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Luciana Jorge, PhD
 | Postdoctoral Fellow |
Areas of Expertise
- General: Cardiovascular physiology, exercise training and metabolic regulation
- Specific: Impact of exercise training as a non-pharmacological strategy on cardiovasular and metabolic diseases
Research Methods
- Rodent models of diabetes, cardiovascular and renal diseases
- Mitochondrial isolation and functional assays in cardiac and renal tissues
- Exercise training as a non-pharmacological intervention in cardiometabolic disorders
- Stem cell culture, differentiation, and transplantation in experimental models
- Pre-clinical echocardiography and molecular biology techniques
Current Projects
- Role of the leptin-brain melanocortin system in regulating cardiac function and protecting the heart against progressive heart failure
- Target melanocortin 4 receptors to improve cardiac function in diabetic heart failure
- Long-term consequences of parental obesity on development programming of cardiorenal diseases in offspring
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