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KEY FOCUS AREA - UROGENITAL SYSTEM  

The urogenital system key focus area is basically structured by professors from the urogenital system research unit, UERJ (www.urogenitalresearch.org) who are dedicated to increasing knowledge in the urogenital system from a basic and applied clinical perspective. The research is made on several models, including clinical research and experiments on laboratory animals, with a wide variety of methodologies. Professors of the urogenital research unit, in addition to their research activities, are also involved in undergraduate and graduate teaching for medicine and other programs in the biomedical area. The unit has its own laboratories, specialized in anatomical surgical techniques, experimental surgery, extracellular matrix biochemistry, histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy, molecular biology, etc. In addition, the unit has strong collaboration with other departments of UERJ, from Rio de Janeiro, other states, and other countries. The main characteristic of the urogenital unit is the strong integration and collaboration between experimental research work carried out in the unit's laboratories and clinical practice, which provides a stimulating and productive environment. Exceptional opportunities are also created for training undergraduate and graduate students, who can take advantage of both the experience of the unit's staff and the wide diversity of scientific activities.

 
LINES OF RESEARCH
 

# STRUCTURAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL TESTICLE AND GUBERNACULUM IN ADULTS, FETUSES AND LABORATORY ANIMALS

 
# STRUCTURAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ORGANS OF THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN HUMANS, FETUSES AND LABORATORY ANIMALS
   

# STRUCTURAL, ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF THE NORMAL PROSTATE, PROSTATE WITH BENIGN HYPERPLASIA AND PROSTATE CANCER IN HUMANS AND LABORATORY ANIMALS

   

# STUDY OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN KIDNEY OF LABORATORY ANIMALS SUBMITTED TO SIMULATED CLINICAL SITUATIONS IN UROLOGY

   
# EXPERIMENTAL NUTRITION AND METABOLIC PROGRAMMING: PHYSIOPATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM
   


LINE OF RESEARCH

STRUCTURAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL TESTICLE AND GUBERNACULUM IN ADULTS, FETUSES AND LABORATORY ANIMALS

RESEARCH PROJECT
   

# # EVALUATION OF ACUTE AND LATE EFFECTS ON ADULT RATS TESTICLES SUBMITTED TO CHRONIC STRESS BEFORE AND AFTER PUBERTY

Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza
Prof. Marco Aurelio Pereira Sampaio

 
   

## CLINICAL AND STRUCTURAL STUDY OF PATIENTS WITH RETRACTILE TESTICLE

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito

 
   

## IMMEDIATE IMPLANTATION OF TESTICULAR PROSTHESIS IN PATIENTS WITH TESTICULAR TORSION

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito

 


LINE OF RESEARCH

STRUCTURAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ORGANS OF THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN HUMANS, FETUSES AND LABORATORY ANIMALS

RESEARCH PROJECT
   

## ANALYSIS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE LOWER KIDNEY POLE IN KIDNEY WITH CONGENITAL ANOMALIES

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito

 
   

## ANALYSIS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE LOWER KIDNEY POLE IN KIDNEY WITH CONGENITAL ANOMALIES

Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza

 
   

## MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UTERUS, VAGINA, CLITORIS, BLADDER AND URETHRA IN FEMALE HUMAN FETUSES WITH NEURAL TUBE DISORDERS

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 


 

## HISTOMORPHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM ORGANS OF SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSE RATS AFTER TREATMENT WITH Tribulus terrestris

Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza

 
   

## STUDY OF THE BULBOSPONGIOSUS MUSCLE IN HUMAN FETUSES AND PATIENTS WITH URETHROPLASTY

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 
   

## STUDY OF DISORDERS OF THE NEURAL TUBE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENITAL ORGANS IN HUMAN FETUSES

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 
   

## STRUCTURAL AND ONTOGENETIC STUDY OF THE PENIS OF NORMAL OR ANENCEPHALES HUMAN FETUSES, OR WITH MYELOMENINGOCELE AND PRUNE-BELLY SYNDROME

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
Prof. Waldemar Silva Costa
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 
   

## MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UTERUS, VAGINE, CLITORIS, BLADDER AND URETHRA IN FEMALE HUMAN FETUSES WITH NEURAL TUBE DISORDERS

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 
   

## DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE EXTERNAL GENITALIA AND NEURAL TUBE DISORDERS: WHAT IS THE IMPACT ON HUMAN FETUSES?

