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Patricia Ventura Diaz

Aerospace engineer, NASA
Verified email at nasa.gov
Cited by 485

Respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants is associated with predominant Th-2-like response

M Román, WJ Calhoun, KL Hinton… - American journal of …, 1997 - atsjournals.org
Viral infections have been associated with cellular immune responses and production of Th-
1 cytokines. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), however, induces virus-specific IgE, which …

T helper 1/T helper 2 cytokine imbalance in respiratory syncytial virus infection is associated with increased endogenous plasma cortisol

RA Pinto, SM Arredondo, MR Bono, AA Gaggero… - …, 2006 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE. Cellular immunity has classically been described as the defense mechanism
for viral infections. The development of cellular or humoral immune responses will depend …

[PDF][PDF] Computational aerodynamic modeling of small quadcopter vehicles

S Yoon, PV Diaz, DD Boyd Jr… - … Society (AHS) 73rd …, 2017 - rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov
High-fidelity computational simulations have been performed which focus on rotor-fuselage
and rotor-rotor aerodynamic interactions of small quad-rotor vehicle systems. The three …

Long-term safety of once-daily budesonide in patients with early-onset mild persistent asthma: results of the Inhaled Steroid Treatment as Regular Therapy in Early …

AL Sheffer, M Silverman, AJ Woolcock, PV Díaz… - Annals of Allergy …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The Inhaled Steroid Treatment as Regular Therapy in Early Asthma
(START) study is a worldwide, randomized, prospective study to investigate early …

Equilibrium model for the ablation response of silicone-coated PICA

JBE Meurisse, GB Chatzigeorgis, PV Diaz… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel equilibrium ablation and thermal response model for NASA's Phenolic Impregnated
Carbon Ablator (PICA) is presented. For the first time, the model accounts for the effect of …

[HTML][HTML] Pro-inflammatory cytokines in nasopharyngeal aspirate from hospitalized children with respiratory syncytial virus infection with or without rhinovirus …

PV Díaz, G Valdivia, AA Gaggero, MR Bono, G Zepeda… - Medicine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human rhinovirus (HRV) respiratory infection in
children induce production of inflammatory interleukins (ILs) in the respiratory epithelium. As …

Outcome of pregnancy in a randomized controlled study of patients with asthma exposed to budesonide

M Silverman, A Sheffer, PV Diaz, B Lindmark… - Annals of Allergy …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Budesonide is the only inhaled corticosteroid to be given a category B
pregnancy rating by the US Food and Drug Administration, based on observational data …

Differential effects of respiratory syncytial virus and adenovirus on mononuclear cell cytokine responses

PV Díaz, WJ Calhoun, KL Hinton… - American journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and adenovirus (Advs) serotype 3 (Adv3) and 7h (Adv7h)
are associated with mild to severe respiratory infection and are indistinguishable during the …

Increased expression of the glucocorticoid receptor β in infants with RSV bronchiolitis

PV Diaz, RA Pinto, R Mamani, PA Uasapud… - …, 2012 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES: The majority of studies on glucocorticoid treatment in respiratory syncytial
virus (RSV) bronchiolitis concluded that there are no beneficial effects. We hypothesized that …

The early origins hypothesis with an emphasis on growth rate in the first year of life and asthma: a prospective study in Chile

RJ Rona, NC Smeeton, P Bustos, H Amigo, PV Diaz - Thorax, 2005 - thorax.bmj.com
Background: There is uncertainty about the impact of the programming hypothesis in terms
of nutritional status at birth, rate of growth in the first year of life, length of gestation, breast …