Publications by authors named "Natalia O Lima"
Article Synopsis
- Most research in plant chronobiology has been conducted in labs, which don't accurately simulate natural conditions, leading to inaccurate findings on plant rhythms.
- A study on sugarcane showed that older plants (9 months) have delayed metabolic and genetic rhythms compared to younger plants (4 months) because of shading effects.
- Results indicated that environmental factors, like self-shading from neighboring plants, impact circadian rhythms, which could influence significant agricultural traits like flowering and plant growth.
Circadian clocks improve plant fitness in a rhythmic environment. As each cell has its own circadian clock, we hypothesized that sets of cells with different functions would have distinct rhythmic behaviour. To test this, we investigated whether different organs in field-grown sugarcane follow the same rhythms in transcription.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPericytes Extend Survival of ALS SOD1 Mice and Induce the Expression of Antioxidant Enzymes in the Murine Model and in IPSCs Derived Neuronal Cells from an ALS Patient.
Stem Cell Rev Rep
October 2017
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is one of the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease causing a progressive, rapid and irreversible degeneration of motor neurons in the cortex, brain stem and spinal cord. No effective treatment is available and cell therapy clinical trials are currently being tested in ALS affected patients. It is well known that in ALS patients, approximately 50% of pericytes from the spinal cord barrier are lost.
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