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    • Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Lera Marques, Lydia; Taibo, Marcela; Espejo, Francisco; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2005-09)
      Background: As a consequence of the epidemiological transition in Chile, the nutritional status of the population has changed notoriously. Aim. To study the changes in the nutritional status of six years-old Chilean children ...
    • Cáceres, Mónica; Guerrero, Javier; Martínez, Jorge (ELSEVIER INC, 2005-09-10)
      Rho GTPases are overexpressed in human tumors and are involved in a variety of cellular processes such as organization of the actin cytoskeleton, cell-cell contact and malignant transformation. EGFR activation plays a key ...
    • Araya, Magdalena; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Méndez, Marco; González Canales, Mauricio; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (The Journal of Nutrition, 2005-10)
      The health consequences of mild copper excess in humans are unknown. In a previous study, 2 mo of supplementation with up to 6 mg Cu/L in drinking water did not induce detectable changes. Here we assessed a copper ...
    • Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2005-10)
    • Sierralta, Walter; Kohen Skop, Paulina; Castro, Olga; Muñoz Gallardo, Alex; Strauss III, Jerom F.; Devoto, Luigi (ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2005-10-20)
      The distribution of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) inside thecal and granulosa-lutein cells of human corpus luteum 9 (CL) was assessed by immunoelectron microscopy. We found greater levels of StAR ...
    • Kaput, Jim; Ordovas, José; Ferguson, Lynnette; Van Ommen, Ben; Rodríguez, Raymond; Allen, Lindsay; Ames, Bruce; Dawson, Kevin; German, Bruce; Krauss, Roland; Malyj, Wasyl; Archer, Michael; Barnes, Stephen; Bartholomew, Amelia; Birk, Ruth; Van Bladeren, Peter; Bradford, Kent; Brown, Kenneth; Caetano, Rosane; Castle, David; Chadwick, Ruth; Clarke, Stephen; Clément, Karine; Cooney, Craig; Corella, Dolores; Manica da Cruz, Ivana; Daniel, Hannelore; Duster, Troy; Ebbesson, Sven; Elliott, Ruan; Fairweather-Tait, Susan; Felton, Jim; Fenech, Michael; Finley, John; Fogg Johnson, Nancy; Gill Garrison, Rosalynn; Gibney, Michael; Gillies, Peter; Gustavsson, Jan-Ake; Hartman, John; He, Lin; Hwang, Jae-Kwan; Jais, Jean-Philippe; Jang, Yangsoo; Joost, Hans; Junien, Claudine; Kanter, Mitchell; Kibbe, Warren; Koletzko, Berthold; Korf, Bruce; Kornman, Kenneth; Krempin, David; Langin, Dominique; Lauren, Denis; Ho Lee, Jong; Leveille, Gilbert; Lin, Su-Ju; Mathers, John; Mayne, Michael; McNab, Warren; Milner, John; Morgan, Peter; Muller, Michael; Nikolsky, Yuri; Van der Ouderaa, Frans; Park, Taesun; Pensel, Norma; Pérez Jiménez, Francisco; Poutanen, Kaisa; Roberts, Matthew; Saris, Wim; Schuster, Gertrud; Shelling, Andrew; Simopoulos, Artemis; Southon, Sue; Tai, Shyong; Towne, Bradford; Trayhurn, Paul; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Visek, Willard; Warden, Craig; Weiss, Rick; Wiencke, John; Winkler, Jack; Wolff, George; Zhao-Wilson, Xi; Zucker, Jean-Daniel (CABI PUBLISHING, 2005-11)
      Nutrigenomics is the study of how constituents of the diet interact with genes, and their products, to alter phenotype and, conversely, how genes and their products metabolise these constituents into nutrients, antinutrients, ...
    • Lera Marques, Lydia; Santos, José Luis; García Ghiringheli, Carola; Arroyo Albala, Patricia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2005-11)
      Aim: The aim of this study was to develop predictive equations based on anthropometric data to estimate stature in people 60 years and older in Latin America. Design: Population-based cross-sectional study in three Latin ...
