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  1. Vascular Hyporesponsiveness in Sepsis Is Associated With Nitric Oxide-Dependent Activation of G-Protein Receptor Kinase

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, February 2026, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  2. Intestinal immunopathological evaluation of mice reinfected with Trypanosoma cruzi Y strain

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, December 2025, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  3. Evaluation of Cardiac IL-11 and IL-11Rα Expression During T. cruzi Infection

    Article • Inflammation, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  4. Achieving the Optimal AgO Concentrations to Modulate the Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Activity of Ag-ZnO/AgO Nanocomposites: In Vivo Investigations

    Article • Pharmaceutics, November 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  5. Curcumin Attenuates Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiac Oxidative Stress and Increases Survival in Mice

    Article • Pharmaceutics, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  6. Melatonin: A look at protozoal and helminths

    Article • Biochimie, April 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  7. Toxicity Assessment of New Ag-ZnO/AgO Nanocomposites: An In Vitro and In Vivo Approach

    Article • Journal of Functional Biomaterials, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Anderson Assunção Andrade, Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  8. The Influence of IL-11 on Cardiac Fibrosis in Experimental Models: A Systematic Review

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  9. Curcumin as a Stabilizer of Macrophage Polarization during Plasmodium Infection

    Article • Pharmaceutics, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  10. Cancer and Trypanosoma cruzi: Tumor induction or protection?

    Article • Biochimie, April 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  11. Impacts of Curcumin Treatment on Experimental Sepsis: A Systematic Review

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, January 2023, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  12. Topical application of melatonin accelerates the maturation of skin wounds and increases collagen deposition in a rat model of diabetes

    Article • Journal of Tissue Viability, November 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  13. Modulation of the mTOR Pathway by Curcumin in the Heart of Septic Mice

    Article • Pharmaceutics, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  14. Polyphenols-Rich Fraction from Annona muricata Linn. Leaves Attenuates Oxidative and Inflammatory Responses in Neutrophils, Macrophages, and Experimental Lung Injury

    Article • Pharmaceutics, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  15. Protease-Based Subunit Vaccine in Mice Boosts BCG Protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Article • Vaccines, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  16. Interleukin-32γ in the Control of Acute Experimental Chagas Disease

    Article • Journal of Immunology Research, January 2022, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  17. The Colombian Strain of Trypanosoma cruzi Induces a Proinflammatory Profile, Neuronal Death, and Collagen Deposition in the Intestine of C57BL/6 Mice Both during the Acute and Early Chronic Phase

    Article • Mediators of Inflammation, January 2022, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  18. ACE2 Down-Regulation May Act as a Transient Molecular Disease Causing RAAS Dysregulation and Tissue Damage in the Microcirculatory Environment Among COVID-19 Patients

    Article • American Journal Of Pathology, July 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  19. Curcumin as a Potential Treatment for COVID-19

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, May 2021, Frontiers

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  20. Effect of Verapamil, an L-Type Calcium Channel Inhibitor, on Caveolin-3 Expression in Septic Mouse Hearts

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, April 2021, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  21. Biomarkers and Their Possible Functions in the Intestinal Microenvironment of Chagasic Megacolon: An Overview of the (Neuro)inflammatory Process

    Article • Journal of Immunology Research, April 2021, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  22. Correlation between intestinal BMP2, IFNγ, and neural death in experimental infection with Trypanosoma cruzi

    Article • PLOS One, February 2021, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  23. High salt intake during puberty leads to cardiac remodelling and baroreflex impairment in lean and obese male Wistar rats

    Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, December 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  24. Cardiac Chagas Disease: MMPs, TIMPs, Galectins, and TGF-β as Tissue Remodelling Players

    Article • Disease Markers, November 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  25. Doxorubicin-induced Cardiotoxicity and Cardioprotective Agents: Classic and New Players in the Game

    Article • Current Pharmaceutical Design, May 2019, Bentham Science Publishers

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  26. High-Lard and High-Cholesterol Diet, but not High-Lard Diet, Leads to Metabolic Disorders in a Modified Dyslipidemia Model

