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    • Rojas Pirela, Maura Lina; Medina, Lisvaneth; Rojas, María Verónica; Liempi Manquel, Ana Isabel; Castillo Rivas, Christian Raúl; Pérez Pérez, Elizabeth; Guerrero Muñoz, Jesús; Araneda, Sebastián; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Apicomplexans are a group of pathogenic protists that cause various diseases in humans and animals that cause economic losses worldwide. These unicellular eukaryotes are characterized by having a complex life cycle and the ...
    • Liempi Manquel, Ana Isabel (Universidad de Chile, 2014)
      La enfermedad de Chagas es causada por Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi). Durante la transmisión congénita el parásito alcanza al feto atravesando la barrera placentaria formada por trofoblasto, tejido conectivo fetal y láminas ...
    • Medina, Lisvaneth; Guerrero Muñoz, Jesús Alejandro; Liempi Manquel, Ana Isabel; Castillo Rivas, Christian; Ortega, Yessica; Sepúlveda, Alfredo; Salomó Martínez, Fernando; Maya Arango, Juan Diego; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (MDPI, 2022)
      Congenital Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is responsible for 22.5% of new cases each year. However, placental transmission occurs in only 5% of infected mothers and it has been proposed ...
    • Rojas Pirela, Maura Lina; Andrade Alviárez, Diego; Medina, Lisvaneth; Castillo Rivas, Christian Raúl; Liempi Manquel, Ana Isabel; Guerrero Muñoz, Jesús Alejandro Ignacio; Ortega Asencios, Yessica Lisette; Maya Arango, Juan Diego; Rojas, Verónica; Quiñones, Wilfredo; Michels, Paul A.; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (Royal Society, 2022)
      MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding RNAs present in a wide diversity of organisms. MiRNAs regulate gene expression at a post-transcriptional level through their interaction with the 3 ' untranslated regions ...
    • Pozo Martínez, Josué Santiago; Salgado Valdés, Francisco Javier; Liempi Manquel, Ana Isabel; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike; Mera Adasme, Raúl; Olea Azar, Claudio Alberto; Moncada Basualto, Mauricio Javier; Borges, Fernanda; Uriarte, Eugenio; Matos, María Joao (Elsevier, 2022)
      American trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and is considered a neglected disease, being an important problem for public health. Benznidazole (BZN) is the drug used to ...