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito

 
   

## STUDY OF DISORDERS OF THE NEURAL TUBE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENITAL ORGANS IN HUMAN FETUSES

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 


STRUCTURAL, ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF THE NORMAL PROSTATE, PROSTATE WITH BENIGN HYPERPLASIA AND PROSTATE CANCER IN HUMANS AND LABORATORY ANIMALS

RESEARCH PROJECT
   

## EXPRESSION OF THE STROMAL ELEMENTS OF PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMAS IN THE GLEASON SCORE

Prof. Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio
Prof. Waldemar Silva Costa
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo
 
   

## STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROSTATE AND SEMINAL VESICLES DURING THE HUMAN FETAL PERIOD APPLIED TO RADICAL PROSTECTOMY

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
 
   

## STUDY OF ENDOSCOPIC ANATOMY OF THE PROSTATE IN PATIENTS WITH BPH

Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito


 
LINE OF RESEARCH  
STUDY OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN KIDNEY OF LABORATORY ANIMALS SUBMITTED TO SIMULATED CLINICAL SITUATIONS IN UROLOGY
RESEARCH PROJECT  
   

## EVALUATION OF KIDNEY PARENCHYMA AFTER ISCHEMIA / REPERFUSION AND PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF L-ARGININE IN RATS

Prof. Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio
Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza
Prof. Marco Aurélio Pereira-Sampaio

 
   

## KIDNEY HEALING AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY WITHOUT CLOSING THE COLLECTOR SYSTEM IN RABBITS

Prof. Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio
Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza
Prof. Marco Aurélio Pereira-Sampaio

 
   

## KIDNEY HEALING AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY WITHOUT CLOSING THE COLLECTOR SYSTEM IN RATS

Prof. Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio
Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza
Prof. Marco Aurélio Pereira-Sampaio

 
   

## PROPORTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ARTERIAL SEGMENTS AND EVALUATION OF VASCULAR INJURY IN THE CRANIAL POLE AFTER SIMULATED NEPHRECTOMY IN POLYESTER RESIN MOLDS IN OX, DOG, RABBIT AND SHEEP KIDNEY

Prof. Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio
Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza
Prof. Marco Aurélio Pereira-Sampaio

 
   

## PROPORTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ARTERIAL SEGMENTS AND EVALUATION OF VASCULAR INJURY IN THE CRANIAL POLE AFTER SIMULATED NEPHRECTOMY IN POLYESTER RESIN MOLDS IN OX, DOG, RABBIT AND SHEEP KIDNEY

Prof. Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio
Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza
Prof. Marco Aurélio Pereira-Sampaio

 
   

## STEREOLOGICAL STUDY IN KIDNEYS OF PRE-PUBESCENT AND ADULTS RATS UNDER CHRONIC STRESS

Prof. Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio
Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza
Prof. Marco Aurélio Pereira-Sampaio

 


 
LINE OF RESEARCH
EXPERIMENTAL NUTRITION AND METABOLIC PROGRAMMING: PHYSIOPATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM
RESEARCH PROJECT  
   

## ADMINISTRATION OF A HYPERLIPID DIET DURING THE PERIOD PRIOR (PREGNANCY AND LACTATION) AND POST-BIRTH AND EFFECTS ON THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM (TESTICLES, PROSTATE, PENIS AND BLADDER) OF WISTAR RATS IN WEANING AND ADUL LIFE

Profa. Bianca Martins Gregório

 
   

# EVALUATION OF BRAZILIAN NUT (Bertholettia H.B.K. excelsa) OIL BASE DIET IN WISTAR RATS. STUDY OF PENIS, BLADDER, TESTICLES, PROSTATE AND KIDNEY

Profa. Bianca Martins Gregório
Prof. Waldemar Silva Costa
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 
   

## EFFECTS IN METABOLISM AND PENIS MORPHOLOGY INDUCED BY THE VITAMIN D EXEMPTED DIET ADMINISTERED IN THE PERIOD PRIOR AND POST-BIRTH IN THE PROTEIN OF WISTAR RATS

Profa. Bianca Martins Gregório
Prof. Luciano Alves Favorito
Prof. Waldemar Silva Costa
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 
   

## NUTRITIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF DEHYDRATED TUMERIC (CURCUMA LONGA, L.) AND IT’S EVALUATION IN OBESE RATS. STUDY OF PENIS, BLADDER, TESTICLES, PROSTATE AND KIDNEY

Profa. Bianca Martins Gregório
Prof. Waldemar Silva Costa
Dra. Carla Braga Mano Gallo

 
   

##STRUCTURAL STUDY OF THE TESTICLE OF WISTAR RATS FEEDED WITH COFFEE STYLE DIET AND TREATED WITH RESVERATROL

Profa. Bianca Martins Gregório

 
   

## STRUCTURAL STUDY OF THE KIDNEY OF WISTAR RATS FEEDED WITH COFFEE STYLE DIET AND TREATED WITH RESVERATROL

Profa. Bianca Martins Gregório
Prof. Waldemar Silva Costa
Prof. Diogo Benchimol de Souza

 

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