Gema Ruiz Hurtado - Cardiorenal Laboratory

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Gema Ruiz-Hurtado, PhD

Alberto Pérez Gómez PhD

Laura González-Lafuente, MSc

Sara Vázquez Sánchez, MSc

Daniel Gónzalez Moreno, MSc

Elisa Mercado García

Luis M. Ruilope, PhD, MD

Julián Segura, PhD, M.D

Former Researchers/Students:

Finished:

Jonay Poveda Núñez

Rodrígo López Baltanás

Elena Rodríguez-Sánchez

José Alberto Navarro-García

Carolina da Cruz Junho

María Kavanagh Arjona

Gemma Guerrero Barberá

Ángela Valero Almazán

José Carlos Prado, M.D.

Judith Abarca Zabalía

Andrea Susmozas Sánchez

Jennifer Aceves-Ripoll

Lucía González Márquez

Marina Polo Salguero

Group leader

Lab leader

Postdoc researcher

PhD student

Lab technician

Nephrologist

Postdoc researcher

PhD student

Master student*

Degree student*

Lab technician

Degree student*,**

* Master o degree students have performed their final projects at Cardiorenal Lab under the supervision or direction of researchers from the group.

** Students have developed their extracurricular internships with us.

In vivo cardiac function
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Physiological monitoring ECG and blood pressure
In vitro cardiomyocyte function
- Langerdorff isolation
- EC-Coupling (Confocal Microscopy)
- Calcium handling (transients, ryanodine sparks, SR load...)
Markers of remodeling
- Gelatinase activity (Zymography)
- MMPs, TIMPs, collagens,..
- MMP-TIMP interaction (AlphaLISA)
Oxidative status
- Oxidative stress biomarkers (carbonyls, MDA, ox-LDL, XOD...)
- Antioxidant defense biomarkers (TAC, GSH, SOD, thiols, catalase...)
Experimental animal models
- CKD model: nephrectomy 5/6
- Post-Myocardial Infarction (PMI)
- AKI models: folic acid injection, bilateral renal I/R