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    • Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Humeres Martínez, Claudio; Boza Fuentes, Pía; Bolívar, S.; Muñoz, C. (Elsevier, 2015)
      Cardiac fibroblasts (CF) not only modulate extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins homeostasis, but also respond to chemical and mechanical signals. CF express a variety of receptors through which they modulate the proliferation/cell ...
    • Ibacache Figueroa, Mauricio; Sánchez, Gina; Gálvez, Felipe; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully; Humeres Martínez, Claudio; Echevarría, Ghislaine; Duaso, Juan; Hassi, Mario; García Nannig, Lorena; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Lavandero González, Sergio (ELSEVIER, 2012-04)
      Pharmacological preconditioning limits myocardial infarct size after ischemia/reperfusion. Dexmedetomidine is an alpha(2)-adrenergic receptor agonist used in anesthesia that may have cardioprotective properties against ...
    • Olmedo, Ivonne; Muñoz, Claudia; Guzmán, Nancy; Catalán, Mabel; Vivar, Raúl; Ayala, Pedro; Humeres Martínez, Claudio; Aránguiz, Pablo; García Nannig, Lorena; Velarde, Victoria; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2013)
      In the heart, cardiac fibroblasts (CF) and cardiac myofibroblasts (CMF) are the main cells responsible for wound healing after cardiac insult. Exchange protein activated by cAMP (EPAC) is a downstream effector of cAMP, ...
    • 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 ...