Visentainer JEL

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus
2023
Innate immunity ·doi:10.1177/17534259231178592

Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) exhibit extensive diversity, giving rise to different KIR profiles in populations worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the distribution of KIR genes and HLA ligands in a population from …

2022
Current issues in molecular biology ·doi:10.3390/cimb44070191

During the 2015-2016 epidemic, Brazil was the country with the highest rate of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in the Americas. Twenty-nine percent of pregnant women positive for ZIKV exhibited ultrasound scans with fetus anomalies. Human leuko…

2020
Oncotarget ·doi:10.18632/oncotarget.27715

IntroductionInterleukin-16 (IL-16) is a chemotactic cytokine that is found to increase in Cancer and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IL16 were associated with diseases. Thus, we conducted a systemati…

2020
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0239101

Periodontitis (PD) is a chronic inflammatory process resulting from the relationship of the immune response with the components in dental plaque. Cytokines and their genetic polymorphisms seem to be involved in the immunopathogenesis of thi…