Department Activities:

Journal Club:
Mondays, 12-1 p.m.
SPHB 240
All faculty, staff, students

Hispanic Health Research Seminar Series
February 8th - May 9, 2008
Fridays, 11:00 a.m., SPHB N1.130

Nelly Estrada, biology undergraduate, has been selected as one of 24 nationwide awardees of the American Physiological Society Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship, 2008.  Dr. Masako Isokawa is the research host for Nelly.

Dr. Masako Isokawa has received a three year NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award beginning February 1, 2008.  She and her students will be studying the biological functions of a natural neuronal molecule that has a high affinity to the cannabinoid receptor in the brain. 

Emilio R. Garrido-Sanabria, MD, PhD., has received two grant awards in the Fall 2007:

1) Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award (SC1) (08/01/07-07/31/11) from NIH/NIGMS/MBRS to develop a project entitled: Molecular determinants of mossy fiber presynaptic channelopathies in epilepsy.

2) A R21 grant was awarded in September from the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders, (NINDS)  (12/01/07-11/30/09) to Dr. Emilio Garrido and co-investigators: Masoud Zarei and Boris Ermolinsky. Project title: Targeted immunoliposomes for cell-type specific gene therapy of epilepsy.

Publications and Abstracts:

Peltz G, Sanderson M, Perez, A. Sexton K, Ochoa D, Fadden MK. Serum leptin concentration, adiposity, and body fat distribution in Mexican Americans. Arch Med Res 38:563-570, 2007.

Peltz G, Sanderson M, Calil RC, Cortez E, Calil R, Fadden MK, Aguirre M, Aguirre K, Chavez-Reyes J. Comparative Study Between Waist Circumference and Trunk Fat Mass Using Segmental Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis. American Association for the Study of Obesity. 2007 – New Orleans, LA. Obes Res 15(Suppl.):A135, 2007.

Peltz G, Sanderson M, Calil RC, Wittenburg D, Bailey M, Aguirre K, Aguirre M,

Chavez-Reyes J, Calil R, Fadden MK. Body Composition by Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and Air-Displacement Plethysmography: a Comparative Study. American Association for the Study of Obesity. 2007 – New Orleans, LA. Obes Res 15(Suppl.):A135, 2007.

Peltz G, Casares DO, Calil RC. The Use of Body Mass Index for the Diagnosis of Obesity in Mexican Americans: A Comparative study with Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis. 18th International Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice. 2007 – Vienna, Austria.

Sanderson M, Peltz G, A. Perez, M. Johnson, R.J. Dutton. Influence of Mexican Health Care on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening. 40th Annual Society for Epidemiology Research Meeting. 2007 – Boston, MA. Am J Epidemiol 165(Suppl):S31, 2007

Peltz G, Sanderson M, Calil RC, Aguirre MT, Casares DO, Chavez-Reyes J, Fadden MK. Association of leptin with insulin: Effects of body fat and waist circumference. 2^nd International Congress of Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome. 2007 – Barcelona, Spain Diabetes Vasc Dis Res 4(Suppl 1):S87, 2007.

Dr. Garrido-Sanabria, Dr. Luis V. Colom, M.G. Perez, C. Banuelos, T. Reyna, S. Hernandez, and Dr. M.T. Castaneda have had publications in peer-reviewed journals accepted:

1)      Pacheco Otalora LF, Moffett JR, Garrido-Sanabria ER.  Selective vulnerability of hippocampal NAAGergic neurons in experimental temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain Research 1144:219-230, 2007.

2)      Colom LV, Garrido-Sanabria E. Modulation of normal and altered hippocampal excitability status by septal networks. J Neurosci Res. 85(13):2839-43. Review.), 2007.

3)      Garrido-Sanabria ER, Perez MG, Banuelos C, Reyna T, Hernandez S, Castaneda MT, Colom LV. Electrophysiological and morphological heterogeneity of show firing neurons in medial septal/diagonal band complex as revealed by cluster analysis.  Neuroscience; 146(3): 931-45, 2007.

4)      Malfatti CR, Perry ML, Scheigert I, Muller A, Pasquetti L, Rigo FK, Fighera MR, Garrido-Sanabria ER, Mello CF. Convulsions Induced by Methylmalonic Acid are Associated with Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Inhibition in Rats: A Role for GABA in the Seizures Presented by Methylmalonic Acidemic Patients. Neuroscience, 146 (4): 1879-87, 2007.

5)      Manuscript NSC-07-1236. Downregulation of BK channel expression in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy, Brain Research, accepted Jan, 2008.