Fidel Ovídio Castro
ORCID: 0000-0001-8828-1449
· 7 papers in corpus
lab-animal
2026
Mules (Equus mulus), as sterile hybrids between mares and donkeys, present a unique uterine morphology and physiology that remains poorly characterized. This study provides the first histomorphometric evaluation and transcriptional profilin…
lab-animal
2025
BACKGROUND: Endometrosis is a prevalent fibrotic condition in mares that impairs reproductive efficiency by inducing transdifferentiation of endometrial stromal cells into myofibroblasts, leading to excessive ECM deposition. METHODS: To el…
2025
lab-animal
2025
Endometrosis is a prevalent fibrotic condition in mares that impairs reproductive efficiency by inducing aberrant transformation of endometrial stromal cells into myofibroblasts, leading to excessive extracellular matrix deposition. To eluc…
lab-animal
2023
The embryo-maternal interaction occurs during the early stages of embryo development and is essential for the implantation and full-term development of the embryo. In bovines, the secretion of interferon Tau (IFNT) during elongation is the …
review
2018
The endometrium is an accessible source of mesenchymal stem cells. Most investigations of endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSCs) have been conducted in humans. In animals, particularly in livestock, eMSC research is scarce. Such cells h…
lab-animal
2017
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were isolated and characterized from postpartum bovine endometrium of animals with subclinical (n = 5) and clinical endometritis (n = 3) and healthy puerperal females (n = 5). Cells isolated displayed mean morp…