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    • Sirlin, J. L. (1956)
      Vacillans is a gene that conditions a complex syndrome involving the muscular co-ordination, behaviour and reflexes, as well as some metabolic abnormality. The syndrome seems to a large extent independent of the residual ...
    • Gallardo, C. E.; Correa, C.; Morales, P.; Sáez, P. A.; Pastenes, L.; Méndez, M. A. (2012)
      The use of nondestructive methods for obtaining DNA from amphibians (e.g. buccal swabs) allows genetic studies to be performed without affecting the survival of the studied individuals. In this study, we compared two methods ...
    • Contreras, J.; Gil, D.; Dios Errázuriz, J de; Ruiz, P.; Díaz, C.; Águila, P.; Rosselot, A.; Espinoza, R.; Beltrán, M.; Liendo, R.; Soza, F. (2014)
      Objectives: To calculate the Scapular Balance Angle (SBA) reference values in a healthy population between 18 and 85 years old, and to define abnormality criteria for this sample. Materials and methods: A descriptive study ...
    • de Wit, J. J.; Dijkman, R.; Guerrero, P.; Calvo, J.; González, A.; Hidalgo, H. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      In the period from July 2008 to 2010, a disease episode resulting in serious economic losses in the major production area of the Chilean poultry industry was reported. These losses were associated with respiratory problems, ...
    • Pujol, Myriam; Castillo, Francisca; Álvarez, Carla; Rojas, Camila; Borie Polanco, Consuelo; Ferreira Vigouroux, Luis Arturo; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Biomed Central Ltd., 2017)
      Brucella canis is a small intracellular Gram-negative bacterium whose primary host is the dog, but it also can cause mild human brucellosis. One of the main causes of an inefficient immune response against other species ...
    • Adaro Aravena, Luis; Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Oróstegui, César; Urquieta, Bessie; Cepeda, Raquel (Universidad de Chile, 2002)
      En este estudio se describen las concentraciones plasmáticas mensuales en Chinchilla laniger (Grey) en cautiverio durante el período de un año con el objetivo de determinar posibles variaciones estacionales asociadas con ...
    • Olivares, Ricardo; Aguayo, Mireya (Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía, 2014)
      La próstata es la glándula accesoria sexual más importante del perro, ubicada en el canal pélvico, retroperitoneal y caudal a la vejiga, envolviendo completamente la uretra pélvica en su salida del cuello vesical. Su ...
    • Araneda, Silvia; Commin, Loris; Atlagich, Miljenko; Kitahama, Kunio; Pequignot, Jean-Marc; Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Dalmaz, Yvette (ELSEVIER, 2008-11)
      Ozone, a major photochemical pollutant, produces rapid damages in the pulmonary airway tract and in the central nervous system. This study focused on the neural mechanisms underlying the adaptive responses to an acute ozone ...
    • Urcelay Vicente, Santiago Patricio (2009)
      Veterinary epidemiology began in different Latin American countries during the 1960s and the 1970s in different universities and state-run institutes of animal health. The discipline evolved as a continuation of the ...
    • Navarro Venegas, Carlos; Celedón Venegas, María Orfelia; Pizarro Lucero, José; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2005)
      The study described here studied the biological properties of the RP5 isolate and confirms the presence of Canine herpes virus-1 (CHV-1) by means of the immunofluorescence direct method. The preliminary characterization ...
    • Toro Guzmán, Haroldo; Pavéz Gálvez, Eduardo.; Redmann, T. (Carfax Publishing Company, 1996)
      Diagnosis of infectious diseases in birds using direct assays such as conventional ELISA or immunofluorescence require antibody directed to IgG of each avian species. In this study, we tested binding of human C1q to different ...
    • López Villanueva, Alejandro; Maiztegui, José; Cabrera C., Raúl (1998)
      There is an increasing interest in the introduction of domestic South American Camelids (SAC) to semi-arid and non-plateau arid lands located at the Central South (35-42°S/71-74°W) and Magallanic (49-55°S/69-75°W) regions ...
    • Lobos, Gabriel (Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre-Reabic, 2020)
      Xenopus laevis has been present in the Chilean Mediterranean region since at least the 1970s. Studies of the global invasion of the African clawed frog have paid little attention to its early life stages, whose environmental ...
    • Luna, Daniela; Vásquez Salfate, Rodrigo; Rojas, Manuel; Tadich Gallo, Tamara (MDPI AG, 2017)
      Simple Summary: Appropriate strategies aimed at improving the welfare of working horses should contemplate the assessment of welfare status, as well as the evaluation of the human-animal relationship within each geo-cultural ...
    • Reyes Solovera, Mónica de los; Medina, G.; Palomino Mackenney, Jaime (WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2009-07)
      Acrosin is an acrosomal protease synthesized as an inactive precursor, proacrosin, which is processed via autoproteolysis into active forms alpha- and beta-acrosin. In this paper, a comparative study on the immunoreactivity ...
    • Micó, Estefanía; García López, Alejandra; Sánchez, Antonio; Juárez, Margarita; Galante, Eduardo (Springer, 2015)
      Tree hollows are keystone structures for saproxylic fauna and host numerous endangered species. However, not all tree hollows are equal. Many variables including physical, biotic and chemical ones, can characterise a tree ...
    • Cádiz, María I.; López, María Eugenia; Díaz Domínguez, Diego; Cáceres Cruz, Giovanna; Yoshida, Grazyella Massako; Gómez Uchida, Daniel; Yáñez López, José (Nature, 2020)
      Nile tilapia belongs to the second most cultivated group of fish in the world, mainly because of its favorable characteristics for production. Genetic improvement programs and domestication process of Nile tilapia may have ...
    • Bravo, Cristian; Martínez Moncada, Víctor (Elsevier, 2016)
      The intracellular pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiological agent of piscirickettsiosis, the most important bacterial disease that affects the Chilean salmon industry. Despite its importance, little is known ...
    • Soza Ossandón, Paula; Rivera, Dácil; Tardone, Rodolfo; Riquelme Neira, Rodolfo; García, Patricia; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Adell, Aiko D.; González Rocha, Gerardo; Moreno Switt, Andrea (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Salmonella entericais a highly infectious microorganism responsible for many outbreaks reported in equine hospitals. Outbreaks are characterized by high morbidity and mortality rates, nosocomial transmission to other ...
    • Di Cataldo, Sophia; Cevidanes, Aitor; Ulloa Contreras, Claudia Andrea; Sacristán, Irene; Peñaloza Madrid, Diego; Vianna, Juliana; González Acuña, Daniel; Sallaberry Pincheira, Nicole; Cabello, Javier; Napolitano, Constanza; Hidalgo Hermoso, Ezequiel; Acosta Jamett, Gerardo; Millán, Javier (MDPI, 2021)
      Blood samples of 626 rural dogs, 140 Andean foxes (Lycalopex culpaeus), and 83 South American grey foxes (L. griseus) from six bioregions of Chile spanning 3000 km were screened for Mycoplasma DNA by conventional PCR and ...