    • Santibáñez, Juan Francisco; Hurtado, Claudia (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-11-21)
      Efforts have been made to develop a chemoprevention that selectively triggers apoptosis in malignant cancer cells. Here, we demonstrated that a mutated Ha-Ras activity is required in Anisomycin-induced apoptosis in transformed ...
    • Muñoz, Carlos; López, Marcelo; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando; Araya, Magdalena (EUROPEAN CYTOKINE NETWORK, 2005-12)
      Backgound. Copper (Cu) is an essential trace element for many biological processes including maintenance of both innate and acquired branches of immunity. Objective. To measure the effect of copper supplementation on IL-2 ...
    • Cornejo Espinoza, Verónica; Concha C., Miluska; Cabello, Juan Francisco; Raimann Ballas, Erna (ARCHIVOS LATINOAMERICANOS DE NUTRICION, 2005-12)
      La Fenilquetonuria (PKU) se produce por un defecto total o parcial de la enzima fenilalanina hidroxilasa (FAH) acumulándose fenilalanina (FA) en sangre, lo que ocasiona retardo mental si no es diagnosticada en el período ...
    • Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Lera Marques, Lydia; Taibo, Marcela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (NORTH AMER ASSOC STUDY OBESITY, 2005-12)
      Trends in height and BMI of 6-year-old children during the nutrition transition in Chile. Obes Res. 2005;13:2178 –2186. Objective: We analyzed trends in height and BMI and their interaction in 6-year-old Chilean ...
    • Gotteland, Martín (TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS, 2005-12)
      Aim: To evaluate the effect of a probiotic, Lactobacillus acidophilus LB (LB), or a synbiotic, Saccharomyces boulardii plus inulin (SbI), on Helicobacter pylori (Hp) colonization in children. Subjects and methods: A clinical ...
    • Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Solomons, Noel (AMER SOCIETY NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE, 2005-12)
      Cancer results from the interaction of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposures. The diagnosis of cancer is age related; there is a marked increase in cancer incidence after the reproductive years. Nutrient and ...
    • Cabello, Alicia; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-12-27)
      Oysters feed by removing particles from the water. This food is composed of complex mixtures of living microorganisms, detrtus, and inorganic particles that widely range in size. It has been speculated that some marine ...
    • Armendáriz, Angela D.; Olivares, Felipe; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; Loguinov, Alex; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana; Vulpe, Christopher D.; González Canales, Mauricio (2006)
      The role of metallothioneins (MT) in copper homeostasis is of great interest, as it appears to be partially responsible for the regulation of intracellular copper levels during adaptation to extracellular excess of ...
    • Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Jiménez R., Beatriz; Pérez Bravo, Francisco; Liberman Guendelman, Claudio (2006)
      The genetic components of insulin-resistance, diabetes and obesity have been largely studied. These conditions are determined by multiple polygenic and environmental factors. Certain candidate genes, that have common ...
    • Mendiburo, María José; Flores, Sebastián; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando (2006)
      Heme oxygenase-1 is a microsomal enzyme that, when induced by stress, protects the cells from oxidative injury. Heme oxygenase-1 participates in the cleavage of the heme ring producing biliverdin, CO and ferrous Fe. The ...
    • Tapia S., Alexis; Araya, Magdalena (2006)
      The frequency of Crohn disease shows a significant increase in the last century. Affected patients show a misbalance between production of free radicals and anti oxidant defenses. Thus, one of the increasingly accepted ...
    • Luque, Cecilia; Cisternas, Felipe A.; Araya, Magdalena (2006)
      Background: During the twentieth century there was a change in the pattern of diseases in Europe, with an increase in the incidence of allergies and autoimmune disorders, that paralleled a decrease of infectious conditions. ...
    • Reyes, Angélica; Leiva, Andrea; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana; Méndez, Marco; González Canales, Mauricio (2006)
      Copper is an essential and toxic trace metal for bacteria and, therefore, must be tightly regulated in the cell. Enterococcus hirae is a broadly studied model for copper homeostasis. The intracellular copper levels in ...