Professor Marcela Arteaga Silva is attached to the Department of Reproductive Biology, Division of Biological and Health Sciences. She has been a member of the National System of Researchers since 1998 and is currently a Level I and has a PRODEP profile in the SEP.

Professor Arteaga began her research work in the last year of her undergraduate studies in Experimental Biology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus. Subsequently, her interest in the neuroendocrine regulation of reproductive processes led her to start her Master's degree in Physiological Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the research group of the Unidad de Investigación Médica en Farmacológica del CMN siglo XXI from the IMSS under the direction of Dr. Gabriela Moralí.

Neuroendocrine regulation in reproductive processes such as gestation, puberty, maturity, and sexual behavior, among others, are topics that have deserved the attention of Professor Arteaga. The regulation by steroid hormones and deregulation of these processes by environmental toxins such as heavy metals have been the main topics on which she is currently working and are part of her research line called Reproductive Neuroendocrinology.

Professor Arteaga's interest in knowing how sex hormones exert their action with the interaction of neurotransmitter systems in brain structures led her to pursue her Ph.D. studies in Neurosciences with Dr. Javier Velázquez Moctezuma at UAM Iztapalapa Campus. Her training in the neuroendocrine regulation of reproductive behavior during her Master's and Ph.D. studies led her to work independently with her students and collaborators in the area of Behavioral and Reproductive Biology in the Department of Reproductive Biology of the Division of Biological and Health Sciences. Mainly, there are two lines of research that Dr. Arteaga develops. One corresponds to neuroendocrine dysregulation by cadmium in models of gestation and puberty in the male rat and the effects of cadmium on sexual behavior and cognition, in addition to the evaluation of sperm quality parameters. Dr. Arteaga is currently collaborating with the Department of Reproductive Biology, DCBS, UAM Iztapalapa Campus and the National Institute of Pediatrics, the Institute of Neurobiology and Neurosurgery, the Institute of Biomedical Research of UNAM in Mexico City, and the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Guadalajara, Jalisco.