Maria Elena Camacho-Moll

Mexican Institute of Social Security | IMSS · Departamento de Genética

A few studies examined the comparative side effects of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) vaccines. We compared the extension and severity of self-reported side effects of seven COVID-19 vaccines [BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech), ChAdOx1 (AstraZeneca), mRNA-1273 (Moderna), CoronaVac (Sinovac Life Sciences), Gam-COVID-Vac (Gamaleya's Sputnik V), Ad5-nCoV...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer. The number of cases is increasing and the trend for the next few years is not encouraging. HCC is usually detected in the advanced stages of the disease, and pharmacological therapies are not entirely effective. For this reason, it is necessary to search for new therapeutic opt...

Citation: Camacho-Moll, M.E.; Sampayo-Reyes, A.; Castorena-Torres, F.; Lozano-Garza, G.; Alarcón-Galván, G.; Hernández, A.; Marcos, R.; Alcocer-González, J.M.; Tamez-Guerra, R.; Bermúdez de León, M. Selenite Downregulates STAT3 Expression and Provokes Lymphocytosis in the Liver of Chronically Exposed Syrian Golden Hamsters. Molecules 2021, 26, 5614...

A generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) by ectopic expression of OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC has established promising opportunities for stem cell research, drug discovery, and disease modeling. While this forced genetic expression represents an advantage, there will always be an issue with genomic instability and transient pluripoten...

Birds are the main reservoirs of the avian influenza A virus. During migration, birds can disseminate influenza A virus to mammals, including humans. The main goal of this study was to detect the prevalence of influenza A viruses in wild birds (waterbirds and landbirds, both resident and migratory) using the North American migration flyways. Our 20...

Background: Testicular germ cell cancer (TGCC) develops from pre-malignant germ neoplasia in situ (GCNIS) cells. GCNIS originates from fetal gonocytes (POU5F1+/MAGE-A4-), which fail to differentiate to pre-spermatogonia (POU5F1-/MAGE-A4+) and undergo malignant transformation. Gankyrin is an oncogene which has been shown to prevent POU5F1 degradati...

Most common male reproductive disorders are linked to lower testosterone exposure in fetal life, although the factors responsible for suppressing fetal testosterone remain largely unknown. Protracted use of acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of cryptorchidism in sons, but effects on fetal testosterone production have n...

Introduction: Testicular germ cell cancer (TGCC) has been increasing in incidence over recent decades. We have previously shown that the precursor lesion for TGCC, carcinoma in situ (CIS) cells, have different phenotypes which determine proliferation rate. CIS which express only OCT4, a well-established marker for CIS, proliferate more that those e...

Testicular germ cell cancer develops from premalignant intratubular germ cell neoplasia, unclassified cells that are believed to arise from failure of normal maturation of fetal germ cells from gonocytes (OCT4(+)/MAGEA4(-)) into pre-spermatogonia (OCT4(-)/MAGEA4(+)). Intratubular germ cell neoplasia cell subpopulations based on stage of germ cell d...