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    • Díaz, Jorge; Mendoza, Pablo; Silva, Patricio; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Torres, Vicente A. (Landes Bioscience, 2014)
      © Jorge Díaz, Pablo endoza, Patricio Silva, Andrew FG Quest, and Vicente A Torres. The small GTPase Rab5 has been frequently studied in the context of intracellular trafficking, but evidence obtained more recently has ...
    • Silva, Patricio; Soto, Nicolás; Díaz, Jorge; Mendoza, Pablo; Díaz, Natalia; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Torres Gómez, Vicente (Elsevier, 2015)
      The early endosomal protein Rab5 is highly expressed in tumor samples, although a causal relationship between Rab5 expression and cell transformation has not been established. Here, we report the functional effects of ...
    • Silva, Patricio; Mendoza, Pablo; Rivas, Solange; Díaz, Jorge; Moraga, Carolina; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Torres, V. A. (Oncotarget, 2016)
      Hypoxia, a common condition of the tumor microenvironment, is associated with poor patient prognosis, tumor cell migration, invasion and metastasis. Recent evidence suggests that hypoxia alters endosome dynamics in tumor ...
    • Reyes Rojas, Montserrat; Peña Oyarzún, Daniel; Silva, Patricio; Venegas, Sebastián; Criollo Céspedes, Alfredo; Torres Gómez, Vicente (Wiley, 2020)
      Potentially malignant lesions, commonly referred to as dysplasia, are associated with malignant transformation by mechanisms that remain unclear. We recently reported that increased Wnt secretion promotes the nuclear ...
    • Díaz, Jorge; Mendoza, Pablo; Ortiz, Rina; Díaz, Natalia; Leyton Campos, Lisette; Stupack, Dwayne; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Torres, Vicente A. (Company of Biologists Ltd, 2014)
      Rab5 is a small GTPase that regulates early endosome trafficking and other cellular processes, including cell adhesion and migration. Specifically, Rab5 promotes Rac1 activation and cancer cell migration, but little is ...
    • Torres, Pedro; Díaz Jara, Jorge; Arce, Maximiliano; Silva, Patricio; Mendoza, Pablo; Lois, Pablo; Molina Berríos, Alfredo Enrique; Owen, Gareth I.; Palma Alvarado, Verónica; Torres Gómez, Vicente (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2017)
      Saliva is a key factor that contributes to the high efficiency of wound healing in the oral mucosa. This is not only attributed to physical cues but also to the presence of specific peptides in the saliva, such as histatins. ...
    • Reyes Rojas, Montserrat; Flores Lillo, Tania; Betancur, Diego; Peña Oyarzún, Daniel; Torres Gómez, Vicente (MDPI, 2020)
      Oral carcinogenesis is a complex and multifactorial process that involves cumulative genetic and molecular alterations, leading to uncontrolled cell proliferation, impaired DNA repair and defective cell death. At the ...