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    • Genioglossus muscle advancement and simultaneous sliding genioplasty in the management of sleep apnoea 
      Rojas, R.; Chateau, R.; Gaete, C.; Muñoz, C. (Churchill Livingstone, 2018)
      Genioglossus muscle advancement (GMA) was reported in 1993 as an option for the surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS), in the context of phase I of the Stanford University (Powell Riley) protocol. ...
    • La genioplastía funcional en los síndromes de exceso vertical anterior de la cara (casos clínicos) 
      Villanueva Maffei, Julio; Encina Moriamez, María Susana; Pantoja Parada, Pedro (Colegio de Dentistas de Chile, 1994-04)
      Functional genioplasty is an ostetomy of the chin, that reduces the lowest facial height in case of long face sindromes and establishes the labio-mental function, allowing to get both functional and aesthetic results. The ...
    • Genistein activates transcription factor EB and corrects Niemann–Pick C phenotype 
      Argüello, Graciela; Balboa, Elisa; Tapia, Pablo J.; Castro, Juan; Yáñez, María José; Mattar, Pamela; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo Enrique; Zanlungo, Silvana (MDPI, 2021)
      Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPCD) is a lysosomal storage disease (LSD) characterized by abnormal cholesterol accumulation in lysosomes, impaired autophagy flux, and lysosomal dysfunction. The activation of transcription ...
    • Genistein selectively inhibits estrogen-induced cell proliferation and other responses to hormone stimulation ... 
      Gaete, Leonardo; Tchernitchin, Andrei N.; Bustamante, Rodrigo; Villena, Joan; Lemus, Igor; Gidekel, Manuel; Cabrera, Gustavo; Carrillo, Omar (2011)
      Sex hormone replacement therapy helps improve quality of life in climacteric women. However, estrogen-induced cell proliferation in the uterus and mammary gland increases the risk for cancer in these organs. The lower ...
    • Genital injuries: are they telling us something about sexual violence? 
      Orellana Campos, Carolina (Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia, 2020)
      Genital injury has a forensic relevance after a sexual assault and it has been discussed and investigated among professionals who work in this field. To analyze the studies published in the last decades, the present review ...
    • El genocidio y la atribución de responsabilidad penal individual internacional: contribuciones del caso ... 
      Vallejos Morales, Alejandra Andrea (Universidad de Chile, 2004)
      Debido a diversos sucesos de conocimiento mundial, la atribución de la responsabilidad individual penal internacional ha pasado a ocupar un papel preponderante en los debates de derecho internacional. Juzgar y castigar ...
    • Genocidio: ciclos de silencio 
      Silva Bustamante, Gabriel (Universidad de Chile, 2016)
      La presente investigación se concentra en el estudio sobre procesos de rescate y reproducción visual del cual es objeto la cultura Selk’nam u Onas, tribu precolombina asentada al extremo sur de Chile y Argentina, y ...
    • Genome and functional characterization of colonization factor antigen I- and CS6-encoding heat-stable ... 
      Hazen, Tracy H.; Nagaraj, Sushma; Sen, Sunil; Permala-Booth, Jasnehta; Canto, Felipe Del; Vidal, Roberto; Barry, Eileen M.; Bitoun, Jacob P.; Chen, Wilbur H.; Tennant, Sharon M.; Rasko, David A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2019)
      Copyright © 2019 Hazen et al. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a significant cause of childhood diarrhea and is a leading cause of traveler's diarrhea. ETEC strains encoding the heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) are ...
    • Genome based metabolic flux analysis of Ethanoligenens harbinense for enhanced hydrogen production 
      Castro, J. F.; Razmilic, V.; Gerdtzen Hakim, Ziomara (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2013-02-06)
      Ethanoligenens harbinense is a promising hydrogen producing microorganism due to its high inherent hydrogen production rate. Even though the effect of media optimization and inhibitory metabolites has been studied in ...
    • Genome diversification within a clonal population of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus seems to depend on ... 
      Loyola, David E.; Navarro, Cristell; Uribe, Paulina; García, Katherine; Mella, Claudia; Díaz, Diego; Valdes, Natalia; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: New strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that cause diarrhea in humans by seafood ingestion periodically emerge through continuous evolution in the ocean. Influx and expansion in the Southern Chilean ocean of ...
    • Genome editing and protein energy malnutrition 
      Moreno Nombela, S.; Romero Parra, Javier Hernán; Ruiz Ojeda, F. J.; Solis Urra, P.; Baig, A. T.; Plaza Díaz, J. (2023)
      Protein-energy malnutrition is a state of disordered catabolism resulting from metabolic derangements or starvation. It is associated with chronic disease, hypoglycemia, hypothermia, serious infections, and even an increased ...
