The Department of Anatomy, Histology and Neuroscience of the UAM is located in the campus of the Faculty of Medicine.
This Department was created at the founding of the Faculty of Medicine and began classes in the 1968-69 academic year under the direction of Professor Fernando Reinoso-Suárez. At present the Department consists of 30 Teachers and Investigators, Administration and Support Staff, and pre- and postdoctoral Fellows.
Chairman: Dr. Ángel Núñez
LatestPublications
Navarrete, M., G. Perea, D. Fernández de Sevilla, M. Gómez-Gonzalo, A. Núñez, E. Martín, A. Araque (2012). Astrocytes mediate in vivo cholinergic-induced synaptic plasticity. Plos Biology 10: 1-12.
Bernácer J, Prensa L, Giménez-Amaya JM. Distribution of GABAergic interneurons and dopaminergic cells in the functional territories of the human striatum. PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e30504. Epub 2012 Jan 17.
Cid-Pellitero E. and M. Garzón Hypocretin1/OrexinA axon targeting of Laterodorsal Tegmental Nucleus neurons projecting to the rat medial prefrontal cortex Cerebral Cortex 2011 (en prensa, disponible online) DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhr070
Cid-Pellitero E. and M. Garzón Hypocretin1/OrexinA-containing axons innervate Locus Coeruleus neurons that project to the rat medial prefrontal cortex. Implication in the sleep-wakefulness cycle and cortical activation Synapse 2011 (en prensa, disponible online) DOI 10.1002/syn.20912
Reinoso-Suárez F., I. de Andrés and M. Garzón.Functional Anatomy of the Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle: Wakefulness. In: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology. Ed. H.W. Korf. Springer, Heidelberg, 130 pp. 2011.
Egea, J., E. Malmierca, A.Rosa, L. del Barrio, P. Negredo,A. Núñez, M. López. (2011). Participation of calbindin-D28K in nociception: results from calbindin-D28K knockout mice. Pflugers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology ( DOI 10.1007/s00424-011-1063-x).
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