Browsing by Title Facultad de Medicina

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    • Delta band activity contributes to the identification of command following in disorder of consciousness 
      Rivera Lillo, Gonzalo Bernardo; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Bekinschtein, Tristan A.; Menon, David K.; Chennu, Srivas (Nature, 2021)
      The overt or covert ability to follow commands in patients with disorders of consciousness is considered a sign of awareness and has recently been defined as cortically mediated behaviour. Despite its clinical relevance, ...
    • Delusional disorders with delirium of somatic type Trastorno delirante con delirio de tipo somático. 
      Silva Silva, Laura; Ramírez Ramírez, Andrea; Jerez, Sofía (1995)
      The delusional disturbance is characterized by the presence of persistent delusions that are not bizarre, which cannot be attributed to schizophrenia, mood state disorders, substance abuse or organic brain disease. We ...
    • Demandas prioritarias y propuestas para un Chile diferente: Sistematización de 1233 cabildos ciudadanos 
      Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Medicina; Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile); Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile). Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas; Universidad Arturo Prat (Chile). Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud; Universidad de Santiago (Chile); Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (Chile); Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile); Universidad Católica del Maule (Chile); Universidad de Concepción (Chile). Grupo Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Derechos Humanos y Democracia GIIDHD-UdeC; Universidad de La Frontera (Chile); Universidad de Los Lagos (Chile); Universidad Austral de Chile. Instituto de Salud Pública (Editorial Unidad social, 2021)
      Gracias al trabajo colaborativo de doce universidades con Unidad Social, se da a conocer a la comunidad los resultados dispuestos en el documento "Demandas prioritarias y propuestas para un Chile diferente: Sistematización ...
    • Demandas y necesidades en salud de la población aymara en tres comunas de la provincia de Iquique 
      Troncoso S., Danka (Universidad de Chile, 2008)
      Como su nombre lo indica, la tesis esta referida a la Demanda y Necesidades de Salud de la Población Aymara” específicamente de la Provincia de Iquique. El objetivo del estudio busca explorar los conceptos de salud y ...
    • Dementia and COVID-19 in Chile, New Zealand and Germany: A research agenda for cross-country learning for ... 
      Laporte Uribe, Franziska; Arteaga Herrera, Oscar Germán; Bruchhausen, Walter; Cheung, Gary; Cullum, Sarah; Fuentes Garcia, Alejandra Marcela; Miranda Castillo, Claudia; Kerse, Ngaire; Kirk, Ray; Muru Lanning, Marama; Salinas Ríos, Rodrigo Alejandro; Schrott, Lothar; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea María; Roes, Martina (MDPI, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed existing gaps in policies, systems and services, stressing the need for concerted global action on healthy aging. Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia is a challenge for health ...
    • Dementia caregiving across Latin America and the Caribbean and brain health diplomacy 
      Ibáñez, Agustín; Pina Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Possin, Katherine L.; Quiroz, Yakeel T.; Aguzzoli Peres, Fernando; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea María; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Brucki, Sonia M. D.; Miller, Bruce L (Elsevier, 2021)
      The prevalence of dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean is growing rapidly, increasing the burden placed on caregivers. Exacerbated by fragile health-care systems, unstable economies, and extensive inequalities, ...
    • Dementia in Latin America: assessing the present and envisioning the future 
      Parra, Marrio A.; Baez, Sandra; Allegri, Ricardo; Nitrini, Ricardo; Lopera, Francisco; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Custodio, Nilton; Lira, David; Piguet, Olivier; Kumfor, Fiona; Huepe, David; Cogram, Patricia; Bak, Thomas; Manes, Facundo; Ibañez, Agustín (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018)
      The demographic structure of Latin American countries (LAC) is fast approaching that of developing countries, and the predicted prevalence of dementia in the former already exceeds the latter. Dementia has been declared a ...
    • Dementia in Latin America: Epidemiological Evidence and Implications for Public Policy 
      Custodio, Nilton; Wheelock, Ana; Thumala Dockendorff, Daniela Cecilia; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      Population aging is among the most important global transformations. Today, 12% of the world population is of age 60 and over and by the middle of this century this segment will represent 21.5%. The increase in population ...
