Luiz Eurico Nasciutti (410515)

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2016

Study types

  • other 3

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
other 2016
·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166059.g003

The immunoreactivity of VEGF, VEGFR-2 and MMP-9 was detected predominantly in the stroma (#), primarily around the glands in untreated endometriosis (A, B, C). Treated endometriotic lesions (D, E, F) exhibited a significant decrease in reac…

other 2016
·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166059.g002

Expression of mRNA encoding for VEGF (A), KDR (C) and MMP-9 (D) assayed using RT-PCR. VEGF concentrations (B) were measured suing ELISA immunoassays in control endometriosis lesions and lesions treated with açaí. The levels of VEGF and MMP-…

other 2016
·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166059.g006

In the endometriotic microenvironment, the macrophages are essential to promote the angiogenesis process and inflammation because it leads to increase the VEGF, iNOS and COX-2 genes expression. Açaí acts in this pathway and decreases the nu…