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List of works by Luis Mercado

A novel antifungal peptide designed from the primary structure of a natural antimicrobial peptide purified from Argopecten purpuratus hemocytes.

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A synthetic peptide derived from the D1 domain of flagellin induced the expression of proinflammatory cytokines in fish macrophages

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Alpha-helical domain from IL-8 of salmonids: Mechanism of action and identification of a novel antimicrobial function.

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

An immunological method for quantifying antibacterial activity in Salmo salar (Linnaeus, 1758) skin mucus

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Antimicrobial activity of trout hepcidin.

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Beta-glucan enhances the response to SVCV infection in zebrafish

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Characterization and functional recovery of a novel antimicrobial peptide (CECdir-CECret) from inclusion bodies after expression in Escherichia coli

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Chronic stress inhibits growth and induces proteolytic mechanisms through two different nonoverlapping pathways in the skeletal muscle of a teleost fish

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Clinical significance of tumor expression of major histocompatibility complex class I-related chains A and B (MICA/B) in gastric cancer patients.

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Detection of the hepcidin prepropeptide and mature peptide in liver of rainbow trout.

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Development of a new antibody for detecting natural killer enhancing factor (NKEF)-like protein in infected salmonids

scientific article published on 27 March 2012

Development of a sandwich ELISA for quantifying hepcidin in Rainbow trout

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

Effects of recombinant flagellin B and its ND1 domain from Vibrio anguillarum on macrophages from gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, W.).

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Fish skeletal muscle tissue is an important focus of immune reactions during pathogen infection

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Hepcidin, Cathelicidin-1 and IL-8 as immunological markers of responsiveness in early developmental stages of rainbow trout

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Identification of diverse defense mechanisms in rainbow trout red blood cells in response to halted replication of VHS virus.

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Immunomodulatory effect of cathelicidins in response to a β-glucan in intestinal epithelial cells from rainbow trout

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Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase: First evidence of expression in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus triggers antiviral immune response in rainbow trout red blood cells, despite not being infective.

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Insight into the messenger role of reactive oxygen intermediates in immunostimulated hemocytes from the scallop Argopecten purpuratus.

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Insights into the diversity of NOD-like receptors: Identification and expression analysis of NLRC3, NLRC5 and NLRX1 in rainbow trout

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Integrated Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of Red Blood Cells from Rainbow Trout Challenged with VHSV Point Towards Novel Immunomodulant Targets

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis in rat round spermatids

scientific article published in September 1998

Molecular characterization and protein localization of the antimicrobial peptide big defensin from the scallop Argopecten purpuratus after Vibrio splendidus challenge.

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Molecular characterization of an inhibitor of NF-κB in the scallop Argopecten purpuratus: First insights into its role on antimicrobial peptide regulation in a mollusk

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Pentavalent antimony uptake pathway through erythrocyte membranes: molecular and atomic fluorescence approaches

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Phorbol esters induce translocation of the nPKC p105 to membrane in mussel hemocytes

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Piscirickettsia salmonis Imbalances the Innate Immune Response to Succeed in a Productive Infection in a Salmonid Cell Line Model.

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Pro-inflammatory caspase-1 activation during the immune response in cells from rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum 1792) challenged with pathogen-associated molecular patterns.

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Purification of a lipid-activated and Ca2+-independent protein kinase from the mantle tissue of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lmk

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Regulatory properties of p105: a novel PKC isoenzyme in mantle tissue from marine mussels

scientific article published in January 2002

Sb(V) and Sb(III) distribution in human erythrocytes: speciation methodology and the influence of temperature, time and anticoagulants

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Sb(V) reactivity with human blood components: redox effects

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Synthetic hepcidin from fish: Uptake and protection against Vibrio anguillarum in sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax).

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Transcriptional dynamics of immune, growth and stress related genes in skeletal muscle of the fine flounder (Paralichthys adpersus) during different nutritional statuses.

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