    • Dementia in Latin America: paving the way toward a regional action plan 
      Parra, Mario Alfredo; Báez, Sandra; Sedeño, Lucas; González Campo, Cecilia; Santamaría García, Hernando; Aprahamian, Iván; Bertolucci, Paulo H. F.; Bustin, Julián; Camargos Bicalho, María Aparecida; Cano Gutiérrez, Carlos; Caramelli, Paulo; Chaves, Marcia L. F.; Cogram, Patricia; Costa Beber, Bárbara; Court, Felipe A.; Cruz de Souza, Leonardo; Custodio, Nilton; Damián, Andrés; Cruz, Myriam de la; Rodríguez, Roberta Diehl; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia María; Fajersztajn, Lais; Farías Gontupil, Gonzalo Andrés; Felice, Fernanda G. de; Ferrari, Raffaele; Ferreira de Oliveira, Fabricio; Ferreira, Sergio T.; Ferretti, Ceres; Figueredo Balthazar, Marcio Luiz; Ferreira Frota, Norberto Anizio; Fuentes, Patricio; García, Adolfo A.; García, Patricia J.; De Gobbi Porto, Fábio Henrique; Duque Peñailillo, Lissette; Engler, HenryWilly; Maier, Irene; Mata, Ignacio F.; González Billault, Christian; López, Oscar L.; Morelli, Laura; Nitrini, Ricardo; Quiroz, Yakeel T.; Guerrero Barragán, Alejandra; Huepe, David; Pio, Fabricio Joao; Kimie Suemoto, Claudia; Kochhann, Renata; Kochen, Silvia; Kumfor, Fiona; Lanata, Serggio; Miller, Bruce; Mansur, Leticia Lessa; Hosogi, Mirna Lie; Lillo, Patricia; Guerra, Jorge Llibre; Lira, David; Lopera, Francisco; Comas, Adelina; Ávila Funes, José Alberto; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Ramos, Claudia; França Resende, Elisa de Paula; Snyder, Heather M.; Tarnanas, Ioannis; Yokoyama, Jenifer; Llibre, Juan; Cardona, Juan Felipe; Possin, Kate; Kosik, Kenneth S.; Montesinos, Rosa; Moguilner, Sebastián; Solís, Patricia Cristina Lourdes; Ferretti Rebustini, Renata Eloah de Lucena; Ramírez, Jerónimo Martin; Matallana, Diana; Mbakile Mahlanza, Lingani; Marques Ton, Alyne Mendonça; Tavares, Ronnielly Melo; Miotto, Eliane C.; Muniz Terrera, Graciela; Muñoz Nevárez, Luis Arnoldo; Orozco, David; De Oliveira, Maira Okada; Piguet, Olivier; Caipa, Maritza Pintado; Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Schilling, Lucas Porcello; Rodrigues Palmeira, André Luiz; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Santacruz Escudero, José Manuel; Serafim, Rodrigo Bernardo; Smid, Jerusa; Slachevsky, Andrea; Serrano, Cecilia; Soto Añari, Marcio; Takada, Leonel Tadao; Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz; Teixeira, Antonio Lucio; Barbosa, Maira Tonidandel; Trépel, Dominic; Ibáñez, Agustín (Wiley, 2021)
      Across Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs), the fight against dementia faces pressing challenges, such as heterogeneity, diversity, political instability, and socioeconomic disparities. These can be addressed ...
    • Demographic and HIV-specific characteristics of participants enrolled in the INSIGHT Strategic Timing of ... 
      Sharma, S.; Babiker, A.G.; Emery, S.; Gordin, F.M.; Lundgren, J.D.; Neaton, J.N.; Bakowska, E.; Schechter, M.; Wiselka, M.J.; Wolff Reyes, Marcelo (British HIV Association, 2015)
      Objectives The risks and benefits of initiating antiretroviral treatment (ART) at high CD4 cell counts have not been reliably quantified. The Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) study is a randomized ...
    • Demographic history and selection at HLA loci in Native Americans 
      Single, Richard M.; Meyer, Diogo; Nunes, Kelly; Santos, Rodrigo; Hunemeier, Tábita; Maiers, Martin; Hurley, Carolyn K; Bedoya, Gabriel; Gallo, Carla; Hurtado, Ana Magdalena; Llop Romero, Elena; Petzl-Erler, Maria L.; Poletti, Giovanni; Rothhammer, Francisco; Tsuneto, Luiza; Klitz, William; Ruiz Linares, Andrés (Public Library Science, 2020)
      The American continent was the last to be occupied by modern humans, and native populations bear the marks of recent expansions, bottlenecks, natural selection, and population substructure. Here we investigate how this ...
