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    • Sarmiento, Daniela; Montorfano, Ignacio; Cáceres, Mónica; Echeverría, César; Fernández, Ricardo; Cabello-Verrugio, Claudio; Cerda, Oscar; Tapia, Pablo; Simon, Felipe (Elsevier Ltd, 2014)
      Endothelial dysfunction is decisive and leads to the development of several inflammatory diseases. Endotoxemia-derived sepsis syndrome exhibits a broad inflammation-induced endothelial dysfunction. We reported previously ...
    • Simon, Felipe; Tapia, Pablo; Armisen Yáñez, Ricardo; Echeverría, César; Gatica, Sebastián; Vallejos, Alejandro; Pacheco Durán, Alejandro; Sanhueza Villanueva, María Eugenia; Alvo Abodovsky, Miriam; Segovia, Erico; Torres, Rubén (Frontiers Media, 2017)
      Chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy is equally efficient as hemodialysis while providing greater patient comfort and mobility. Therefore, PD is the treatment of choice for several types of renal patients. During PD, ...
    • Tapia, Pablo; Soto, Dagoberto; Bruhn, Alejandro; Alegría, Leyla; Jarufe, Nicolás; Luengo Messen, Cecilia; Kattan, Eduardo; Regueira, Tomás; Meissner, Arturo; Menchaca, Rodrigo; Vives, María Ignacia; Echeverría, Nicolas; Ospina Tascón, Gustavo; Bakker, Jan; Hernández, Glenn (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Introduction: Although the prognostic value of persistent hyperlactatemia in septic shock is unequivocal, its physiological determinants are controversial. Particularly, the role of impaired hepatic clearance has been ...
    • Sarmiento, Daniela; Montorfano, Ignacio; Cerda Arancibia, Óscar; Cáceres, Mónica; Becerra, Álvaro; Cabello Verrugio, Claudio; Elorza, Alvaro A.; Riedel, Claudia; Tapia, Pablo; Velásquez, Luis A.; Varela, Diego; Simon, Felipe (Elsevier, 2015)
      A hallmark of severe inflammation is reactive oxygen species (ROS) overproduction induced by increased inflammatory mediators secretion. During systemic inflammation, inflammation mediators circulating in the bloodstream ...
    • Kausel Elicagaray, Edgar; Hansen Silva, Erwin; Tapia, Pablo (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016)
      We investigate the role of trait conscientiousness, from the Big Five personality traits, in explaining individual saving behavior. Conscientiousness is a disposition to be responsible and pursue non-immediate goals; thus, ...