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    • Tangy, Frédéric; Vernant, Jean‐Claude ‐C; Coscoy, Laurent; Ossondo, Marlène; Bellance, RéMi; Zaninovic, Vladimir; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Brahic, Michel; Ozden, Simona (1995)
      We searched for the presence of human T‐cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV‐I) sequences in central nervous system and muscle lesions of 3 patients with tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV‐I—associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM) and ...
    • Afonso, Philippe V.; Ozden, Simona; Cumont, Marie-Christine; Seilhean, Danielle; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Rezaie, Payam; Mason, Sarah; Lambert, Sophie; Huerre, Michel; Gessain, Antoine; Couraud, Pierre-Olivier; Pique, Claudine; Ceccaldi, Pierre-Emmanuel; Romero, Ignacio A. (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008-11)
      The blood-brain barrier (BBB), which forms the interface between the blood and the cerebral parenchyma, has been shown to be disrupted during retroviral-associated neuromyelopathies. Human T Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV-1) ...
    • Torres, Mauricio; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Matamala, José Manuel; Hernández, Nancy; Woehlbier, Ute; Hetz Flores, Claudio (2012)
      Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the most frequent human Prion-related disorder (PrD). The detection of 14-3-3 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is used as a molecular diagnostic criterion for patients clinically ...
    • Matamala, José Manuel; Núñez, Carolina; Ogrodnik, Rosa; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis (2013)
      The etiology of brain abscesses is mostly polymicrobial. Streptococci and anaerobic bacteria are the most commonly isolated pathogens. We report a previously healthy female without predisposing factors, presenting with a ...
    • Nien, Jyh Kae; Schmidt, Jimena; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Alvarez, Jaime (1998)
      HTLV-1 (human T-cell leukemia virus type I) associated myelopathy (HAM) is a demyelinating disease. We showed that the CSF of patients and heated CSF of normal subjects induced a segmentary demyelination in rat nerves, and ...
    • Fujiyoshi, Toshinobu; Li, Hong Chuan; Lou, Hong; Yashiki, Shinji; Karino, Shigeyuki; Zaninovic, Vladimir; Oneegllo, Sonia Guillen; Camacho, Mirtha; Andrade, Ronald; Hurtado, Luisa Valentina; Gomez, Luis; Damiani, Esther; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Dipierri, Jose Edgardo; (1999)
      To confirm the geographic and ethnic segregation of HTLV-I and HTLV-II carriers in native populations in South America, we have conducted a seroepidemiological study of native populations in South America, including HTLV-I ...
    • Alberti, Carolina; Gonzalez, Juan; Maldonado, Horacio; Medina, Fernando; Barriga, Andrés; García Nannig, Lorena; Kettlun, Ana; Collados, Lucía; Puente, Javier; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Valenzuela, Maria (2009)
      HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a progressive CNS disease leading to corticospinal tract degeneration. Various degenerative diseases have increased neurofilament subunit concentration ...
    • Bitoun, Marc; Durieux, Anne Cécile; Prudhon, Bernard; Bevilacqua, Jorge; Herledan, Adrien; Sakanyan, Vehary; Urtizberea, Andoni; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Romero, Norma B.; Guicheney, Pascale (2009)
      Dynamin 2 (DNM2) is a large GTPase involved in the release of nascent vesicles during endocytosis and intracellular membrane trafficking. Distinct DNM2 mutations, affecting the middle domain (MD) and the Pleckstrin homology ...
    • Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Gallardo, Andrés V. (2016)
      Liquefied hydrocarbon gas, such as propane is considered safe. However there are reports that voluntary exposure to liquefied gas at least could originate hallucinatory states. We report a 20 years old woman who was found ...
    • Toledo L., Paola; Bustamante Fontecilla, Gonzalo; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis (Sociedad Chilena de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía, 2010-07)
      Clásicamente, la intoxicación aguda por órganofosforados produce una crisis colinérgica, que con frecuencia es continuada con un cuadro de debilidad muscular, expresión de un síndrome intermedio. La génesis de estos cuadros ...
    • Fujiyoshi, Toshinobu; Yashiki, Shinji; Fujiyama, Chihaya; Kuwayama, Masahiro; Miyashita, Hiroki; Ohnishi, Hiroshi; Blank, Michelle; Zaninovic, Vladimir; Blank, Abraham; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Byrnes, John J.; Harrington, William J.; Miura, Tomoyuki; Hayami, Masanori; Tajima, K (1995)
      Thd investigate the genetic background of human T‐cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV‐I) and II (HTLV‐IIhd carriers among South American native Indians, we analyzed HLA DRBI*‐DQBI * haplotypes of the virus carriers from Andes ...
    • Guerrero T., Rodrigo; López L., Ingeborg; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis (Sociedad Chilena de Neurología, Psquiatría y Neurocirugía, 2010-07)
      El glioblastoma multiforme es el más habitual y agresivo de los tumores gliales del sistema nervioso central, sin embargo, infrecuentemente se expresa con lesiones múltiples que pueden definirse como multifocales o ...
    • San Martín, Hector; Balanda, Monserrat; Vergara, Nicolas; Valenzuela Pedevila, María Antonieta; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Ayala, Salvador; Ramírez, Eugenio (Wiley & Sons, 2016-06)
      Infection with human T-lymphotropic virus type 1/2 (HTLV-1/2) is a major health problem. HTLV-1/2 infection is endemic in Chile but representative donor prevalence data are lacking. Data on all blood donors in a large ...
    • Curis, Celine; Percher, Florent; Jeannin, Patricia; Montange, Thomas; Chevalier, Sébastien; Seilhean, Danielle; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Couraud, Pierre-Olivier; Gout, Olivier; Gessain, Antoine; Ceccaldi, Pierre-Emmanuel; Afonso, Philippe V. (American Society for Microbiology, 2016)
      Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the etiological agent of a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease, HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). This disease develops upon ...
    • Maldonado, Horacio; Ramírez, Eugenio; Utreras Puratich, Elías; Pando, María E.; Kettlun, Ana M.; Chiong Lay, Mario; Kulkarni, Ashok B.; Collados, Lucía; Puente, Javier; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Valenzuela, María A. (2011)
      Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by selective loss of axons and myelin in the corticospinal tracts. This ...
    • Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; González L., Daniela; Harán D., Jorge (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)
      The prevalence of drug-associated toxic encephalopathy is unknown, but it is an uncommon condition. Toxic leukoencephalopathy was described associated with heroin consumption, it has been less commonly described with the ...
    • Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Matamala, José Manuel (Sociedad Médica Santiago, 2016)
      Posterior reversible encephalopathy (PRES) is a condition characterized by T2 and FLAIR hyperintensities in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies, localized preferentially in the occipital-parietal white matter regions. ...
    • Alberti, Carolina; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis; Valenzuela, María A.; Puente, Javier; Tanaka, Yuetsu; Ramirez, Eugenio (2011)
      There is no effective therapy for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Glucocorticoids are effective to reduce the motor disability in these patients, ...
    • Jiménez Fernández, Daniel; Matamala, José Manuel; Chiti, Alessandra; Vergara, Carmen; Tissera, Claudia; Melo Monsalve, Rómulo; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis (Elsevier, 2018)
      Immunohistochemistry (IHC) for O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) has shown heterogeneous results. Cell staining intensity has not been included as a quantifiable variable in IHC analyses. We performed MGMT ...
    • Jiménez, Daniel; Matamala, José Manuel; Chiti, Alessandra; Vergara, Carmen; Tissera, Claudia; Melo, Rómulo; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Patients with Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have a five years survival of less than 5%, but the response to chemotherapy with alkylating agents can vary ...