Wanda Vélez

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., 1998; Tufts University, Boston, MA


Academic Department(s)

Biochemistry


Research Area

Neuroscience


Research Interest

Torpedo acetylcholine receptor


Publications

Dietary methionine effects on plasma homocysteine and HDL metabolism in mice. Velez-Carrasco W, Merkel M, Twiss CO, Smith JD. J Nutr Biochem. 2008 Jun;19(6):362-70. Epub 2007 Aug 17. PMID: 17707632


Vélez-Carrasco W, Merkel M, Twiss CO, and Smith JD. Dietary methionine effects on plasma homocysteine and HDL metabolism in mice. 2007. J Nutr Biochem; PMID 17707632.


Vélez-Carrasco W, Valdés S, Agresar L, Letich A, Guerra AY, and Hann RM. -Conotoxin residues that interact at close range with -tyrosine-111 and mutant -tyrosine-113 on the Torpedo nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Biochemistry 2004;43(39):12700-8.


Li Z, Lamon-Fava S, Otvos J, Lichteinstein AH, Vélez-Carrasco W, McNamara JR, Ordovas JM, Schaefer EJ.  Fish consumption shifts lipoprotein subfractions to a less atherogenic pattern in humans. J Nutr. 2004;134(7):1724-8.


Contact Information

Universidad Central del Caribe

P.O. Box 60327

Bayamón, PR 00960-6032


Tel.: (787) 798-3001 x 2036

e-mail: wvelez@uccaribe.edu