Alejandro Martinez Martinez, Ph.D.

Alejandro Martinez Martinez
Address
Laboratorio de Neurociencias y Neuroquimica
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas
Research field
Cell biology
Award year
1999

Research

Our group is interested in the study of gene expression shift of the brain under psychogenic stress; we use a model of non invasive acute stress: exposure of a rat to a predator odor. After treatment we evaluate the oxidative stress defense by measuring phase 1 and 2 antioxidant enzymes that eradicate intracellular free radicals and ROS in limbic structures, we analyze transcripts, proteins and activity of catalase, superoxide dismutase and glutathione S-transferase.