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Victor Lopez Garza

Profesor e Investigador, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo
Verified email at umich.mx
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[PDF][PDF] 6-[18 F] Fluoro-A-85380, a new PET tracer for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: studies in the human brain and in vivo demonstration of specific binding in …

…, JS Fowler, J Logan, GJ Wang, F Telang, V Garza… - Synapse, 2004 - academia.edu
The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) are involved in functions such as learning,
memory, and antinociception (Sahakian et al., 1989; Marubio et al., 1999). It has been …

Low monoamine oxidase B in peripheral organs in smokers

…, R Ferrieri, C Shea, V Garza… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
One of the major mechanisms for terminating the actions of catecholamines and vasoactive
dietary amines is oxidation by monoamine oxidase (MAO). Smokers have been shown to …

Maintenance of brain monoamine oxidase B inhibition in smokers after overnight cigarette abstinence

…, C Shea, RR MacGregor, V Garza - American Journal of …, 2000 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: The authors’ goal was to replicate a previous finding that smokers have lower
brain monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) levels than comparison nonsmoking subjects and to …

Evaluation of a new norepinephrine transporter PET ligand in baboons, both in brain and peripheral organs

YS Ding, KS Lin, V Garza, P Carter, D Alexoff… - Synapse, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Reboxetine is a specific norepinephrine transporter (NET) inhibitor and has been marketed
in several countries as a racemic mixture of the (R,R) and (S,S) enantiomers for the treatment …

Numerical investigation of the stress concentration on 7075-T651 aluminum alloy with one or two hemispherical pits under uniaxial or biaxial loading

IFZ Tello, GMD Almaraz, VL Garza, MG Tapia - Advances in Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations were carried out in order to obtain the stress concentrations induced
by simulated hemispherical pits with 500 µm of diameter on square plates of 100 mm 2 of the …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of the extracellular matrix by Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus and importance in cell proliferation

R Kumar, JC Taylor, A Jain, SY Jung, V Garza… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies gallolyticus (Sgg) has a strong clinical association with
colorectal cancer (CRC) and actively promotes the development of colon tumors. Previous …

Brain kinetics of methylphenidate (Ritalin) enantiomers after oral administration

YS Ding, SJ Gatley, PK Thanos, C Shea, V Garza… - Synapse, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Methylphenidate (MP) (Ritalin) is widely used for the treatment of attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It is a chiral drug, marketed as the racemic mixture of d‐ and l‐threo …

Comparison of monoamine oxidase a in peripheral organs in nonsmokers and smokers

…, W Zhu, D Franceschi, C Shea, V Garza… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2005 - Soc Nuclear Med
Smokers have reduced levels of brain monoamine oxidase A (MAO A) leading to speculation
that MAO A inhibition by tobacco smoke may underlie some of the neurophysiologic effects …

Comparison of the binding of the irreversible monoamine oxidase tracers,[11C] clorgyline and [11C] l-deprenyl in brain and peripheral organs in humans

…, F Telang, YS Ding, C Shea, V Garza… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2004 - Elsevier
The monoamine oxidase A and B (MAO A and B) radiotracers [ 11 C]clorgyline (CLG) and [
11 C]L-deprenyl (DEP) and their deuterium labeled counterparts (CLG-D and DEP-D) were …

Species differences in [11C] clorgyline binding in brain

…, J Logan, RR MacGregor, C Shea, V Garza… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2001 - Elsevier
[ 11 C]Clorgyline selectively binds to MAO A in the human brain. This contrasts with a recent
report that [ 11 C]clorgyline (in contrast to other labeled MAO A inhibitors) is not retained in …