Browsing by Title Facultad de Medicina
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(1992)A 45 year old male who manipulated tropical fish ponds developed painless nodular plaques in both hands. Biopsy showed mononuclear infiltrate of the dermis with few granulomata. Repeated cultures revealed M. marinum ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)In Chile, loxoscelism is caused by the bite of the Loxosceles laeta spider. The clinical presentation has two different forms: cutaneous loxoscelism (CL) and vicero-cutaneous loxoscelism, which is less frequent. Cutaneous ...
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(Springer Verlag, 2017)© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Neutrophils are a major component of the innate immune response and the most abundant circulating cell type in humans and zebrafish. The CXCL12/CXCR4 ligand receptor pair plays a ...
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(1998)Adenosine 5'-cyclic diphosphoribose [cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR)], a metabolite of NAD+ that promotes Ca2+ release from sea urchin egg homogenates and microsomal fractions, has been proposed to act as an endogenous agonist ...
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(Academic Press, 1996)The role of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and systolic function during the development of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) still remain uncertain. The aim of this work is to study PKA activity and mechanical ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)© 2018, The Author(s). Cyclosporine, a widely used immunosuppressant in organ transplantation and in treatment of various autoimmune diseases, activates the unfolded protein response (UPR), an ER stress coping response. ...
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(ELSEVIER, 2006-04)Leukoencephalopathy is a structural alteration of cerebral white matter mainly involving damage to myelin. Several reports have linked cyclosporine (CsA) with this alteration. The clinical features vary from qualitative ...
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(Society for General Microbiology, 2014)Some respiratory tract infections remain unexplained despite extensive testing for common pathogens. Nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPAs) from 120 Chilean infants from Santiago with acute lower respiratory tract infections were ...
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(Elsevier, 2001)CYP1A1, CYP2E1 and GSTM1 polymorphisms were evaluated in Chilean healthy controls and lung cancer patients. In the Chilean healthy group, frequencies of CYP1A1 variant alleles for MspI (m2 or CYP1A1*2A) and ile/val (val ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2021)Background: Tacrolimus (TAC) and mycophenolic acid (MPA) are the main immunosuppressive drugs used in pediatric kidney transplantation. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in metabolizing enzymes and transporters might ...
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(2011)Experimental evidence shows that the mechanism of pore formation by actinoporins is a multistep process, involving binding of the water-soluble monomer to the membrane and subsequent oligomerization on the membrane surface, ...
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(2009)Background: Patients with type 2 diabetes have a high incidence of coronary artery disease, which is even higher among those with renal failure. Serum levels of cystatin C are used to assess renal function and is a potential ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2008)Cystic tumors of the pancreas are diagnosed with increasing frequency. The main problems associated with their dia gnosis a re to determine if they are benign of' malingnant and to decide their surgical excision or clinical ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Obstetricia y GinecologiaRoman Diaz 205, Officina 205, 2020)
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(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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(2011)Background: Chromosome aberrations (CA) are the main etiology of multiple congenital malformations, recurrent abortions and intellectual disability (ID) specifically of moderate and severe degree. They account for 0.3 to ...
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(Wiley, 2020)The standard screening test for detecting cervical lesions and cancers is a Papanicolaou (Pap) smear. While squamous cell abnormalities remain the most common positive Pap test result, cytologic findings of glandular cell ...
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(1982)The gross morphology, histology, and ultrastructure of Liolaemus gravenhorsti gonads prior to and after differntiation are described. Special emphasis has been given to characterization and changes of the germ cell line ...