Research Unit: Instituto de Neurociencias

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Research Fields:

Neurosecretion, Cytoeskeleton, SNARE, Exocytosis, F-Actin, Myosin II, Confocal Microscopy

 Representative Publications:

• Gimenez-Molina Y., Villanueva J, Nanclares C, Lopez Font I, Viniegra S, Frances MM, Gandia L, Gil A, Gutierrez L. M. (2017). The Differential Organization of F-Actin Alters the Distribution of Organelles in Cultured When Compared to Native Chromaffin Cells. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 11: 135 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00135

• Villanueva J, Gimenez-Molina Y, Viniegra S, Gutiérrez LM. (2016) F-actin cytoskeleton and the fate of organelles in chromaffin cells. Journal of Neurochemistry 137 (6): 860-866 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.13560

• García-Martínez V, Montes M.A. Villanueva J, Gimenez-Molina Y, de Toledo GA, Gutiérrez L.M. Sphingomyelin derivatives increase the frequency of microvesicle and granule fusion in chromaffin cells. Neuroscience 295: (117-125)  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.03.036

• Villanueva, Jose; Viniegra, Salvador; Gimenez-Molina, Yolanda; et al. (2014). The position of mitochondria and ER in relation to that of the secretory sites in chromaffin cells Journal of Cell Science 127 (23): 5105-5114. DOI: 1242/jcs.160242

• Garcia-Martinez, Virginia; Villanueva, Jose; Torregrosa-Hetland, Cristina J. et al. (2013). Lipid Metabolites Enhance Secretion Acting on SNARE Microdomains and Altering the Extent and Kinetics of Single Release Events in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. Plos One 8(9) DOI: 1371/journal.pone.0075845