    • Demonstration of ion channel synthesis by isolated squid giant axon provides functional evidence for localized ... 
      Mathur, Chhavi; Johnson, Kory R.; Tong, Brian A.; Miranda, Pablo; Srikumar, Deepa; Basilio, Daniel; Latorre, Ramón; Bezanilla, Francisco; Holmgren, Miguel (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
      © 2018 The Author(s). Local translation of membrane proteins in neuronal subcellular domains like soma, dendrites and axon termini is well-documented. In this study, we isolated the electrical signaling unit of an axon by ...
    • Demonstration of specific high affinity receptors for aldosterone in cytosol of rat colon 
      Binder, Henry J.; White Ortiz, Allan; Whiting, Diane; Hayslett, John (1986)
      Since both aldosterone and glucocorticoids increase cation transport in rat distal colon, and a specific glucocorticoid high affinity cytosolic receptor has been indentified in this tissue, it was possible that the action ...
    • Dendritic assembly of heteromeric γ-aminobutyric acid type B receptor subunits in hippocampal neurons 
      Ramírez, Omar A.; Vidal, René L.; Tello, Judith A.; Vargas, Karina J.; Kindler, Stefan; Härtel, Steffen; Couve, Andrés (2009)
      Understanding the mechanisms that control synaptic efficacy through the availability of neurotransmitter receptors depends on uncovering their specific intracellular trafficking routes. γ-Aminobutyric acid type B (GABAB) ...
    • Dendritic cell immunizations alone or combined with low doses of interleukin-2 induce specific immune ... 
      Escobar, A.; López, M.; Serrano, A.; Ramirez, M.; Pérez, C.; Aguirre, A.; González, R.; Alfaro, J.; Larrondo, M.; Fodor, M.; Ferrada, C.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio (2005)
      Dendritic cell (DC)-based therapy has proved to be effective in patients with a variety of malignancies. However, an optimal immunization protocol using DCs and the best means for delivering antigens has not yet been ...
    • Dendritic Cells and B Cells Cooperate in the Generation of CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ Allogeneic T Cells 
      Moore, C.; Sauma Mahaluf, Daniela; Reyes, P. A.; Morales, J.; Rosemblatt Silber, Mario César; Bono Merino, María Rosa; Fierro, J. A. (2010)
      Background: CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Treg) play an essential role in immune tolerance, suppressing responses against self-antigens. Additionally, Treg play an important role in maintaining immunosuppression to ...
    • Dendritic Cells and Toll-Like Receptors 2 and 4 in the Ileum of Crohn's disease patients 
      Silva, Manuel A.; Quera Pino, Rodrigo; Valenzuela Escobar, Jorge; Salim, Sa’ad Y.; Söderholm, Johan D.; Perdue, Mary H. (SPRINGER, 2008-07)
      We investigated myeloid-dendritic cell (DC) marker and Toll-like receptor (TLR)-2 and 4 distributions in ileal samples from Crohn’s disease (CD) patients (n = 14) and controls (n = 13). In controls, no TLR-2+ cells ...
    • Dendritic development in neocortex of infants with early postnatal life undernutrition 
      Cordero, María Elena; D'Acuña, Eduardo; Benveniste, Samuel; Prado, René; Nuñez, Juan Antonio; Colombo, Marta (1993)
      The structure of large pyramidal cells from layer V of the motor cortex of undernourished and well-nourished infants was studied to determine the effects of postnatal nutrition on cortical dendritic development. In ...
    • Dendritic development in the neocortex of adult rats subjected to postnatal malnutrition 
      Cordero, Maria Elena; Trejo, Manuel; Garcia, Emilio; Barros, Teresa; Colombo, Marta (1985)
      The Golgi-Cox method was used to study the maturation of the large pyramidal cells of the Vth cortical layer in two groups of adult rats, one subjected to early postnatal malnutrition and another malnourished only during ...
    • Densidad mineral ósea y adecuación de la dieta en pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica en hemodiálisis 
      Carrasco Naranjo, Fernando; Cano Cappellacci, Marcelo; Camousseigt, Jean; Rojas Moncada, Pamela; Inostroza Escobar, Jorge; Torres Díaz, Rubén (2013)
      Introducción: La desnutrición es común en la enfermedad renal crónica (ERC), junto a una menor masa muscular y densidad mineral ósea (DMO), aumentando el riesgo de morbilidad. Objetivo: Comparar la composición corporal ...