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    • Gutiérrez, Tomás; Parra, Valentina; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Pennanen, Christian; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Vásquez Trincado, César Alonso; Morales, Pablo E.; López Crisosto, Camila; Sotomayor Flores, Cristian Alejandro; Chiong Lay, Mario; Rothermel, Beverly A.; Lavandero González, Sergio (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)
      © 2014 Gutierrez et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Background: Cardiac hypertrophy is characterized by alterations in both cardiac bioenergetics and insulin sensitivity. Insulin promotes glucose uptake by cardiomyocytes ...
    • Ayala, Pedro; Montenegro, José; Vivar, Raúl; Letelier, Alan; Urroz, Pablo Aránguiz; Copaja, Miguel; Pivet, Deisy; Humeres, Claudio; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Vicencio, José Miguel; Lavandero González, Sergio; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (2012)
      Increasing evidence indicates that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is involved in various diseases. In the human heart, ischemia/reperfusion has been correlated to ER stress, and several markers of the unfolded protein ...
    • Peña Oyarzún, Daniel; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; Díaz Vega, Alexis; Aleman, Larissa; Chiong Lay, Mario; García Nannig, Lorena; Bambs, Claudia; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Cifuentes, Mariana; Morselli, Eugenia; Ferreccio, Catterina; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Criollo Céspedes, Alfredo; Lavandero González, Sergio (Elsevier Inc., 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, are long-lasting conditions that affect millions of people around the world. Different factors contribute to their genesis and progression; ...
    • Mattar, Pamela; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; Tobar, Nicolás; Fuentes, Cecilia; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Breitwieser, Gerda; Lavandero González, Sergio; Cifuentes, Mariana (Elsevier B.V., 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. Obesity is a major current public health problem worldwide due to the severe co-morbid conditions that this disease entails. The development of obesity-related cardiometabolic disorders is in direct ...
    • Aránguiz Urroz, Pablo Daniel; Canales, Jimena; Copaja, Miguel; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Vicencio Bustamante, José Miguel; Carrillo, Constanza; Lara Peñaloza, Hernán; Lavandero González, Sergio; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (2011)
      Autophagy is a physiological degradative process key to cell survival during nutrient deprivation, cell differentiation and development. It plays a major role in the turnover of damaged macromolecules and organelles, and ...
    • Troncoso, Rodrigo; Paredes, Felipe; Parra, Valentina; Gatica, Damián; Vásquez Trincado, César Alonso; Quiroga, Clara; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; López Crisosto, Camila; Rodriguez, Andrea E.; Oyarzún, Alejandra P.; Kroemer, Guido; Lavandero González, Sergio (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2014)
      Glucocorticoids, such as dexamethasone, enhance protein breakdown via ubiquitin-proteasome system. However, the role of autophagy in organelle and protein turnover in the glucocorticoid-dependent atrophy program remains ...
    • Castro, Pablo; Pérez, Osvaldo; Greig, Douglas; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Moraga, Francisco; Chiong Lay, Mario; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Padilla, Ivonne; Vukasovic, Jose L.; Corbalán, Ramón; Lavandero González, Sergio (Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2004)
      Introduction and objective. Carvedilol is an antioxidant and adrenergic antagonist with demonstrated benefits in terms of mortality from heart failure (HF). The aim of the present study was to evaluate clinical parameters, ...
    • Marambio, Paola; Toro, Barbra; Sanhueza, Carlos; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Parra, Valentina; Verdejo, Hugo; García Nannig, Lorena; Quiroga, Clara; Munafo, Daniela; Díaz Elizondo, Jessica; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; González Burgos, María Julieta; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully; Chiong Lay, Mario; Co (2010)
      Aggresomes are dynamic structures formed when the ubiquitin-proteasome system is overwhelmed with aggregation-prone proteins. In this process, small protein aggregates are actively transported towards the microtubule-organizing ...
    • Castro, Pablo; Gabrielli, Luigi; Verdejo, Hugo; Greig, Douglas; Mellado, Rosemarie; Concepción, Roberto; Sepulveda, Luis; Vukasovic, José Luis; García Nannig, Lorena; Pizarro, Marcela; Pivet, Deisy; Carrillo, Constanza; Tapia, Fabiola; Navarro, Mario; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Baraon (2010)
      It is unknown why heart failure progresses even when patients are treated with the best therapy available. Evidences suggest that heart failure progression is due to loss of neurohumoral blockade in advanced stages of the ...
    • Quiroga, Clara; Gatica, Damián; Paredes, Felipe; Bravo, Roberto; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully; Rodríguez, Andrea E.; Toro, Barbra; Chiong Lay, Mario; Vicencio Bustamante, José Manuel; Hetz Flores, Claudio; Lavandero González, Sergio (Elsevier, 2013)
      Herp is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress inducible protein that participates in the ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD) pathway. However, the contribution of Herp to other protein degradation pathways like autophagy ...
