Browsing by Title Facultad de Medicina
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2002)Members of the Wnt family have been implicated in a variety of developmental processes including axis formation, patterning of the central nervous system and tissue morphogenesis. Recent studies have shown that a Wnt ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015 Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved.Remission of gastrointestinal and general symptoms after gluten withdrawal has been described in some non-celiac individuals for nearly 30 years. Only recently, efforts ...
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Non-conventional axonal organelles control TRPM8 ion channel trafficking and peripheral cold sensing (Cell Press, 2020)TRPM8 is the main ion channel responsible for cold transduction in the somatosensory system. Nerve terminal availability of TRPM8 determines cold sensitivity, but how axonal secretory organelles control channel delivery ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Non-dystrophic myotonias are a group of rare neuromuscular diseases linked to SCN4A or CLCN1 . Among the subtypes, myotonia permanens, associated with the Gly1306Glu variant of SCN4A , is a relatively less frequent but ...
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(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc., 2014)The α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is the most abundant nAChR type in the brain, and this receptor type exists in alternate (α4β2)2α4 and (α4β2)2β2 forms, which are activated by agonists with strikingly ...
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(NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, MACMILLAN BUILDING, 2007-05)Prostate cancer represents a major concern in human oncology and the phytoalexin resveratrol (RES) inhibits growth and proliferation of prostate cancer cells through the induction of apoptosis. In addition, previous data ...
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(Society for Reproduction and Fertility, 2010)Estradiol (E2) accelerates oviductal egg transport through intraoviductal non-genomic pathways in unmated rats and through genomic pathways in mated rats. This shift in pathways has been designated as intracellular path ...
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(2012)The absorption of heme iron has been described as distinctly different from that of non-heme iron. Moreover, whether heme and non-heme iron compete for absorption has not been well established. Our objective was to investigate ...
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(2012)The distribution of subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in Latin America is not well known. This Chilean study included 207 consecutive cases of NHL diagnosed at five cancer centers in the capital, Santiago, and one ...
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(SOC BIOLGIA CHILE, 2008)In the present experiments we studied exclusive and overlapping cortical representational areas of the vibrissae in layer IV cells, across the entire barrel subfield of the rat somatosensory cortex, looking for evidences ...
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(2007)Oxidative stress underlies postoperative atrial fibrillation and electrophysiological remodelling associated with rapid atrial pacing. An increasing body of evidence indicates that the formation of reactive oxygen species ...
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(1998)The reduction of infarct size produced by brief ischemic episodes prior to a sustained occlusion of a coronary artery, called ischemic preconditioning, is a well known phenomenon that occurs in several species, but its ...
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Non-nutritive sweeteners in the food supply: changes after the first phase of the Chilean Food Law (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020)
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(Sociedade Brasileira de Genética, 2009)The complete base sequence of HIV-1 virus and GP120 ENV gene were analyzed to establish their distance to the expected neutral random sequence. An especial methodology was devised to achieve this aim. Analyses included: a) ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2002)Necrosis is considered as a non-specific form of cell death that induces tissue inflammation and is preceded by cell swelling. This increase in cell volume has been ascribed mainly to defective outward pumping of Na+ caused ...
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(1993)In a group of 159 women at Santiago du Chili, fertility control by means of chemical occlusion of the utero-tubular junction was assessed. Two transcervical intra-uterine insertions of 216 mg of quinacrin, carried out at ...
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(ELSEVIER, 2007-09)Background/Aims: Insulin resistance is a common feature of both nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), therefore, we hypothesize that PCOS and NAFLD may coexist. The aim of the present ...
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(Hindawi Publishing, 2015)Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related death, whose patterns vary among geographical regions and ethnicities. It is a multifactorial disease, and its development depends ...
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(2008)In this article we check for nonlinear behaviour of the 10 most important Latin American emerging market bonds spreads. Applying the Hinich portmanteau bicorrelation test, the BDS test and the Engle LM test, we observe ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009)It is well known that nonlinear electrostatic instabilities can be triggered in a plasma with streaming ion species in the presence of finite-amplitude Alfvén cyclotron waves. The instability occurs when the phase velocity ...
