, Oliveira LF, Filho DM, Kihara AH, da Costa Santiago H, Parreira RC, Birbrair A, Ulrich H, Resende RR. Strategic use of organoids and organs-on-chip as biomimetic tools. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2023 Jul 30;144:3-10. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.09.010. Epub 2022 Sep 30. PMID: 36192310.

de Oliveira LF, Filho DM, Marques BL, Maciel GF, Parreira RC, do Carmo Neto JR, Da Silva PEF, Guerra RO, da Silva MV, Santiago HDC, Birbrair A, Kihara AH, Dias da Silva VJ, Glaser T, Resende RR, Ulrich H. Organoids as a novel tool in modelling infectious diseases. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2023 Jul 30;144:87-96. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.09.003. Epub 2022 Sep 28. PMID: 36182613.

Tavares LM, de Jesus LCL, Batista VL, Barroso FAL, Dos Santos Freitas A, Campos GM, Américo MF, da Silva TF, Coelho-Rocha ND, Belo GA, Drumond MM, Mancha-Agresti P, Vital KD, Fernandes SOA, Cardoso VN, Birbrair A, Ferreira E, Martins FS, Laguna JG, Azevedo V. Synergistic synbiotic containing fructooligosaccharides and Lactobacillus delbrueckii CIDCA 133 alleviates chemotherapy-induced intestinal mucositis in mice. World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2023 Jun 27;39(9):235. doi: 10.1007/s11274-023-03679-0. PMID: 37365380.

Kapur A, Ayuso JM, Rehman S, Kumari S, Felder M, Stenerson Z, Skala MC, Beebe D, Barroilhet L, Patankar MS. Oxidative phosphorylation inhibitors inhibit proliferation of endometriosis cells. Reproduction. 2023 May 8;165(6):617-628. doi: 10.1530/REP-22-0265. PMID: 37068140.

Mármol I, Abizanda-Campo S, Ayuso JM, Ochoa I, Oliván S. Towards Novel Biomimetic In Vitro Models of the Blood-Brain Barrier for Drug Permeability Evaluation. Bioengineering (Basel). 2023 May 10;10(5):572. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering10050572. PMID: 37237642; PMCID: PMC10215475.

Castro-Pérez E, Singh M, Sadangi S, Mela-Sánchez C, Setaluri V. Connecting the dots: Melanoma cell of origin, tumor cell plasticity, trans-differentiation, and drug resistance. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2023 May 3. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.13092. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37132530.

Picoli CC, Martins PR, Wong XLC, Righi T, Guimarães PPG, Pinto MCX, Amorim JH, Azevedo VAC, Pereira SR, Kanashiro A, Cruz FC, Resende RR, Mintz A, Frenette PS, Birbrair A. Whole bone subcutaneous transplantation as a strategy to study precisely the bone marrow niche. Stem Cell Rev Rep. 2023 May;19(4):906-927. doi: 10.1007/s12015-022-10496-9. Epub 2022 Dec 31. PMID: 36585572.

Dong B, Simonson L, Vold S, Oldham E, Barten L, Ahmad N, Chang H. FZD6 Promotes Melanoma Cell Invasion but Not Proliferation by Regulating Canonical Wnt Signaling and Epithelial‒Mesenchymal Transition. J Invest Dermatol. 2023 Apr;143(4):621-629.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.09.658. Epub 2022 Nov 9. PMID:
36368445; PMCID: PMC10292634.

Chhabra G, Ahmad N. Trichloroisocyanuric Acid, A Swimming Pool Disinfectant: New Developments and Role in UV-Induced Skin Inflammation. Photochem Photobiol. 2023 Mar;99(2):869-871. doi: 10.1111/php.13700. Epub 2022 Sep 3. PMID: 36004539.

Campos GM, Américo MF, Dos Santos Freitas A, Barroso FAL, da Cruz Ferraz Dutra J, Quaresma LS, Cordeiro BF, Laguna JG, de Jesus LCL, Fontes AM, Birbrair A, Santos TM, Azevedo V. Lactococcus lactis as an Interleukin Delivery System for Prophylaxis and Treatment of Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases. Probiotics Antimicrob Proteins. 2023 Feb 7:1–15. doi: 10.1007/s12602-023-10041-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36746838; PMCID: PMC9902259.

Sánchez-Vinces S, Garcia PHD, Silva AAR, Fernandes AMAP, Barreto JA, Duarte GHB, Antonio MA, Birbrair A, Porcari AM, Carvalho PO. Mass-Spectrometry-Based Lipidomics Discriminates Specific Changes in Lipid Classes in Healthy and Dyslipidemic Adults. Metabolites. 2023 Feb 3;13(2):222. doi:
10.3390/metabo13020222. PMID: 36837840; PMCID: PMC9964724.

Farias JP, Pinheiro JR, Andreata-Santos R, Fogaça MMC, da Silva Brito RD, da Cruz EF, de Castro-Amarante MF, Pereira SS, Dos Santos Almeida S, Moreira LM, da Conceição Simões R, Luiz WB, Birbrair A, Belmok A, Ribeiro BM, Maricato JT, Braconi CT, de Souza Ferreira LC, Janini LMR, Amorim JH. The third vaccine dose significantly reduces susceptibility to the B.1.1.529 (Omicron) SARS-CoV-2 variant. J Med Virol. 2023 Feb;95(2):e28481. doi: 10.1002/jmv.28481. PMID: 36609686.

Rocha BGS, Picoli CC, Gonçalves BOP, Silva WN, Costa AC, Moraes MM, Costa PAC, Santos GSP, Almeida MR, Silva LM, Singh Y, Falchetti M, Guardia GDA, Guimarães PPG, Russo RC, Resende RR, Pinto MCX, Amorim JH, Azevedo VAC, Kanashiro A, Nakaya HI, Rocha EL, Galante PAF, Mintz A, Frenette PS, Birbrair A. Tissue-resident glial cells associate with tumoral vasculature and promote cancer progression. Angiogenesis. 2023 Feb;26(1):129-166. doi: 10.1007/s10456-022-09858-1. Epub 2022 Oct 1. PMID: 36183032.

Singh CK, Mintie CA, Ndiaye MA, Chhabra G, Roy S, Sullivan R, Longley BJ, Schieke SM, Ahmad N. Protective effects of dietary grape against atopic dermatitis-like skin lesions in NC/NgaTndCrlj mice. Front Immunol. 2023 Jan 19;13:1051472. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1051472. PMID: 36741360; PMCID: PMC9893861.

Mikheil D, Prabhakar K, Ng TL, Teertam S, Longley BJ, Newton MA, Setaluri V. Notch Signaling Suppresses Melanoma Tumor Development in BRAF/Pten Mice. Cancers (Basel). 2023 Jan 14;15(2):519. doi: 10.3390/cancers15020519. PMID: 36672468; PMCID: PMC9857214.

Raza R, Chhabra G, Bilal M, Ndiaye MA, Liaqat K, Nawaz S, Sgro JY, Rayment I, Ahmad W, Ahmad N. A Homozygous Missense Variant in K25 Underlying Overlapping Phenotype with Woolly Hair and Dental Anomalies. J Invest Dermatol. 2023 Jan;143(1):173-176.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.07.010. Epub 2022 Aug 1. PMID: 35926655.