    Article • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, January 2019, Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  27. Upregulation of Cardiac IL-10 and Downregulation of IFN-γ in Balb/c IL-4−/− in Acute Chagasic Myocarditis due to Colombian Strain of Trypanosoma cruzi

    Article • Mediators of Inflammation, November 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  28. Advax4 delta inulin combination adjuvant together with ECMX, a fusion construct of four protective mTB antigens, induces a potent Th1 immune response and protects mice against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

    Article • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ana Paula Junqueira Kipnis, Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  29. Cardiac hyporesponsiveness in severe sepsis is associated with nitric oxide-dependent activation of G protein receptor kinase

    Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, July 2017, American Physiological Society

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  30. Increased Atrial β-Adrenergic Receptors and GRK-2 Gene Expression Can Play a Fundamental Role in Heart Failure After Repair of Congenital Heart Disease with Cardiopulmonary Bypass

    Article • Pediatric Cardiology, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  31. Activation of Both the Calpain and Ubiquitin-Proteasome Systems Contributes to Septic Cardiomyopathy through Dystrophin Loss/Disruption and mTOR Inhibition

    Article • PLOS One, November 2016, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  32. Dantrolene improves in vitro structural changes induced by serum from Trypanosoma cruzi-infected mice

    Article • Parasitology Research, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  33. The Fate of the Tumor in the Hands of Microenvironment: Role of TAMs and mTOR Pathway

    Article • Mediators of Inflammation, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  34. Septic Cardiomyopathy: A Distinct Histopathological Entity

    Article • July 2015, Bentham Science Publishers

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  35. Role of dystrophin in acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection

    Article • Microbes and Infection, September 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  36. Neonatal Sepsis and Inflammatory Mediators

    Article • Mediators of Inflammation, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  37. Disruption of Calcium Homeostasis in Cardiomyocytes Underlies Cardiac Structural and Functional Changes in Severe Sepsis

    Article • PLOS One, July 2013, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  38. Doxycycline Prevents Acute Pulmonary Embolism-Induced Mortality and Right Ventricular Deformation in Rats

    Article • Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  39. Sepsis: Going to the Heart of the Matter

    Article • Pathobiology, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  40. Dexamethasone reduces bronchial wall remodeling during pulmonary migration of Strongyloides venezuelensis larvae in rats

    Article • Parasitology International, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  41. Early dystrophin disruption in the pathogenesis of experimental chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy

    Article • Microbes and Infection, January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  42. Calpain-mediated dystrophin disruption may be a potential structural culprit behind chronic doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, November 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  43. Coronary Microvascular Disease in Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy Including an Overview on History, Pathology, and Other Proposed Pathogenic Mechanisms

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, August 2010, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  44. INCREASED SARCOLEMMAL PERMEABILITY AS AN EARLY EVENT IN EXPERIMENTAL SEPTIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

    Article • Shock, March 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  45. Disruption of sarcolemmal dystrophin and β-dystroglycan may be a potential mechanism for myocardial dysfunction in severe sepsis

    Article • Laboratory Investigation, February 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  46. Isoproterenol induces primary loss of dystrophin in rat hearts: correlation with myocardial injury

    Article • International Journal of Experimental Pathology, September 2008, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  47. Intercellular junctions in sepsis

    Article • Critical Care Medicine, February 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  48. Peroxynitrite mediates the failure of neutrophil migration in severe polymicrobial sepsis in mice

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, October 2007, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  49. Reduction of gap and adherens junction proteins and intercalated disc structural remodeling in the hearts of mice submitted to severe cecal ligation and puncture sepsis*

    Article • Critical Care Medicine, September 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  50. Evaluation of Chlorhexidine Toxicity Injected in the Paw of Mice and Added to Cultured L929 Fibroblasts

    Article • Journal of Endodontics, June 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  51. MYOCARDIAL STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN LONG-TERM HUMAN SEVERE SEPSIS/SEPTIC SHOCK MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION

    Article • Shock, January 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes

  52. Mitochondrial Damage as an Early Event of Monensin-induced Cell Injury in Cultured Fibroblasts L929

    Article • Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A, June 2005, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Mara Rubia N Celes