Carmelo Millón Peñuela
Professor
Human Physiology
Universidad de Malaga
Spain
Biography
Degree in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Málaga in 2009. Student of the Doctorate program "Neurosciences and their clinical applications" taught by the Department of Human Physiology and Physical and Sports Activity of the Faculty of Medicine of the UMA in which I am finishing the Doctoral Thesis. Fellow of the Own Plan of the University of Málaga in the Department of Human Physiology and Physical Activity. Faculty of Medicine in 2009. Higher degree of support for research, in the Excellence Project of the Board of Andalusia "Interactions of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in circuits of reward: implications in drug addiction "in the Department of Human Physiology and Physical-Sports Activity. School of Medicine. In 2010 Higher Degree in Research Support, in the project of the Marató Foundation of TV3 for research on mental illness, entitled "New targets therapies in depression. Study of the Galanin-5HT1A heteromeric receptor in brain. In the Department of Human Physiology and Physical-Sports Activity. Faculty of Medicine. From 2010 until 2012. FPI Fellow of the Andalusian Government associated with Excellence project. In the Department of Human Physiology and Physical-Sports Activity. School of Medicine. college from Malaga. From 2012 until today. From the 2012-2013 academic year I teach in subjects of the Department of Physiology And Sports-Physical Activity in medical, nursing and Health Engineering.
Research Interest
Nervous control of breathing, circulation and emotions Basic and applied aspects of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases Neurochemistry of CNS Transmission: Functional Implications of Neuropeptides
Publications
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Millón C, Flores-Burgess A, Narváez M, Borroto-Escuela DO, SantÃn L, Gago B, Narváez JA, Fuxe K, DÃaz-Cabiale Z. Galanin (1–15) enhances the antidepressant effects of the 5-HT1A receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT: involvement of the raphe-hippocampal 5-HT neuron system. Brain Structure and Function. 2016 Dec 1;221(9):4491-504.
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Millón C, Flores-Burgess A, Narváez M, Borroto-Escuela DO, Gago B, SantÃn L, Castilla-Ortega E, Narváez JÃ, Fuxe K, DÃaz-Cabiale Z. The neuropeptides Galanin and Galanin (1–15) in depression-like behaviours. Neuropeptides. 2017 Jan 31.
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Borroto-Escuela DO, Carlsson J, Ambrogini P, Narváez M, Wydra K, Tarakanov AO, Li X, Millón C, Ferraro L, Cuppini R, Tanganelli S. Understanding the role of GPCR heteroreceptor complexes in modulating the brain networks in health and disease. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience. 2017;11.
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Flores-Burgess A, Millón C, Gago B, Narváez M, Borroto-Escuela DO, Mengod G, Narváez JA, Fuxe K, SantÃn L, DÃaz-Cabiale Z. Galanin (1-15) enhancement of the behavioral effects of Fluoxetine in the forced swimming test gives a new therapeutic strategy against depression. Neuropharmacology. 2017 May 15;118:233-41.
