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    • Cavieres, Mirta; Suárez, Marcelo; Verón, Gabriel; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel (Inst Nacional Salud, Colombia, 2021)
      We present the clinical case of a 10-year-old patient diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy who registered INR values above 10 upon receiving standard doses of acenocoumarol, as well as other values reported as uncoagulable, ...
    • Contreras Castillo, Stephania Nichols; Plaza, Anita; Stojanova, Jana; Navarro, Gustavo; Carmona, Rodolfo; Corvalán, Fernando; Cerpa, Leslie; Sandoval, Christopher; Muñoz, Daniel; Leiva, Marina; Castañeda Sepúlveda, Luis Eduardo; Farías, Nayaret; Álvarez, Carolina; Llull Morchio, Gabriel Eduardo; Mezzano, Sergio; Ardiles, Leopoldo; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel; Rodríguez, María S.; Flores, Claudio; Cayún, Juan Pablo; Krall Opazo, Paola Margarita; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Cyclosporine (CsA) and tacrolimus (TAC) are immunosuppressant drugs characterized by a narrow therapeutic range and high pharmacokinetic variability. The effect of polymorphisms in genes related to the metabolism and ...
    • Alvarado, Ángel Tito; Muñoz, Ana María; Saravia Bartra, María; Valderrama Wong, Milton; González Aristegui, Daniela; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel; Bendezú, María Rocío; García, Jorge Antonio; Loja Herrera, Berta (Pensoft, 2021)
      The polymorphic variants of CYP1A1 and the deletion of GSTM1 are present in the Peruvian mestizo population. Wild type and mutated genotypes (WT/*2A and *2A/ *2A) were identified, whose allele frequencies are 0.31 (T allele) ...
    • Alvarado, Ángel T.; Ybáñez Julca, Roberto; Muñoz, Ana María; Tejada Bechi, César; Cerro, Roberto; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel; Alvarado, César André; Alvarado, Erick; Bendezú, María R.; García, Jorge A. (Pensoft Publishers, Bulgaria, 2021)
      Wild type genotypes (CYP2D6) and their allelic variants have been described in a sample of a Peruvian mestizo population. The global allele frequency was 0.015 for CYP2D6*3 and 0.051 for CYP2D6*4. The percentages of ...
    • Leal, Bryan; Torres, Héctor; Roco, Angela; Román, Ricardo; Rojo, Mario; Nieto, Elena; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel (Soc. Médica Santiago, 2021)
      Background: Vitamin K antagonists such as acenocoumarol and warfarin are usually indicated for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF). The Therapeutic Range Time (TRT) is a quality of treatment indicator. Values greater ...
    • López Cortés, Andrés; Guevara Ramírez, Patricia; Kyriakidis, Nikolaos C.; Barba Ostria, Carlos; León Cáceres, Ángela; Guerrero, Santiago; Ortiz Prado, Esteban; Munteanu, Cristian R.; Tejera, Eduardo; Cevallos Robalino, Doménica; Gómez Jaramillo, Ana María; Simbaña Rivera, Katherine; Granizo Martínez, Adriana; Pérez M., Gabriela; Moreno, Silvana; García Cárdenas, Jennyfer M.; Zambrano, Ana Karina; Pérez Castillo, Yunierkis; Cabrera Andrade, Alejandro; Puig San Andrés, Lourdes; Proaño Castro, Carolina; Bautista, Jhommara; Quevedo, Andreina; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel Edgardo; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Paz y Miño, César (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Background: There is pressing urgency to identify therapeutic targets and drugs that allow treating COVID-19 patients effectively. Methods: We performed in silico analyses of immune system protein interactome network, ...
    • González Hormazábal, Patricio; Peláez, Diana; Musleh Katan, Maher Elías; Bustamante, Marco; Stambuk Mayorga, Juan Antonio; Pisano, Raúl; Valladares Hernández, Héctor; Lanzarini Sobrevía, Enrique Giovani; Chiong, Héctor; Suazo Sanhueza, José Lorenzo; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel Edgardo; Castro, Gonzalo; Jara Sosa, Lilian Elena; Berger, Zoltan (Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2021)
      BackgroundHelicobacter pylori is detected by pathogen recognition receptors including toll-like receptors (TLR) and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors, eliciting an innate immune response against ...
