CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Currently she is a pos-doctoral fellow at Departamento de Fisiologia e Biofísica in ICB-USP, studying the growth hormone (GH) action in the Central Nervous System. She has done recently post-doc internship at University of Cambridge-UK, studying developmental programming and the effects on the central control of metabolism. Recently, she has revealed with collaborators an unprecedented function of GH in the central control of metabolism, acting in AgRP hypothalamic neurons, leading to a first authorship at the magazine Nature Communications. She is graduated in Fundamental Sciences for Health (2009), Masters degree in Morphofunctional Sciences (2012) and PhD in Sciences - Human Physiology (2016) in the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade de São Paulo. Area of interest: maternal behaviour, central control of metabolism, neuroanatomy, GH, prolactin, hypothalamus, VMH, ARH, superior colicullus (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Growth Hormone (GH) is a key anabolic hormone and its action on periferic tissues is related to several biologic functions such as somatic growth, metabolism and cellular processes (cellular division and regeneration). Growth Hormone-Releasing factor (GHRH) and growth hormone-inhibiting hormone (somatostatin), as well as free-fat acids, leptin, ghrelin and neuropeptide Y are important fac…
The type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic disease characterized by dysfunctions in the metabolism of glucose, amino acids and free fat acids. Although most therapies to treat diabetes have peripheral effects, a growing number of studies show that the brain plays a critical role in the control of glucose homeostasis. The quick release bromocriptine mesylate (Cycloset®) was the fir…
Obesity is strongly associated with a variety of adverse health outcomes and the increase in childhood obesity is particularly alarming. More than 42 million children under 5 years of age are estimated to be overweight (World Health Organization) and childhood obesity tracks strongly with adolescent and adulthood obesity. Of particular concern is a growing prevalence of obesity in women o…
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