Médico Veterinario, Universidad de Chile
Doctor en Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, 2010, Chile
a.escobar@odontologia.uchile.cl
Líneas de Investigación
Interacción Hospedero Patógeno
Inmunología de mucosas y epitelios
Publicaciones
1.Claudia Robles-Planells, Sofía A. Michelson, Javier Mena, Daniela Escrig, Juan L. Rojas, Giselle E. Sánchez Guerrero, Ronny Hernandez, Carlos E.
Barrera, Leonel E. Rojo, Daniela Sauma, Alexis M. Kalergis, Monica Imarai, Ricardo Fernandez, Carolina A. Robles, Elias Leiva-Salcedo,
Alejandro Escobar and Claudio Acuña-Castillo. 2019. Lithraea caustic (Litre) extract promotes an antitumor response against B16 melanoma.
Front. Pharmacol ISSN. 1663-9812 Impact factor 3.84
2. Berly Cahuascanco, Javiera Bahamonde, Olger Huaman, Miguel Jervis, Jahaira Cortez, Jaime Palomino, Alejandro Escobar, Patricio Retamal,
Cristian G. Torres, Oscar Peralta.2019. Bovine fetal mesenchymal stem cells exert antiproliferative efect against mastitis causing pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Veterinary Research. ISSN 0928-4249. Impact factor 3,177
3. Alejandro Escobar, Paula I. Rodas, Claudio Acuña-Castillo. Macrophage–Neisseria gonorrhoeae Interactions: a better understanding of pathogen
mechanisms of immunomodulation.2018. Frontiers in Immunology. ISSN 1664-3224. Impact factor 4,716
4. Escobar, G. Escobar, A. Ascui, G. Tempio, F. Ortiz, C. Perez, C. Lopez, M. Pure Platelet-rich Plasma and supernatant of calcium-activated P-PRP
induce different phenotypes of human macrophages. 2018. Regenerative Medicine. ISSN 1746-0751. Impact factor 2.383
5. Jonathan Morales, Carlos Barrera-Avalos, Carlos Castro, Stephanie Castillo, Claudio Barrientos, Claudia Robles-Planells, Ximena Lopez,
Ernesto Torres, Margarita Montoya, Marcelo Cortez-San Martín, Denise Riquelme, Alejandro Escobar, Ricardo Fernandez, Monica Imarai, Daniela
Sauma, Leonel E Rojo, Elias Leiva-Salcedo, Claudio Acuña-Castillo. Dead Tumor Cells expressing ISAV fusogenic protein favor antigen cross-
priming in vitro. Frontiers in Immunology 2017 vol 8 article 1170. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2017.01170. Impact factor 4,716
6. García K, Escobar G, Mendoza P, Beltran C, Perez C, Arancibia S, Vernal R, Rodas PI, Acuña-Castillo C, Escobar A. “ATP induces IL-1ß secretion in
Neisseria gonorrhoeae-infected human macrophages by a mechanism not related with the NLRP3/ASC/caspase-1 axis”. Mediators of inflammation 2016. 1258504. ISSN: 1466-1861 (Online). Impact factor 3.418
7. Rodas PI, Alamos-Musre AS, Álvarez FP, Escobar A, Tapia CV, Osorio E, Otero C, Calderón IL, Fuentes JA, Gil F, Paredes-Sabja D, Christodoulides M. “The NarE protein of Neisseria gonorrhoeae catalyzes ADP- ribosylation of several ADP-ribose acceptors despite an N-terminus deletion” FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2016 Jul 26. pii: fnw181. ISSN:0378-
1097.Impact factor 1.858
8. Arancibia S, Barrientos A, Torrejón J, Escobar A, Beltrán CJ. “Copper oxide nanoparticles recruit macrophages and modulate nitric oxide,
proinflammatory cytokines and PGE2 production through arginase activation”. Nanomedicine-UK (Lond). 2016; 11(10):1237-51. ISSN: 1743-
5889 Impact factor 5.376
9. Melgar-Rodríguez S, Díaz-Zúñiga J, Alvarez C, Rojas L, Monasterio G, Carvajal P, Escobar A, Sanz M, Vernal R. “Serotype b of Aggregatibacter
actinomycetemcomitans increases osteoclast and memory T-lymphocyte activation”. Mol Oral Microbiol. 2016 Apr;31(2):162-74. ISSN: 2041-1006
Impact factor 3.061