Browsing by Title Facultad de Medicina
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(2007)We determined the incidence of nosocomial candiduria associated with indwelling urinary catheters in 42 women with and without Candida spp. vaginal colonization being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU). We established ...
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(1992)We studied the transmission of rotavirus (RV) in 950 patients under 2 years of age hospitalized for diarrhea in Santiago, Chile. Stool samples were collected every other day from all patients during their entire hospital ...
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(2003)We present two cases of nosocomial urinary tract infection due to Trichosporon asahii in intensive care unit patients with bladder catheter from two hospitals in Santiago, Chile. Both patients had an several catheters and ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2018)The historical development of the terms “infection” and “miasma” is analyzed. Miasma was understood as a kind of corrupt or pestilent air that emanated from putrefactive bodies and spread infectious diseases. This concept ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Artes, Departamento de Música, 1967-06)
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(Wiley, 2020)Chagas disease is a vector-borne disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Current therapy involves benznidazole. Benznidazole and other drugs can modify gene expression patterns, improving the response ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Introduction: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare hereditary stroke disorder caused by mutations in the NOTCH3 gene. We report the first Chilean ...
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(Sociedad de Cirujanos de Chile, 2010)Introduction: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) and Laparoendoscopic Single Site Surgery (LESS) are emerging technologies, which allows to performed surgical procedures avoiding any surgical scars. ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Obstetricia y GinecologiaRoman Diaz 205, Officina 205, 2020)
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Novel Alpha-Synuclein Oligomers Formed with the Aminochrome-Glutathione Conjugate Are Not Neurotoxic (Springer New York LLC, 2019)© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Aminochrome induces neurotoxic alpha-synuclein oligomer formation relevant to the etiology of Parkinson’s disease. Oxidative stress produces aminochrome ...
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(Public Library Science, 2015)Chagas disease is one of the most neglected tropical diseases in the world, affecting nearly 15 million people, primarily in Latin America. Only two drugs are used for the treatment of this disease, nifurtimox and benznidazole. ...
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(BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2007-10)Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic bacterium that infects a half of the human population. In Chile, between 55% and 79% of people are colonized by H. pylori . At present, therapeutic strategies to eradicate the ...
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(PLOS One, 2014)Hemocyanins, the huge oxygen-transporting glycoproteins of some mollusks, are used as immunomodulatory proteins with proven anti-cancer properties. The biodiversity of hemocyanins has promoted interest in identifying new ...
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(ENDOCRINE SOC, 2004-08)Primary hyperparathyroidism may occur as part of hereditary syndromes, including multiple endocrine neoplasia types 1 and 2A (MEN1 and MEN2A), hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome, and the familial isolated hyperparathyroidism ...
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(2003)Drosophila discs-large (dlg) mutants exhibit multiple developmental abnormalities, including severe defects in neuronal differentiation and synaptic structure and function. These defects have been ascribed to the loss of ...
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(2009)Monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8; approved symbol SLC16A2) facilitates cellular uptake and efflux of 3,3′,5-triiodothyronine (T3). Mutations in MCT8 are associated with severe psychomotor retardation, high serum T3 and ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)Insulin-like growth factor-1, angiotensin-(1-7) and angiotensin-(1-9) have been proposed to be important mediators in cardioprotection. A large body of evidence indicates that insulin like growth factor-1 has pleotropic ...
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(AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, 2006-06)Capsid and polymerase (RdRp) genes of 13 norovirus outbreak strains from Chile were compared. The genes sequences were discordant for five strains, and recombination was confirmed for two of them by amplification of a ...
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(Informa Healthcare, 2015)© 2015 Informa UK, Ltd. Sepsis is a systemic uncontrolled inflammatory response in the presence of an infection. It remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. According to its severity, ...
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(Informa Healthcare, 2014)For years now, the delivery of small molecules through the buccal mucosal route has been described in the literature, but it has only been over the past decade that investigations into macromolecule delivery via the buccal ...
