Consuelo Pasten

I obtained my professional title of Professor of Biology University of Antofagasta, Chile, where I did a master’s in biomedical sciences with a mention in Reproductive Biology. I received my Ph. D degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Currently, I am a research professor at the Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. I work in the laboratory of integrative and molecular physiology. I am interested in developmental biology, physiology, renal ischemia, and regeneration biology. I had been studied regeneration biology using different models. During my doctoral research, I studied the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system during intestinal regeneration using a model de sea cucumber. Then, in postdoctoral research, I studied the regeneration of the peripheral nervous system, where was shown by the first time the expression of ApoER2 and reelin in Schwann cells (CS), it was found that reelin increases CS survival and migration to regenerate the damaged axon. Since 2018, my focus is on kidney repair after damage by ischemia and reperfusion. I am currently studying whether the pharmacological inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) induces regeneration, this time my target organ is the kidney.