Areas of Expertise
General: Cardiovascular, renal, and endocrine physiology.
Specific: Mechanisms of postmenopausal hypertension, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, aldosterone synthesis regulation by sex steroids.
Research Methods and Experimental Models
Chronic instrumentation of postmenopausal rats for measurement of hemodynamics and renal function, mRNA and protein levels determination by real-time RT-PCR and western-blot, steroid quantification by radioimmunoassay.