{"id":515,"date":"2014-12-07T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/?page_id=515"},"modified":"2020-04-13T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:37:26","slug":"dr-demetrio-sierra-mercado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/dr-demetrio-sierra-mercado\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Demetrio Sierra-Mercado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1087\" src=\"http:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/07\/Demetrio-web-photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Demetrio web photo\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Dr. Demetrio Sierra Mercado<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Professor<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Departmen<span style=\"color: #000000\">t of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;color: #000000\">School of Medicine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">University of Puerto Rico<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:demetrio.sierra@upr.edu\">demetrio.sierra@upr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">*Webpage currently under construction, please come back soon.*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Current Lab Members:<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Melissa Rivera Lopez, M.A. <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:melissa.rivera9@upr.edu\">melissa.rivera9@upr.edu<\/a><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/melissa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1571 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/melissa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDoctoral Student<br \/>\nUniversity of Puerto Rico &#8211; School of Medicine<br \/>\nDepartment of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology<br \/>\nFunding and Support: RISE http:\/\/mbrs-rise.rcm.upr.edu\/; PRCEN CREST https:\/\/www.prcen.org\/<\/p>\n<p><b>Mauricio C\u00e1ceres Chac\u00f3n, M.D.<\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1549\" src=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/mauricio-caceres-e1533522722526-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:mauricio.caceres@upr.edu\">mauricio.caceres@upr.edu<\/a><br \/>\nDoctoral Student<br \/>\nUniversity of Puerto Rico &#8211; School of Medicine<br \/>\nDepartment of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology<br \/>\nFunding and Support: PRCEN CREST https:\/\/www.prcen.org\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ra\u00fal Ramos S\u00e1nchez<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:raul.ramos10@upr.edu\">raul.ramos10@upr.edu<\/a><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/raul-ramos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1548 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/raul-ramos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUndergraduate student<br \/>\nUniversity of Puerto Rico &#8211; Rio Piedras<br \/>\nFunding and Support: PRCEN CREST https:\/\/www.prcen.org\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Ojeda Mart\u00ednez<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:david.ojeda@upr.edu\">david.ojeda@upr.edu<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1553 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/david-ojeda-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/david-ojeda-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/david-ojeda-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/08\/david-ojeda.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/><br \/>\nUndergraduate student<br \/>\nUniversity of Puerto Rico &#8211; R\u00edo Piedras<br \/>\nFunding and Support: NeuroID http:\/\/neuroid.uprrp.edu\/<\/p>\n<p>Funding and Support: NIH RCMI; Brain &amp; Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD Young Investigator Award); NIGMS Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE); Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC)<\/p>\n<p>Research Focus:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong> and L\u00e1zaro-Mu\u00f1oz G. (2018) Enhance Diversity Among Researchers to Promote Participant Trust in Precision Medicine Research. <em>American Journal of Bioethics.<\/em> 18:44-46.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gatica FI, P\u00e9rez-Valenzuela, <strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Fuentealba JA. (2017) The expression of amphetamine sensitization is dissociable from anxiety and aversive memory: effect of an acute injection of amphetamine. <em>Neuroscience Letters.<\/em> 2017 Jan 18; 638:21-26.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ishizawa Y, Ahmed OJ, Patel SR, Gale JT, <strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Brown EN, Eskandar EN. (2016) Dynamics of propofol-induced loss of consciousness across primate neocortex. <em>Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>. 36(29):7718-7726.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, McAllister LM, Lee CCH, Milad MR, Eskandar EN, Whalen MJ. \u00a0(2015) Controlled cortical impact before or after fear learning does not affect fear extinction in mice.\u00a0<em>Brain Research.<\/em>\u00a01606:133-41.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Deckersbach T, Arulpragasam AR, Chou T, Rodman AM, Duffy A, McDonald EJ, Eckhardt CA, Corse AK, Kaur N, Eskandar EN, Dougherty DD. \u00a0(2015) Decision making in avoidance-reward conflict: a paradigm for non-human primates and humans. <em>Brain Structure &amp; Function. \u00a0220(5):2509-17.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sotres-Bayon F, <strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Pardilla-Delgado E, Quirk GJ. \u00a0(2012) Gating of fear in prelimbic cortex by hippocampal and amygdala inputs. \u00a0<em>Neuron.<\/em> 76, 804-812.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Padilla-Coreano N, Quirk GJ. \u00a0(2011) Dissociable roles of prelimbic and infralimbic cortices, ventral hippocampus, and basolateral amygdala in the expression and extinction of conditioned fear. \u00a0<em>Neuropsychopharmacology.<\/em> 36(2): 529-38.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sotres-Bayon F, Corcoran KA, Peters J, <strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>. \u00a0(2008) Neural Correlates of Individual Variability in Fear Extinction. <em>Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>. 28(47):12147-12149.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Dieguez D Jr, and Barea-Rodriguez EJ. \u00a0(2008) Brief Novelty Exposure Facilitates Dentate Gyrus LTP in Aged Rats. <em>Hippocampus.<\/em> 18(8):835-43.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Devan BD, <strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Jimenez M, Bowker JL, Duffy KB, Spangler EL, Ingram DK. \u00a0(2004) Phosphodiesterase inhibition by sildenafil citrate attenuates the learning impairment induced by blockade of cholinergic muscarinic receptors in rats. <em>Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior<\/em>. \u00a079:691-9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Devan BD, Pistell PJ, Daffin LW Jr, Nelson CM, Duffy KB, Bowker JL, Bharati IS, <strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Spangler EL, Ingram DK. \u00a0(2007) Sildenafil citrate attenuates a complex maze impairment induced by intracerebroventricular infusion of the NOS inhibitor Nomega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester. <em>European Journal of Pharmacology<\/em>. \u00a0563(1-3):134-40.7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>,Corcoran KA, Lebron-Milad K, Quirk GJ. (2006) Inactivation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduces expression of conditioned fear and impairs subsequent recall of extinction. <em>European Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>. 24:1751-8.8.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Devan BD, Bowker JL, Duffy K, Bharati IS, Jimenez M, <strong>Sierra-Mercado D<\/strong>, Nelson CM, Spangler EL, Ingram DK. (2006) Phosphodiesterase inhibition by sildenafil citrate attenuates a maze learning impairment in rats induced by nitric oxide synthase inhibition. <em>Psychopharmacology<\/em>. 183:439-45.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Demetrio Sierra Mercado Associate Professor Department of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology School of Medicine University of Puerto Rico demetrio.sierra@upr.edu *Webpage currently under construction, please come back soon.* Current Lab Members: Melissa Rivera Lopez, M.A. melissa.rivera9@upr.edu Doctoral Student University of Puerto Rico &#8211; School of Medicine Department of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology Funding and Support: RISE http:\/\/mbrs-rise.rcm.upr.edu\/;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P658ug-8j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}