Biography:
Arif Mekhtiev graduated from the Faculty of Therapeutics and Prophylaxis of Azerbaijan Medical Institute in 1978. In 1986 he defended a thesis to getting degree of PhD in P.K.Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology in Moscow on the study of the role of two non-histone chromosomal proteins in organization of rat acquired behavior. Then A.Mekhtiev entered A.I.Garayev Institute of Physiology in Baku and has been dealing with purification of novel brain serotonin-modulating proteins, analysis of their role on memory formation and on the processes of transcription in the brain cells. Besides, he studies the role for these proteins in processes of animal adaptation, drug addiction and embryogenesis. He is an author of 75 research articles in SCI journals and was a principle investigator of five international research projects supported by US scientific funds.
Title : Radio protective activity of serotonin- modulating anti consolidation protein