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Alberto Muñoz is affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with notable contributions in several specialized subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Sensory Systems.

The scientist's main topics of work feature a variety of areas related to brain function and neurological conditions. These include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, as well as Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics. Their research also covers Vestibular and auditory disorders, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism.

Alberto Muñoz has published multiple papers across several respected venues. Frequent publication platforms include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Cerebral Cortex, Medical Research Archives, and Communications Biology.

  • High levels of 27-hydroxycholesterol results in synaptic plasticity alterations in the hippocampus (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Human Purkinje cells outperform mouse Purkinje cells in dendritic complexity and computational capacity (2024, Communications Biology)
  • Stellate cell computational modeling predicts signal filtering in the molecular layer circuit of cerebellum (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Pyramidal cell axon initial segment in Alzheimer´s disease (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Microanatomical study of pyramidal neurons in the contralesional somatosensory cortex after experimental ischemic stroke (2022, Cerebral Cortex)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several other researchers. Their most common coauthors include Javier DeFelipe, Stefano Masoli, Martina Francesca Rizza, Egidio D'Angelo, and Diana Sánchez-Ponce.

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • Vitamin D3 promotes the differentiation of colon carcinoma cells by the induction of E-cadherin and the inhibition of β-catenin signaling

    Héctor G. Pálmer;José Manuel González-Sancho;Jesús Espada;María T. Berciano

  • Genetic Signatures of Differentiation Induced by 1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 in Human Colon Cancer Cells

    Héctor G. Pálmer;Marta Sánchez-Carbayo;Paloma Ordóñez-Morán;María Jesús Larriba

  • Histopathology and reorganization of chandelier cells in the human epileptic sclerotic hippocampus

    J. I. Arellano;A. Muñoz;I. Ballesteros‐Yáñez;R. G. Sola

  • Voltage-gated ion channels in the axon initial segment of human cortical pyramidal cells and their relationship with chandelier cells.

    Maria Carmen Inda;Javier DeFelipe;Alberto Muñoz

  • DICKKOPF-4 is induced by TCF/β-catenin and upregulated in human colon cancer, promotes tumour cell invasion and angiogenesis and is repressed by 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3

    N Pendás-Franco;J M García;C Peña;N Valle

  • Cation-chloride cotransporters and GABA-ergic innervation in the human epileptic hippocampus.

    Alberto Muñoz;Pablo Méndez;Javier DeFelipe;Francisco Javier Alvarez-Leefmans

  • Vitamin D and Wnt/β-catenin pathway in colon cancer: Role and regulation of DICKKOPF genes

    Natalia Pendás-Franco;Oscar Aguilera;Fabio Pereira;José Manuel González-Sancho

  • Aplidin ™ induces the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway via oxidative stress-mediated JNK and p38 activation and protein kinase C δ

    Luis F. García-Fernández;Alejandro Losada;Victoria Alcaide;Alberto M. Álvarez

  • Aromatase expression in the human temporal cortex

    J.G. Yague;A. Muñoz;P. de Monasterio-Schrader;J. DeFelipe

  • E-cadherin controls β-catenin and NF-κB transcriptional activity in mesenchymal gene expression

    Guiomar Solanas;Montserrat Porta-de-la-Riva;Cristina Agustí;David Casagolda

  • Changes in subcellular localization of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtypes during postnatal development of mouse thalamus

    Xiao‐Bo Liu;Alberto Muñoz;Edward G. Jones

  • Symmetry, male dominance and female mate preferences in the Iberian rock lizard, Lacerta monticola

    Pilar López;Alberto Muñoz;José Martín

  • Double bouquet cell in the human cerebral cortex and a comparison with other mammals.

    Inmaculada Ballesteros Yáñez;Alberto Muñoz;Alberto Muñoz;Julio Contreras;Juncal Gonzalez

  • Pyramidal cell axons show a local specialization for GABA and 5-HT inputs in monkey and human cerebral cortex.

    Javier DeFelipe;Jon I. Arellano;Antonio Gómez;Efrain C. Azmitia

  • Hand/Face Border as a Limiting Boundary in the Body Representation in Monkey Somatosensory Cortex

    Paul R. Manger;Timothy M. Woods;Alberto Muñoz;Edward G. Jones

  • 1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 regulates the expression of Id1 and Id2 genes and the angiogenic phenotype of human colon carcinoma cells

    Nuria Isabel Fernandez-Garcia;Hector G Palmer;Marta Garcia;Alicia Gonzalez-Martin;Alicia Gonzalez-Martin

  • Topographical distribution of NADPH-diaphorase activity in the central nervous system of the frog, Rana perezi.

    M. Muñoz;A. Muñoz;O. Marín;J.R. Alonso

  • Correlation of transcriptome profile with electrical activity in temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Dominique Arion;Michael Sabatini;Travis Unger;Jesús Pastor

  • Slow Waves in Cortical Slices: How Spontaneous Activity is Shaped by Laminar Structure.

    Cristiano Capone;Cristiano Capone;Beatriz Rebollo;Alberto Muñoz;Xavi Illa

  • Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: A Special Syringe for Cement Injection

    Imad Al-Assir;Antonio Perez-Higueras;Jose Florensa;Alberto Muñoz

Frequent Co-Authors

Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Agustín González
Agustín González Complutense University of Madrid
Edward G. Jones
Edward G. Jones University of California, Davis
H.J. ten Donkelaar
H.J. ten Donkelaar Radboud University
Oscar Marín
Oscar Marín King's College London
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Luis M. Garcia-Segura
Luis M. Garcia-Segura Spanish National Research Council
Shaul Hestrin
Shaul Hestrin Stanford University
Bruno Cauli
Bruno Cauli Sorbonne University

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