Gabriela Contreras
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Eleftherianos I, Zhang W, Heryanto C, Mohamed A, Contreras G, Tettamanti G, et al.
Int J Biol Macromol
. 2021 Sep;
191:277-287.
PMID: 34543628
The innate immune response of insects provides a robust line of defense against pathogenic microbes and eukaryotic parasites. It consists of two types of overlapping immune responses, named humoral and...
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Burzynska K, Contreras G
PLoS One
. 2020 Aug;
15(8):e0236721.
PMID: 32750071
Whereas governments are increasingly considering affirmative action programs to increase corporate board diversity, the effect of such programs can be superficial as they do not address the underlying problem, which...
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Contreras G, Shirdel I, Braun M, Wink M
Dev Comp Immunol
. 2019 Nov;
104:103556.
PMID: 31747541
Defensins are one the largest group of antimicrobial peptides and are part of the innate defence. Defensins are produced by animals, plants and fungi. In animals and plants, defensins can...
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Contreras G, Wang N, Schafer H, Wink M
PeerJ
. 2019 Mar;
7:e6290.
PMID: 30828484
Background: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent a broad class of naturally occurring antimicrobial compounds. Plants, invertebrates and fungi produce various AMPs as, for example, defensins. Most of these defensins are characterised...
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Contreras G, Braun M, Schafer H, Wink M
PLoS One
. 2018 Oct;
13(10):e0205509.
PMID: 30308015
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short and generally positively charged peptides found in a wide variety of organisms. CSαβ defensins are a group of AMPs. These defensins are composed of an...
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Balderas-Martinez Y, Rinaldi F, Contreras G, Solano-Lira H, Sanchez-Perez M, Collado-Vides J, et al.
Database (Oxford)
. 2017 Jun;
2017.
PMID: 28605770
Database Url: http://odin.ccg.unam.mx/ODIN/bc2015-miRNA/.
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Alcaino J, Bravo N, Cordova P, Marcoleta A, Contreras G, Barahona S, et al.
PLoS One
. 2016 Sep;
11(9):e0162838.
PMID: 27622474
The red yeast X. dendrorhous is one of the few natural sources of astaxanthin, a carotenoid used in aquaculture for salmonid fish pigmentation and in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries...
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Wang Q, Abdul S, Almeida L, Ananiadou S, Balderas-Martinez Y, Batista-Navarro R, et al.
Database (Oxford)
. 2016 Sep;
2016.
PMID: 27589961
Fully automated text mining (TM) systems promote efficient literature searching, retrieval, and review but are not sufficient to produce ready-to-consume curated documents. These systems are not meant to replace biocurators,...
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Contreras G, Barahona S, Sepulveda D, Baeza M, Cifuentes V, Alcaino J
World J Microbiol Biotechnol
. 2015 Feb;
31(3):517-26.
PMID: 25643668
Antarctic microorganisms have developed different strategies to live in their environments, including modifications to their membrane components to regulate fluidity and the production of photoprotective metabolites such as carotenoids. Three...