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    • Kurte, Mónica; López, Mercedes; Aguirre, Adam; Escobar, Alejandro; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Charo, Jehad; Larsen, Christian G.; Kiessling, Rolf; Salazar Onfray, Flavio (American Association of Immunologists, 2004)
      Tumor cells treated with IL-10 were shown to have decreased, but peptide-inducible expression of MHC class I, decreased sensitivity to MHC class I-restricted CTL, and increased NK sensitivity. These findings could be ...
    • López, Mercedes N.; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; Kurte, Mónica; Pérez Núñez, Claudio; Segal, Gabriela; Roa, Johanna; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Mendoza Naranjo, Ariadna; Gesser, Borbala; Larsen, Christian; Villablanca, Andrea; Choudhury, Aniruddha; Kiessling, Rolf; Salazar Onfray, Flavio (2011)
      We have previously demonstrated that IT9302, a nonameric peptide homologous to the C-terminal domain of human IL-10, mimics several effects of the cytokine including down-regulation of the antigen presentation machinery ...
    • Avalos Carrasco, Ignacio Patricio (Universisdad de Chile, 2015)
      El melanoma es el cáncer de piel con mayor mortalidad y uno de los canceres que progresivamente ha aumentado su incidencia tanto en Chile como en el mundo. Debido a que las terapias convencionales contra este cáncer son ...
    • Oyarce, César; Cruz Gómez, Sebastián; Gálvez Cancino, Felipe Ignacio; Vargas, Pablo; Moreau, Hélène D.; Díaz Valdivia, Natalia; Díaz, Jorge; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Pacheco, Rodrigo; Lennon Duménil, Ana María; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Lladser, Álvaro (Frontiers Media, 2017)
      Dendritic cell (DC) trafficking from peripheral tissues to lymph nodes (LNs) is a key step required to initiate T cell responses against pathogens as well as tumors. In this context, cellular membrane protrusions and the ...
    • Escobar, A.; López, M.; Serrano, A.; Ramirez, M.; Pérez, C.; Aguirre, A.; González, R.; Alfaro, J.; Larrondo, M.; Fodor, M.; Ferrada, C.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio (2005)
      Dendritic cell (DC)-based therapy has proved to be effective in patients with a variety of malignancies. However, an optimal immunization protocol using DCs and the best means for delivering antigens has not yet been ...
    • Falcón Beas, Cristián; Tittarelli, Andrés; Mora-Bau, Gabriela; Tempio, Fabián; Pérez Núñez, Claudio; Hevia, Daniel; Behrens, Carolina; Flores, Iván; Falcón-Beas, Felipe; Garrido, Paola; Ascui, Gabriel; Pereda, Cristián; González, Fermín E.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; López, Mer (Elsevier GmbH, 2019)
      Background: Dendritic cells (DCs) are usually immunogenic, but they are also capable of inducing tolerance under anti-inflammatory conditions. Immunotherapy based on autologous DCs loaded with an allogeneic melanoma cell ...
    • Navarrete Sánchez, Mariela Ivonne (Universidad de Chile, 2018)
      Las Gap Junctions (GJs) son clústers de canales intercelulares localizados en la membrana plasmática que permiten la comunicación directa entre células adyacentes. Cada canal GJ está compuesto por 2 hemicanales hexaméricos ...
    • Hoffmann Vega, Francisca Alejandra (Universidad de Chile, 2018)
      El desarrollo de una respuesta inmune anti-tumoral requiere de la comunicación entre diferentes células del sistema inmune, así como del reconocimiento de la célula tumoral. Una vez que los Linfocitos T Citotóxicos (CTL) ...
    • Pereda Ramos, Cristian Javier (Universisdad de Chile, 2006)
      El melanoma ocular es un tumor altamente maligno y el mas común de los oculares en individuos adultos. A diferencia del melanoma cutáneo, el melanoma uveal presenta distintos niveles de expresión de marcadores de melanoma. ...
    • Barría Catricura, Omar André (Universidad de Chile, 2018)
      El cáncer de vesícula biliar (CVB) es una enfermedad poco frecuente a nivel mundial, no obstante, países como India, Japón y Chile poseen una elevada tasa de incidencia. En nuestro país, el CVB representa una de las ...
    • Araya López, Héctor; Sepulveda, Hugo; Lizama, Carlos O.; Vega Villa, Oscar; Jerez, Sofia; Briceño, Pedro F.; Thaler, Roman; Riester, Scott M.; Antonelli Anativia, Marcelo; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Rodríguez Vives, Juan Pablo; Moreno, Ricardo D.; Montecino, Martín; Charbonneau, Martine; Dubois, Claire; Galindo Díaz, Mario; Stein, Gary; van Wijnen, Andre (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2018)
      Osteoblast differentiation is controlled by transcription factor RUNX2 which temporally activates or represses several bone-related genes, including those encoding extracellular matrix proteins or factors that control ...
