- Doctorado en Neurofarmacología, Collège de France, Francia (1985 – 1989).
- Neurociencia
- ELA
- Estévez AG, Crow JP, Sampson JB, Reiter C, Zhuang Y, Richardson GJ, Tarpey MM, Barbeito L, Beckman JS. Induction of nitric oxide-dependent apoptosis in motor neurons by zinc-deficient superoxide dismutase. Science. 1999 Dec 24;286(5449):2498-500.
- Maccioni RB, Muñoz JP, Barbeito L. The molecular bases of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Arch Med Res. 2001 Sep-Oct;32(5):367-81.
- Cassina P, Peluffo H, Pehar M, Martinez-Palma L, Ressia A, Beckman JS, Estévez AG, Barbeito L. Peroxynitrite triggers a phenotypic transformation in spinal cord astrocytes that induces motor neuron apoptosis. J Neurosci Res. 2002 Jan 1;67(1):21-9.
- Barbeito LH, Pehar M, Cassina P, Vargas MR, Peluffo H, Viera L, Estévez AG, Beckman JS. A role for astrocytes in motor neuron loss in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2004 Dec;47(1-3):263-74.
- Vargas MR, Pehar M, Cassina P, Beckman JS, Barbeito L. Increased glutathione biosynthesis by Nrf2 activation in astrocytes prevents p75NTR-dependent motor neuron apoptosis. J Neurochem. 2006 May;97(3):687-96.
- Pehar M, Vargas MR, Robinson KM, Cassina P, England P, Beckman JS, Alzari PM, Barbeito L. Peroxynitrite transforms nerve growth factor into an apoptotic factor for motor neurons. Free Radic Biol Med. 2006 Dec 1;41(11):1632-44.
- Díaz-Amarilla P, Olivera-Bravo S, Trias E, Cragnolini A, Martínez-Palma L, Cassina P, Beckman J, Barbeito L. Phenotypically aberrant astrocytes that promote motoneuron damage in a model of inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011; 108(44):18126-31.
- Trias E, Díaz-Amarilla P, Olivera-Bravo S, Isasi E, Drechsel DA, Lopez N, Bradford CS, Ireton KE, Beckman JS, Barbeito L. Phenotypic transition of microglia into astrocyte-like cells associated with disease onset in a model of inherited ALS. Front Cell Neurosci. 2013; 7:274.
- Trias, E., et al., Post-paralysis tyrosine kinase inhibition with masitinib abrogates neuroinflammation and slows disease progression in inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neuroinflammation, 2016. 13(1): p. 177.