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Adaptación y validación de las escalas de autoeficacia y expectativa de resultados para la práctica de ejercicios de suelo pélvico en mujeres con cáncer ginecológico

2020 , ARAYA CASTRO, PAULINA ANDREA , M.J. Calero García , C. Sacomori , P. Diaz-Guerrero , A.C. Martínez-Varas , M. Cuevas-Said , P. Gayán

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CRISPR/Cas13-Based Platforms for a Potential Next-Generation Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer through Exosomes Micro-RNA Detection: A Review

2021 , Benjamín Durán-Vinet , Karla Araya-Castro , CALDERON GIADROSIC, JUAN FRANCISCO , Luis Vergara , Helga Weber , Javier Retamales , ARAYA CASTRO, PAULINA ANDREA , Pamela Leal-Rojas

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most prevalent cancer with the second highest mortality rate worldwide. CRC is a heterogenous disease with multiple risk factors associated, including obesity, smoking, and use of alcohol. Of total CRC cases, 60% are diagnosed in late stages, where survival can drop to about 10%. CRC screening programs are based primarily on colonoscopy, yet this approach is invasive and has low patient adherence. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for developing molecular-based methods that are minimally invasive and have higher patient adherence. Recent reports have highlighted the importance of extracellular vesicles (EVs), specifically exosomes, as intercellular communication vehicles with a broad cargo, including micro-RNAs (miRNAs). These have been syndicated as robust candidates for diagnosis, primarily for their known activities in cancer cells, including immunoevasion, tumor progression, and angiogenesis, whereas miRNAs are dysregulated by cancer cells and delivered by cancer-derived exosomes (CEx). Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) has shown good results detecting specific cancer-derived exosome micro-RNAs (CEx-miRNAs) associated with CRC, but qPCR also has several challenges, including portability and sensitivity/specificity issues regarding experiment design and sample quality. CRISPR/Cas-based platforms have been presented as cost-effective, ultrasensitive, specific, and robust clinical detection tools in the presence of potential inhibitors and capable of delivering quantitative and qualitative real-time data for enhanced decision-making to healthcare teams. Thereby, CRISPR/Cas13-based technologies have become a potential strategy for early CRC diagnosis detecting CEx-miRNAs. Moreover, CRISPR/Cas13-based platforms’ ease of use, scalability, and portability also showcase them as a potential point-of-care (POC) technology for CRC early diagnosis. This study presents two potential CRISPR/Cas13-based methodologies with a proposed panel consisting of four CEx-miRNAs, including miR-126, miR-1290, miR-23a, and miR-940, to streamline novel applications which may deliver a potential early diagnosis and prognosis of CRC.

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Vaginal Dilator and Pelvic Floor Exercises for Vaginal Stenosis, Sexual Health and Quality of Life among Cervical Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation: Clinical Report

2020 , ARAYA CASTRO, PAULINA ANDREA , SACOMORI, CINARA , Paulette Diaz-Guerrero , Patricio Gayán , Devora Román , Fabiana Flores Sperandio

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Funcionalidad y marcha en pacientes con linfedema de miembro inferior tratados mediante un programa de ejercicio terapéutico: serie de casos

2021 , P. Toro , ARAYA CASTRO, PAULINA ANDREA , E. Srur

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Barriers to and facilitators of adherence to pelvic floor muscle exercises and vaginal dilator use among gynecologic cancer patients: a qualitative study

2022 , ARAYA CASTRO, PAULINA ANDREA , Sonia Roa-Alcaino , Claudia Celedón , Mónica Cuevas-Said , Diego de Sousa Dantas , SACOMORI, CINARA

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Inactivated Vaccine-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Variant-Specific Immunity in Children

