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    • Ciudad, María Teresa; Sorvillo, Nicoletta; van Alphen, Floris; Catalán Martina, Diego; Meijer, Alexander; Voorberg, Jan; Jaraquemada, Dolores (Wiley, 2017)
      Dendritic cells (DCs) are the major professional APCs of the immune system; however, their MHC-II-associated peptide repertoires have been hard to analyze, mostly because of their scarce presence in blood and tissues. In ...
    • Aravena, Octavio; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Soto, Lilian; Orrego, Natalia; Sabugo, Francisca; Wurmann, Pamela; Molina, María Carmen; Alfaro, Jorge; Cuchacovich Turteltaub, Miguel; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Catalán Martina, Diego (2011)
      The aim of this work was to study the effect of anti-TNF treatment on CD4+ Th1, Th17 and regulatory T cells (Tregs), together with CD8+ T cells and NK cells from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. For this purpose, 18 RA ...
    • Gárate, David; Rojas Colonelli, Nicole; Peña, Corina; Salazar, Lorena; Abello, Paula; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Aravena, Octavio; García González, Paulina; Hager Ribeiro, Carolina; Molina, María C.; Catalán Martina, Diego; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (2013)
      Objective Dendritic cells (DCs) modulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) are able to reduce inflammation when therapeutically administered into mice with collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). The aim of this study was to uncover ...
    • Cuchacovich Turteltaub, Miguel; Bueno, Daniel; Carvajal Gavilán, Rodrigo; Bravo, Nicolás; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Catalán Martina, Diego; Soto Sáez, Lilian (International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR), 2014)
      Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This finding has led to the development of TNF blockers for RA treatment. However, response to these therapies is ...
    • García González, Paulina; Schinnerling, Katina; Sepúlveda Gutierrez, Alejandro; Maggi, Jaxaira; Mehdi, Ahmed M.; Nel, Hendrik J.; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Larrondo Lillo, Milton; Aravena, Octavio; Molina Sampayo, María Carmen; Catalán Martina, Diego; Thomas, Ranjeny; Verdugo Salgado, Ricardo; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (Frontiers Media SA, 2017)
      There is growing interest in the use of tolerogenic dendritic cells (tolDCs) as a potential target for immunotherapy. However, the molecular bases that drive the differentiation of monocyte-derived DCs (moDCs) toward a ...
    • Maggi, Jaxaira; Schinnerling, Katina; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Hilkens, Catharien M.; Catalán Martina, Diego; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (Frontiers Media, 2016)
      Tolerogenic dendritic cells (DCs) are a promising tool to control T cell-mediated autoimmunity. Here, we evaluate the ability of dexamethasone-modulated and monophosphoryl lipid A (MPLA)-activated DCs [MPLA-tolerogenic DCs ...
    • García González, P. A.; Schinnerling, Katina; Sepúlveda A., Jocelyne; Ubilla Olguín, Gabriela; Soto, L.; Neira Quiroga, Oscar; Medhi, A. M.; Nel, H. J.; Catalán Martina, Diego; Thomas, R. C.; Verdugo Salgado, Ricardo; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (2016)
    • Peña, Corina; Gárate, David; Contreras Levicoy, Juan; Aravena, Octavio; Catalán Martina, Diego; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (2013)
      Background. Pharmacologically modulated dendritic cells (DCs) have been shown to restore tolerance in type II collagen- (CII-) induced arthritis (CIA). We examined the effect of dexamethasone (DXM) administration as a ...
    • Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Soto Sáez, Lilian; Sabugo Siraqyan, María Francisca; Wurmann Kiblisky, Pamela; Cuchacovich Turteltaub, Miguel; López Nitsche, Mercedes; Sotelo, P. H.; Molina Sampayo, María Carmen; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Catalán Martina, Diego (2013)
      A new paradigm has emerged relating the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), focused on the balance between T helper type 17 cells and regulatory T cells (Tregs). In humans, both subpopulations depend on ...
    • Durán Aniotz, Claudia; Segal, Gabriela; Salazar, Lorena; Pereda, Cristián; Falcón, Cristián; Tempio, Fabián; Aguilera, Raquel; González González, Rodrigo; Pérez Núñez, Claudio; Tittarelli, Andrés; Catalán Martina, Diego; Nervi, Bruno; Larrondo Lillo, Milton; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; López Nitsche, Mercedes (Springer, 2013)
      Introduction Immunization with autologous dendritic cells (DCs) loaded with a heat shock-conditioned allogeneic melanoma cell lysate caused lysate-specific delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions in a number ...
