Publications by authors named "Ana C Pavanelli"

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  • - The study analyzed plasma oxytocin levels and DNA methylation of the OXTR gene in individuals with cocaine use disorder (CUD) compared to healthy controls, focusing on 51 CUD participants during acute abstinence and 30 controls.
  • - Results indicated that men with CUD had significantly higher oxytocin levels (56.5 pg/mL) compared to healthy men (33.6 pg/mL), while no significant differences were found among women in both groups.
  • - No differences in DNA methylation were discovered, but the findings suggest a potential association between elevated oxytocin levels and CUD in men, which may influence future research on oxytocin as a treatment option for cocaine addiction. *
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Introduction: DNA methylation regulates exercise-induced changes in the skeletal muscle transcriptome. However, the specificity and the time course responses in the myogenic regulatory factors DNA methylation and mRNA expression after divergent exercise modes are unknown.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the time course changes in DNA methylation and mRNA expression for selected myogenic regulatory factors ( MYOD1 , MYF5 , and MYF6 ) immediately after, 4 h after, and 8 h after a single bout of resistance exercise (RE), high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE), and concurrent exercise (CE).

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Purpose: Breast cancer (BC) is considered a heterogeneous disease composed of distinct subtypes with diverse clinical outcomes. Luminal subtype tumors have the best prognosis, and patients benefit from endocrine therapy. However, resistance to endocrine therapies in BC is an obstacle to successful treatment, and novel biomarkers are needed to understand and overcome this mechanism.

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Intrauterine exposure to particulate matter (PM) has been associated with an increased risk of asthma development, which may differ by the age of asthma onset, sex, and pollutant concentration. To investigate the pulmonary effects of in utero exposure to concentrated urban ambient particles (CAPs) in response to house dust mite (HDM) sensitization in juvenile mice. Mice were exposed to CAPs (600 μg/m PM) during the gestational period.

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Abnormal long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) expression has been documented to have oncogene or tumor suppressor functions in the development and progression of cancer, emerging as promising independent biomarkers for molecular cancer stratification and patients' prognosis. Examining the relationship between lncRNAs and the survival rates in malignancies creates new scenarios for precision medicine and targeted therapy. Breast cancer (BRCA) is a heterogeneous malignancy.

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  • - Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) can lead to long-term behavioral and cognitive issues in children, but research on its epigenetic impact, especially in humans, is limited.
  • - This study analyzed DNA methylation of the Oxytocin Receptor gene in umbilical cord blood from 28 newborns with PCE and 30 non-exposed newborns to see if there were significant differences.
  • - Findings showed no significant differences in methylation levels between the two groups, but highlighted that the severity of the mother's cocaine addiction influenced DNA methylation in newborns, pointing to the need for larger studies to further explore these effects.
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The (pleckstrin homology like domain, family A) gene family encodes proteins capable of inhibiting AKT (serine/threonine kinase) signaling through phosphoinositol binding competition. Using analysis, we found that Luminal A and B patients' short relapse-free survival was associated with low PHLDA1 or PHLDA3 and high PHLDA2 expression. In a cohort of 393 patients with luminal breast cancer evaluated by immunohistochemistry on tissue microarrays, we found a direct association of PHLDA3 expression with hormonal therapy response (p = 0.

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Docetaxel is an effective drug for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. However, the exact mechanisms and/or markers associated with chemosensitivity or resistance to docetaxel remain unclear. We previously showed that the expression of prostate apoptosis response 4 (PAR4) inhibits the growth of MCF7 breast cancer cells and increases their sensitivity to docetaxel.

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Experimental evidence indicates that prostate apoptosis response-4 (Par-4, also known as PAWR) is a key regulator of cancer cell survival and may be a target for cancer-selective targeted therapeutics. Par-4 was first identified in prostate cancer cells undergoing apoptosis. Both intracellular and extracellular Par-4 have been implicated in apoptosis.

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