Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias: Recent submissions
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(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent progenitor cells localized in the stromal compartment of the bone marrow (BM). The potential of MSC for mesenchymal differentiation has been well documented ...
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Invasive African clawed frog Xenopus laevis in southern South America: key factors and predictions (Taylor & Francis, 2013)The African clawed frog Xenopus laevis is one of the most widely distributed amphibians in the world. It has invaded an area of approximately 21,200 km2 since its naturalization in Chile in the early 1980s. Currently, ...
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(The American Association of Immunologists, 2013)Elevated numbers of activated platelets circulate in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, including atherosclerosis and coronary disease. Activated platelets can activate the complement system. Although complement ...
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(2013)Poxvirus infections have been found in 230 species of wild and domestic birds worldwide in both terrestrial and marine environments. This ubiquity raises the question of how infection has been transmitted and globally ...
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(2013)Los estudios de campo con reptiles, requieren en muchas oportunidades de poder contar con métodos de marcaje que permitan el seguimiento de los animales en el mediano y largo plazo y que ellos sean válidos desde la ...
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(SAGE, 2013)A 1-year-old, female, previously spayed domestic shorthair cat presented with abnormal behavior characterized by rubbing up against objects, vocalization and abnormal body posture. A diagnostic laparoscopy was performed ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)Piscirickettsia salmonis is the aetiological agent of piscirickettsiosis, a disease which affects a variety of teleost species and that is particularly severe in salmonid fish. Bacterial-free supernatants, obtained from ...
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(Stichting International Foundation for Animal Genetics,, 2013-04-23)Relatively large rates of response to traits of economic importance have been observed in different selection experiments in salmon. Several QTL have been mapped in the salmon genome, explaining unprecedented levels of ...
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(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to mammal hosts by triatomine insect vectors. The goal of this study was to model the spatial distribution of triatomine species ...
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(BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2013-06-24)Background: The objectives of the study were to characterize the expression of the α- and β-subunits of granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor in bovine cumulus cells and oocytes and to determine ...
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(BioMed Central, 2013-03-23)At high altitudes, hypoxia, oxidative stress or both compromise sheep fertility. In the present work, we tested the relative effect of short- or long-term exposure to high altitude hypobaric hypoxia and oxidative stress on ...
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Expression of growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF-9) during in vitro maturation in canine oocytes (Elsevier, 2013)The aim of this study was to characterize in canine oocytes and cumulus cells the dynamic expression of growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF-9) in relation to meiotic development and cumulus expansion throughout in vitro ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006-07-13)In the last 9 years, epizootics of an icterus condition has affected coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum), reared in seawater cages in southern regions of Chile. At necropsy, fish from field cases exhibited signs ...
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(2009)The inhibitory effect of a specific small EGR-1 interfering RNA (siRNA) on cell proliferation and the expression of EGR-1 in human prostate carcinoma cell lines PC-3 and LNCaP was investigated. To knockdown Egr-1 expression, ...
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(Springer, 2013)Although a 40%absorption of a standard reference dose corresponds to iron (Fe) absorption in borderline Fedeficient subjects, this percentage is currently applied to all subjects independent of Fe status: (a) to assess ...
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(Elsevier, 2009-03-18)Three chitosan formulations were evaluated for their ability as adjuvant of a poor immunogenic peptide vaccine against GnRH-I. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were immunized subcutaneously with recombinant His-GnRH-tandem-repeat ...
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(2009)Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)-associated diseases are considered to be the biggest problem for the worldwide swine industry. The PCV2 capsid protein (Cap) is an important antigen for development of vaccines. At present, ...
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(1997)Fecal samples from slaughtered cattle were studred for enterohaemorrhagic E&vichia co/i (EHEC) by DNA hybridization with biotin-labelled DNA probes specific for the EHEC virulence plasmid, Shigalike toxin I (SLT I), ...
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(1997)The ocurrence of Yersinia enterocolitica in tonsils and rectal swabs from 100 healthy pigs and the rectal swabs of 100 healthy cattle slaughtered at Santiago-Clule were analysed. Yersinia entemcolitica was isolated from ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, 2007-12)The effects of the anaesthetic protocol, based on a premedication with atropine and azaperone (Stresnil®) and the anesthetic induction with a 0.5% ketamine solution, were studied in 25 healthy adults rabbits. Each animal ...
