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Hancke, Juan L.; Srivastav, Shalini; Cáceres, Dante D.; Burgos, Rafael A. (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)Andrographis paniculata Wall (Acanthaceae) is becoming more recognized for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted to assess the efficacy of an ...
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Cáceres, Dante D.; Quiñones, Luis A.; Schroeder, Jane C.; Gil, Leonel D.; Irarrázabal, Carlos E. (2009)Lung cancer (LCa) is the leading cause of death by cancer in men. Genetic and environmental factors play a synergistic role in its etiology. We explore in 111 lung cancer cases and 133 unrelated noncancer controls the ...
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Burgos, Soledad; Tenorio, Marcela; Zapata, Pamela; Cáceres, Dante D.; Klarian, José; Alvarez, Nancy; Oviedo, Renato; Toro-Campos, Rosario; Claudio, Luz; Iglesias, Verónica (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Between 1984 and 1998, people living in Arica were involuntarily exposed to metal-containing waste stored in the urban area. The study aims to determine whether ...
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Werlinger, Fabiola; Cáceres, Dante D. (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Confusion in observational epidemiological studies distorts the relationship between exposure and event. “Step by step” regression models, diverts the ...
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Burgos, Rafael A.; Hancke, Juan L.; Cáceres, Dante D.; Wilkman, Georg; Fuenzalida, Hector (1997)The hepatotoxic effect of a dried root extract of Aralia mandshurica over a period of 60 days (0.16 g/kg, 1.5 g/kg and 3 g/kg) was studied in Landrace pigs of both sexes. The toxic effect of Aralia mandshurica was evaluated ...
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Acevedo, Cristián A.; Quiñones, Luis A.; Catalán, Johanna; Cáceres, Dante D.; Fullá, Juan A.; Roco, Angela M. (Elsevier Inc., 2014)Objective: Prognostic biomarkers that distinguish between patients with good or poor outcome can be used to guide decisions of whom to treat and how aggressively. In this sense, several groups have proposed genetic ...
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Brahm Barril, Javier; Urzúa Manchego, Álvaro; Poniachik Teller, Jaime; Cáceres, Dante D.; Carreño, Laura; Luca Venegas, Mauricio Pascual de (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background. Host genetic predispositions may be important determinants of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The association between ...
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Cayún, Juan P.; Zamorano, Javier; Quiñones, Luis; Varela, Nelson M.; Squicciarini, Valentina; Larenas, Héctor D.; Cáceres, Dante D. (Informatics Publishing Limited, 2015)© 2015, Informatics Publishing Limited. All rights reserved. Encelia canescens Lam (nv: mancapaqi, mataloba, matalobo, mucle, or “coronilla de fraile”) is a 30-80-cm high shrubby perennial plant that grows in the Atacama ...
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Varela, Nelson M.; Quiñones, Luis A.; Orellana, Myriam; Poniachik Teller, Jaime; Csendes Juhasz, Attila; Smok Sahid, Gladys; Rodrigo Salinas, Ramón; Cáceres, Dante D.; Videla Cabrera, Luis (2008)CYP2E1 enzyme is related to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) due to its ability for reactive oxygen species production, which can be influenced by polymorphisms in the gene. The aim of this study was to investigate ...