• Effect of 3'UTR RET variants on RET mRNA secondary structure and disease presentation in medullary thyroid carcinoma 

      Ceolin, Lucieli; Romitti, Mirian; Siqueira, Débora Rodrigues; Vargas, Carla Vaz Ferreira; Scapineli, Jessica Oliboni; Assis Brasil, Beatriz Maria de Azevedo; Maximiano, Rodolfo Vieira; Amarante, Tauanne Dias; Nunes, Míriam Celi de Souza; Weber, Gerald; Maia, Ana Luiza Silva (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      The RET S836S variant has been associated with early onset and increased risk for metastatic disease in medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). However, the mechanism by which this variant modulates MTC pathogenesis is still ...
    • Matrix metalloproteinase gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to systemic sclerosis 

      Rech, Tássia Flores; Moraes, Sara Beatriz del Cueto; Bredemeier, Markus; Paoli, Juliana de; Brenol, João Carlos Tavares; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Chies, Jose Artur Bogo; Simon, Daniel (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      The major pathological hallmark of the systemic sclerosis (SSc) is skin and internal organ fibrosis, which results from normal tissue architecture alterations and extracellular matrix (ECM) protein deposition. ECM components ...