Miguel Angel Plaza is Professor of Physiology in the Veterinary Faculty and Head of the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Legal and Forensic Medicine in the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Dr. Plaza obtained his Degree in Biological Sciences in 1987 (University of Salamanca) and started his research training as undergraduate student on the topic of the regulation of the exocrine pancreatic secretion. In 1989 he started the Ph.D. training period in the University of Zaragoza working on the regulation of digestive motility obtaining his Ph.D. Degree in 1993. The postdoctoral research was carried out in 1994 in the laboratory of Dr. Lionel Buéno in the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) in Toulouse (France) studying the role of the interactions between the immune and the central nervous systems. From 1995 Dr. Plaza study in the University of Zaragoza the pathophysiological pathways involved in the gastrointestinal motor disturbances induced by bacterial endotoxins and in intestinal inflammatory conditions. In the last years the research was focused on the study of the beneficial effects of medicinal plants and milk proteins on the intestinal inflammation