Ana Carmen Durán Boyero
professor
Department of Animal Biology
Universidad de Malaga
Spain
Biography
Bachelor of Science (Biological) and PhD in Sciences (Biological), University of Málaga. Professor at the University of Málaga since 1994. Title Training for Laboratory Animal Use (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Accreditation (categories B, C and D-1) to work with experimental animals (Junta de Andalucía). Career: (1) reproduction and population dynamics of mammals and (2) cardiovascular system in vertebrates -Anatomy and embryology of heart valve system elasmobranch actinopterygian, amphibians and mammals, cartilage cardiac tetrapods and congenital malformations of the semilunar valves Cardiac and coronary arteries in mammals and in the human species. Stays abroad: (1) Istituto di Anatomia Patologica. Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Topic: Bicuspid aortic valve: a comparative study in man and an animal model. (2) Laboratoire d'Anatomie Comparée. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Theme: Effect of channel inhibition on cardiac development in amphibians. Member of the Working Group on Developmental Anatomy and Pathology of the European Society of Cardiology from 1992 to the present. Founding partner of the Spanish Society for the Study and Conservation of Mammals (SECEM). Responsible since 2007 of the Research Group "Cardiovascular Studies in Vertebrates". BIO 203
Research Interest
Cardiovascular Studies in Vertebrates
Publications
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RodrÃguez C, Sans-Coma V, Grimes AC, Fernández B, Arqué JM, Durán AC. Embryonic development of the bulbus arteriosus of the primitive heart of jawed vertebrates. Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 2013 May 31;252(3):359-66.
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Carmen Fernández M, Durán AC, Fernández B, Arqué JM, Anderson RH, Sansâ€Coma V. Factors other than genotype account largely for the phenotypic variation of the pulmonary valve in Syrian hamsters. Journal of anatomy. 2012 Jul 1;221(1):30-8.
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Grimes AC, Durán AC, Sansâ€Coma V, Hami D, Santoro MM, Torres M. Phylogeny informs ontogeny: a proposed common theme in the arterial pole of the vertebrate heart. Evolution & development. 2010 Nov 1;12(6):552-67.
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Fernández B, Durán AC, Fernández-Gallego T, Fernández MC, Such M, Arqué JM, Sans-Coma V. Bicuspid aortic valves with different spatial orientations of the leaflets are distinct etiological entities. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2009 Dec 8;54(24):2312-8.
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Durán AC, Fernández B, Grimes AC, RodrÃguez C, Arqué JM, Sansâ€Coma V. Chondrichthyans have a bulbus arteriosus at the arterial pole of the heart: morphological and evolutionary implications. Journal of anatomy. 2008 Nov 1;213(5):597-606.
