Amaral VF

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2006-2009

Study types

  • article 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
  • infertility 2
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
2009
BMC cancer ·doi:10.1186/1471-2407-9-320

BackgroundActivins are growth factors acting on cell growth and differentiation. Activins are expressed in high grade breast tumors and they display an antiproliferative effect inducing G0/G1 cell cycle arrest in breast cancer cell lines. F…

article 2008
Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina ·doi:10.1590/s1516-31802008000600002

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Diagnoses of endometriosis are based on observation of endometriotic lesions by means of laparoscopy, along with the pathological findings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the …

article 2006
Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina ·doi:10.1590/s1516-31802006000400010

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: One of the diagnostic markers of endometriosis is CA-125, and elevated levels of this are caused by high concentrations in the ectopic endometrium. The objective of this study was to correlate CA-125 levels in serum a…