Marco Aurelio Rivarola, Argentine pediatric endocrinologist (Buenos Aires 03 January 1936 –

Found many new (at least 26) genetic mutations and variations involved in syndromes

DEVELOPED METHODS

With A. Belgorosky. Determination of albumin-bound thyroxine in human serum. Clin. Chem. 36:699, 1990

With A. Belgorosky. Determinación de la globulina ligadora de tiroxina (TBG) y de la prealbumina ligadora de tiroxina (TBPA) por analisis de saturación y separación con carbón dextran. Rev. Arg. Endocr. Metabolismo 25:73-8, 1988

With A. Belgorosky, E.A. Chaler & S.B. Cigorraga. Photoaffinity labeling of extracellular and intracellular androgen binding proteins. Acta Physiol. Pharmac. Lat. Am. 36(1):1-11, 1986

With A. Belgorosky. Sex hormone binding globulin response to testosterone. An androgen sensitivity test. Acta Endocrinol. 109:130-8, 1985

With A. Belgorosky. Determination of sex-hormone binding globulin in human serum. Medicina 42:141-8, 1982

With C. Bianculli, B. Cano de Candas, J. Menendez & C. Bergadá. Urinary acid phosphatase as an auxiliary index of androgenic response. J. Pediatrics 89(2):325, 1976

With C. Bergadá, E.J. Podestá et al. developed techniques for the measurement of steroids using radioligant assays as well as techniques for the study of its metabolism in different tissues (1970-2)

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

With C. Pepe, N. Saraco, M.S. Baquedano, G. Guercio, E. Vaiani, E. Berensztein & A. Belgoprosky. Exon 5 alternative splicing of the cytochrome P450 aromatase could be a regulatory mechanism for estrogen production in humans. Medicina 67(4):369-73, 2007

With J. Accorinti, E. Berensztein, M.S. Baquedano, N. Saraco, C. Pepe, R. Ponzio & A. Belgorosky. Identification and characterization of testicular macrophages (MT) present during human prepuberty and puberty. Hormone Research 68:1, 2007

With J.M. Saez, M.H. Perrard, P.G. Chatelain & E. Tabone. Paracrine regulation of testicular function. J. Ster. Biochem. 27(1-3):317-29, 1987