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    • Del Campo Sfeir, Andrea Estefanía; Parra Ortíz, María 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 Cotal, Rodrigo; Chiong Lay, Mario; Lavandero González, Sergio (American Physiological Society, 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Pivet Silva, Deisy Carolina (Universidad de ChileCyberDocs, 2010)
      El cardiomiocito adulto es una célula terminalmente diferenciada con escasa capacidad replicativa y responsable de la contracción del miocardio. El ión calcio en conjunto con el AMP cíclico son los segundos mensajeros que ...
    • Henríquez Olguín, Carlos; Valladares Ide, Denisse; Díaz Vegas, Alexis; Utreras Mendoza, Yildy; Campos, Cristian; Llanos Vidal, Paola; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Espinosa Escalona, Alejandra; Altamirano, Francisco; Arias Calderón, Manuel (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2015)
    • Carrillo Ballesteros, Constanza Carolina (Universidad de Chile, 2010)
      A pesar de que el Ca+2 posee un papel fundamental en regular la función contráctil del cardiomiocito adulto, se desconoce si este ión media las acciones metabólicas de insulina, especialmente aquellas relacionadas con el ...
    • Vásquez Trincado, César Alonso (Universidad de Chile, 2011)
      El músculo esquelético, uno de los principales tejidos sensibles a insulina, es el principal encargado del mantenimiento de la homeostasis de la glucosa, disponiendo de alrededor de un 80% de la glucosa circulante postprandial, ...
    • Pedrozo Cibils, Zully; Criollo Céspedes, Alfredo; Battiprolu, Pavan K.; Morales, Cyndi R.; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Fernández, Carolina; Jiang, Nan; Luo, Xiang; Caplan, Michael J.; Somlo, Stefan; Rothermel, Beverly A.; Gillette, Thomas G.; Lavandero González, Sergio; Hill, Joseph A. (Lippicott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)
      Background-L-type calcium channel activity is critical to afterload-induced hypertrophic growth of the heart. However, the mechanisms governing mechanical stress-induced activation of L-type calcium channel activity are ...
    • Mizgier, María Luisa; Casas Atala, Mariana; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Llanos Vidal, Paola; Galgani Fuentes, José (2014)
      Pancreatic beta cells sense glucose flux and release as much insulin as required in order to maintain glycaemia within a narrow range. Insulin secretion is regulated by many factors including glucose, incretins, and ...
    • Rojas Rivera, Andrés; Díaz Elizondo, Jessica; Parra Ortíz, María Valentina; Salas, Daniela; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Toro, Barbra; Chiong Lay, Mario; Olea Azar, Claudio; Lavandero González, Sergio (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2009-11-03)
      We investigated the role of Ca2+ in generating reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by hyposmotic stress (Hypo) and its relationship to regulatory volume decrease (RVD) in cardiomyocytes. Hypo-induced increases in cytoplasmic ...
    • Díaz Vegas, Alexis; Campos, Cristian A.; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Casas Atala, Mariana; Buvinic Radic, Sonja; Jaimovich Pérez, Enrique; Espinosa Escalona, Alejandra (Public Library Science, 2015)
      During exercise, skeletal muscle produces reactive oxygen species (ROS) via NADPH oxidase (NOX2) while inducing cellular adaptations associated with contractile activity. The signals involved in this mechanism are still a ...
    • Díaz Vegas, Alexis; Campos, Cristian A.; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Casas, Mariana; Buvinic, Sonja; Jaimovich Pérez, Enrique; Espinosa, Alejandra (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      © 2015 Díaz-Vegas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...