Ramón Muñoz-Chapuli Oriol

professor
Department of Animal Biology
Universidad de Malaga
Spain

Biography

Professor of Animal Biology. Researcher in the field of Cardiovascular Development Biology. Areas of specialization: cardiac development, vasculogenesis, angiogenesis, cell differentiation in the embryonic mesoderm, evolution and development.

Research Intrest

vasculogenesis, angiogenesis, cell differentiation in the embryonic mesoderm, evolution and development.

List of Publications
Cano E, Carmona R, Ruiz-Villalba A, Rojas A, Chau YY, Wagner KD, Wagner N, Hastie ND, Muñoz-Chápuli R, Pérez-Pomares JM. Extracardiac septum transversum/proepicardial endothelial cells pattern embryonic coronary arterio–venous connections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016 Jan 19;113(3):656-61.
Cano E, Carmona R, Velecela V, Martínez‐Estrada O, Muñoz‐Chápuli R. The proepicardium keeps a potential for glomerular marker expression which supports its evolutionary origin from the pronephros. Evolution & development. 2015 Jul 1;17(4):224-30.
Chau YY, Bandiera R, Serrels A, Martínez-Estrada OM, Qing W, Lee M, Slight J, Thornburn A, Berry R, McHaffie S, Stimson RH. Visceral and subcutaneous fat have different origins and evidence supports a mesothelial source. Nature cell biology. 2014 Apr;16(4):367.
Pascual-Anaya J, Albuixech-Crespo B, Somorjai IM, Carmona R, Oisi Y, Álvarez S, Kuratani S, Muñoz-Chápuli R, Garcia-Fernàndez J. The evolutionary origins of chordate hematopoiesis and vertebrate endothelia. Developmental biology. 2013 Mar 15;375(2):182-92.
Martínez-Estrada OM, Lettice LA, Essafi A, Guadix JA, Slight J, Velecela V, Hall E, Reichmann J, Devenney PS, Hohenstein P, Hosen N. Wt1 is required for mesenchymal cardiovascular progenitor cell formation in epicardium and ES cells through direct transcriptional control of Snail and E-cadherin. Nat. Genet. 2010;42:89-93.