Miguel A Morales
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Biography
Miguel A. Morales graduated as MD in 1980, and as MSci and PhD in 1989 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He made a postdoctoral in McGill University in Montreal, 1989-1992. In 1992 he returned to UNAM where currently he is Full Professor of Neurobiology and Chairman of The Department of Cell Biology & Physiology of the Research Biomedical Institute. Dr. Morales work included the study of synaptic distribution of neurotransmitters involved in co-transmission, and the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, in the ganglionic long-term potentiation (gLTP); recently he is investigating a possible contribution of neurotrophins in gLTP. He has 42 scientific articles, 7 book chapters and a book. He has graduated 10 students, 5 PhD. Dr. Morales belong to The Society for Neuroscience, Society for Autonomic Neuroscience, International Brain Organization, and currently is President of the Mexican Physiological Society. He has been invited as reviewer in several Journals.
Abstract
Abstract : Neurotrophins modulate synaptic plasticity of sympathetic ganglia