Renal Pharmacology

BIOGRAPHY

CURRENT POSITION:
Ines Armando is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland.


RESEARCH INTERESTS:
A number of pathological conditions other than classical immune diseases have as a causal factor, or are associated with alterations in the inflammatory response. Tissue inflammation, infiltration of inflammatory cells and oxidative stress in the kidney play an important role in the induction and maintenance of high blood pressure levels. Further more, obesity and metabolic syndrome are now considered low-grade systemic inflammatory diseases. Dopamine and dopaminergic drugs have regulatory functions on the immune response. The overall hypothesis of this project is that dopamine, through dopamine D2 receptors regulates immune function and oxidative stress in the kidney and that dysfunction of the D2 receptor results in renal inflammation, oxidative stress, and hypertension and could be a contributing factor in the development of the metabolic syndrome.


EDUCATION:
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Licenciate 1977 Clinical Biochemistry
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina MS 1978 Biochemistry
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina PhD 1989 Biochemistry