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- ItemAportes de la epigenética en la comprensión del desarrollo del ser humano(2010) Bedregal, Paula; Shand, Beatriz; Santos Alcántara, Manuel; Ventura-Junca del T., Patricio
- ItemIn vitro fertilization (IVF) in mammals: epigenetic and developmental alterations. Scientific and bioethical implications for IVF in humans(2015) Ventura-Junca del T., Patricio; Irarrázaval, Isabel.; Rolle, Augusto J.; Gutiérrez, Juan I.; Moreno Mauro, Ricardo D.; Santos Alcántara, ManuelAbstract The advent of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in animals and humans implies an extraordinary change in the environment where the beginning of a new organism takes place. In mammals fertilization occurs in the maternal oviduct, where there are unique conditions for guaranteeing the encounter of the gametes and the first stages of development of the embryo and thus its future. During this period a major epigenetic reprogramming takes place that is crucial for the normal fate of the embryo. This epigenetic reprogramming is very vulnerable to changes in environmental conditions such as the ones implied in IVF, including in vitro culture, nutrition, light, temperature, oxygen tension, embryo-maternal signaling, and the general absence of protection against foreign elements that could affect the stability of this process. The objective of this review is to update the impact of the various conditions inherent in the use of IVF on the epigenetic profile and outcomes of mammalian embryos, including superovulation, IVF technique, embryo culture and manipulation and absence of embryo-maternal signaling. It also covers the possible transgenerational inheritance of the epigenetic alterations associated with assisted reproductive technologies (ART), including its phenotypic consequences as is in the case of the large offspring syndrome (LOS). Finally, the important scientific and bioethical implications of the results found in animals are discussed in terms of the ART in humans.
- ItemPecado individual y pecado social en la esfera económica.(1983) Ventura-Junca del T., Patricio
- ItemReflexiones de un médico, académico de la Facultad de Medicina, sobre la vida(1994) Ventura-Junca del T., Patricio
- ItemThe beginning of life of a new human being from the scientific biological perspective and its bioethical implications(2011) Ventura-Junca del T., Patricio; Santos Alcántara, Manuel
- ItemTurismo con células madre y requisitos para su uso clínico: desafíos bioéticos más allá del embrión(2013) Ventura-Junca del T., Patricio; Erices Ocampo, Alejandro; Santos Alcántara, Manuel
- ItemUrgencia de la Bioética ante la Biotecnología: ¿Cómo identificar un ser humano unicelular?(2010) Carrasco, Alejandra; Ventura-Junca del T., Patricio