Personal page of Laura Casaní
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Laura Casaní is a researcher at the Cardiovascular Research Center, center created by association of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Catalan Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences (ICCC). She is Doctor in Veterinarian Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, UAB (1992-1997), master in pharmacology and PhD at the UAB. She also developed a pre-doctoral research fellowship at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité de Recherches sur les Herbibores, in France.
Dr. Casaní is the Responsible of the Experimental Animal Facility (UEA) of Catalan Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences (ICCC) from December of 2003. Her principal duties as a Welfare and Health animal responsible is to manage the UEA, supervision of facilities, animals and experimental procedures with animals, the attention and assessment to the users of the UEA and collaboration in studies performed with experimental animals. Also, she is a member of the Animal Experimentation Committee of the CSIC-ICCC, the main goals of this committee are the revision and the approval of experimental procedures with animals which are performed in the UEA and the supervision and the follow up of the proceedings used.
- 2011
Cholesterol-lowering strategies reduce vascular LRP1 overexpression induced by hypercholesterolaemia - 2011
Molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in cardiac remodeling after acute myocardial infarction. - 2010
Glucose-Regulated Protein and Platelet Deposition. Effect of Rosuvastatin. - 2009
Induction of RISK by HMG-CoA reductase inhibition affords cardioprotection after myocardial infarction. - 2009
Short-term myocardial ischemia induces cardiac modified C-reactive protein expression and proinflammatory gene (cyclo-oxygenase-2, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, and tissue factor) upregulation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
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Cardiovascular benefitial effects associated with beer consumption in a human-like model of acute myocardial infarction
Other research areas -
Fisiopatología de la obesidad y nutrición
Molecular pathology of atherosclerosis illness -
Mecanismos celulares y moleculares en arteriosclerosis coronaria e isquemia miocárdica. Implicaciones Terapéuticas.
Molecular pathology of atherosclerosis illness -
Red Terapia Celular
Cellular restructuring and cellular cardiomyoplasty
Catalan Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Pavelló del Convent
Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 167 08025 Barcelona
Spain
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