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weeks, ophelia
Research Interests

Assessing therapeutic physical activity effectiveness in restoring function in rats with traumatic neuropathies; Identifying chemokine receptors in cultured rat brain cells; Assessing in rats, relationships in thyroid hormone receptor and corticosterone receptor expression and the regenerating sciatic nerve (correlated with age and gender); Assessing in mice, lithium as a potential neuroprotective therapeutic agent for spatial memory diseases, as well as its potential in enhancing learning.

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Associate Professor of Biology  
Neuromuscular reinnervation/
regeneration; neural-immune interactions; neurodegeneration/
neuroprotection, using rodents as study models.
 
Office: HLS 219C
Phone: (305) 348-3099
   

Lab: HLS 229
Phone: (305) 348-6166

   
weekso@fiu.edu