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    • Bender, Florent; Montoya, Margarita; Monardes, Virginia; Leyton Campos, Lisette; Quest, Andrew F. G. (Society of Biology of Chile, 2002)
      Caveolae are small, flask-shaped invaginations of the plasma membrane present on a large number of mammalian cells. Recent results obtained with knock-out mice for the gene caveolin-1 demonstrate that expression of caveolin-1 ...
    • Morales, Jonathan; Barrera Avalos, Carlos; Castro, Carlos; Castillo, Stephanie; Barrientos, Claudio; Robles Planells, Claudia; López, Ximena; Torres, Ernesto; Montoya, Margarita; Cortez San Martin, Marcelo; Riquelme, Denise; Escobar Álvarez, Alejandro; Fernández, Ricardo; Imarai, Mónica; Sauma Mahaluf, Daniela; Rojo, Leonel E.; Leiva Salcedo, Elias; Acuña Castillo, Claudio (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      Antigen cross-presentation is a crucial step in the assembly of an antitumor immune response leading to activation of naive CD8 T cells. This process has been extensively used in clinical trials, in which dendritic cells ...
    • Leiva Salcedo, Elías; Coddou, Claudio; Rodríguez, Felipe; Penna, Antonello; López, Ximena; Neira, Tanya; Fernández, Ricardo; Imarai, Mónica; Rios, Miguel; Escobar, Jorge; Montoya, Margarita; Huidobro Toro, Juan; Escobar, Alejandro; Acuña Castillo, Claudio (2011)
      The purinergic P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) plays an important role during the immune response, participating in several events such as cytokine release, apoptosis, and necrosis. The bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) ...
    • Miranda, Dante; Jara, Claudia; Ibañez, Jorge; Ahumada, Viviana; Acuña Castillo, Claudio; Martin, Adrian; Córdova, Alexandra; Montoya, Margarita (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)
      Human Natural Killer (NK) cells are a specialized heterogeneous subpopulation of lymphocytes involved in antitumor defense reactions. NK cell effector functions are critically dependent on cytokines and metabolic activity. ...