Pedro Fernández-llebréz
Professor
Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology
Universidad de Malaga
Spain
Biography
Pedro Fernández-Llebrez y del Rey, holds a degree in Biology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1977) and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Málaga (1981). Adjunct Professor of Numerology of Cytology and Histology and later of Physiology since 1982 and Professor of Physiology since 1998, at the University of Malaga (UMA). His scientific career has always been in Neuroscience and specifically in the cerebral ventricular system. Ependymal epithelium, circumventricular organs and cerebrospinal fluid are the subject of study.
Research Interest
The role of ependymal epithelium in postnatal neurogenesis and neuroinflammation
Publications
-
Juan Suárez1, Francisco Javier Bermúdez-Silva1, Juan Pérez2, Fernando RodrÃguez De Fonseca1, P. Fernández-Llebrez Endocannabinoid system in the adult rat cirvumventricular areas. An immunohistochemical study. J Comp Neurol 2010, 518: 3065-3085
-
Pérez-MartÃn, M1, Cifuentes M1, Grondona JM1, López-Ãvalos MD1, Gómez-Pinedo U2, GarcÃa-Verdugo JM2, Fernández-Llebrez, P1. IGF-1 stimulates neurogenesis in the hypothalamus of adult rats. Eur J Neurosci 2010, 31: 1533-1548
-
M. Cifuentes, M. Pérez-MartÃn, JM Grondona, MD López-Ãvalos, N. Inagaki, P. Granados-Durán, P. Rivera, P. Fernández-Llebrez. A comparative analysis of intraperitoneal versus intracerebroventricular administration of bromodeoxyuridine for the study of cell proliferation in the adult rat brain. J Neurosci Methods (2011), 201: 307-314
-
JM Grondona, C Hoyo-Becerra, R Visser, P Fernández-Llebrez, MD López-Avalos The subcommissural organ and the development of the later commissure. International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology 296: 63-137, 2012
-
JM Grondona, P. Granados-Durán, P. Fernández-Llebrez, and MD LópezÃvalos. A simple method to obtain pure cultures of multiciliated ependymal cells from adult rodents. Histochemistry and Cell Biology 2013, 139: 205-220.
