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    • Araya, Magdalena (2006)
      Anti endomysial and anti transglutaminase (EMA/TTG) antibodies measurements in large population groups, show that celiac disease is significantly more common than previously thought and 0.5-1% of the population suffer ...
    • Ho Urriola, Judith; Guzmán Guzmán, Iris P; Smalley, Susan V.; González, Andrea; Weisstaub Nuta, Sergio; Domínguez Vásquez, Patricia; Valladares, Macarena; Amador, Paola; Hodgson, María Isabel; Obregón, Ana M.; Santos, José Luis (Elsevier, 2014)
      Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the association between melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) rs17782313 alleles with obesity and eating behavior scores in Chilean children. Methods: A case–control study was ...
    • Soto Moyano, Rubén; Burgos, Héctor; Flores, Francisco; Valladares Boasi, Luis; Sierralta, Walter; Fernández Hidalgo, Víctor; Pérez, Hernán; Hernández, Paula; Hernández, Alejandro (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2006-10)
      Melatonin has been shown to inhibit long-term potentiation (LTP) in hippocampal slices of rats. Since LTP may be one of the main mechanisms by which memory traces are encoded and stored in the central nervous system, it ...
    • Miranda, Simón; Vilches, Paulina; Suazo, Miriam; Pavez, Leonardo; García, Katherine; Méndez, Marco; González, Mauricio; Meisel, Lee; Defilippi, Bruno G.; Pozo, Talia del (Elsevier, 2020)
      Sweet cherry is a valuable non-climacteric fruit with elevated phytonutrients, whose fruit quality attributes are prone to rapid deterioration after harvest, especially peel damage and water loss of stem. Here the metabolic ...
    • Rodríguez, J. Pablo; Montecinos, Luis; Ríos, Susana; Reyes, Patricio; Martínez, Jorge (Wiley-Liss, 2000)
      Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), precursor cells resident in the bone marrow, have the capacity to differentiate into bone, cartilage, fat, and connective tissue. We have recently reported that MSCs from "healthy" donors ...
    • Burrows, Raquel; Cárdenas, T.; Correa Burrows, María Paulina (Karger, 2015)
    • Galgani Fuentes, José; Moro, Cedric; Ravussin, Eric (AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-11)
      Metabolic flexibility is the capacity for the organism to adapt fuel oxidation to fuel availability. The inability to modify fuel oxidation in response to changes in nutrient availability has been implicated in the ...
    • Martínez Arroyo, Ángela; Moreno Macías, Hortensia; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa (Routledge, 2017)
      Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been previously associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Mammographic density (MD) is a marker of breast cancer risk. There is little evidence ...
    • Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María; Guerrero Bosagna, Carlos; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Leiva Balich, Laura; Barrera Acevedo, María; Llanos Silva, Miguel; Alliende Rodríguez, María Angélica; Silva, Francisca; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (ELSEVIER, 2008-12)
      Objective: We assessed the impact of high serum folate concentration oil erythrocyte S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) concentrations, SAM/SAH ratio, CpG methylation levels across the promoter region ...
    • Merinero, B.; Pérez, B.; Pérez Cerda, C.; Rincón, A.; Desviat, L. R.; Martínez, M. A.; Ruiz Sala, P; García, M. J.; Aldamiz Echevarría, L.; Campos, J.; Cornejo Espinoza, Verónica; Toro, M. del; Mahfoud, A.; Martínez Pardo, M.; Parini, R.; Pedrón, C.; Peña Quintana, L.; Pérez, M.; Pourfarzam, M.; Ugarte, M. (SPRINGER, 2008-02)
      Methylmalonic acidaemia (MMA) is a genetic disorder caused by defects in methylmalonyl-CoA mutase or in any of the different proteins involved in the synthesis of adenosylcobalamin. The aim of this work was to examine the ...
    • Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Lera Marques, Lydia; Fuentes García, Alejandra; Salinas Cubillos, Judith (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2016)
      Objective: To know nutrition, education and gastronomic expert opinion to get consensus about education methodologies in healthy food topics for third to fifth school-age children, their parents and teachers, with the ...
    • Vásquez Dean, Javiera; Maza, Felipe; Morel, Isidora; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; González, Mauricio (Soc Biolgia Chile, 2020)
      Arid environments are defined by the lack of water availability, which is directly related to the mean annual precipitation (MAP), and high values of solar irradiation, which impacts the community composition of animals, ...
    • Johnston, Bradley C.; Lytvyn, Lyubov; Calvin, Ka-Fung Lo; Allen, Stephen; Wang, Duolao; Szajewska, Hania; Miller, Mark; Ehrhardt, Stephan; Sampalis, John; Duman, Deniz; Pozzoni, Pietro; Colli, Agostino; Lonnermark, Elisabet; Selinger, Christian; Wong, Samford; Plummer, Susan; Hickson, Mary; Pancheva, Ruzha; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Klarin, Bengt; Goldenberg, Joshua; Wang, Li; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Foster, Gary; Maw, Anna; Sadeghirad, Behnam; Thabane, Lehana; Mertz, Dominik (Cambridge University Press, 2018-07)
      OBJECTIVE. To determine whether probiotic prophylaxes reduce the odds of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in adults and children. DESIGN. Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized controlled ...
    • 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 ...
    • Timmis, Kenneth; Jebok, Franziska; Espejo Torres, Romilio (Wiley, 2017)
    • Villasante, Alejandro; Catalán, Natalia; Rojas, Rodrigo; Lohrmann, Karin B.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (MDPI, 2020)
      Withering syndrome (WS), an infectious disease caused by intracellular bacteria Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis, has provoked significant economic losses in abalone aquaculture. The pathogen infects gastroenteric ...
    • García, Katherine; Gavilán, Ronnie G.; Höfle, Manfred G.; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2012-01-24)
      The emergence of the pandemic strain Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 in 1996 caused a large increase of diarrhea outbreaks related to seafood consumption in Southeast Asia, and later worldwide. Isolates of this strain ...
    • Bernal Sore, Izela; Navarro Márquez, Mario F.; Osorio Fuentealba, César; Díaz Castro, Francisco; Campo, Andrea del; Donoso Barraza, Camila; Porras Espinoza, Omar; Lavandero González, Sergio; Troncoso Cotal, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2018)
      Mifepristone is the only FDA-approved drug for glycaemia control in patients with Cushing's syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Mifepristone also has beneficial effects in animal models of diabetes and patients with antipsychotic ...
    • Díaz Castro, Francisco; Monsalves Álvarez, Matías; Rojo, Leonel E.; Campo, Andrea del; Troncoso, Rodrigo (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      A growing body of research indicates that cortisol, the glucocorticoid product of the activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, plays a role in the pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome. In this regard, chronic ...
    • Soto Moyano, Rubén; Valladares Boasi, Luis; Sierralta, Walter; Pérez, Hernán; Mondaca, Mauricio; Fernández, Víctor; Burgos, Héctor; Hernández Hidalgo, Alejandro (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, 2005-06)
      Mild reduction in the protein content of the mother's diet from 25 to 8% casein, calorically compensated by carbohydrates, does not alter body and brain weights of rat pups at birth, but leads to significant enhancements ...