Reinaldo DiPolo Aleman
Venezuela
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| | Fellow | Neurosciences | Venezuela | dipolor@ivic.ve;
rdipolo@gmail.com |
| Biography | | Dr. Dipolo is
Professor of Biophysics and Physiology at the Centro de Biofisica y Bioquimica,
IVIC, in Caracas, Venezuela. An expert in the area of the biophysics of
membranes and excitable cells, he was among the earliest to describe the
effects of ATP on the interactions between monovalent cations and the sodium
pump in dialysed squid axons. Since then he has demonstrated (a) the presence
of a Ca pump in excitable cells, (b) metabolic exchange of Na/Ca using ATP and
an intracellular regulatory site for this process, and (c) the presence of a
13kDa protein regulating this Na/Ca exchange in nerve cells. He is Fellow of
the Latin American Academy of Science (ACAL), member of IUPAB, and the winner,
among other awards, of the Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Prize and the National Prize
in Natural Sciences of Venezuela. |
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