Alcohol ingestion may promote lipid peroxidation, and the presence of polyunsaturated fatty acids in liver lipids may be essential for the generation of liver damage through this mechanism. The aim of this study is to ...

The oil extracted from the fat-storage organ (fat body) of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) was characterized for its fatty acid composition. The main fatty acids were palmitic (18.1%), stearic (4.1%), myristic (2.7%), oleic ...

Background/Objective: Membrane flexibility can be a determining factor in pathophysiological mechanisms of type 2 diabetes (T2D). As a cofactor of delta-5 desaturase (D5D) and delta-6 desaturase (D6D), and gene expression ...

A method for fault detection and isolation is developed using the concatenated variances of the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) of plant outputs. These concatenated variances are projected onto the principal component ...

We describe Neogene drainage network development before, during and after regional folding in the Precordillera of the Andes of Northern Chile (18degrees-19degreesS). The drainage network developed on an extensive regular ...

En el presente estudio se analizaron 120 muestras de heces de perros, obtenidas al azar de 10 criaderos de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile, con el fin de buscar la fauna parasitaria presente en ellos. Cada muestra ...

This article explores links that can be established among indigenous and Afro-descendent thought developed in Latin America during the 20th century. By drawing a comparison between the Caribbean and Andean regions, we ...

El presente trabajo plantea, desde la literatura, una breve manera en la que opera el sistema de compras públicas en Chile, y como es que las empresas de menor tamaño (micro, pequeñas y medianas) pueden favorecerse de ...

The conformations of organic compounds determined in the solid state are important because they can be compared with those in solution and/or from theoretical calculations. In this work, the crystal and molecular structures ...