Raphael Felizardo

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• PhD
• Professor at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Increasing evidence shows the essential participation of gut microbiota in human health and diseases by shaping local and systemic immunity. Despite an accumulating body of studies showing that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is closely associated with disturbances in the composition of gut microbiota, it remains unclear the importance of gut microbio...

Background The gut microbiota is a key element to support host homeostasis and the development of the immune system. The relationship between the microbiota and immunity is a 2-way road, in which the microbiota contributes to the development/function of immune cells and immunity can affect the composition of microbes. In this context, natural kille...

Butyrate is a short‐chain fatty acid derived from the metabolism of indigestible carbohydrates by the gut microbiota. Butyrate contributes to gut homeostasis, but it may also control inflammatory responses and host physiology in other tissues. Butyrate inhibits histone deacetylases, thereby affecting gene transcription, and also signals through the...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are major concerns in worldwide public health, and their pathophysiology involves immune cells activation, being macrophages one of the main players of both processes. It is suggested that metabolic pathways could contribute to macrophage modulation and phosphatidylinositol‑3 kinase (PI3K)...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is considered an inflammatory disease in which Toll-like receptors (TLRs) signaling pathways play an important role. The activation of TLRs results in production of several inflammatory cytokines leading to further renal damage. In contrast, TLRs are key players on autophagy induction, which is associated with a protective...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) affect millions of people worldwide and their frequencies in developed countries have increased since the twentieth century. In this context, there is an intensive search for therapies that modulate inflammation and provide tissue regeneration in IBDs. Recently, the immunomodulatory activity of adipose tissue-deri...

Cisplatin is a drug widely used in chemotherapy that frequently causes severe renal dysfunction. Organic transporters have an important role to control the absorption and excretion of cisplatin in renal cells. Deletion and blockage of kinin B1 receptor has already been show to protect against cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury. To test whether i...

The antineoplastic drug cisplatin promotes renal injury, which limits its use. Protocols that reduce renal cisplatin toxicity will allow higher doses to be used in cisplatin treatment. Here, we compare physical exercise and caloric restriction (CR) as protocols to reduce cisplatin renal injury in mice. Male C57BL/6 were divided into four groups: Co...

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) orchestrate tissue repair by releasing cell-derived microvesicles (MVs), which, presumably by small RNA species, modulate global gene expression. The knowledge of miRNA/mRNA signatures linked to a reparative status may elucidate some of the molecular events associated with MSC protection. Here, we used a model of ci...

Movement pattern visualization of animal treated with cisplatin (injured group). Movie file (.avi).

Movement pattern visualization of animal treated with cisplatin and MSCs (treated group). Movie file (.avi).

In vitro MVs incorporation into tubular epithelial cells. Movie file (.avi).

Background and purpose: Sakuranetin is the main isolate flavonoid from Baccharis retusa (Asteraceae) leaves and exhibits anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative activities. Acute respiratory distress syndrome is an acute failure of the respiratory system for which effective treatment is urgently necessary. This study investigated the preventive and t...

Recent findings regarding the influence of the microbiota in many inflammatory processes have provided a new way to treat diseases. Now, one may hypothesize that the origin of a plethora of diseases is related to the health of the gut microbiota and its delicate, although complex, interface with the epithelial and immune systems. The 'westernizatio...

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are fermentation end products produced by the intestinal microbiota and have anti-inflammatory and histone deacetylase-inhibiting properties. Recently, a dual relationship between the intestine and kidneys has been unraveled. Therefore, we evaluated the role of SCFA in an AKI model in which the inflammatory process h...

Obesity is an important worldwide challenge that must be faced in most developed and developing countries because of unhealthy nutritional habits. The consequences of obesity and being overweight are observed in different organs, but the kidney is one of the most affected. Excess adipose tissue causes hemodynamic alterations in the kidney that can...

Macrophages play a special role in the onset of several diseases, including acute and chronic kidney injuries. In this sense, tubule interstitial nephritis (TIN) represents an underestimated insult, which can be triggered by different stimuli and, in the absence of a proper regulation, can lead to fibrosis deposition. Based on this perception, we e...

A considerable number of epileptic patients had become resistant to antiepileptic drugs, justifying the need for development of new therapeutic strategies to treat epilepsy. The use of mesenchymal stem cells is an innovative and accessible strategy for the treatment of neuronal disorders, due to their involvement in immunoregulatory mechanisms, tro...

Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is one of the most important renal diseases related to end stage renal failure. Bradykinin has been implicated in the pathogenesis of renal inflammation whereas the role of its receptor 2 (B2RBK) in FSGS has not been studied. FSGS was induced in wild type and B2RBK KO mice by a single intravenous inject...

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a secondary metabolite of Aspergillus and Penicillium, microorganisms that can be hazardous to health when present as food contaminants. OTA is a potent member of a group of mycotoxins. Prolonged exposure to mycotoxins in the diet is related to cancer, among other diseases. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for 70%-90% o...