Aline Vieira
Aline Bomfim Vieira

Biomedical Sciences
P.O. Box 334
Basseterre, St. Kitts, West Indies
Location: Faculty Offices I
Room 03-105
Phone: +1 869-465-4161 Ext. 401-1319
[email protected]

Aline Bomfim Vieira, DVM, Msc, PhD

Associate Professor of Veterinary Physiology

Dr. Aline Vieira is Assistant Professor and course coordinator of Veterinary Physiology I at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine since 2016. She is originally from Brazil where she received her DVM degree in 1999 from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF). She then completed a Residency in Small Animal Medicine at the Londrina State University and a Master of Science in Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Federal Fluminense University, Brazil. From 2009-2013 she performed her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil. In 2013, she was awarded with a governmental scholarship to perform a Post-Doctoral training at the University of Queensland in Australia. Back to Brazil, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2015-2016.

Dr. Vieira is passionate for teaching and have been a lecturer in the field of physiology, endocrinology and metabolism since 2007. She is also an active researcher and her interests include endocrine physiology and endocrine/metabolic diseases.

EDUCATION

DVM - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil – 1994-1999

Externship in Cardiovascular Physiology – Ohio State University – USA - 1999

Residency - Universidade Estadual de Londrina – Brazil – 2001-2003

Externship in Small Animal Medicine – University of Illinois at UC – USA - 2002

Master of Science - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil – 2005 - 2007

PhD - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – Brazil – 2009 - 2013

Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of Queensland – Australia - 2013 - 2014

Postdoctoral Fellowship - State University of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil – 2015- 2016

RESEARCH

Endocrine physiology

Endocrine diseases in dogs and cats

Effect of natural products on experimental diabetes mellitus/obesity

Effect of exercise on cardiovascular parameters in experimental diabetes/obesity

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Abstract Award from the Society of Comparative Endocrinology – ACVIM FORUM, 2012
  • Early Career Author Prize 2017 from Experimental Physiology to the first author (Marcus Machado) - Exercise training dose differentially alters muscle and heart capillary density and metabolic functions in an obese rat with metabolic syndrome. Experimental Physiology. Dec 1;102(12):1716-1728, 2017.
  • Morris Animal Foundation Veterinary Student Scholarship 2019 for my research assistant Mariana Alvarez Restrepo with our project entitled “Leptin levels and autonomic function in obese dogs”.

PUBLICATIONS HIGHLIGHTS

Peer Review Journals

  • Marinho, P.C.; Vieira, A.B.; Pereira, P.G; Rabelo, et al. Capybara Oil Improves Hepatic Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Steatosis, and Inflammation in a Murine Model of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Evidence-Based Complementary and alternative Medicine. 2018 Apr 29; 2018:4956079. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29853957/
  • Machado, Marcus; Vieira, Aline; Conceição, Fabiana; Nascimento, Alessandro; Nóbrega, Antonio Claudio; Tibiriçá, Eduardo. Exercise training dose differentially alters muscle and heart capillary density and metabolic functions in an obese rat with metabolic syndrome. Experimental Physiology. Dec 1;102(12):1716-1728, 2017. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28921743/
  • Frantz, Eliete; Giore, Isabela; Machado, Marcus; Magliano, D’angelo; Freitas, Fernanda; Andrade, Mariana; Vieira, Aline; Nóbrega, Antonio Claudio; Tibiriçá, Eduardo. High, but not low exercise volume, shifts the balance of renin angiotensin system towards ACE2/Mas receptor axis in skeletal muscle in obese rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 313: E473–E482, 2017. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28679623/
  • Nascimento, AR; Machado, MV, Gomes F; Vieira AB; Gonçalves-de-Albuquerque, C; Lessa, MA; Bousquet, P; Tibiriçá E. Central sympathetic modulation reverses microvascular alterations in a rat model of high-fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome. Microcirculation, 2016 May 23 (4): 320-9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27086551/
  • Machado, Marcus Vinicius; Martins R.F.L.; Borges, Juliana; Antunes, B.R.; Estato, Vanessa; Vieira, A.B.; Tibiriça, E. Exercise training reverses structural microvascular rarefaction and improves endothelium-dependent microvascular reactivity in diabetic rats. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, 2016 Aug 14(6):298-304. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27003580/
  • Machado, Marcus Vinicius; Vieira, A. B. ; NASCIMENTO, ALESSANDRO R. ; LANZA, Rômulo ; DALEPRANE, Julio B ; LESSA, Marcos Adriano ; TIBIRICA, Eduardo . Physical exercise restores microvascular function in obese rats with metabolic syndrome. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, v. 12, p. 484-9, 2014. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25137183/
  • Vieira, A. B.; COELHO, L. P.; SANTOS, M. H. ; Silva, P.M.R. ; Martins, M.A. . Mangiferin Prevents Guinea Pig Tracheal Contraction via Activation of the Nitric Oxide-Cyclic GMP Pathway. Plos One, v. 8, p. e71759, 2013. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23951240/
  • Vieira, A. B., Rodrigues, M.D.R., Castro, T.X., Kfuri, L.M., Abreu, M.B., Souza, C. H. M. What is your diagnosis? Unexpected finding in urine sediment of a dog. Veterinary Clinical Pathology. V.40, p. 403-404, 2011. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21884188/

Book Chapter

  • Fleeman, L.M.; Vieira, A.B. Canine Diabetes Mellitus. In: Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Clinical Companion: Endocrinology and Reproduction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, p. 79-88.