    • Poblete Astroza, Daniela Lorena; Bernal, Fernando; Llull Morchio, Gabriel Eduardo; Archiles Olivares, Sebastián Gabriel; Vásquez, Patricia; Chanqueo Cornejo, Leonardo Andrés; Soto, Nicole; Lavanderos de Paz, María Angélica; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel Edgardo (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Background: Efavirenz (EFV), a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, and atazanavir (ATV), a protease inhibitor, are drugs widely used in antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV. These drugs have ...
    • Martínez Olguín, Matías Fernando; Alveal, Enzo; Soto, Tomás Gonzalo; Bustamante, Eva I.; Ávila Oesterle, Fernanda; Bangdiwala, Shrikant Ishver; Flores, Ivonne; Monterrosa, Claudia; Morales, Ricardo; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel Edgardo; Fohner, Alison E.; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Introduction: Infections in hematological cancer patients are common and usually lifethreatening; avoiding them could decrease morbidity, mortality, and cost. Genes associated with antineoplastics’ pharmacokinetics or ...
    • Miranda, Carla; Galleguillos, Macarena; Torres, Roberto; Tardon, Karla; Cáceres Lillo, Dante; Lee, Kuen-shiou; Redal, María A.; Varela, Nelson M.; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Tamoxifen (TAM), a selective oestrogen receptor modulator, is one of the most used treatments in oestrogen receptor-positive (ER+) early and metastatic breast cancer (BC) patients. The response to TAM has a high degree of ...
    • López Cortés, Andrés; Guerrero, Santiago; Ortiz Prado, Esteban; Yumiceba, Verónica; Vera Guapi, Antonella; León Cáceres, Ángela; Simbaña Rivera, Katherine; Gómez Jaramillo, Ana María; Echeverría Garcés, Gabriela; García Cárdenas, Jennyfer M.; Guevara Ramírez, Patricia; Cabrera Andrade, Alejandro; Puig San Andrés, Lourdes; Cevallos Robalino, Doménica; Bautista, Jhommara; Armendáriz Castillo, Isaac; Pérez Villa, Andy; Abad Sojos, Andrea; Ramos Medina, María José; León Sosa, Ariana; Abarca, Estefanía; Pérez Meza, Álvaro A.; Nieto Jaramillo, Karol; Jácome, Andrea V.; Morillo, Andrea; Arias Erazo, Fernanda; Fuenmayor González, Luis; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Kyriakidis, Nikolaos C. (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      Background: It is imperative to identify drugs that allow treating symptoms of severe COVID-19. Respiratory failure is the main cause of death in severe COVID-19 patients, and the host inflammatory response at the lungs ...
    • Escalante Escalante, Paula Isabel (Universidad de Chile, 2022)
      El cáncer colorrectal (CCR) es el segundo más diagnosticado en Chile y el mundo. El tratamiento de primera línea del CCR metastásico consiste en la asociación de 5-fluorouracilo (5-FU) y oxaliplatino (L-OHP), conocido ...
    • Young, Rodrigo M.; Solis, Camila J.; Barriga Fehrman, Andrés; Abogabir, Carlos; Thadani, Álvaro R.; Labarca, Mariana; Bustamante, Eva; Tapia, Cecilia V.; Sarda, Antonia G.; Sepúlveda, Francisca; Pozas, Nadia; Cerpa, Leslie C; Lavanderos, María A.; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel Edgardo; Santibáñez, Álvaro; Sandino, Ana M.; Reyes López, Felipe; Dixon, Garth; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel (Elife Sciences Publications, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic will likely take years to control globally, and constant epidemic surveillance will be required to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2, especially considering the emergence of new variants that could ...