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Prof. Carlos Calvo

University of Concepcion
Conception, Chile


Biochemist PhD, Claude Bernard University, Lyon. France Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Concepcion, Chile Dean of School of Pharmacy, University of Concepcion, Chile Director of Lipids and Atherosclerosis Laboratory, University of Concepcion, Chile

Visiting Scientist

	Laboratory of Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis, INSERM U- 321, Paris, France, 1993
	Division of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1994

Professional Associations

	Iberoamerican Atherosclerosis Society (SILAT)
	International Atherosclerosis Society ( IAS)
	Chilean Society of Endocrinology and Diabetes
	Real Academy of Doctors. Spain

Chairman
	Second Symposio of the Latinoamerican Task Force for prevention of cardiovascular disease. Mexico City 2006

Selected Publications

Fruchart J.C., Brewer H.B., Leitersdorf E., Assmann G., Brochier M., Brown G., Calvo C., Carmena R., Gotto A. Concensus for the use of fibrates in the treatment of dyslipoproteinemia and coronary heart disease, Am. J. Cardiol. 81: 912-917, 1998. Ulloa N., Verdugo C., Ríos M., Sepúlveda J., Calvo C. Increased activity of Lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase during short term oral estrogen progestative replacement therapy. Metabolism 47: 297-300, 1998 Bustos P., Ulloa N., Calvo C., Muller D., Durán D., Martínez J., Salazar L., Quiroga A. Monoclonal antibodies to human apolipoproteins: Applications to the study of high density lipoproteins HDL subpolulations Clin Chim Acta 293:223-228, 2000. Ulloa N, Arteaga E, Bustos P, Durán D, Schulze K, Castro G, Jauhiainen M, Fruchart JC, Calvo C. Sequential estrogen-progestin replacement therapy in healthy postmenopausal women: Effects on cholecterol efflux capacity and key proteins regulating high-density lipoprotein levels. Metabolism 51: 1410-1417, 2002. Bustos P., Radojkovic C., Ulloa N., Muñoz M., Martínez A., Asenjo S., Calvo C., Bustos P., Lipoprotein composition in children and adolescent with type I diabetes mellitus J. Pediatric Endocrinology &Metabolism, 18:257-264, 2005. Searle A., Gómez L., Meroño T., Salomón C., Toro G., Durán D., Giunta G., Grant C., Calvo C., Lamperti L., Brites F., Aguayo C. High LDL levels are associated with increased Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 activity on nitric oxide sintesis and reactive oxygen species formation in human endothelial cells Clinical Biochemistry, 2011:44;171-177 Celis C., Pérez F., Ibañez L., Sanzana R, Hormazabal E., Ulloa N., Calvo C., Bailey M., Gill JM The impact of environment and ethnicity on insulin resistance in aboriginal and non-aboriginal South American populations: the GENADIO study PLoS ONE 2011:6; 1-9