Rafael Bojalil

Rafael Bojalil
Metropolitan Autonomous University | UAM · Departamento de Atención a la Salud

M.D.;Ph.D.

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August 1996 - present
Metropolitan Autonomous University
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January 1996 - present
June 1992 - present

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Publications (114)
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Dermatologic disorders, affecting the integumentary system, involve diverse molecular mechanisms such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, inflammation and immune responses. Long noncoding RNAs, particularly Metastasis-Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1 (MALAT1), are crucial regulators of gene expression. MALAT1 influences inflammatory respon...
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Endotoxic shock (ExSh) and cecal ligature and puncture (CLP) are models that induce sepsis. In this work, we investigated early immunologic and histopathologic changes induced by ExSh or CLP models in female and male mice. Remarkable results showed that females supported twice the LD100 of LPS for males, CLP survival and CFU counts were similar bet...
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Background Obesity, a public health problem, is a state of metainflammation that influences the development of chronic degenerative diseases, particularly in patients with severe obesity. Objective The objective of this study was to evidence immunometabolic differences in patients with different degrees of obesity, including severe obesity, by det...
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Introduction Challenges of diverse origin in childhood can alter the growth and development of the central nervous system, affecting structures and functions. As a consequence of the damage suffered during the perinatal period, long periods of dysfunctionality may occur, such as regulatory disorders, which may result in remaining in a process of lo...
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Resumen Objetivos Describir la asociación entre las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles y la edad, con la hospitalización, desenlaces clínicos graves y las defunciones por COVID-19 en los casos confirmados en población mexicana, comparando las tres primeras olas epidemiológicas de la pandemia en México. Diseño Se realizó un análisis transversa...
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The aim of this work was to obtain insights of the participation of the autonomic nervous system in different stages of calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) by heart rate variability (HRV) analysis. Studying subjects with no valve impairments and CAVD patients, we also sought to quantify the independent contribution or explanatory capacity of the a...
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COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a primarily pulmonary disease that can affect several organs, directly or indirectly. To date, there are many questions about the different pathological mechanisms. Here, we generate an approach to identify the cellular-level tropism of SARS-CoV-2 using human proteomics, virus-host interactions, and enrichment ana...
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Background New insights of inflammation CANTOS (1) and COLCOT (2) demonstrated the importance of blocking inflammation in CAD for major outcomes, but only in patients with systemic inflammation. The GRACE score is a readily available tool that uses a variety of items none related to inflammation per se. Many studies have emphasised the importance o...
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COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a primarily pulmonary disease that can affect several organs, directly or indirectly. To date, there are many questions about the different pathological mechanisms. Here, we generate an approach to identify the cellular-level tropism of SARS-CoV-2 using human proteomics, virus-host interactions, and enrichment ana...
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Background: Chagas disease is considered important and presents intense inflammatory and fibrotic processes induced by the perpetuation of the parasite in the affected tissues and organs. Therefore, it is necessary to inquire about the host defense and attack mechanisms to have a more detailed knowledge about Chagas disease. MicroRNAs are found in...
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Background: Carotid atherosclerotic disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder that produces an intrinsic immune response and promotes the formation of plaque in the vascular endothelium, leading to clinical outcomes. Aim: To assess the presence of inflammation in patients with carotid atherosclerosis and calcified aortic valve disease (AVD) based...
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Aortic stenosis is a progressive heart valve disorder characterized by calcification of the leaflets. Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis has been proposed for assessing the heart response to autonomic activity, which is documented to be altered in different cardiac diseases. The objective of the study was to evaluate changes of HRV in patients w...
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In recent years the importance of energy availability (EA) in the health and physical performance of athletes has been reported. Nevertheless, there is no standard methodology for its estimation. Therefore, this can lead to differences in estimates of low-EA between samples of athletes. This study aimed to know the correlation, agreement, and accur...
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The influence of macronutrient intake on energy availability (EA) has been reported, however, since there’s no standardized method to estimate EA, it’s not clear if there are significant differences in the contribution of macronutrient intake on EA. The aim of this study was to identify the influence of macronutrient intake on EA, analyzing differe...
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Disorders in the child’s neurological development caused by perinatal risks can lead to long-term altered neurological signs that begin at an early age and involve persistent functional disorders. Recent data suggest that tissue dysfunction, not just acute damage, may initiate or perpetuate an inflammatory response. The aim of this study was to fin...
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Extracorporeal shockwave myocardial revascularization (ESMR) is a therapy for refractory angina pectoris. Our aim was to assess the efficacy and safety of ESMR in the management of patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart failure (HF) as well as its effects on inflammation and angiogenesis. In this single-arm prospective trial w...
