Gean Domingos da Silva Souza

Gean Domingos da Silva Souza currently works at the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri. Gean Domingos does research in Cardiology and Dentistry. His work focuses on the critical study of the brain’s control of the cardiovascular and respiratory system. Specifically, his concentration is to determine how neurons in the forebrain hypothalamus contribute to hypertension in a model of obstructive sleep apnea. The results of his research provide a mechanism by which cardiovascular disease develops, and may provide therapeutic insight for a disease, which affects millions worldwide. Dr. Souza uses a variety of difficult and state-of-the-art techniques. These include small rodent surgery, use of viral vectors to over-express proteins, real-time cell imaging, physiologi