Ana Amaral

ORCID: 0000-0002-0075-262X · 2 papers in corpus · active 2019-2021

Study types

  • other 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
  • infertility 2
other 2021
Noscapine Acts as a Protease Inhibitor of In Vitro Elastase-Induced Collagen Deposition in Equine Endometrium
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms22105333

Endometrosis is a reproductive pathology that is responsible for mare infertility. Our recent studies have focused on the involvement of neutrophil extracellular traps enzymes, such as elastase (ELA), in the development of equine endometros…

other 2019
Impairment of the antifibrotic prostaglandin E2 pathway may influence neutrophil extracellular traps-induced fibrosis in the mare endometrium
Domestic animal endocrinology ·doi:10.1016/j.domaniend.2018.10.004

Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has contradictory effects in many organs. It may have proinflammatory, anti-inflammatory, or anti-fibrotic roles, depending on the type of receptors to which it binds. By signaling through its receptors EP2 and EP4, …