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Hancke, Juan; Cáceres, Dante; Burgos, Rafael A.; Hernández, Doris; Rojas, Armando; Morales, Miguel A. (2009)Senna crude herbal paste, CIRUELAX®, laxative used in America and Spain, was administered by oral gavage to mice and rats once daily in doses from 2 to 10 g/kg for 7 days. LD50 was rated as higher than 10 g/kg. To determine ...
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Tapia-Garay, Valentina; Figueroa, Daniela P.; Maldonado, Ana; Frías-Laserre, Daniel; Gonzalez, Christian R.; Parra, Alonso; Canals, Lucía; Apt Baruch, Werner; Alvarado, Sergio A.; Cáceres, Dante; Canals Lambarri, Mauricio (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 2018)© 2018, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. All rights reserved. BACKGROUND Vector transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi appears to be interrupted in Chile; however, data show increasing incidence of Chagas’ disease, raising concerns that ...
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Quiñones, Luis; Lee, Kuen; Varela F, Nelson; Escala, Mario; García, Karen; Godoy, Loreto; Castro, Andrés; Soto, Jorge; Saavedra, Iván; Cáceres, Dante (2006)Pharmacogenetics is the study of genetically determined variations in the response to drugs and toxic agents, and their implications on disease. Recently, the discipline has acquired great relevancy due to the development ...
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Changes in age and geographic distribution of the risk of Chagas disease in Chile from 1989 to 2017 Canals Lambarri, Mauricio; Canals Cifuentes, Andrea; Ayala, Salvador; Valdebenito, Jorge; Alvarado, Sergio; Cáceres, Dante (Mary Ann Liebert, 2020)The interruption of vector-borne transmission of Chagas disease was certified in Chile in 1999. Our goal was to determine the effects of the interruption of vector transmission on the age and spatial distributions of the ...
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Varela, Nelson; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis; Stojanova, Jana; Garay, Joselyn; Cáceres, Dante; Cespedes, Silvia; Sasso, Jaime; Miranda, Carla (Elsevier, 2015-11)We tested the influence of four polymorphisms and gene duplication in CYP2D6 on in vivo enzyme activity in a Chilean mestizo population in order to identify the most relevant genetic profiles that account for observed ...
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Lee, Kuen; Cáceres, Dante; Varela, Nelson; Csendes D, Atila; Ríos R, Horacio; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis (2006)Background: Gastric cancer (GaC) is the second cause of death by cancer in the world and one of the first causes in Chile. However, the burden of this disease shows remarkable worldwide variation probably explained by ...
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Iglesias Álamos, Verónica; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Silva, Claudio; Cáceres, Dante (2007)Objective: To assess the relationship between early tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of marijuana consumption among schoolchildren. Methods: A cross-sectional study comprising data from the Fourth National Study on ...
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Gil, Lionel; Cáceres, Dante; Adonis Parraguez, Marta (S. Karger AG, 1997)The influence of atmospheric pollution on indoor air quality (IAQ) was studied in downtown Santiago (Chile). Carbon monoxide (CO), nicotine, the mass of respirable particulate matter below 5 μm (PM5 fraction) and total and ...
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Moreno, Iván; Quiñones, Luis; Catalán, Johanna; Miranda, Carla; Roco, Ángela; Sasso, Jaime; Tamayo Carrillo, Evelyn; Cáceres, Dante; Tchernitchin, Andrei N.; Gaete, Leonardo; Saavedra, Iván (2012)Introduction. Levonorgestrel a synthetic progestagen used for endometriosis, dysmenorrhea and emergency contraception, is quickly and completely absorbed in the digestive tract. levonorgestrel is predominantly metabolised ...
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Roco, Ángela; Cerda, Berta; Cayún, Juan Pablo; Lavanderos, Alejandra; Rubilar, Juan Carlos; Cerro, Roberto; Acevedo, Christian; Cáceres, Dante; Varela, Nelson; Quiñones, Luis A. (Sociedad Chilena de Pediatria, 2018)© 2018, Sociedad Chilena de Pediatria. All rights reserved. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world, causing 8.8 million deaths in 2015 according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Risk factors for ...
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Canals Lambarri, Mauricio; Yáñez González, Christian Ariel; Canals, Lucía; Canals Cifuentes, Andrea; Cáceres, Dante; Alvarado, Sergio A.; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Saavedra, Miguel; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Apt Baruch, Werner (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2017)©, 2017 Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved.Chagas disease remains highly prevalent in Chile, especially between the regions of Arica and Parinacota, and Coquimbo. Since 1999 it is considered that in Chile ...