{"id":978,"date":"2013-09-06T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/?page_id=978"},"modified":"2013-09-06T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T21:34:46","slug":"nelson-ruiz-opazo-m-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/mentors\/nelson-ruiz-opazo-m-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Ruiz-Opazo, M.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Professor of Medicine<a href=\"\/wci-training-programs\/files\/2013\/04\/Ruiz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1135\" title=\"Ruiz\" alt=\"Ruiz\" src=\"\/wci-training-programs\/files\/2013\/04\/Ruiz.png\" height=\"180\" width=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Direct Contact: <a href=\"mailto:nruizo@bu.edu\">nruizo@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trainees will be involved in rat model of polygenic hypertension, such as the Dahl S rat model, to identify susceptibility genes for polygenic hypertension. These studies also involved gender specific analyses using F2-intercross cohorts for both males and females and 24-hour, non-stress, radiotelemetric measurements of blood pressure. Trainees will pursue ongoing results from total genome scans that have identified gender-specific quantitative trait loci for hypertension and its sequelae.<\/p>\n<p><b id=\"internal-source-marker_0.043496282771229744\"><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Medicine Direct Contact: nruizo@bu.edu Trainees will be involved in rat model of polygenic hypertension, such as the Dahl S rat model, to identify susceptibility genes for polygenic hypertension. These studies also involved gender specific analyses using F2-intercross cohorts for both males and females and 24-hour, non-stress, radiotelemetric measurements of blood pressure. Trainees will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6933,"featured_media":0,"parent":843,"menu_order":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions\/1255"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/wci-training-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}