MARTÍNEZ DE PABLOS , Rocío

Nuestro grupo lleva años estudiando los mecanismos de degeneración del sistema dopaminérgico nigroestriado que podrían justificar o estar implicados en la aparición de la enfermedad de Parkinson. Entre las características comunes que se han descrito en las zonas afectadas, sustancia negra y estriado, nos pareció de gran interés el estudio de...

Among non-transmissible chronic diseases, neurodegenerative complications have become a big challenge in public health. Elongation of human lifespan, due in part to better health services, lifestyle changes, and improvements in medicine and nutrition, has brought up in consequence, an emergence in growing scientific knowledge on fields related...

Accumulating evidence suggests that microglia and peripheral immune cells may play determinant roles in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Consequently, there is a need to take advantage of immune-related models of PD to study the potential contribution of microglia and peripheral immune cells to the degeneration of the nigrostriatal...

Chronic stress accelerates the appearance of some neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson´s disease. On this review we firstly, describe some human epidemiological studies that highlight the possibility that chronic stress could increase the incidence or the rate of incidence of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson´s...

Ischemic stroke (caused by thrombosis, embolism or vasoconstriction) lead to the recruitment and activation of immune cells including resident microglia and infiltrating peripheral macrophages, which contribute to an inflammatory response involved in regulation of the neuronal damage. We showed earlier that upon pro-inflammatory stimuli, the...

Background We have uncovered a caspase-dependent (caspase-8/caspase-3/7) signaling governing microglia activation and associated neurotoxicity. Importantly, a profuse non-nuclear activation of cleaved caspases 8 and 3 was found in reactive microglia in the ventral mesencephalon from subjects with Parkinson's disease, thus supporting the...