Líneas de Investigación:

• Regulación de la expresión génica en eucariotes.
• Plasticidad transcripcional del sistema nervioso
• Expresión génica en “células madre”

Publicaciones representativas:

* Chavira-Suárez E, Sandoval A, Quintero H, Bustamante P, Felix R, Lamas M. Hyperglycemia induces early upregulation of the calcium sensor KChIP3/DREAM/calsenilin in the rat retina. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2012, 418(2):420-5

* Huerta-Rivas A, López-Rubalcava C, Sánchez-Serrano SL, Valdez-Tapia M, Lamas M, Cruz SL. Toluene impairs learning and memory, has antinociceptive effects, and modifies histone acetylation in the dentate gyrus of adolescent and adult rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2012, 102(1):48-57

* M Ramírez, J Hernández-Montoya, S.L. Sánchez-Serrano, B Ordáz, S. Ferraro, H. Quintero, F. Peña-Ortega and M. Lamas. GABA-mediated induction of early neuronal markers expression in postnatal rat progenitor cells in culture. Neuroscience. 2012, 224:210-22

* Chavira-Suárez E, Sandoval A, Felix R, and Lamas M. Expresión and high glucose-mediate regulation of K+ channel interacting protein 3 (KChIP3) and Kv4 channels in retinal Müller glial cells. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 404: 678-683 (2011).

* Sánchez-Serrano L, Cruz S.L and Lamas M. Repeated toluene exposure modifies the acetylation pattern of histones H3 and H4 in the rat brain. Neurosci. Lett. 489: 142-147. (2011).