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    • Vicencio, Emiliano; Cordero, Esteban M.; Cortés, Bastián I.; Palominos, Sebastián; Parra, Pedro; Mella, Tania; Henrríquez, Constanza; Salazar, Nelda; Monasterio Ocares, Gustavo; Cafferata, Emilio A.; Murgas, Paola; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Cortez, Cristian (MDPI, 2020)
      The adverse environmental conditions found in the periodontium during periodontitis pathogenesis stimulate local autophagy responses, mainly due to a continuous inflammatory response against the dysbiotic subgingival ...
    • Monasterio, Gustavo; Fernández, Baltasar; Castillo, Francisca; Rojas, Carolina; Cafferata, Emilio A.; Rojas, Leticia; Alvarez, Carla; Fernández, Alejandra; Hernández, Marcela; Bravo, Denisse; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)
      Background: Encapsulation of Porphyromonas gingivalis has been demonstrated as responsible of several host immunological changes, which have been associated with the pathogenesis of periodontitis. Using a murine model of ...
    • Monasterio, Gustavo; Budini, Victoria; Fernández, Baltasar; Castillo, Francisca; Rojas, Carolina; Alvarez, Carla; Cafferata, Emilio A.; Vicencio, Emiliano; Cortés, Bastián I.; Cortez, Cristian; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Blackwell Munksgaard, 2019)
      Background and Objective: Over the past few years, the importance of interleukin-22 (IL-22) and T-helper (Th)22 lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of periodontitis has become apparent; however, there are still aspects that ...
    • Monasterio, Gustavo; Guevara, José; Ibarra, Juan; Castillo, Francisca; Díaz Zúñiga, Jaime; Alvarez, Carla; Cafferata, Emilio; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Springer Verlag, 2018)
      Objectives Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by tooth-supporting tissue destruction, which is elicited by the host’s immune response triggered against periodonto-pathogen bacteria. During ...
    • Cafferata, Emilio; Terraza Aguirre, Claudia; Barrera, Romina; Faúndez, Nicolás; González, Nicolás; Rojas, Carolina; Melgar Rodríguez, Samanta; Hernández, Marcela; Carvajal, Paola; Cortez, Cristian; González, Fermín; Covarrubias, Cristian; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Wiley, 2020)
      Aim T lymphocytes play a central role during the pathogenesis of periodontitis, and the imbalance between the pathogenic T-helper type 17 (Th17) and protective T-regulatory (Treg) lymphocytes determines the tooth-supporting ...
    • Cafferata, Emilio A.; Alvarez, Carla; Diaz, Karla T.; Maureira, Miguel; Monasterio, Gustavo; González, Fermín E.; Covarrubias, Cristian; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. All rights reserved Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease, in which the host immuno-inflammatory response against the dysbiotic subgingival biofilm leads ...
    • Monasterio, Gustavo; Ormeño Castillo, Francisca; Astorga, Jéssica; Hoare Teuche, Anilei; Terraza, Claudia; Cafferata, Emilio A.; Villablanca, Eduardo J.; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando Marcelo (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a Gram-negative oral bacterium with high immunostimulatory and pathogenic potential involved in the onset and progression of periodontitis, a chronic disease characterized by aberrant ...
    • Cafferata Chea, Emilio; Monasterio Ocares, Gustavo; Castillo Franzoy, Francisca; Carvajal Pavez, Paola; Flores Sepúlveda, Guillermo; Díaz Guzmán, Walter; Fuentes del Campo, Aler; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Wiley, 2020)
      Objective This study aimed to determine the expression of distinct matrix metalloproteinases, cytokines, and bone resorptive factors in temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJ-OA) patients and their association with ...
    • Alvarez, Carla; Rojas Rojas, Carolina Andrea; Rojas, Leticia; Cafferata, Emilio A.; Monasterio, Gustavo; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Hindawi Ltd, 2018)
      Periodontitis is a chronic immuno-inflammatory disease in which the disruption of the balance between host and microbiota interactions is key to the onset and progression of the disease. The immune homeostasis associated ...