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    • Vieites, Marisol; Otero, Lucía; Santos, Diego; Olea Azar, Claudio; Norambuena, Ester; Aguirre, Gabriela; Cerecetto, Hugo; González, Mercedes; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Morello Casté, Antonio; Maya Arango, Juan; Gambino, Dinorah (2009)
      Eight new platinum(II) complexes with 3-(5-nitrofuryl)acroleine thiosemicarbazones showing anti-trypanosomal activity were synthesized, characterized and in vitro evaluated. Most of the complexes showed IC50 values in the ...
    • Seguel Olivares, Claudia Pamela (Universidad de Chile, 2005)
      La enfermedad de Chagas es producida por el protozoo flagelado Trypanosoma cruzi, que presenta tres estados morfológicos en su ciclo biológico: amastigote, tripomastigote y epimastigote. Aproximadamente 25 millones de ...
    • Aravena, María C.; Olea Azar, Claudio; Cerecetto, Hugo; González, Mercedes; Maya Arango, Juan; Rodríguez Becerra, Jorge (2011)
      Cyclic voltammetry and electron spin resonance techniques were used in the investigation of several potential antiprotozoal containing thiosemicarbazone and carbamate nitrofurans. In the electrochemical behaviour, a ...
    • Molina Berríos, Alfredo Enrique; Campos Estrada, Carolina; Henriquez, Natalia; Faúndez, Mario; Torres, Gloria; Castillo, Christian; Escanilla, Sebastián; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Morello Casté, Antonio; López Muñoz, Rodrigo; Maya Arango, Juan (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Chagas' disease, produced by Trypanosoma cruzi, affects more than 8 million people, producing approximately 10,000 deaths each year in Latin America. Migration of people from endemic regions to developed countries has ...
    • Rodríguez Arce, Esteban; Machado, Ignacio; Rodríguez, Belén; Lapier, Michel; Zúñiga, María Carolina; Maya Arango, Juan; Olea Azar, Claudio; Otero, Lucía; Gambino, Dinorah (Elsevier Inc., 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier Inc. American Trypanosomiasis is a chronic infection discovered and described in 1909 by the Brazilian scientist Carlos Chagas. It is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Although it affects ...
    • Castillo, C.; López-Muñoz, R.; Duaso, J.; Galanti Garrone, Norbel; Jaña, F.; Ferreira, J.; Cabrera, G.; Maya Arango, Juan; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (2012)
      Background: Chagas' disease is caused by the haemophlagelated protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi). During congenital transmission the parasite breaks down the placental barrier. In the present study we analyzed the ...
    • Campos Estrada, Carolina; Liempi, Ana; González Herrera, Fabiola; Lapier, Michel; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Ferreira, Jorge; López Muñoz, Rodrigo; Maya Arango, Juan (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      © 2015 Campos-Estrada et al.Trypanosoma cruzi is the causal agent of Chagas Disease that is endemic in Latin American, afflicting more than ten million people approximately. This disease has two phases, acute and chronic. ...
    • González Herrera, Fabiola; Cramer, Allysson; Pimentel, Pollyana; Castillo, Christian; Liempi, Ana; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Machado, Fabiana S.; Maya Arango, Juan (American Society for Microbiology, 2017)
      Current treatments for chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy, a disease with high mortality rates and caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, are unsatisfactory. Myocardial inflammation, including endothelial activation, is ...
    • Rodríguez, Jorge; Gerpe, Alejandra; Aguirre, Gabriela; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Piro, Oscar; Arán, Vicente; Maya Arango, Juan; Olea Azar, Claudio; González, Mercedes; Cerecetto, Hugo (2009)
      New indazole derivatives have been developed to know about structural requirements for adequate anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity. In relation to position 1 of indazole ring, we have observed that a butylaminopentyl substituent ...
    • Robledo O'Ryan, Natalia Carolina; Moncada-Basualto, Mauricio; Mura, Francisco; Olea Azar, Claudio; Matos, Maria João; Vazquez-Rodriguez, Saleta; Santana, Lourdes; Uriarte, Eugenio; ; Lapier, Michel; Maya Arango, Juan (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier Ltd Oxidative stress is involved in several parasitic diseases such as Chagas. Agents able to selectively modulate biochemical processes involved in the disease represent promising multifunctional agents ...
