Dr. Mario César Salinas Carmona

Head of the Immunology Service and Department, medical doctor (Médico Cirujano Partero) graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León  (UANL).  Specialist in Internal Medicine from the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, (INCMNSZ). Master and Doctor in Immunology at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN). Postdoctoral position at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) Level III – Emeritus, Academia Nacional de Medicina, and Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. Member of The American Association of Immunologists (AAI), The Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), and The Sociedad Mexicana de Inmunología. Member of the World Health Organization International Mycetoma Consortium (WHO). Full-Time Professor D, Head of the Service and Department of Immunology of the School of Medicine and University Hospital «Dr. José E. González» UANL.

Research area
Medicine and health sciences.

SNI – Level III (National Researcher Emeritus)

Major expertise 
Immunology, serodiagnosis, and biotechnology.
Mechanisms of pathogenic development and virulence of bacterias such as Nocardia and Mycobacterium.

Cited by: 3049

h-index: 29

i10-index: 55

Email: mario.salinas@uanl.mx 

Phone: (+52) 81 8329-4022 and 81 8329-4000 Ext. 5178

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Relevant publications

• Vazquez-Marmolejo, A. V., Lopez-Lopez, N., Ascacio-Martinez, J. A., Valadez-Calderon, J. G., Espinoza-Martinez, P. E., & Salinas-Carmona, M. C. (2021). Nitric oxide determines the development of actinomycetoma by Nocardia brasiliensis in eNOS knockout C57BL/6 mice. FEMS microbiology letters, 368(8), fnab048. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnab048

• Rodríguez-Serrato, M. A., Salinas-Carmona, M. C., & Limón-Flores, A. Y. (2020). Immune response to Leishmania mexicana: the host-parasite relationship. Pathogens and disease, 78(8), ftaa060. https://doi.org/10.1093/femspd/ftaa060

• Flores-Torres, A. S., Salinas-Carmona, M. C., Salinas, E., & Rosas-Taraco, A. G. (2019). Eosinophils and Respiratory Viruses. Viral immunology, 32(5), 198–207. https://doi.org/10.1089/vim.2018.0150

• Mario César Salinas Carmona, Jaime de la Garza TNMI may improve current cancer staging Journal of cancerology  J Cancerol 2019;6:28-30

• Kosova-Maali, D., Bergeron, E., Maali, Y., Durand, T., Gonzalez, J., Mouniée, D., Sandoval Trujillo, H., Boiron, P., Salinas-Carmona, M. C., & Rodriguez-Nava, V. (2018). High Intraspecific Genetic Diversity of Nocardia brasiliensis, a Pathogen Responsible for Cutaneous Nocardiosis Found in France: Phylogenetic Relationships by Using sod and hsp65 Genes. BioMed research international, 2018, 7314054. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7314054

• Welsh, O., Salinas-Carmona, M.C., Brown-Elliott, B.A., Smith, T., Cardenas-De La Garza, J.A. and Wallace, R.J., Jr (2018), Disseminated actinomycetoma due to Nocardia wallacei. Int J Dermatol, 57: 580-582. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijd.13909

• Galindo-Rodríguez, G., Jaime-Pérez, J. C., Salinas-Carmona, M. C., González-Díaz, S. N., Castro-Corona, Á., Cavazos-González, R., Treviño-Villarreal, H., Heredia-Salazar, A. C., & Gómez-Almaguer, D. (2017). Do immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin E anti-l-asparaginase antibodies have distinct implications in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia? A cross-sectional study. Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia, 39(3), 202–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjhh.2016.11.006

Directed Thesis

Doctorate in science:

Treviño Villarreal José Humberto “El Papel de los Lípidos de Superficie de Nocardia brasilensis en el Establecimiento del Actinomicetoma Experimental.” Inmunología 2009

González Suárez Ma. Lourdes “Inmunidad pasiva con anticuerpos monoclonales igm e igg anti-p61 en la infección experimental por Nocardia brasilensis». Inmunología 2009

Medina Villanueva Igor Israel “Papel de la superóxido dismutasa en la virulencia de nocardia brasiliensis”. Inmunología 2008

Segoviano Ramírez Juan Carlos «Caracterización inmunológica de las células espumosas del actinomicetoma experimental en ratones BALB/c». Inmunología 2008

De la Cruz Galicia Maria Guadalupe. “Estudio de la respuesta inmune por anticuerpos y citocínas th1 y th2 en ratones mrl/lpr infectados con bacterias o helmitos”. Morfología 2006.

Castro Corona Maria de los Angeles. «Identificación de un antígeno inmunodominante de Nocardia astenoides con potencial diagnóstico». Inmunología 2005.

Zuñiga De Jesus Juan Manuel. Efecto de mediadores inmunológicos en la producción de citocinas por macrófagos infectados con Nocardia brasiliensis Inmunología 2004.

Perez Rivera Luz Isabel. Comparación del efecto protector de la respuesta inmune humoral inducida por antígenos solubles y particuladas de Nocardia brasiliensis. Inmunología 2005.

Professional Experience

Full-time professor of Immunology, Graduate level, 1982.

Coordinator of the Doctorate program of the UANL Faculty of Medicine, 1983. 

Member of the Committee of Health of the National CONACYT Postgraduate. 

External judge of the Evaluation of the National CONACYT Postgraduate in the Health Area. 

Evaluator of research projects in the Health Area of CONACYT. 

Academical Secretariat of the Postgraduate Basic Area of the UANL Faculty of Medicine from 1986 to 1992. 
Worldwide Cultural Council. 

Head of the Department of Immunology, UANL University Hospital since 1997. 

 

Secretariat of Investigation, Innovation, and Postgraduate of the UANL, 2010.                                                        

Book chapters: 
Written in English: 4
Written in Spanish: 19.

Acknowledgments

Fogarty National Institute of Health, EE. UU., 1979.

Award to Academical Merit “Presidente Lázaro Cárdenas”, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 1980.

Expert Consultant of the International Organization of Atomic Energy, Austria, Viena, 1994. 

President of the International Research Group regarding pathogenic actinomyces, Lyon, France, 2005.

Special Acknowledgement for his trajectory and academic merits, 2007. 

Level III member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, since 1984.

Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Member, President and Founder of the Northeast Mexican Academy of Sciences. 

Member of the Mexican Society of Immunology.

Member of the American Association of Immunologists. 

Member of the Clinical Immunology Society. 

Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Member of the International Mycetoma Consortium.

First place in the Clinical Microbiology Association of Internal Medicine and Infectology and the Texas Branch American Society of Microbiology. 

First place in the «Gerhard Domagk» award XXXII Congreso anual de Infectología / XII Congreso Anual de Infecciones Nosocomiales.

Acknowledgment to Civic Merit Presea of the Nuevo León State, 2010. 

Research award in the Health Sciences area in 2012.