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    • Boza Fuentes, Pía; Ayala, Pedro; Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Humeres Martínez, Claudio; Tapia Cáceres, Felipe; Muñoz, Claudia; García Nannig, Lorena; Hermoso Ramello, Marcela; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2016)
      Cardiac inflammation can be produced by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), from parasitic, bacterial or viral origin; or by danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), released from dead cells after cardiac ...
    • Olivares Silva, Francisco Javier; Landaeta, Rodolfo; Aránguiz, Pablo; Bolivar, Samir; Humeres Martínez, Claudio; Anfossi, Renatto; Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Boza Fuentes, Pía; Muñoz Jofré, Claudia; Pardo Jiménez, Viviana Gladys; Peiro, Concepción; Sánchez Ferrer, Carlos; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2018)
      Cardiac fibroblasts (CF) act as sentinel cells responding to chemokines, cytokines and growth factors released in cardiac tissue in cardiac injury events, such as myocardial infarction (MI). Cardiac injury involves the ...
    • Bolivar, Samir; Santana, Roxana; Ayala, Pedro; Landaeta, Rodolfo; Boza Fuentes, Pía; Humeres Martínez, Claudio; Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Muñoz Jofré, Claudia; Pardo, Viviana; Fernández, Samuel; Anfossi, Renatto; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Springer, 2017)
      Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a known ligand of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) which is expressed in cardiac fibroblasts (CF). Differentiation of CF to cardiac myofibroblasts (CMF) is induced by transforming growth ...
    • Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Humeres, Claudio; Anfossi, Renatto; Bolívar, Samir; Catalán Díaz, Mabel; Hill, Joseph; Lavandero González, Sergio; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) are necessary to maintain extracellular matrix (ECM) homeostasis in the heart. Normally, CFs are quiescent and secrete small amounts of ECM components, whereas, in pathological conditions, they ...
    • Norambuena Soto, Ignacio; Núñez Soto, Constanza; Sanhueza Olivares, Fernanda; Cancino Arenas, Nicole; Mondaca Ruff, David; Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Mellado, Rosemarie; Chiong Lay, Mario (IRCA-BSSA, 2017)
      Fibroblasts play several homeostatic roles, including electrical coupling, paracrine signaling and tissue repair after injury. Fibroblasts have low secretory activity. However, in response to injury, they differentiate to ...