Jesus Villanueva

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2010-2013

Study types

  • article 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
article 2013
Effects of Simvastatin on Retinoic Acid System in Primary Human Endometrial Stromal Cells and in a Chimeric Model of Human Endometriosis
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2012-3402

CONTEXT: Retinoic acid (RA) may promote survival or apoptosis of cells, depending on the levels of binding proteins: apoptosis-inducing cellular RA binding protein 2 (CRABP2), and cell survival-promoting fatty acid binding protein 5 (FABP5)…

article 2010
Simvastatin Induces Apoptosis and Alters Cytoskeleton in Endometrial Stromal Cells
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2010-0072

CONTEXT: Statins are competitive inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, with antimitotic, antioxidant, antiinflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties. Recent studies have shown that statins reduce the growth of hum…