    • González, Carlos; Abello, Paula; Cepeda, Raquel; Salazar, Lorena; Aravena, Octavio; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Catalán Martina, Diego; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (2007)
      Using the murine model of type II collagen-induced arthritis (CIA), we studied its evolution over time by histopathological, immunohistochemical and clinical evaluations. The first clinical symptoms appeared 28 days ...
    • Rosser, Elizabeth C.; Piper, Christopher J. M.; Matei, Diana E.; Blair, Paul A.; Rendeiro, André F.; Orford, Michael; Alber, Dagmar G.; Krausgruber, Thomas; Catalán Martina, Diego; Klein, Nigel; Manson, Jessica J.; Drozdov, Ignat; Bock, Christoph; Wedderburn, Lucy R.; Eaton, Simon; Mauri, Claudia (Cell Press, 2020)
      The differentiation of IL-10-producing regulatory B cells (Bregs) in response to gut-microbiota-derived signals supports the maintenance of tolerance. However, whether microbiota-derived metabolites can modulate Breg ...
    • Campos Mora, Mauricio; Morales, Rodrigo A.; Gajardo, Tania; Catalán Martina, Diego; Pino Lagos, Karina (2013)
      In the immune system, Neuropilin-1 (Nrp1) is a molecule that plays an important role in establishing the immunological synapse between dendritic cells (DCs) and T cells. Recently, Nrp1 has been identified as a marker that ...
    • Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Contreras L., Juan; Dotte G., Andrés; Cruzat C., Andrea; Catalán Martina, Diego; Salazar A., Lorena; Molina S., María Carmen; Guerrero P., Julia; López Nitsche, Mercedes; Soto Sáez, Lilian; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Cuchacovich Turteltaub, Miguel (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2003)
      The fusion of a murine B cell and a myeloma cell generates a hybridoma that produces monoclonal antibody (mAb). These murine mAb induce the HAMA (human anti-mouse antibodies) response. Murine mAb have been modified by ...
    • García González, Paulina; Morales, Rodrigo; Hoyos, Lorena; Maggi, Jaxaira; Campos, Javier; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Gárate, David; Larrondo Lillo, Milton; González González, Rodrigo; Soto Sáez, Lilian; Ramos, Verónica; Tobar, Pía; Molina, María Carmen; Pino Lagos, Karina; Catalán Martina, Diego; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Generation of tolerogenic dendritic cells (TolDCs) for therapy is challenging due to its implications for the design of protocols suitable for clinical applications, which means not only using safe products, ...
    • Salazar, Lorena; Aravena, Octavio; Contreras Levicoy, Juan; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Catalán Martina, Diego; Zúñiga, Roberto; Iruretagoyena, Mirentxu; Kalergis, Alexis M.; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (2007)
      Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional, antigen-presenting cells, which induce and regulate T cell reactivity. DCs are crucial in innate and adaptive immune responses, and are also involved in central and peripheral tolerance ...
    • Schinnerling, Katina; Soto, Lilian; García González, Paulina; Catalán Martina, Diego; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (Elsevier, 2015)
      To date, the available options to treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) include traditional corticoids and biological drugs, which are not exempt of adverse effects. The development of cellular ...
    • Garrido Tapia, Macarena; Hernández González, Carolina; Ascui, Gabriel; Kramm, Karina; Morales Huber, Claudia; Garatea, Valentina; Zúniga, Roberto; Bustamante Zamorano, Marco; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Catalán Martina, Diego; Ribeiro, Carolina Hager; Molina Sampayo, María Carmen (Elsevier, 2017)
      NKG2D is an activating receptor expressed on NK cells that binds to a variety of ligands, including MICA and MICB. These cell surface glycoproteins are overexpressed under cellular transformation, thus playing an important ...
    • Soto, Lilian; Ferrier, Ashley; Aravena Madariaga, Octavio; Fonseca, Elianet; Berendsen, Jorge; Biere, Andrea; Bueno, Daniel; Ramos, Verónica; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Catalán Martina, Diego (Frontiers Media, 2015)
      The activation threshold of B cells is tightly regulated by an array of inhibitory and activator receptors in such a way that disturbances in their expression can lead to the appearance of autoimmunity. The aim of this ...