Recent Submissions

  • Castaño Moreno, Erika; Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María; Casanello, Paola (Springer, 2023)
    Fetal growth and development are influenced by maternal nutrition and gestational weight gain. Adequate intake of nutrients such as folate, vitamin B12, and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is essential for healthy fetal and ...
  • Urrutia Vargas, Pamela Joselyn; Bórquez, Daniel; Núñez González, Marco (Springer, 2022)
    Iron plays essential roles in the early development of cognitive processes and in the maintenance of neuronal functions in the mature brain; therefore, neurons have expeditious mechanisms to ensure a readily available iron ...
  • Vio del Río, Fernando; Domper Rodríguez, Alejandra; González González, Carmen Gloria; Fonseca Morán, Lilian; Barrios Lamas, Lorena; Zacarías Hasbún, Isabel (Universidad de Chile. Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, 2023)
  • Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2022)
  • Solis Jimenez, Doina; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Navarrete Wallace, Paola Alejandra; Faúndez Comte, Patricio Ignacio; Reyes Jara, Angélica Sofía (Frontiers Media, 2022)
    Pet food can be a source of microbiological hazards that might affect companion animals and owners. Even though owners usually rely on conventional pet diets, such as extruded diets, new feeding practices, such as raw ...
  • Sparling, Thalia M.; Deeney, Megan; Cheng, Bryan; Han, Xuerui; Lier, Chiara; Lin, Zhuozhi; Offner, Claudia; Santoso, Marianne V.; Pfeiffer, Erin; Emerson, Julián A.; Amadi, Florence Mariamu; Mitu, Khadija; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Verdeli, Helen; Araya, Ricardo; Kadiyala, Suneetha (Nature Portfolio, 2022)
    Connections between food security and nutrition (FSN) and mental health have been analytically investigated, but conclusions are difficult to draw given the breadth of literature. Furthermore, there is little guidance ...
  • Medenica, Sanja; Spoltore, María Elena; Ormazábal Leiva, Paulina Fernanda; Marina, Ljiljana V.; Sojatv, Antoan Stefan; Faggiano, Antongiulio; Gnessi, Lucio; Mazzilli, Rossella; Watanabe, Mikiko (Wiley, 2022)
    Obesity is an epidemic that has led to a rise in the incidence of many comorbidities: among others, reduced fertility is often under-evaluated in clinical practice. The mechanisms underlying the link between reduced fertility ...
  • Gaete Silva, Alexis Ignacio; Andreani Gerard, Constanza María; Maldonado, Jonathan E.; Muñoz Torres, Patricio A.; Sepúlveda Chavera, Germán F.; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro (MDPI, 2022)
    Soil microorganisms that inhabit extreme environments have unique metabolic capacities and/or physical structures that allow them to survive in oligotrophic conditions. The bioprospecting of unknown bacteria in the context ...
  • Fontvieille, Emma; His, Mathilde; Biessy, Carine; Navionis, Anne Sophie; Torres Mejías, Gabriela; Ángeles Llerenas, Angélica; Alvaro Cabrero, Isabel; Sánchez, Gloria Inés; Navarro, Edgar; Rodas Cortes, Yorlany; Porras, Carolina; Rodriguez, Ana Cecilia; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Soto, José Luis; Moyano Schlegel, Leonor Agustina; Porter, Peggy L.; Lin, Ming Gang; Guenthoer, Jamie; Romieu, Isabelle; Rinaldi, Sabina (BMC, 2022)
    Background: Breast cancer incidence is increasing rapidly in Latin America, with a higher proportion of cases among young women than in developed countries. Studies have linked inflammation to breast cancer development, ...
  • Angel Badillo, Bárbara Karen; Ajnakina, Olesya; Albala Brevis, Cecilia Hortensia; Lera Marques, Lydia; Márquez Jara, Carlos Diego; Leipold, Leona; Bilovich, Avri; Dobson, Richard; Bendayan, Rebecca (MDPI, 2022)
    Growing evidence about the link between cognitive and physical decline suggests the early changes in physical functioning as a potential biomarker for cognitive impairment. Thus, we compared grip-strength trajectories ...
  • Palomo, Iván; García, Francisco; Albala Brevis, Cecilia Hortensia; Wehinger, Sergio; Fuentes, Manuel; Alarcón, Marcelo; Arauna, Diego; Montecino, Héctor; Méndez, Diego; Sepúlveda, Magdalena; Fuica, Peggy; Fuentes, Eduardo (MDPI, 2022)
    Background: Frailty has emerged as one of the main geriatric syndromes to be prevented in order to improve quality of health and life in the elderly. In this sense, the characterization of this syndrome through reliable ...
  • Sepúlveda Quiñenao, Claudia Patricia; Rodríguez Silva, José Manuel; Díaz Castro, Francisco; Campo, Andrea del; Bravo Sagua, Roberto Francisco; Troncoso Cotal, Rodrigo Hernán (MDPI, 2022)
    Glucocorticoids (GC) are steroids hormones that drive circulating glucose availability through gluconeogenesis in the liver. However, alternative splicing of the GR mRNA produces two isoforms, termed GR alpha and GR beta. ...
  • Huang, Wei; Gao, Qiang; Fu, Kai; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo Enrique; Floeter-Winter, Lucile María; Gutiérrez, Alejandro P. (Frontiers Media, 2022)
  • Pereira, Wellison Amorim; Mendonça, Carlos Miguel N.; Villasante Urquiza, Alejandro; Marteinsson, Viggó Pór; LeBlanc, Jean Guy; Cotter, Paul D.; Figueroa Villalobos, Elías; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime Moisés; Oliveira, Ricardo P. S. (MDPI, 2022)
    In addition to their use in human medicine, antimicrobials are also used in food animals and aquaculture, and their use can be categorized as therapeutic against bacterial infections. The use of antimicrobials in aquaculture ...
  • Kehm D., Rebecca; Walter, E. Jane; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana Inés; White, Melissa L.; Oskar, Sabine; Michels, Karin; Shepherd Ortega, John Alexander; Lilge, Lothar; Terry, Mary Beth (Nature, 2022)
    This study compared different approaches to measuring breast density and breast tissue composition (BTC) in adolescent girls (n = 42, aged 14–16 years) and their mothers (n = 39, aged 36–61 years) from a cohort in Santiago, ...
  • Gormaz Rencoret, Teresita Cristina; Cortés, Sandra; Tiboni Oschilewski, Ornella Giovanna; Weisstaub, Sergio Gerardo (MDPI, 2022)
    Food systems are one of the main contributors to climate change. Sustainable diets are one strategy to mitigate climate change. Assessments and estimations at a national level are lacking, especially in the Global South, ...
  • Fuentes Bustos, Consuelo (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
    En 2017, las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles (ENT) fueron la causa del 73% de las muertes en el mundo. En Chile, los resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud (ENS) 2016-2017 evidencian que la población tiene ...
  • Cisternas Cuevas, Camila (Universidad de Chile, 2023)
    Introducción: La enfermedad por hígado graso no alcohólico se caracteriza por ser la enfermedad hepática con mayor prevalencia a nivel mundial, en la cual existe un aumento de triglicéridos en los hepatocitos (esteatosis), ...
  • Farías Castro, Camila (Universidad de Chile, 2023)
    Introducción: Actualmente existe un aumento en la incidencia de resistencia a la insulina (RI) y esteatosis hepática en la población. La fibra dietética juega un rol protector en la prevención como tratamiento de estas ...

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