    • Muñoz, Lorena; Castillo, Christian; Carrillo, Ileana; Salinas, Andrea; Liempi, Ana; Droguett, Daniel; Maya Arango, Juan; Galanti Garrone, Norbel; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (2016)
      Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), the causative agent of Chagas disease, and Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), responsible for Toxoplasmosis are two parasites that can cross the placental barrier. T. cruzi and T. gondii present ...
    • Castillo Parra, Silvana; Oyarzo Torres, Sandra; Espinoza Barrios, Mónica; Rojas Serey, Ana María; Maya Arango, Juan; Sabaj Diez, Valeria; Aliaga Castillo, Verónica; Castillo Niño, Manuel; Romero Romero, Luis; Foster, Jennifer; Hawes Barrios, Gustavo (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      Multiple interprofessional integrated modules (MIIM) 1 and 2 are two required, cross-curricular courses developed by a team of health professions faculty, as well as experts in education, within the Faculty of Medicine of ...
    • Rojo, Gemma; Castillo, Christian; Duaso, Juan; Liempi, Ana; Droguett Ossa, Daniel; Galanti Garrone, Norbel; Maya Arango, Juan; López Muñoz, Rodrigo; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (Elsevier, 2014)
      Nifurtimox (Nfx) and Benznidazole (Bnz) are the only available drugs in use for the treatment of Chagas disease. These drugs are recommended but not fully validated in evidence-based medicine and reports about the ...
    • Castillo, Christian; Muñoz, Lorena; Carrillo, Ileana; Droguett, Daniel; Liempi, Ana; Astudillo, Javier; Maya Arango, Juan; Galanti Garrone, Norbel; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (2016)
      Congenital Chagas’ disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), is one of the major public health concerns in Latin America where more than one million women in fertile age are infected. During ...
    • Droguett, Daniel; Carrillo, Ileana; Castillo, Christian; Gómez, Fresia; Negrete, Miguel; Liempi, Ana; Muñoz, Lorena; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Galanti Garrone, Norbel; Maya Arango, Juan; Droguett, Daniel (Academic Press Inc., 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier Inc.Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) is partially responsible for the progressive globalization of Chagas disease. During congenital transmission the parasite must cross the placental ...
    • Maya Arango, Juan; Bollo Dragnic, Soledad; Núñez Vergara, Luis; Squella Serrano, Juan; Repetto Scaramelli, Yolanda; Morello Casté, Antonio; Perie, J.; Chauviere, G. (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2003-03-15)
      With the aim of determining the actual target(s) of nitro-group bearing compounds considered as possible leads for the development of drugs against Chagas' disease, we studied in parallel nitrofurans and nitroimidazoles. ...
    • Maya Arango, Juan; Morello Casté, Antonio; Repetto Scaramelli, Yolanda; Rodríguez, Andrés; Puebla, P.; Caballero S., Esther; Medarde, M.; Núñez Vergara, Luis; Squella Serrano, Juan; Ortíz Yáñez, María Eugenia; Fuentealba, J.; San Feliciano, Arturo (ACADEMIC PRESS INC, 2001-09)
      Chagas' disease constitutes a therapeutic challenge because presently available drugs have wide toxicity to the host and are generally ineffective in the chronic stages of the disease. A series of oxazolo(thiazolo)pyridene ...
    • Jaña, Fabián; Faini, Francesca; Lapier, Michel; Pavani, Mario; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Morello Casté, Antonio; Maya Arango, Juan; Jara, José; Parra, Eduardo; Ferreira Parker, Jorge (Elsevier, 2013)
      Changes in mitochondrial ATP synthesis can affect the function of tumor cells due to the dependence of the first step of glycolysis on mitochondrial ATP. The oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system is responsible for ...
    • Sarniguet, Cynthia; Toloza, Jeannette; Cipriani, Micaella; Lapier, Michel; Vieites, Marisol; Toledano Magaña, Yanis; García Ramos, Juan Carlos; Ruiz Azuara, Lena; Moreno, Virtudes; Maya Arango, Juan; Olea Azar, Claudio; Gambino, Dinorah; Otero, Lucía (Springer, 2014)
      Parasitic illnesses are major causes of human disease and misery worldwide. Among them, both amebiasis and Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasites, Entamoeba histolytica and Trypanosoma cruzi, are responsible ...