Background
Bonavera, Juan José was born on December 23, 1956 in Buenos Aires. Son of Vittorio Tito and Nelly Haydeé (Sanchez) Bonavera. came to the United States, 1988.
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Juan José Bonavera
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Juan José Bonavera, Argentinian Veterinarian, researcher. Achievements include discovery that brain nitric oxide, a gas neurotransmitter, is involved in the preovulatory luteinizing hormone and prolactin surges and that nitric oxide mediates the effects of excitatory amino acids on GnRH secretion; described several brain peptides inreproduction.
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Education
B degree, Don Bosco U., Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 1974; Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, U. Center Province Buenos Airse, 1981; Doctor of Philosophy, U. La Plata, 1988.
Career
Private practice, Santo Tome, 1981; intern, Bunge & Born Foundation, Balcarce, Argentina, 1982-1984; junior research fellow, National Research Council, Balcarce, Argentina, 1984-1986; senior research fellow, National Research Council, Balcarce, Argentina, 1986-1990; pharmacology lecturer, National U. Center Province Buenos Aires, Tandil, 1986-1988; fellow, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1988-1990; research associate, U. Florida, Gainesvlle, 1990-1994; research fellow, Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California, since 1994.
Achievements
Membership
President Italian Cmty. Center, Torrance, 1995. Member Endocrine Society, Society for Neurosci., Society for Study of Reproduction, Society for Study of Fertility (England), Gamma Sigma Delta.
Connections
Married Haydeé MariaVercesi, February 14, 1988 (divorced July 1992).
