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Paulo F. Pires

- Verified email at dell.com - Cited by 4243

Paulo Wagner Pires

- Verified email at email.arizona.edu - Cited by 1968

Paulo Augusto Rodrigues Pires

- Verified email at usp.br - Cited by 1004

Cationic lipid–DNA complexes in gene delivery: from biophysics to biological applications

MCP de Lima, S Simoes, P Pires, H Faneca… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2001 - Elsevier
Great expectations from the application of gene therapy approaches to human disease have
been impaired by the unsatisfactory clinical progress observed. Among others, the use of …

The effects of hypertension on the cerebral circulation

PW Pires, CM Dams Ramos, N Matin… - American Journal of …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
… This study was funded by the American Heart Association , PW Pires and CM Dams
Ramos are both recipients of AHA predoctoral fellowships, and AM Dorrance has received an …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer-based biomaterials for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications: A focus on topical drug administration

PC Pires, F Mascarenhas-Melo, K Pedrosa… - European Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing emergence of skin diseases and the difficulty in treating damaged skin using
conventional therapies have been calling for the development of novel drug delivery …

Parametrization of the Paris potential

…, B Loiseau, JM Richard, RV Mau, J Côté, P Pires… - Physical Review C, 1980 - APS
In view of practical nuclear structure calculations the Paris N− N potential is parametrized in
a simple analytical form. This parametrization consists of a regularized discrete …

[PDF][PDF] Parametrization of the deuteron wave function of the Paris NN potential

M Lacombe, B Loiseau, RV Mau, J Cote, P Pires… - Physics Letters …, 1981 - hal.in2p3.fr
The deuteron wavefunction of the recently published Paris potential [1] reproduces quite well
the known low energy properties and the electromagnetic form factor A (q 2) of the deuteron…

Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership

J Bena, MA Ferreira, P Matos, P Pires - Journal of Financial Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper challenges the view that foreign investors lead firms to adopt a short-term orientation
and forgo long-term investment. Using a comprehensive sample of publicly listed firms …

A Pan‐European Study of the C9orf72 Repeat Associated with FTLD: Geographic Prevalence, Genomic Instability, and Intermediate Repeats

…, C Oliveira, J Massano, C Garret, P Pires… - Human …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed the geographical distribution of C9orf72 G 4 C 2 expansions in a pan‐ E
uropean frontotemporal lobar degeneration ( FTLD ) cohort (n = 1,205), ascertained by the E …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of shared single copy nuclear genes in Arabidopsis, Populus, Vitis and Oryzaand their phylogenetic utility across various taxonomic levels

…, PP Edger, LL Landherr, H Ma, PK Pires… - BMC evolutionary …, 2010 - Springer
Background Although the overwhelming majority of genes found in angiosperms are members
of gene families, and both gene- and genome-duplication are pervasive forces in plant …

Thermophysical and thermodynamic properties of ionic liquids over an extended pressure range:[bmim][NTf2] and [hmim][NTf2]

…, J Esperança, J Szydlowski, ZP Visak, PF Pires… - The journal of chemical …, 2005 - Elsevier
… One possible method for deriving a wealth of thermodynamic properties consists in the
measurement of the whole (p, ρ, T) and (p, u, T) surfaces in order to obtain by differentiation the …

Direct regulation of blood pressure by smooth muscle cell mineralocorticoid receptors

A McCurley, PW Pires, SB Bender, M Aronovitz… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
Hypertension is a cardiovascular risk factor present in over two-thirds of people over age 60
in North America; elevated blood pressure correlates with increased risk of heart attack, …