Education

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, 2011

Current position

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Murcia´s BioHealth Research Institute, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain (2013-to date)

Publications

1. Compan, V., Martin-Sanchez, F., Baroja-Mazo, A., Lopez-Castejon, G., Gomez, A. I., Verkhratsky, A., Brough, D. and Pelegrin, P. (2015). Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD forms specks but does not activate caspase-1 in the absence of NLRP3 during macrophage swelling. J Immunol 194(3): 1261-1273.
   
2. Baroja-Mazo, A., Martin-Sanchez, F., Gomez, A. I., Martinez, C. M., Amores-Iniesta, J., Compan, V., Barbera-Cremades, M., Yague, J., Ruiz-Ortiz, E., Anton, J., Bujan, S., Couillin, I., Brough, D., Arostegui, J. I. and Pelegrin, P. (2014). The NLRP3 inflammasome is released as a particulate danger signal that amplifies the inflammatory response. Nat Immunol 15(8): 738-748.
   
3. Martin, F., Nunez, C., Marin, M. T., Laorden, M. L., Kovacs, K. J. and Milanes, M. V. (2012). Involvement of noradrenergic transmission in the PVN on CREB activation, TORC1 levels, and pituitary-adrenal axis activity during morphine withdrawal. PLoS One 7(2): e31119.
   
4. Martin, F., Mora, L., Laorden, M. and Milanes, M. (2011). Protein kinase C phosphorylates the cAMP response element binding protein in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus during morphine withdrawal. Br J Pharmacol 163(4): 857-875.
   
5. Ferenczi, S., Nunez, C., Pinter-Kubler, B., Foldes, A., Martin, F., Markus, V. L., Milanes, M. V. and Kovacs, K. J. (2010). Changes in metabolic-related variables during chronic morphine treatment. Neurochem Int 57(3): 323-330.
   
6. Nunez, C., Martin, F., Foldes, A., Luisa Laorden, M., Kovacs, K. J. and Victoria Milanes, M. (2010). Induction of FosB/DeltaFosB in the brain stress system-related structures during morphine dependence and withdrawal. J Neurochem 114(2): 475-487.
   
7. Martin, F., Laorden, M. L. and Milanes, M. V. (2009). Morphine withdrawal regulates phosphorylation of cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) through PKC in the nucleus tractus solitarius-A2 catecholaminergic neurons. J Neurochem 110(5): 1422-1432.