Enrique Brandan

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Chile Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Chile Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Decorin Core Protein Fragment Leu155-Val260 Interacts with TGF-β but Does Not Compete for Decorin Binding to Type I Collagen

  Elke Schönherr;Marion Broszat;Enrique Brandan;Peter Bruckner

  201
  Citations

• ECM is required for skeletal muscle differentiation independently of muscle regulatory factor expression

  Nelson Osses;Enrique Brandan

  194
  Citations

• Anchorage of collagen-tailed acetylcholinesterase to the extracellular matrix is mediated by heparan sulfate proteoglycans.

  E Brandan;M Maldonado;J Garrido;N C Inestrosa

  185
  Citations

• Mice long-term high-fat diet feeding recapitulates human cardiovascular alterations: an animal model to study the early phases of diabetic cardiomyopathy.

  Sebastián D. Calligaris;Manuel Lecanda;Felipe Solis;Marcelo Ezquer

  173
  Citations

• Restoration of muscle strength in dystrophic muscle by angiotensin-1-7 through inhibition of TGF-β signalling

  María José Acuña;Patrizia Pessina;Hugo Olguin;Daniel Cabrera

  170
  Citations

• Extracellular proteoglycans modify TGF-β bio-availability attenuating its signaling during skeletal muscle differentiation

  Rebeca Droguett;Claudio Cabello-Verrugio;Cecilia Riquelme;Enrique Brandan

  170
  Citations

• CTGF inhibits BMP-7 signaling in diabetic nephropathy.

  Tri Q. Nguyen;Peggy Roestenberg;Frans A. van Nieuwenhoven;Niels Bovenschen

  169
  Citations

• Heparan sulfate proteoglycans are increased during skeletal muscle regeneration: requirement of syndecan-3 for successful fiber formation

  Juan Carlos Casar;Claudio Cabello-Verrugio;Hugo Olguin;Rebeca Aldunate

  162
  Citations

• Connective tissue cells expressing fibro/adipogenic progenitor markers increase under chronic damage: relevance in fibroblast-myofibroblast differentiation and skeletal muscle fibrosis

  Osvaldo Contreras;Daniela L. Rebolledo;Juan Esteban Oyarzún;Hugo C. Olguín

  162
  Citations

• Reducing CTGF/CCN2 slows down mdx muscle dystrophy and improves cell therapy

  Maria Gabriela Morales;Jaime Gutierrez;Claudio Cabello-Verrugio;Daniel Cabrera

  154
  Citations

• A Novel Modulatory Mechanism of Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling through Decorin and LRP-1

  Claudio Cabello-Verrugio;Enrique Brandan

  151
  Citations

• Wnt signaling in skeletal muscle dynamics: myogenesis, neuromuscular synapse and fibrosis.

  Pedro Cisternas;Juan P. Henriquez;Enrique Brandan;Nibaldo C. Inestrosa

  147
  Citations

• Extracellular matrix is required for skeletal muscle differentiation but not myogenin expression

  Francisco Melo;David J. Carey;Enrique Brandan

  146
  Citations

• Skeletal muscle cells express the profibrotic cytokine connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2), which induces their dedifferentiation

  Cecilia Vial;Lidia Miriam Zúñiga;Claudio Cabello-Verrugio;Pablo Cañón

  142
  Citations

• Biglycan is a new extracellular component of the Chordin–BMP4 signaling pathway

  Mauricio Moreno;Rosana Muñoz;Francisco Aroca;Mariana Labarca

  128
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• Antisense inhibition of decorin expression in myoblasts decreases cell responsiveness to transforming growth factor beta and accelerates skeletal muscle differentiation.

  Cecilia Riquelme;Juan Larraı́n;Elke Schönherr;Juan Pablo Henriquez

  126
  Citations

• A novel mechanism of sequestering fibroblast growth factor 2 by glypican in lipid rafts, allowing skeletal muscle differentiation.

  Jaime Gutiérrez;Enrique Brandan

  126
  Citations

• Decorin Interacts with Connective Tissue Growth Factor (CTGF)/CCN2 by LRR12 Inhibiting Its Biological Activity

  Cecilia Vial;Jaime Gutiérrez;Cristian Santander;Daniel Cabrera

  125
  Citations

• Transient up-regulation of biglycan during skeletal muscle regeneration: delayed fiber growth along with decorin increase in biglycan-deficient mice.

  Juan Carlos Casar;Beth A McKechnie;Justin R Fallon;Marian F Young

  124
  Citations

• Novel regulatory mechanisms for the proteoglycans decorin and biglycan during muscle formation and muscular dystrophy.

  Enrique Brandan;Claudio Cabello-Verrugio;Cecilia Vial

  122
  Citations