Research
Area 3
Metabolic Regulation and Molecular Disease
Team manager
Josep Carreras
(Facultat de Medicina)
Strategic objectives
1. Study of rabbit muscle proteome and muscle lesions; metabolic analyses of muscle biopsies.
2. Reversal of metabolic blockade by means of proteins linked to protein transduction domain (PTD).
3. Study of apoptosis in transplanted hearts and their conservation.
Main lines of research
1. Study of rabbit muscle proteome in fast- and slow-twitch fibres and the modifications caused by work due to electrostimulation.
2. Use of biochemical markers to determine muscle lesions.
3. Repair of metabolic disorders in leukocytes and in cells of transplanted hearts.
4. Study of transplanted hearts and their conservation.