Joana Almaça

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Pacific Peoples diet and nutritionInfectious agentsMolecular targetsGlycobiologyTransplantation immunology
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Publications (7)

|Mar 20, 2026
Pericytes Are Not Merely Accessory Cells in Pancreatic Islets.

Luciana Mateus Gonçalves, Joana Almaça

|Oct 28, 2025
Microvascular Homeostasis Is Compromised in Pancreatic Islets in a Mouse Model of β-Cell Loss and Low-Grade Inflammation.

Luciana Mateus Gonçalves, Isha Shirvaikar, Konstandina Sideris

|Dec 23, 2024
SARS-CoV-2 Spike S1 Subunit Triggers Pericyte and Microvascular Dysfunction in Human Pancreatic Islets.

Catarina Andrade Barboza, Luciana Mateus Gonçalves, Elizabeth Pereira

|May 19, 2022
Pericyte Control of Blood Flow in Intraocular Islet Grafts Impacts Glucose Homeostasis in Mice.

Alejandro Tamayo, Luciana Mateus Gonçalves, Rayner Rodriguez-Diaz

|Sep 07, 2020
Beta cell dysfunction in diabetes: the islet microenvironment as an unusual suspect.

Joana Almaça, Alejandro Caicedo, Limor Landsman

|Jun 21, 2020
Blood Flow in the Pancreatic Islet: Not so Isolated Anymore.

Joana Almaça, Alejandro Caicedo

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