Dr. Manuel Mejía Torres
Associate professor in Immunology. Graduated from Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (MD, Ph.D). Candidate to Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI-CONACYT). Full-time professor and researcher from 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
Major expertise
Immunometabolism: Immune responses to infection by intracellular pathogens.
Neuroimmunology.
Immunosenescence.
Cited by: 41
h-index: 4
i10-index: 1
Email: manuel.mejiat@uanl.mx
Phone: (+52) 81-83-294211 Ext. 4211
External links:
Selected Publications
- Briones-Espinoza, M. J., Cortés-García, J. D., Vega-Cárdenas, M., Uresti-Rivera, E. U., Gómez-Otero, A., López-López, N., Mejía-Torres, M., & Portales-Pérez, D. P. (2020). Decreased levels and activity of Sirt1 are modulated by increased miR-34a expression in adipose tissue mononuclear cells from subjects with overweight and obesity: A pilot study. Diabetes & metabolic syndrome, 14(5), 1347–1354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.07.014
- Mejía, Manuel, Ildefonso Rodríguez-Leyva, et al. “Low Levels of Alpha-Synuclein in Peripheral Tissues Are Related to Clinical Relapse in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study.” Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 396, Jan. 2019, pp. 87–93. PubMed, doi:10.1016/j.jns.2018.11.003.
- Mejía, Manuel, Mariana Salgado-Bustamante, et al. “Passage Determines Toxicity and Neuronal Markers Expression in PC12 Cells with Altered Phenotype.” Toxicology Research, vol. 2, no. 6, 2013, p. 388. DOI.org (Crossref), doi:10.1039/c3tx50010a.
- Rodriguez-Leyva, Ildefonso, et al. “The Presence of Alpha-Synuclein in Skin from Melanoma and Patients with Parkinson’s Disease.” Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, vol. 4, no. 5, Oct. 2017, pp. 724–32. PubMed, doi:10.1002/mdc3.12494.
Thesis co-director:
Master in Science:
Efecto de la concentración de glucosa extracelular sobre la expresión de genes de regulación metabólica y la diferenciación de macrófagos con LPS in vitro. Inmunología (2021)
Positions
2019 – Present
Associate Professor in Immunology, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, UANL, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
