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Heriberto Rodriguez-Martinez

My research focus on the interactions between the seminal fluid bearing spermatozoa with the female genital tract and the oocytes, before and during fertilization. 

Reproduction, a major sentinel of the health of animals and humans

Environmental and societal changes, including an increased stressful lifestyle, constrain reproduction; a major sentinel of the health of ecosystems, animals and humans.

My research focus on the interactions between the seminal fluid bearing spermatozoa with the female genital tract and the oocytes, before and during fertilization. This includes determining how the seminal fluid is able to signal and elicit genomic shifts in the female genitalia in relation to maternal immune tolerance to the foreign cells and proteins it contains.

My research, covering areas of comparative reproductive biology/biotechnology, andrology and cryobiology, pursues disclosure of valuable biomarkers for male fertility, of the complicated signaling system that the transcriptome and proteome of the seminal fluid is built and how they are constrained by cryopreservation.

Reinforcement of our diagnostic capacity in andrology and assisted reproductive techniques is still my leading star.

Publications

2024

Josep M. Cambra, Maria A. Gil, Cristina Cuello, Alejandro Gonzalez-Plaza, Heriberto Rodriguez-Martinez, Nikolai Klymiuk, Emilio A. Martinez, Inmaculada Parrilla (2024) Cytokine profile in peripheral blood mononuclear cells differs between embryo donor and potential recipient sows Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Vol. 11, Article 1333941 Continue to DOI
Maria A. Gil, Josep M. Cambra, Heriberto Rodriguez-Martinez, Cristina Cuello, Inmaculada Parrilla, Emilio A. Martinez (2024) In-depth proteome characterization of endometrium and extraembryonic membranes during implantation in pig JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, Vol. 15, Article 43 Continue to DOI
Manuel Alvarez-Rodriguez, Cristina Martinez Serrano, Jaume Gardela, Helena Nieto, Eduardo de Mercado, Heriberto Rodriguez-Martinez (2024) MicroRNA expression in specific segments of the pig periovulatory internal genital tract is differentially regulated by semen or by seminal plasma Research in Veterinary Science, Vol. 168, Article 105134 Continue to DOI

My research

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