• Dysfunctional purinergic signaling correlates with disease severity in COVID-19 patients 

      Pietrobon, Anna Julia; Andrejew, Roberta; Custódio, Ricardo Wesley Alberca; Oliveira, Luana de Mendonça; Scholl, Juliete Nathali; Teixeira, Franciane Mouradian Emidio; Brito, Cyro Alves de; Glaser, Talita; Kazmierski, Julia; Goffinet, Christine; Turdo, Anna Claudia; Yendo, Tatiana; Aoki, Valéria; Figueiró, Fabrício; Battastini, Ana Maria Oliveira; Ulrich, Henning; Benard, Gill; Duarte, Alberto Jose da Silva; Sato, Maria Notomi (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Ectonucleotidases modulate inflammatory responses by balancing extracellular ATP and adenosine (ADO) and might be involved in COVID-19 immunopathogenesis. Here, we explored the contribution of extracellular nucleotide ...
    • NTPDase, 5′-nucleotidase and adenosine deaminase activities and purine levels in serum of sickle cell anemia patients 

      Castilhos, Lívia Gelain; Adefegha, Stephen A.; Doleski, Pedro Henrique; Bertoldo, Tatiana Montagner Dalcin; Moritz, César Eduardo Jacintho; Casali, Emerson Andre; Leal, Daniela Bitencourt Rosa (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a hereditary disorder that is characterized by tendency of hemoglobin molecules within the erythrocytes to polymerize under hypoxia conditions, deform the red cells, and promote vaso-occlusion ...
    • Purinergic signaling in the modulation of redox biology 

      Savio, Luiz Eduardo Baggio; Aguiar, Raíssa Leite Tenorio; Alves, Vinícius Santos; Silva, Robson Coutinho; Wyse, Angela Terezinha de Souza (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      Purinergic signaling is a cell communication pathway mediated by extracellular nucleotides and nucleosides. Tri- and diphosphonucleotides are released in physiological and pathological circumstances activating purinergic ...