Hector M. Maldonado

Chair Department of Pharmacology

Ph.D., 1991 University of California, Davis

Academic Department(s)

Department of Pharmacology

Research Area

Cell Biology

Research Interest

Cellular Caveolin expression

Signal transduction and protein-protein interactions

Publications

P2Y2 receptor desensitization on single endothelial cells. Sanabria P, Ross E, Ramirez E, Colon K, Hernandez M, Maldonado HM, Silva WI, Jimenez-Rivera CA, Gonzalez FA. Endothelium. 2008 Jan-Feb;15(1):43-51. PMID: 18568944

Kucheryavykh, Y.V., Kucheryavykh,  L.Y., Reichenbach, A., Nichols, C.G., Maldonado, H.M., Baksi, K., Skatchkov,  S.N., and Eaton, M.J., Inhibition of Kir4.1 inward rectifying  potassium channel subunit expression by siRNA impairs potassium transfer  and glutamate uptake by cortical astrocytes. Glia 55:274-281, 2007.

Ferchmin PA, Hao J, Perez D, Penzo M, Maldonado HM, Gonzalez MT, Rodriguez AD, de Vellis J.  Tobacco cembranoids protect the function of acute hippocampal slices against NMDA by a mechanism mediated by alpha4beta2 nicotinic receptors.  J Neurosci Res. 82:631-41, 2005.

Silva WI, Maldonado HM, Velazquez G, Rubio-Davila M, Miranda JD, Aquino E, Mayol N, Cruz-Torres A, Jardon J, Salgado-Villanueva IK.  Caveolin isoform expression during differentiation of C6 glioma cells.  Int J Dev Neurosci. 23:599-612, 2005.

Contact Information

Universidad Central del Caribe

P.O. Box 60327

Bayamón, PR 00960-6032

Tel  (787) 798-3001 ext. 2045

e-mail: hmaldonado@uccaribe.edu