Bioquímico de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Doctora en Nutrición y Alimentos de la Universidad de Chile. Sus líneas de investigación se enmarcan dentro del estudio de polimorfismos genéticos del ritmo circadiano y conducta alimentaria asociados a obesidad.
Publicaciones
- Valladares M, Corsini G, Romero C. Associationbetweenobesity and ovariancancer. RevMedChil, 2014; aceptado.
- Ho-Urriola J, Guzmán-Guzmán IP, Smalley SV, González A, Weisstaub G, Domínguez-Vásquez P, Valladares M, Amador P, Hodgson MI, Obregón AM, Santos JL. Melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphism rs17782313: Association with obesity and eating in the absence of hunger in Chilean children. Nutrition. 2013; 30: 145-149.
- Suazo J, Hodgson MI, Obregón AM, Valladares M, Weisstaub G, Amador P, Santos JL. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in obese Chilean children and association with gene variants of the leptin-melanocortin system. J PediatrEndocrinolMetab, 2013; 26:1131-1139.
- Valladares M, Domínguez-Vásquez P, Obregón AM, Weisstaub G, Burrows R 2, Maiz A, Santos JL. Melanocortin-4 receptor gene variants in Chilean families: association with childhood obesity and eating behavior. Nutritional Neuroscience, 2010; 13:71-78.
- Obregón AM, Amador P, Valladares M, Weisstaub G, Burrows R, Santos JL. Melanocortin-3 receptor gene variants: Association with childhood obesity and eating behavior in Chilean families. Nutrition. 2010; 26:760-765.
- J.L. Santos, P. Amador, M. Valladares, C. Albala, J.A. Martínez, A. Marti. Eating behaviour and obesity in a three-generation Chilean family with carriers of the Thr150Ile mutation in the melanocortin-4 receptor gene. J PhysiolBiochem 2008; 64: 205–210.
- Salas C, Julio-Pieper M, Valladares M, Pommer R, Vega M, Mastronardi C, Kerr B, Ojeda SR, Lara HE, and Romero C. Nerve Growth Factor-Dependent Activation of trkA Receptors in the Human Ovary Results in Synthesis of FSH Receptors and Estrogen Secretion. J ClinEndocrinolMetab. 2006;91:2396-403.
- Juan Fernández, Macarena Valladares, Ricardo Fuentes and Andrea Ubilla Reorganization of cytoplasm in the theZebrafish Oocyte and Egg During Early Steps of Ooplasmic Segregation, Dev Dyn. 2006 ;235:656-71.