    • Genome sequencing and transcriptomic analysis of the andean killifish orestias ascotanensis reveals adaptation ... 
      Di Genova, Alex; Nardocci, Gino; Maldonado Agurto, Rodrigo Alejandro; Hodar Quiroga, Christian Eduardo; Valdivieso, Camilo; Morales, Pamela; Gajardo, Felipe; Marina, Raquel; Gutiérrez, Rodrigo A.; Orellana, Ariel; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana Verónica; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro; Glavic Maurer, Alvaro Alberto; Mendez Torres, Marco Antonio; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro Eduardo; Allende Connelly, Miguel Luis; Montecino, Martin A. (Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2021)
      Orestias ascotanensis (Cyprinodontidae) is a teleost pupfish endemic to springs feeding into the Ascotan saltpan in the Chilean Altiplano (3,700 m.a.s.l.) and represents an opportunity to study adaptations to high-altitude ...
    • Genome type analysis of chilean adenovirus strains isolated in a children's hospital between 1988 and 1990 
      Kajon, Adriana E.; Larrañaga, Carmen; Suárez, Mónica; Wadell, Göran; Avendaño, Luis F. (1994)
      In a study designed to evaluate the genetic variability of adenovirus strains associated with infantile cases of respiratory disease requiring hospitalization, a collection of 136 adenovirus isolates obtained in the Roberto ...
    • Genome type analysis of South American adenoviruses of subgenus C collected over a 7-year period 
      Kajon, Adriana E.; Vicente Suárez, M.; Avendaño, L. F.; Hortal, M.; Wadell, G. (Springer-Verlag, 1993)
      A collection of 148 adenovirus strains of subgenus C collected in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay were studied by restriction enzyme analysis of genomic DNA with endonucleases Bam HI, Bgl II, Bst EII, Eco RI, Hind III, Kpn ...
    • Genome wide association analysis for resistance to Caligus rogercresseyi in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) 
      Correa, K.; Lhorente, Jean Paul; López, M. E.; Figuera, R.; Bassini, Liane; Di Genova, Alex; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; Davidson, W.; Yáñez López, José (Elsevier, 2017)
    • Genome wide association study for resistance to Caligus rogercresseyi in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) ... 
      Correa, Katharina; Lhorente, Jean Paul; Bassini, Liane; López, María E.; Di Genova, Alex; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; Davidson, William S.; Yáñez López, José (Elsevier, 2017)
      The sea louse (Caligus rogercresseyi) is an external parasite and considered one of the most important health problems in the salmon farming industry. Resistance to conventional chemical treatments has been demonstrated ...
    • Genome wide identification of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (ATCC 23270) transcription factors and comparative ... 
      Hödar Quiroga, Christian; Moreno, Pablo; Genova, Alex di; Latorre, Mauricio; Reyes Jara, Angélica; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana (Springer, 2012)
      Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is a chemolithoautotrophic acidophilic bacterium that obtains its energy from the oxidation of ferrous iron, elemental sulfur, or reduced sulfur minerals. This capability makes it of great ...
    • Genome-enabled predictions for fruit weight and quality from repeated records in European peach progenies 
      Biscarini, Filippo; Nazzicari, Nelson; Bink, Marco; Arús, Pere; Aranzana, Maria José; Verde, Ignazio; Micali, Sabrina; Pascal, Thierry; Quilot-Turion, Benedicte; Lambert, Patrick; Da Silva Linge, Cassia; Pacheco, Igor; Bassi, Daniele; Stella, Alessandra; Rossini, Laura (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Highly polygenic traits such as fruit weight, sugar content and acidity strongly influence the agroeconomic value of peach varieties. Genomic Selection (GS) can accelerate peach yield and ...
    • Genome-scale metabolic models of Microbacterium species isolated from a high altitude desert environment 
      Mandakovic, Dinka; Cintolesi, Ángela; Maldonado, Jonathan; Mendoza, Sebastián; Aite, Meziane; Gaete, Alexis; Saitua, Francisco; Allende, Miguel; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana; Siegel, Anne; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Latorre Mora, Mauricio (Nature, 2020)
      The Atacama Desert is the most arid desert on Earth, focus of important research activities related to microbial biodiversity studies. In this context, metabolic characterization of arid soil bacteria is crucial to understand ...
    • Genome-scale reconstruction of Salinispora tropica CNB-440 metabolism to study strain-specific adaptation 
      Contador, C. A.; Rodríguez, V.; Andrews Farrow, Bárbara; Asenjo, J. A. (Springer, 2015)
      The first manually curated genome-scale metabolic model for Salinispora tropica strain CNB-440 was constructed. The reconstruction enables characterization of the metabolic capabilities for understanding and modeling the ...