2022 , Jorge A. Soto , Felipe Melo-González , Cristián Gutierrez-Vera , Bárbara M. Schultz , Roslye V. Berríos-Rojas , Daniela Rivera-Pérez , Alejandro Piña-Iturbe , Guillermo Hoppe-Elsholz , Luisa F. Duarte , Yaneisi Vázquez , Daniela Moreno-Tapia , Mariana Ríos , Pablo A. Palacios , Richard Garcia-Betancourt , Álvaro Santibañez , Gaspar A. Pacheco , Constanza Mendez , Catalina A. Andrade , Pedro H. Silva , Benjamín Diethelm-Varela , Patricio Astudillo , Mario Calvo , Antonio Cárdenas , Marcela González , Macarena Goldsack , Valentina Gutiérrez , Marcela Potin , SCHILLING REDLICH, ANDREA INGRID , Lorena I. Tapia , Loreto Twele , Rodolfo Villena , Alba Grifoni , Alessandro Sette , Daniela Weiskopf , Rodrigo A. Fasce , Jorge Fernández , Judith Mora , Eugenio Ramírez , Aracelly Gaete-Argel , Mónica L. Acevedo , Fernando Valiente-Echeverría , Ricardo Soto-Rifo , Angello Retamal-Díaz , Nathalia Muñoz-Jofré , Xing Meng , Qianqian Xin , Eduardo Alarcón-Bustamante , José V. González-Aramundiz , Nicole Le Corre , María Javiera Álvarez-Figueroa , CEA GONZALEZ, PABLO ANTONIO , Katia Abarca , Cecilia Perret , Leandro J. Carreño , Susan M. Bueno , Alexis M. Kalergis , Patricio Astudillo Paredes , Epifanía Hernández Jara , Héctor Morán Fernández , Javiera Arenas Urra , Stephani Ascui Baeza , María Olivia Cabrera , José Romero Muñoz , Gonzalo Alarcón Andrade , Rocío Rodríguez Espósito , Anwar Gutiérrez Silva , Fernanda Pérez Gutiérrez , Alma Muñoz Muñoz , Marcela Potin Santander , Sofia López , Tania Weil , Macarena Goldsack , Deidyland Arenas , Javiera Moore , ARAYA CASTRO, PAULINA ANDREA , Lorena Pilicita , Vania Valenzuela , Catalina Campos , Mauricio Soto , SCHILLING REDLICH, ANDREA INGRID , Alberto Trautmann , Ana Fritis , Daniela Pavez , Javiera Arancibia , Lilian Rubio , Paula Viviani , Vinka Basic , Cassandra Cárcamo , Mario Calvo Gil , Marisol Wenzel , Nicole Carey , Roberto Burgos , Loreto Twele , Daniel Beltrán , Silvana Grandón , Carlos Tovar , Marcela González , Daniela Fuentes , Teresa Ramírez , Mariela Cepeda Corrales , Nataly Martínez López , Valentina Gutiérrez , Felipe Reyes , Armando Lavayen , Melissa González , Monserrat Gutiérrez , Noris Rengifo , Carla Ortega , Florencia Saver , Lorena Tapia , Mirta Acuña , Javiera Albornoz , Tania Cariqueo , Alejandro Velásquez , Yennybeth Leiva Chamorro , Rodolfo Villena , Paola Flores , Francisca Bartsch , Belén Sepúlveda , Daniela Garmendia , Antonio Cárdenas , Angello Retamal , Carmen Ludeña , Lorena González , Carolina Hermosilla , Gustavo Keilhold , Francisco Cammarata-Scalisi , Jessica Álvarez , Jessica Romero , Pía Villarroel , Francisca Muñoz , Jorge Maya , Andrés Canales , Margarita K. Lay , Christian Muñoz , Roylester Araya , Kanta Subbarao

This work evaluated the immune response induced by two doses of CoronaVac separated by 4 weeks in healthy children and adolescents in Chile. To date, few studies have described the effects of CoronaVac in the pediatric population.

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Pre-rehabilitation of the pelvic floor before radiation therapy for cervical cancer: a pilot study

2020 , SACOMORI, CINARA , ARAYA CASTRO, PAULINA ANDREA , Paulette Diaz-Guerrero , Ingrid Alanis Ferrada , Angélica Claudia Martínez-Varas , Kamilla Zomkowski