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    • Humeres, Claudio; Vivar, Raúl; Boza Fuentes, Pía; Muñoz, Claudia; Bolivar, Samir; Anfossi, Renatto; Osorio, Jose Miguel; Olivares Silva, Francisco Javier; García Nannig, Lorena; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Academic Press, 2016)
      © 2016 Elsevier Ltd Macrophage polarization plays an essential role in cardiac remodeling after injury, evolving from an initial accumulation of proinflammatory M1 macrophages to a greater balance of anti-inflammatory M2 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Humeres, Claudio; Anfossi, Renatto; Bolívar, Samir; Catalán Díaz, Mabel; Hill, Joseph; Lavandero González, Sergio; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) are necessary to maintain extracellular matrix (ECM) homeostasis in the heart. Normally, CFs are quiescent and secrete small amounts of ECM components, whereas, in pathological conditions, they ...