Adelaide
Professor
Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology
Universidad de Malaga
Spain
Biography
She holds a degree in Biological Sciences in 1972 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has been a Cellular Biology Professor at the University of Málaga since 1999. She holds a PhD in Biological Sciences in 1975 at the University of La Laguna de Tenerife. Adjunct professor numerary in 1979. During the 1982-83 academic year, she worked at the University of Ulm (Germany) and later was appointed titular professor of Cell Biology in 1983 in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics at the University of Málaga and in 1999 Professor of Cell Biology at the University from Malaga. Among other academic positions, she has been Assistant Director of Open Courses at the University of Málaga (1989), Deputy Vice-Rector of Research at the University of Málaga (1990-92), Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (1994) and Vice- Universidad de Málaga between 1994 and 2003. Since 2004 she is the rector of the University of Málaga.
Research Interest
Formation of dopaminergic and opioid receptor heteromers and their involvement in morphine addiction
Publications
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Rivera A .; Agnati LF; Horvath TL; Valderrama JJ; From Calle A .; Fuxe K. Uncoupling protein 2/3 immunoreactivity and the ascending dopaminergic and noradrenergic neuron system. Relevance for volume transmission. Neurosci. 137: 1447-1461 (2006).
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Rivera A .; Trias S .; Penafiel A .; Narvaez JA; Diaz-Cabiale Z .; Moratalla R .; A Street . Expression of D4 dopamine receptors in striataligral and striatopallidal neurons in the rat striatum. Brain Res. 989: 35-41 (2003).
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Rivera A .; Cuéllar B .; Girón FJ .; Grandy DK .; From Calle A .; Moratalla R. Dopamine D4 receptors are heterogeneously distributed in the striosomes / matrix compartments of the striatum. J. Neurochem. 80: 219-229 (2002)
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Khan ZU; Mrzljak L .; Gutiérrez A .; From Calle A .; Goldman-Rakic, PS Prominence of the dopamine D2 short isoform in dopaminergic pathways. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95 (13): 7731-7736 (1998).
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Khan ZU; Gutiérrez A .; Martin R .; Peñafiel A .; Rivera A .; Of the A. Differential regional and cellular distribution of dopamine D2-like receptors. An immunocytochemical study of subtype-specific antibodies in rat and human brain. J. Comp. Neurol., 402: 358-371 (1998).
