CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (FCF) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Medicine by the University of São Paulo (1976), Brazil, and got his PhD degree in Internal Medicine - Universität Düsseldorf (1980), Germany. Worked as a Post-Doctor at the Department of Pathology from the Faculty of Medicine of Toronto, Canada (1989 and 1995). Nowadays is a Full Professor and Senior Professor at the University of São Paulo, Department of Food and Experimental Nutrition, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo. Has experience in the area of Nutrition, with emphasis on Diet, Nutrition and Cancer, acting mainly on the following topics: cancer; hepatocarcinogenesis, chemoprevention with bioactive food compounds (BFCs), mainly isoprenoids. To assess the possible chemopreventive activities of the CBAs, his group uses computerized image analysis techniques (immunohistochemistry), as well as Molecular Biology. . (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The combination of chemopreventive agents acting through different mechanisms of action has been considered a promissory strategy for cancer prevention. The butyrate pro-drug tributyrin (TB), which is present in milk fat and honey, has been highlighted for its chemopreventive activity during the initiation and promotion phases of experimental models of hepatocarcinogenesis. TB's inhibitor…
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most frequent type of cancer in the world, and is the third leading cause of mortality due to its low rate of remission. Therefore, it is important to develop chemopreventive strategies in order to reduce reappearance of HCC together with treatment of the primary neoplasia. Tributyrin (TB) showed chemopreventive activity when administered during…
Bioactive compounds present in foods (CBAs) are able to modulate distinct biological processes related to cancer chemoprevention, however their mechanisms of action are few understood. Epigenetic events, including DNA methylation and histones modifications, are potentially reversible, being considered targets for cancer chemoprevention. Recently, we found that tributyrin (TB), CBA present…
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer, the sixth most prevalent type of cancer in the world and the third and fourth leading cause of death related to this condition in the world and in Brazil, respectively. HCC is also one of the most hypervascular solid tumors in which the process of angiogenesis contributes to its malignant biological features such as v…
The high incidence and mortality of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), as well as the limited treatment and poor prognosis of this disease make it important to adopt measures such as chemoprevention. Tributyrin (TB), a prodrug of butyric acid (BA) is a bioactive compound found in foods such as honey and milk. TB reduced the incidence and size of preneoplasic lesions and also induced apoptosi…
Hepatocellular carcinoma is responsible for millions of deaths annually and chemoprevention has been considered an important and essential approach for the control of this disease. Therefore chemoprevention can be defined as the administration of one or more compounds during the initial phases of carcinogenesis. Tributyrin (TB), a butyric acid (BA) prodrug, present in fat milk and honey, …
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