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Aims Little is known regarding acute heart failure (AHF) clinical characteristics and its hospital outcome in Latin America. This study sought to assess the prevalence of, and identify differences among, in‐hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized for AHF who were stratified by clinical phenotype at a hospital in Latin America. Methods and resul...
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Objective To explore whether the IFNL3/4 rs12979860 genotype may influence serum levels or production of interferon-inducible protein-10 (IP-10) by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Sixty-six patients with SLE and 22 healthy blood donors (controls) were included. The IFNL3/4 rs1297986...
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The term cardiovascular diseases (CVD) refers to disorders of heart and blood vessels, and include coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, and heart failure, among others. Atherosclerosis is a common background of these diseases. It is not infrequent that some acute diseases, such as coronary syndromes, appear...
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Aortic-valve sclerosis increases cardiovascular mortality risk and precedes aortic-valve stenosis, but its mechanisms are not well understood. The purpose of this study was to compare the cardiac autonomic modulation and inflammation markers between subjects with aortic-valve normal leaflets and subjects with aortic-valve sclerosis. According to 2-...
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Background: Accurate assessment of inflammatory status of patients during acute coronary syndrome (ACS) has become of great importance in their risk classification and in the research of new anti-inflammatory therapies. Method: The study cohort included 7396 patients with ACS. We sought to derive and internally validate an inflammation-based sco...
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In the present study we investigated the temporal relationship between angiogenic and anti‐angiogenic vascular endothelial growth factor isoforms (VEGFxxxa and VEGFxxxb respectively), the receptors VEGFR1 and VEGFR2, their soluble forms, and the kinases and the splicing factors regulating the synthesis of VEGF isoforms in healthy and atretic antral...
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Background: Inflammation can be grouped into three phases: proinflammatory, anti-inflammatory, and resolution. The latter, mainly attributed to lipid mediators, is the most recently described, and has been studied little in coronary ischemic diseases. Objective: To evaluate 1) if acute coronary syndromes (ACS) manifest different circulating leve...
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Background Sleep has a fundamental role in the regulation of homeostasis. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of different periods of paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) and recovery on serum levels of cytokines and miRNAs related to inflammatory responses. Methods Male Wistar rats were submitted to a PSD of 24, 96, or 192 h, or of 192...
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Psoriasis is triggered by several stimuli that share a systemic production of interferon (IFN)-γ and other inflammatory mediators, which are key to regulate the production of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 and its inhibitor (TIMP)-1 by cells of monocytic lineage. This study evaluates the effect of the sera of 55 patients with psoriasis and 41 non...
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Conclusion: CDP-choline attenuates liver damage caused by ischemia and reperfusion by reducing oxidative stress and maintaining mitochondrial function. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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Background Fresh frozen plasma (FFP) administration may increase the risk of nosocomial infections in parallel with the development of immune modulation. This could be driven by soluble mediators, possibly influencing the in vitro activation of human U937 monocyte cells, in a manner dependent on the age of the donors. MethodsFFP donors were stratif...
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Background: National health surveys have revealed an outstandingly high prevalence of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes in Mexico. Objective: To assess whether serum uric acid levels on admission may predict short-term mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in a population with an unusually high prevalence of cla...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to assess associations between serum type III (λ) interferons (IFN-λ) and disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: Serum levels of IFN-λ1, IFN-λ2, and IFN-λ3 were measured in 93 SLE patients and 67 healthy individuals. The associations with overall disease activity, organ-specific dama...
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Background Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), a common complication of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), is associated with higher mortality and longer hospital stays. The role of cytokines and other mediators is unknown in AKI induced by an ACS (ACS-AKI), leading to several unanswered questions. The worsening of renal function is usually seen as a dichotomo...
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Background and aim of the study: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the inflammatory response in patients with aortic and/or mitral prostheses, and to correlate the level of inflammatory markers with prosthesis functionality. Methods: A total of 48 patients with biological or mechanical prostheses was included in the study, in w...
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Background The inflammatory process in aortic valvular stenosis persists after surgery to replace the valve in almost half of the patients. No association has been found to its persistence. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the inflammatory response in patients with aortic stenosis through the determination of several biomarkers in p...
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Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) contained in fish oil (FO) are ligands for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) that may induce changes in cardiometabolic markers. Variation in PPAR genes may influence the beneficial responses linked to FO supplementation in young adults. The study aimed to analyze the effect of FO supplementation...
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Hypoalbuminaemia is a long-term risk factor for incident of both myocardial infarction and heart failure. We assessed whether serum albumin levels at admission is associated with new-onset heart failure and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The study included 7,192 ACS patients with no previous history of heart f...
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Obesity is a major public health concern in Mexico and worldwide. Although the estimated heritability is high, common variants identified by genome-wide association studies explain only a small proportion of this heritability. A combination of linkage and association strategies could be a more robust and powerful approach to identify other obesity-...