    • Torres, Ángelo; Erices, Jose Ignacio; Sanchez, Fabiola; Ehrenfeld, Pamela; Turchi, Laurent; Virolle, Thierry; Uribe, Daniel; Niechi, Ignacio; Spichiger, Carlos; Rocha, José Dellis; Ramirez, Marcos; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; San Martín, Rody; Quezada, Claudia (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2019)
      Glioblastoma (GBM) is the brain tumor with the worst prognosis composed of a cell subpopulation called Glioblastoma Stem-like Cells (GSCs) responsible for tumor recurrence mediated by cell invasion. GSCs persist in a hypoxic ...
    • Mendoza Naranjo, Ariadna; Bouma, Gerben; Pereda, Cristián; Ramiŕez, Marcos; Webb, Kevin F.; Tittarelli, Andrés; Loṕez, Mercedes N.; Kalergis, Alexis M.; Thrasher, Adrian J.; Becker, David L.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio (2011)
      Gap junction (GJ) mediates intercellular communication through linked hemichannels from each of two adjacent cells. Using human and mouse models, we show that connexin 43 (Cx43), the main GJ protein in the immune system, ...
    • Durán Aniotz, Claudia; Segal, Gabriela; Salazar, Lorena; Pereda, Cristián; Falcón, Cristián; Tempio, Fabián; Aguilera, Raquel; González González, Rodrigo; Pérez Núñez, Claudio; Tittarelli, Andrés; Catalán Martina, Diego; Nervi, Bruno; Larrondo Lillo, Milton; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; López Nitsche, Mercedes (Springer, 2013)
      Introduction Immunization with autologous dendritic cells (DCs) loaded with a heat shock-conditioned allogeneic melanoma cell lysate caused lysate-specific delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions in a number ...
    • Serrano, Antonio E.; Menares Castillo, Evelyn; Garrido Tapia, Macarena; Hager Ribeiro, Carolina; Hernández, Carolina J.; Mendoza Naranjo, Ariadna; Gatica Andrades, Marcela; Valenzuela Díaz, Rodrigo; Zúñiga, Roberto; López, Mercedes N.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Aguillón, Juan Carlos (2011)
      Natural-killer group 2, member D (NKG2D) binds to a variety of ligands, including the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I chain-related proteins (MIC) and UL16-binding proteins (ULBP). It is regarded as a ...
    • Medel, Bernardita; Costoya, Cristobal; Fernandez, Dominique; Pereda, Cristian; Lladser, Alvaro; Sauma, Daniela; Pacheco, Rodrigo; Iwawaki, Takao; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Osorio, Fabiola (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      The IRE1α/XBP1s signaling pathway is an arm of the unfolded protein response (UPR) that safeguards the fidelity of the cellular proteome during endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and that has also emerged as a key regulator ...
    • López, Mercedes N.; Pereda, Cristian; Ramírez, Marcos; Mendoza Naranjo, Ariadna; Serrano, Antonio; Ferreira, Arturo; Poblete, Rodrigo; Kalergis, Alexis M.; Kiessling, Rolf; Salazar Onfray, Flavio (2007)
      PURPOSE. Uveal melanoma is the most common primary malignant ocular cancer in adults. This tumor has a distinct expression pattern of markers compared with cutaneous melanoma. MC1R is under study as a potential target ...
    • Salazar, L.; Aravena, O.; Abello, P.; Escobar, A.; Contreras Levicoy, Juan; Rojas Colonelli, Nicole; Catalán Martina, Diego; Aguirre A., Luz María; Zúñiga, R.; Pesce Reyes, Bárbara; González, C.; Cepeda, R.; Cuchacovich Turteltaub, Miguel; Molina, M. C.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Delgado, M.; Toes, R. E.; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (2008)
      Background: The use of regulatory or immature dendritic cells (DCs) as tools for modulating experimental rheumatoid arthritis is very recent. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-stimulated DCs have been shown to restore tolerance ...
    • García-Salum, Tamara; Villablanca, Andrea; Matthäus, Franziska; Tittarelli, Andrés; Baeza, Mauricio; Pereda, Cristián; Gleisner Muñoz, María Alejandra; González, Fermín; López, Mercedes; Hoheisel, Jörg; Norgauer, Johannes; Gebicke Haerter, Peter; Salazar Onfray, Flavio (Impact Journals LLC, 2018)
      Purpose: We previously showed that autologous dendritic cells (DCs) loaded with an allogeneic heat shock (HS)-conditioned melanoma cell-derived lysate, called TRIMEL, induce T-cell-mediated immune responses in stage IV ...
    • Pizarro Bauerle, Javier; Maldonado, Ismael; Sosoniuk Roche, Eduardo Rodrigo; Vallejos, Gerardo; López, Mercedes N.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Aguilar Guzmán, Lorena Andrea; Valck Calderón, Carolina Eliana; Ferreira, Arturo; Becker, María Inés (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017)
      © 2017 Pizarro-Bauerle, Maldonado, Sosoniuk-Roche, Vallejos, López, Salazar-Onfray, Aguilar-Guzmán, Valck, Ferreira and Becker. Molluskan hemocyanins are enormous oxygen-carrier glycoproteins that show remarkable ...