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Glatstein, Daniel A.; Bruna, Nicolás; Gallardo Benavente, Carla; Bravo, Denisse; Carro Pérez, Magali E.; Franco, Francisca; Pérez Donoso, José (ASCE-AMER SOC Civil Engineers, 2018)Use of microorganisms in contaminated water remediation is one of the most studied processes of recent years. The recovery of metal contaminants by converting them into high-value nanomaterials represents a scarcely explored ...
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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 ...
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Hoare, Anilei; Soto, Cristopher; Rojas-Celis, Victoria; Bravo, Denisse (NLM (Medline), 2019)Periodontitis is characterized by a chronic inflammation produced in response to a disease-associated multispecies bacterial community in the subgingival region. Although the inflammatory processes occur locally in the ...
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Gran-Scheuch, Alejandro; Ramos Zúñiga, Javiera; Fuentes Pérez, Edwar; Bravo Rodríguez, Denisse; Pérez Donoso, José M. (MDPI, 2020)Diesel oil is the main source of energy used in Antarctica. Since diesel is composed of toxic compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals, it represents a constant threat to the organisms ...
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Monrás, Juan P.; Díaz, Víctor; Bravo, Denisse; Montes, Rebecca A.; Chasteen, Thomas G.; Osorio Román, Igor; Vásquez, Claudio C.; Pérez Donoso, José (2012)The vast application of fluorescent semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs) or quantum dots (QDs) has prompted the development of new, cheap and safer methods that allow generating QDs with improved biocompatibility. In this ...
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Helicobacter pylori in human health and disease: Mechanisms for local gastric and systemic effects Bravo, Denisse; Hoare, Anilei; Soto, Cristopher; Valenzuela, Manuel A.; Quest, Andrew F. G. (Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited, 2018)© The Author(s) 2018. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori ) is present in roughly 50% of the human population worldwide and infection levels reach over 70% in developing countries. The infection has classically been associated ...
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Canales, Jimena; Valenzuela, Manuel; Bravo, Jimena; Cerda Opazo, Paulina; Jorquera, Carla; Toledo, Héctor; Bravo, Denisse; Quest, Andrew F. G. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)© 2017 Canales, Valenzuela, Bravo, Cerda-Opazo, Jorquera, Toledo, Bravo and Quest. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a human gastric pathogen that has been linked to the development of several gastric pathologies, such ...
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Valenzuela, Manuel; Pérez Pérez, Guillermo; Corvalán, Alejandro H.; Carrasco, Gonzalo; Urra, Hery; Bravo, Denisse; Toledo, Héctor; Quest, Andrew F. G. (2010)Helicobacter pylori infects the human stomach and modifies signaling pathways that affect gastric epithelial cell proliferation and viability. Chronic exposure to this pathogen contributes to the onset of gastric atrophy, ...
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Hoare, Anilei; Bravo, Denisse; Martinić, Mara; Valvano, Miguel; Contreras, Inés; Álvarez, Sergio (2012)Shigella flexneri causes bacillary dysentery in humans. Essential to the establishment of the disease is the invasion of the colonic epithelial cells. Here we investigated the role of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O antigen ...
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Bravo, Denisse; Blondel, Carlos J.; Hoare, Anilei; Leyton Campos, Lisette; Valvano, Miguel A.; Contreras, Inés (2011)The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) has been proposed as an epithelial cell receptor for the entry of Salmonella Typhi but not Salmonella Typhimurium. The bacterial ligand recognized by CFTR is ...