Amanda Rodríguez León
Undergraduate Student
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Campus
Home Research
Mentor: Carmen S. Maldonado Vlaar, PhD
Project: Effects of endocannabinoid system activation through exercise on sociability in adolescent rats
Project Objectives: 1) Investigate the relationship between the endocannabinoid system and sociability in adolescent rats. 2) Observe the correlation between the endocannabinoid system and exercise. 3) Observe the upregulation of CB1 receptors through exercise in adolescent rats. 4) Discover if there is a correlation between exercise, sociability, and the endocannabinoid
system in adolescent rats.
Summer Research 2022
Institution: NYU Langone Health
Mentor: Pending
Project: Pending
Project Description: Pending