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Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) and the functional implications of miRNAs contained in extracellular vesicles (EVs) have gained attention in the last decade. Little is known about the regulation of the abundance of plasma miRNAs in response to chronic ingestion of carbohydrates. Therefore, we explored the circulating levels of miR-21, miR-146a, miR-...
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We determined mRNA expression of genes of endothelin-1 (ET-1), and of the transforming growth factor beta ligands (TGFβ1, TGFβ2 and TGFβ3), their receptors (TβRI and TβRII) and their pseudoreceptor BAMBI in the heart of broilers raised under cold temperature conditions and affected by pulmonary hypertension. Gene expression was determined by RT-qPC...
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Pathologic conditions associated with inflammation show an inverse correlation between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and inflammatory biomarker levels. Our aim was to investigate, in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), whether very low HDL-C levels are associated with inflammatory biomarkers. In a cross-sectional study, we i...
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Nimotuzumab is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody against the EGFR extracellular domain that has been evaluated in solid tumors as a single agent or in combination with chemotherapy and radiation. Cervical cancer patients who are refractory or progressive to first-line chemotherapy have a dismal prognosis, and no second- or third-line chemotherap...
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Background: Valvular Aortic Sclerosis (AVS) and Calcified Degenerative Valvular Aortic Stenosis (AS) are important risk factors for cardiovascular events. Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) and other inflammatory markers might play an important role in the mechanisms underlying endothelial dysfunction described in AS. The participation of MMPs in AVS...
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Background. The information available on time and dose effects of the exposure of hepatocytes to free fatty acids (FFA) in vitro is controversial, and very few studies have assessed the hepatocyte inflammatory response in an in vitro model. Aim. To analyze the effect of treatment with FFA on cell viability and on the kinetics of cytokine expression...
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Introduction: Determination of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) is usually the initial test for the diagnosis of systemic rheumatic diseases (SRD). Assigning predictive values to positive and negative results of the test is vital because lack of knowledge about ANAs and their usefulness in classification criteria of...
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric illness that presents as a deficit of serotonergic neurotransmission in the central nervous system. MDD patients also experience alterations in cortisol and cytokines levels. Treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is the first-line antidepressant regimen for MDD. The aim of th...
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric illness that presents as a deficit of serotonergic neurotransmission in the central nervous system. MDD patients also experience alterations in cortisol and cytokines levels. Treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is the first-line antidepressant regimen for MDD. The aim of th...
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Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) may be triggered by acute infections. Systemic production of interferon gamma (IFN-γ) is induced during infection and regulates the production of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their inhibitors (TIMPs), both important in plaque stability. This study evaluates the effect of IFN-γ on the MMPs/TIMP-1 ratio in cultu...
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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric illness that commonly displays a deficit of serotonergic neurotransmission in the central nervous system. MDD patients also show alterations in alterations in cortisol and cytokines levels. Those patients are treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The aim of this study was to a...
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Background In sepsis, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is the key factor triggering respiratory burst, tissue injury and disseminated coagulation. Anti-TNF strategies based on monoclonal antibodies or F(ab’)2 fragments have been used in sepsis with contradictory results. Immunoglobulin new antigen receptors (IgNAR) are a unique subset of antibodies cons...
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MicroRNAs have emerged as key regulators of immune responses. They influence immune cells' function and probably the outcome of several infections. Currently, it is largely unknown if helminth parasites and their antigens modify host microRNAs expression. The aim of this study was to explore if excreted/secreted antigens of Taenia crassiceps regula...
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Transforming growth factor beta (TGF β ) is a family of genes that play a key role in mediating tissue remodeling in various forms of acute and chronic lung disease. In order to assess their role on pulmonary hypertension in broilers, we determined mRNA expression of genes of the TGF β family and endothelin 1 in lung samples from 4-week-old chicken...
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric illness that presents as a deficit of serotonergic neurotransmission in the central nervous system. MDD patients also experience alterations in cortisol and cytokines levels. Treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is the first-line antidepressant regimen for MDD. The aim of th...
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VNN1 gene expression levels and the G-137T polymorphism have been associated with high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels in Mexican American adults. We aim to evaluate the contribution of VNN1 gene expression and the G-137T variant to HDL-C levels and other metabolic traits in Mexican prepubertal children. VNN1 mRNA expression levels w...
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Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) may present rheumatic manifestations concurrent with autoantibodies with low specificity, thus increasing misdiagnosis. Frequency of autoantibodies with high specificity remains unknown. Nineteen patients with definite IE were studied for low specificity (rheumatoid factor [RF], antinuclear antibodies, anti...
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Dysregulation of innate immune response by Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) is a key feature in Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Most studies have focused on TLR2, TLR3, and TLR4 participation in UC. However, few studies have explored other TLRs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the mRNA profiles of TLR1 to 9 in colonic mucosa of UC patients, acc...