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Agenda IB

Elaine Minatel

Leader of the Muscular Plasticity research group, developing works that evaluate the morphofunctional and molecular aspects, and behavior of skeletal muscle fibers 'in vitro and in vivo' under various experimental conditions, using histochemical, biochemical, immunofluorescence and molecular biology.

Sílvio Roberto Consonni

The main purpose of our lab is to recognize the effects of multiparity and ageing in cells and extracellular matrix during postpartum recovery at birth canal (pubic symphysis, uterine cervix and vagina) in mice. We pay particular interest to understand how birth and ageing have a significant effect in tissue homeostasis, which could help us to understand the pathophysiology of pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence and preterm. We focus on the connective tissue - an important site of cellular, molecular and hormonal signaling - and ask how this tissue responds (or not) to changes during and after first and multiple pregnancies. Using morphological, biochemical and molecular assays, we identified that recovery processes are regulated by cells and molecules in the birth canal and multiparity and ageing led them to not recover in the reproductive matrix mice.

Flavio Antonio Maës dos Santos

Plant Ecology
Population Ecology
Community Ecology