Monica P Morales
· Associate ProfessorUniversity of Arizona · Spanish and Portuguese
Active 1994–2026
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About
Dr. Monica P. Morales is an Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, where she is also an affiliated faculty member in Latin American Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her research interests focus on the systems of domination and critiques produced by colonized subjects from the 15th to the 17th centuries in Spanish America, as well as the ongoing formations of colonial power in Latin America through the present. Her work explores the cultural encounters beginning in 1492 and how these shape the histories and identities of Latin America. Dr. Morales is currently completing her second book, which examines the links between colonial discourse and justice, as well as notions of wellbeing, through relationships of management during the 16th and 17th centuries in the Andean and New Spain regions. Her interdisciplinary research incorporates colonial discourse, postcolonial theory, urban studies, visual culture, and sound studies. Her teaching is grounded in theory, history, and the methodologies that have shaped Latin American colonial studies, aiming to equip students to analyze colonial and postcolonial conditions and situations.
Research topics
- Internal medicine
- Endocrinology
- Medicine
- Cardiology
- Stereochemistry
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Urology
- Molecular biology
- Pathology
Selected publications
American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology · 2006-05-09 · 206 citations
articleIn the present study, we examined the roles of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and nitric oxide (NO) in the activation of satellite cells in passively stretched rat skeletal muscle. A hindlimb suspension model was developed in which the vastus, adductor, and gracilis muscles were subjected to stretch for 1 h. Satellite cells were activated by stretch determined on the basis of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation in vivo. Extracts from stretched muscles stimulated BrdU incorporation in fr…
Substrate-Dependent Ligand Inhibition of the Human Organic Cation Transporter OCT2
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 2013-05-25 · 106 citations
articleOpen accessJournal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 2012-03-15 · 90 citations
articleOpen accessMolecular Pharmacology · 2016-07-15 · 25 citations
articleOpen accessAmerican Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology · 2011-05-04 · 23 citations
articleOpen accessThis study examined the selectivity of organic anion transporters OAT1 and OAT3 for structural congeners of the heavy metal chelator 2,3-dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid (DMPS). Thiol-reactive reagents were also used to test structural predictions based on a homology model of OAT1 structure. DMPS was near equipotent in its ability to inhibit OAT1 (IC(50) = 83 μM) and OAT3 (IC(50) = 40 μM) expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells. However, removal of a thiol group (3-mercapto-1-propanesulfonic a…
Frequent coauthors
- 14 shared
Stephen H. Wright
- 7 shared
Christopher T. Banek
University of Arizona
- 6 shared
Rachel F. Tyndale
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- 6 shared
Madeline Gauthier
University of Arizona
- 6 shared
Carlotta E. Groves
University of Arizona
- 5 shared
Sean Ekins
Collaborations Pharmaceuticals (United States)
- 5 shared
Lucy J. Martínez-Guerrero
University of Arizona
- 5 shared
Melissa Dennis
University of Arizona
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