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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 ...
    • Vivar, Raúl; Humeres, Claudio; Muñoz, Claudia; Boza Fuentes, Pía; Bolivar, Samir; Tapia, Felipe; Lavandero González, Sergio; Chiong Lay, Mario; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2016)
      © 2015 Elsevier B.V. Cardiac fibroblast differentiation to myofibroblast is a crucial process in the development of cardiac fibrosis and is tightly dependent on transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1). The transcription ...
    • 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 ...