Post-doc
Contact:
maria-carmen.medrano@u-bordeaux.fr
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Site : Charles Perrens
Team: Emotion, Motivation, Cognition (EMOTIV)
Domain: Neurophysiology, neuropharmacology and behavioural neurosciences
Scientific expertise:
- A variety of electrophysiological techniques such as patch-clamp following operant behaviour, electro-optical recordings in the spinal cord of anaesthetized mice and recording with multi-electrodes in behaving mice
- Study of neural circuitries, including the spinal cord, the locus coeruleus, and the ventral tegmental area, underpinning pathological conditions such as addiction and chronic pain.
Projects:
Attentional control, prefrontal cholinergic control and predictability of vulnerability to nicotine addiction
Selected publications:
- Carreño-Muñoz MI*, Medrano MC*, Ferreira Gomes Da Silva A, Gestreau C, Menuet C, Leinekugel T, Bompart M, Martins F, Subashi E, Aby F, Landry M, Frick A, Grana M, Leinekugel X (2021) Detecting fine and elaborate movements with piezo sensors provides non-invasive access to overlooked behavioral components. Neuropsychopharmacology doi: 10.1038/s41386-021-01217-w (IF 2020 7.853)
- Medrano MC*, Hurel I*, Mesguich E, Redon B, Stevens C, Georges F, Melis M, Marsicano G, Chaouloff F. (2020) Exercise craving potentiates excitatory inputs to ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons. Addiction Biology. doi: 10.1111/adb.12967. (IF 2020, 4.280)
- Medrano MC, Santamarta MT, Pablos P, Aira Z, Buesa I, Azkue JJ, Mendiguren A, Pineda J. (2017) Characterization of functional μ opioid receptor turnover in rat Locus coeruleus: an electrophysiological and immunocytochemical study. British Journal of Pharmacology. doi: 10.1111/bph.13901. (IF 2017, 6.810)
- Medrano MC, Dhanasobhon D, Yalcin I, Schlichter R, Cordero-Erausquin M. (2016) Loss of inhibitory tone on spinal cord dorsal horn spontaneously and non-spontaneously active neurons in a mouse model of neuropathic pain. Pain. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000538. (IF 2016, 5.800)