UREÑA LÓPEZ , Juan

El objetivo general del presente trabajo ha sido el diseño e implementación de un sistema automatizado para el control del potencial de membrana y la adquisición, almacenamiento, representación en pantalla y análisis de corrientes iónicas generadas en la membrana de células mantenidas en cultivo. El sistema, construido sobre un ordenador...

We have investigated the modifications of cytosolic [Ca2+] and the activity of Ca2+ channels in freshly dispersed arterial myocytes to test whether lowering 02 tension (P02) directly influences Ca2+ homeostasis in these cells. Unclamped cells loaded with fura-2 AM exhibit oscillations of cytosolic Ca22+ whose frequency depends on extracellular...

The ionic currents of clonal Y-1 adrenocortical cells were studied using the whole-cell variant of the patch-clamp technique. These cells had two major current components: a large outward current carried by K ions, and a small inward Ca current. The Ca current depended on the activity of two populations of Ca channels, slow (SD) and fast (FD)...

The hypothesis that changes in environmental O2 tension (pO2) could affect the ionic conductances of dissociated type I cells of the carotid body was tested. Cells were subjected to whole-cell patch clamp and ionic currents were recorded in a control solution with normal pO2 (pO2 = 150 mmHg) and 3-5 min after exposure to the same solution with...

Ionic currents of enzymatically dispersed type I and type II cells of the carotid body have been studied using the whole cell variant of the patch-clamp technique. Type II cells only have a tiny, slowly activating outward potassium current. By contrast, in every type I chemoreceptor cell studied we found (a) sodium, (b) calcium, and (c)...

Composición farmacéutica y preparación combinada que comprende un inhibidor de la proteína quinasa C junto a un inhibidor de Rho quinasa, y/o un inhibidor de los canales de Ca2+ tipo L voltaje dependientes, para su uso en la elaboración de un medicamento

Uso del gen RhoA, la proteína y su actividad para el diagnóstico, clasificación y/o seguimiento de la Hemorragia Subaracnoidea de origen aneurismático y para predecir o pronosticar el vasoespasmo cerebral tras la hemorragia subaracnoidea de origen aneurismático método de obtención de datos útiles para el diagnóstico, clasificación y/o...

We have investigated the changes of cytosolic [Ca2+1 and the secretory -activity in single glomus cells dispersed from rabbit carotid bodies during exposure to solutions with variable 02 tension (Po2). In normoxic conditions (Po2= 145 mmHg; 1 mmHg = 133 Pa), intracellular [Ca2+J was 58 1 29 nM, and switching to lo'iV P02 (between 10 and 60...

We have monitored cytosolic [Ca2+] and dopamine release in intact fura-2-loaded glomus cells with microfluoroimetry and a polarized carbon fiber electrode. Exposure to low PO2 produced a rise of cytosolic [Ca2+] with two distinguishable phases: an initial period (with PO2 values between 150 and approximately 70 mm Hg) during which the increase...

Voltage-gated Ca2_ channels in arterial myocytes can mediate Ca2_ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum and, thus, induce contraction without the need of extracellular Ca2_ influx. This metabotropic action of Ca2_ channels (denoted as calcium-channelinduced calcium release or CCICR) involves activation of G proteins and the phospholipase...

Utilización en composiciones farmacológicas de agentes con efecto reductor o inductor de hipoxia. Se propone como nueva la utilización en preparados farmacológicos de agentes reductores, y en general aquellos que produzcan hipoxia, que bien solos, o unidos por mezcla física o ligamiento químico a sustancias que los vehiculicen y dirijan hacia...

Background/Aims: Protein kinase C (PKC)- and RhoA/Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) play important roles in arterial sustained contraction. Although depolarization-elicited RhoA/ROCK activation is accepted, the role of PKC in depolarized vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is a subject of controversy. Our aim was to study the role of PKC in...

Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is a neurovascular disease produced by extravasation of blood to the subarachnoid space after rupture of the cerebral vessels. After bleeding, the immune response is activated. The role of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in this response is a current subject of research. We have analysed the...