Biography

Biography

Dr. Oliveira-Sales received her B.S in Biomedical Science from Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Parana, Brazil, and both her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Federal University of São Paulo under Dr. Ruy Campos’s supervision. During her Ph.D., Dr. Oliveira-Sales was awarded a Brazilian government scholarship to complete general research training as part of her graduate thesis work, under the mentorship of Dr. Julian Paton at Bristol University, UK. She later worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UT Health in San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Moreover, she is a specialist in higher education pedagogy.

Dr. Oliveira-Sales began her career as an instructor for pre-medical students at the University of Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio. She became an Assistant Professor for professional medical students. She supervised graduate students in the master’s Program in Medicine: Health and Environment at the Universidade Metropolitana de Santos, São Paulo, Brazil (UNIMES).

In addition to this experience, Dr. Oliveira-Sales served on committees such as the College of Medicine Standards Committee and the Institutional Review Board (IRB), which helped me better understand medicine and its technologies. She actively participated in the Faculty Development Training Team. She was responsible for teaching the faculty how to use some didactic technologies.

Dr. Oliveira-Sales joined the UCF College of Medicine in 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Medical Department, where, as a professor of pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry, and cell biology in Foundations, IS-1 to IS-5 Courses.

Dr. Oliveira-Sales has also received several grants over the years, including a CAPES Award to the best Thesis in Biology Science Area finished in Brazil, 2009, a Postdoctoral Excellence in Research Award from Renal section of Experimental Biology, a Top 10 abstracts Award submitted the 50th ERA-EDTA, A Travel Grant from Physiological Society to Experimental Biology, a Travel Grant of Hypertension from International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and European Society of Hypertension (ESH), an International Early Career Physiologist Travel Award from American Physiology Society (APS).

She is a current member of the American Physiology Society (APS), and a Reviewer for several national organizations, and has published numerous abstracts, research articles, and two book chapters.

Publications:        

Peer Reviewed:

1. Shimoura CG, Oliveira TL, Lincevicius GS, Crajoinas RO, Oliveira-Sales EB, Varela VA, Gomes GN, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR. The Total Denervation of the Ischemic Kidney Induces Differential Responses in Sodium Transporters’ Expression in the Contralateral Kidney in Goldblatt Rats. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Jun 26;25(13):6962. doi: 10.3390/ijms25136962.
2. Mancini de Sousa M, Nakata MTK, Baldini CES, de Oliveira-Sales EB, Boim MA, Martimbianco ALC, Maquigussa E. Creatine Supplementation in Type 2 Diabetic Patients: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2022;18(3):e120721194709. doi: 10.2174/1573399817666210712151737.PMID: 34931982
3. Varela VA, Oliveira-Sales EB, Maquigussa E, Borges FT, Gattai PP, Novaes ADS, Shimoura CG, Campos RR, Boim MA. Treatment with Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improves Renovascular Hypertension and Preserves the Ability of the Contralateral Kidney to Excrete Sodium. Kidney Blood Press Res. 2019;44(6):1404-1415. doi: 10.1159/000503346. Epub 2019 Oct 31.PMID: 31671420 
4. Oliveira-Sales EB, Varela VA, Maquigussa E, Borges FT, Shimoura CG, Gomes G, Campos RR, Boim MA Renovascular hypertension: Effects of mesenchymal stem cells in the contralateral hypertensive kidney in rats. Clin Exp Hypertens. 2016;38(7):586-593. doi: 10.3109/10641963.2016.1174253. Epub 2016 Sep 20.PMID: 27649588 
5. Oliveira-Sales EB, Boim MA. Mesenchymal stem cells and chronic renal artery stenosis.Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2016 Jan 1;310(1):F6-9. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00341.2015. Epub 2015 Nov 4.PMID: 26538439. Review.
6. Oliveira-Sales EB, Colombari E, Abdala AP, Campos RR, Paton JF. Sympathetic overactivity occurs before hypertension in the two-kidney, one-clip model. Exp Physiol. 2016 Jan;101(1):67-80. doi: 10.1113/EP085390. Epub 2015 Dec 14.PMID: 26537847.
7. Pontes RB, Crajoinas RO, Nishi EE, Oliveira-Sales EB, Girardi AC, Campos RR, Bergamaschi CT. Renal nerve stimulation leads to the activation of the Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 3 via angiotensin II type I receptor. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2015 Apr 15;308(8):F848-56. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00515.2014. Epub 2015 Feb 4.PMID: 25656367 
8. Campos RR, Oliveira-Sales EB, Nishi EE, Paton JF, Bergamaschi CT. Mechanisms of renal sympathetic activation in renovascular hypertension. Exp Physiol. 2015 Apr 20;100(5):496-501. doi: 10.1113/expphysiol.2014.079855.PMID: 25639235. Review.
9. Oliveira-Sales EB, Varela VA, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR, Boim MA. Effects of mesenchymal stem cells in renovascular hypertension. Exp Physiol. 2015 Apr 20;100(5):491-5. doi: 10.1113/expphysiol.2014.080531. Epub 2015 Feb 25.PMID: 25605443. Review.
10. Oliveira-Sales EB, Toward MA, Campos RR, Paton JF . Revealing the role of the autonomic nervous system in the development and maintenance of Goldblatt hypertension in rats.Auton Neurosci. 2014 Jul;183(100):23-9. doi: 10.1016/j.autneu.2014.02.001. Epub 2014 Feb 8.PMID: 24560525 
11. Oliveira-Sales EB, Maquigussa E, Semedo P, Pereira LG, Ferreira VM, Câmara NO, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR, Boim MA. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) prevented the progression of renovascular hypertension, improved renal function and architecture. PLoS One. 2013 Nov 4;8(11):e78464. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078464. eCollection 2013.PMID: 24223811 
12. Nishi EE, Bergamaschi CT, Oliveira-Sales EB, Simon KA, Campos RR. Losartan reduces oxidative stress within the rostral ventrolateral medulla of rats with renovascular hypertension.Am J Hypertens. 2013 Jul;26(7):858-65. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpt037. Epub 2013 Mar 13.PMID: 23485486
13. Carillo BA, Oliveira-Sales EB, Andersen M, Tufik S, Hipolide D, Santos AA, Tucci PJ, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR. Changes in GABAergic inputs in the paraventricular nucleus maintain sympathetic vasomotor tone in chronic heart failure. Auton Neurosci. 2012 Nov 2;171(1-2):41-8. doi: 10.1016/j.autneu.2012.10.005. Epub 2012 Nov 10.PMID: 23146621
14. Xu H, Oliveira-Sales EB, McBride F, Liu B, Hewinson J, Toward M, Hendy EB, Graham D, Dominiczak AF, Giannotta M, Waki H, Ascione R, Paton JF, Kasparov S. Upregulation of junctional adhesion molecule-A is a putative prognostic marker of hypertension. Cardiovasc Res. 2012 Dec 1;96(3):552-60. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvs273. Epub 2012 Aug 22.PMID: 22918977 
15. Dugaich AP, Oliveira-Sales EB, Abreu NP, Boim MA, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR Role of the rostral ventrolateral medulla in the arterial hypertension in chronic renal failure.Int J Hypertens. 2011 Jan 4;2010:219358. doi: 10.4061/2010/219358.PMID: 21253520 
16. Campos RR, Oliveira-Sales EB, Nishi EE, Boim MA, Dolnikoff MS, Bergamaschi CT. The role of oxidative stress in renovascular hypertension. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2011 Feb;38(2):144-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2010.05437.x.PMID: 20678153 Review.
17. Oliveira-Sales EB, Colombari DS, Davisson RL, Kasparov S, Hirata AE, Campos RR, Paton JF. Kidney-induced hypertension depends on superoxide signaling in the rostral ventrolateral medulla.Hypertension. 2010 Aug;56(2):290-6. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.110.150425. Epub 2010 Jul 6.PMID: 20606111
18. de Oliveira-Sales EB, Nishi EE, Boim MA, Dolnikoff MS, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR. Upregulation of AT1R and iNOS in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) is essential for the sympathetic hyperactivity and hypertension in the 2K-1C Wistar rat model. Am J Hypertens. 2010 Jul;23(7):708-15. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2010.64. Epub 2010 Apr 1.PMID: 20360752
19. Coelho MS, Lopes KL, Freitas Rde A, de Oliveira-Sales EB, Bergasmaschi CT, Campos RR, Casarini DE, Carmona AK, Araújo Mda S, Heimann JC, Dolnikoff MS. High sucrose intake in rats is associated with increased ACE2 and angiotensin-(1-7) levels in the adipose tissue. Regul Pept. 2010 Jun 8;162(1-3):61-7. doi:10.1016/j.regpep.2010.03.008. Epub 2010 Mar 24.PMID: 20346375 20
20. Nishi EE, Oliveira-Sales EB, Bergamaschi CT, Oliveira TG, Boim MA, Campos RR. Chronic antioxidant treatment improves arterial renovascular hypertension and oxidative stress markers in the kidney in Wistar rats. Am J Hypertens. 2010 May;23(5):473-80. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2010.11. Epub 2010 Feb 25.PMID: 20186128
21. Oliveira-Sales EB, Nishi EE, Carillo BA, Boim MA, Dolnikoff MS, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR. Oxidative stress in the sympathetic premotor neurons contributes to sympathetic activation in renovascular hypertension. Am J Hypertens. 2009 May;22(5):484-92. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2009.17. Epub 2009 Feb 19.PMID: 19229193
22. Campos RR, Carillo BA, Oliveira-Sales EB, Silva AM, Silva NF, Futuro Neto HA, Bergamaschi CT. Role of the caudal pressor area in the regulation of sympathetic vasomotor tone. Braz J Med Biol Res. 2008 Jul;41(7):557-62. doi: 10.1590/s0100-879×2008000700002.PMID: 18719736 
23. Oliveira-Sales EB, Dugaich AP, Carillo BA, Abreu NP, Boim MA, Martins PJ, D’Almeida V, Dolnikoff MS, Bergamaschi CT, Campos RR. Oxidative stress contributes to renovascular hypertension. Am J Hypertens. 2008 Jan;21(1):98-104. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2007.12.PMID: 18091751

Education & Specialties

• B.S., Biomedical Science, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Parana, Brazil
• Master’s in science with an emphasis in Pharmacology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Ph.D. in science with an emphasis in Pharmacology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Specialist in Higher Education.

Specialties:

• Pharmacology
• Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Molecular Biology

Research Interests:

• Her scholarly and research interests are centered around enhancing educational practices and advancing knowledge in biochemistry, pharmacology, and cellular biology.