Teresita M. Bellido, PhD
Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Bio
Previous Academic Appointments
11/1993-5/2000: Research Assistant Professor of Medicine. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and UAMS Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
6/2000 – 6/2003: Research Associate Professor of Medicine
7/2003 – 6/2007: Associate Professor of Medicine
7/2007 – 6/2008: Professor of Medicine with Tenure
3/2007 – 6/2008: Faculty, Graduate School, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4/2007 – 6/2008, Adjunt Faculty, Department of Applied Sciences, Nanotechnology Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
10/2009 – 9/2014: Faculty, Graduate School, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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Anatomy & Cell Biology
Medical Science, Room 5045A 635 Barnhill Dr.
Indianapolis , IN 46202-5120
Titles & Appointments
- Adjunct Professor of Medicine
The Bellido laboratory studies osteocytes and their role in regulating the function of osteoblasts and osteoclasts in response to hormonal and mechanical stimuli. They study the regulation of osteocyte-derived genes by parathyroid hormone (PTH), the mechanisms by which PTH and mechanical force regulate bone homeostasis through actions on osteocytes, and the antagonistic interplay between glucocorticoids and mechanical stimulation in bone. Trainees in the Bellido lab will learn all in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo experimental approaches to study osteocytes, including culture of osteocytic cell lines and primary osteocytes, isolation and culture of separate bone cell population, bone organ cultures derived from wild type or genetically modified mice, and the in vivo skeletal responses to osteocyte-specific deletion or overexpression of genes. Trainees will learn all techniques required to assess skeletal phenotypes at the tissue, cell, molecular levels, by analyzing proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation, and gene expression in osteoblasts, osteoclasts and osteocytes in our in vitro and in vivo models.
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Argentinean Association of Osteobiology and Mineral Metabolism
Argentinean Society of Research in Biochemistry
Endocrine Society