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      Effects of elderflower extract enriched with polyphenols on antioxidant defense of salmon leukocytes (2021) 

      Santana, Paula Andrea; Jara-Gutiérrez, Carlos; Mellado, Marco; Forero, Juan Carlos; Guzmán, Fanny; Barriga González, Andrés; Alberício, Fernando; Álvarez, Claudio Andrés (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, 2021-07)
      Background: In fish farming, the plant extracts containing antioxidant compounds have been added to the diet for enhancing pathogen resistance. In vitro studies evaluating the antioxidant effect of herbal extracts on fish ...
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      Immune Modulation Ability of Hepcidin from Teleost Fish (2024) 

      Álvarez, Claudio Andrés; Santana, Paula A.; Salinas-Parra, Nicolás; Beltrán, Dina; Guzmán, Fanny; Vega, Belinda; Acosta, Félix; Mercado, Luis (MDPI, 2022)
      Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) play an essential role in the innate immune system, modulating the defense response. In a previous study, we demonstrated the antimicrobial activity of synthetic hepcidin (hep20) from rainbow ...
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      New insight to the rol of α-enolase (Eno-1) as immunological marker in rainbow trout fry (2021) 

      Santana, Paula Andrea; Álvarez, Claudio Andrés; Sáenz-Martínez, Daniel E.; Salinas-Parra, Nicolás; Guzmán, Fanny; Paradela, Alberto; Mercado, Luis (Elsevier Ltd, 2021-10)
      α-Enolase is an enzyme of the glycolytic pathway that has also been involved in vertebrate inflammatory processes through its interaction with plasminogen. However, its participation in the immune response of lower vertebrates ...