    • Eisner, Verónica; Criollo Céspedes, Alfredo; Quiroga, Clara; Olea Azar, Claudio; Santibañez, Juan Francisco; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Chiong Lay, Mario; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Foncea, Rocío; Lavandero González, Sergio (2006)
      We have recently shown that hyperosmotic stress activates p65/RelB NFκB in cultured cardiomyocytes with dichotomic actions on caspase activation and cell death. It remains unexplored how NFκB is regulated in cultured rat ...
    • Bravo Méndez, Roberto; Vicencio Bustamante, José Miguel; Parra Ortíz, María Valentina; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Muñoz, Juan Pablo; Bui, Michael; Quiroga Lagos, Clara; Rodríguez Villarroel, Andrea Elizabeth; Verdejo, Hugo E.; Ferreira Parker, Jorge; Iglewski, Miriam; Chiong Lay, Mario; Simmen, Thomas; Zorzano, Antonio; Hill, Joseph A.; Rothermel, B. A.; Szabadkai, Gyorgy; Lavandero González, Sergio (COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD., 2011-07-15)
      Increasing evidence indicates that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress activates the adaptive unfolded protein response (UPR), but that beyond a certain degree of ER damage, this response triggers apoptotic pathways. The ...
    • Parra, Valentina; Verdejo, Hugo E.; Iglewski, Myriam; Del Campo, Andrea; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Jones, Deborah; Zhu, Yi; Kuzmicic Previtali, Jovan Paolo; Pennanen, Christian; López Crisosto, Camila; Jaña, Fabián; Ferreira, Jorge; Noguera, Eduard; Chiong Lay, Mario; Bernlohr, David A.; Klip, Amira (2014)
      Insulin regulates heart metabolism through the regulation of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. Studies have indicated that insulin can also regulate mitochondrial function. Relevant to this idea, mitochondrial function ...
    • Moraga, Francisco; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Mellado, Rosemarie; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Vukasovic, José Luis; Greig, Douglas; Pérez, Osvaldo; García Nannig, Lorena; Roldán, Juan; Ocaranza, María Paz; Jalil Milad, Jorge; Chiong Lay, Mario; Castro, Pablo (2008)
      Background: ß adrenergic receptors (AR) are highly polymorphic and important regulators of cardiovascular homeostasis. Among these, ß1 and ß2 AR regulate cardiac contractility and frequency and are important pharmacological ...
    • Nocetti, Diego; Espinosa, Alejandra; Pino de la Fuente, Francisco; Sacristán, Camila; Bucarey, José Luis; Ruiz, Paulina; Valenzuela, Rodrigo; Chouinard Watkins, Raphael; Pepper Bergholz, Inés; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Puente Díaz, Luis (Canadian Science Publishing, 2020)
      Chronic high-fat diet feeding is associated with obesity and accumulation of fat in the liver, leading to the development of insulin resistance and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. This condition is characterized by the ...
    • Bittner, Alex; Alcaíno Gálvez, Hernán Alejandro; Castro, Pablo F.; Pérez, Osvaldo; Corbalán, Ramón; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Chiong Lay, Mario; Mellado, Rosemarie; Moraga, Francisco; Zanolli, Diego; Winter, José L.; Zamorano, Juan J.; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Lavandero González, Sergio (2010)
    • Campo, Andrea del; Bustos, Catalina; Mascayano, Carolina; Acuña Castillo, Claudio; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Rojo, Leonel E. (Frontiers Media SA, 2018)
      Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are known to increase cardiovascular risk through several physiological mechanisms, including insulin resistance, hepatic steatosis, hyperphagia, and accelerated weight gain. There ...
    • Verdejo, Hugo; Campo, Andrea del; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Gutiérrez, Tomás; Toro, Barbra; Quiroga, Clara; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully; Muñoz, Juan; García Nannig, Lorena; Castro, Pablo; Lavandero González, Sergio (2012)
      The process of muscle remodeling lies at the core of most cardiovascular diseases. Cardiac adaptation to pressure or volume overload is associated with a complex molecular change in cardiomyocytes which leads to anatomic ...
    • Del Campo, Andrea; Parra, Valentina; Vásquez Trincado, César Alonso; Gutiérrez, Tomás; Morales, Pablo E.; López Crisosto, Camila; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; Navarro Márquez, Mario F.; Verdejo, Hugo E.; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Chiong Lay, Mario; Lavandero González, Sergio (2014)
      Insulin is a major regulator of glucose metabolism, stimulating its mitochondrial oxidation in skeletal muscle cells. Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that can undergo structural remodeling in order to cope with these ...
    • Ribeiro, Carolina Hager; López, Nandy C.; Ramírez, Galia A.; Valck, Carolina E.; Molina, María Carmen; Aguilar, Lorena; Rodríguez, Margarita; Maldonado, Ismael; Martínez, Ramón; González, Carlos; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Lavandero González, Sergio; Gingras, Alexandre R.; Schwaeble, Wilhelm (2009)
      Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) is the causative agent of Chagas' disease, an endemic and chronic illness that affects 18 million people in Latin America. The mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis are controversial. There ...