Jesus A. Villanueva

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2010-2013

Study types

  • article 3
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
  • mesh:D004715 1
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)…

other 2013
Resveratrol potentiates effect of simvastatin on inhibition of mevalonate pathway in human endometrial stromal cells
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2012-3387

CONTEXT: Growth of endometriotic lesions in rodent model of endometriosis is inhibited by resveratrol, a natural polyphenol with antiproliferative and antiinflammatory properties, and simvastatin, an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-…

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…

article 2010
Simvastatin reduces estrogen receptor alpha gene expression in human endometrial stromal cells
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.07.156