Facultad de Medicina: Recent submissions

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    • Characterization of adherent-invasive escherichia coli (AIEC) outer membrane proteins provides potential ... 
      Saitz Rojas, Waleska Lisette; Montero, David A.; Pardo, Mirka; Araya, Daniela; Fuente, Marjorie de la; Hermoso Ramello, Marcela Alejandra; Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio Javier; Ginard, Daniel; Rosselló Móra, Ramon; Rasko, Dave A.; Canto Fuentes, Felipe Antonio del; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto Mauricio (MDPI, 2022)
      Adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC) is a pathotype associated with the etiopathogenesis of Crohn’s disease (CD), albeit with an as-yet unclear role. The main pathogenic mechanisms described for AIEC are adherence to epithelial ...
    • B cell contribution to immunometabolic dysfunction and impaired immune responses in obesity 
      Oleinika, Kristine; Slisere, Baiba; Catalán Martina, Diego Francisco; Rosser, Elizabeth C. (Oxford University Press, 2022)
      Obesity increases the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease, and cancer. It is also linked with more severe complications from infections, including COVID-19, and poor vaccine ...
    • Aging and self‑reported health in 114 Latin American cities: gender and socio‑economic inequalities 
      Castillo Riquelme, Marianela Carmen; Yamada, Goro; Diez Roux, Ana V.; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Flores Alvarado, Sandra Andrea; Barrientos, Tonatiuh; Teixeira Vas, Camila; Trotta, Andrés; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Lazo, Mariana (BMC, England, 2022)
      Background: Understanding how urban environments influence people’s health, especially as individuals age, can help identify ways to improve health in the rapidly urbanizing and rapidly aging populations.
    • Processed meat consumption and associated factors in Chile: a cross-sectional study nested in the MAUCO cohort 
      Ruedlinger Standen, Jenny; Cid Ossandón, Vicente Salvador; Huidobro, Andrea; Van De Wyngard, Vanessa; Vargas, Claudio; Ferreccio Readi, Fresia Catterina (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      Processed meat consumption is increasing in Latin America. While in developed countries processed meat consumption has been associated with cardiovascular diseases and cancer, our region lacks data associated to its ...
    • Criteria for Diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome during Adolescence: Literature Review 
      Peña, Alexia S.; Codner Dujovne, Ethel; Witche, Selma (MDPI, 2022)
      Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine conditions in women. PCOS may be more challenging to diagnose during adolescence due to an overlap with the physiological events of puberty, which are ...
    • Bile acids induce alterations in mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle fibers 
      Abrigo, Johanna; Olguín, Hugo; Gutiérrez, Danae; Tacchi, Franco; Arrese, Marco; Cabrera, Daniel; Valero Breton, Mayalan; Elorza, Alvaro A.; Simon Pino, Felipe Alonso; Cabello Verrugio, Claudio (MDPI, 2022)
      Cholestatic chronic liver disease is characterized by developing sarcopenia and elevated serum levels of bile acids. Sarcopenia is a skeletal muscle disorder with the hallmarks of muscle weakness, muscle mass loss, and ...
    • Efecto de los niveles séricos de vitamina D en el pronóstico del melanoma cutáneo 
      Moro, R.; Sánchez Silva, A.; Aguerralde Martin, M.; González Cuevas, Rubén Wladimir; Peruilh Bagolini, Leonardo Andrés; Traves, V.; Manrique Silva, E.; Requenai, C.; Nagore, E. (Elsevier, 2022)
      Introduction: Vitamin D plays a fundamental role in many metabolic pathways, including those involved in cell proliferation and the immune response. Serum levels of this vitamin have been linked to melanoma risk and ...
    • Prognosis of PCI in AMI setting in the elderly population: outcomes from the multicenter prospective ... 
      Saada, Majdi; Kobo, Ofer; Polad, Jawed; Halabi, Majdi; IJsselmuiden, Alexander J. J.; Puentes Rico, Angel Alberto; Monségu, Jacques; Austin, David; Baisebenov, Ruslan K.; Spanó, Fabrizio; Roguin, Ariel (Wiley, 2022)
      Background Elderly patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are usually excluded from major trials. Hyopthesis This study sought to assess 1-year clinical ...
    • OnTrack Chile for people with early psychosis: a study protocol for a hybrid type 1 trial 
      Mascayano, Franco; Bello, Iruma; Andrews, Howard; Arancibia, Diego; Arratia, Tamara; Burrone, María Soledad; Conover, Sarah; Fader, Kim; Jorquera, María José; Gómez, Mauricio; Malverde, Sergio; Martínez Alés, Gonzalo; Ramírez Flores, Jorge Andrés; Reginatto, Gabriel; Restrepo Henao, Alexandra; Rosencheck, Robert A.; Schilling, Sara Hamilton; Smith, Thomas E.; Soto Brandt, Benjamín Gonzalo; Tapia Escobar, Eric Danilo; Tapia, Tamara; Velasco, Paola; Wall, Melanie M.; Yang, Lawrence H.; Cabassa, Leopoldo J.; Susser, Ezra; Dixon, Lisa; Alvarado, Rubén (BMC, 2022)
    • No evidence of brown adipose tissue activation after 24 weeks of supervised exercise training in young ... 
      Martínez Tellez, Borja; Sánchez Delgado, Guillermo; Acosta, Francisco M.; Alcantara, Juan M. A.; Amaro Gahete, Francisco J.; Martínez Avila, Wendy D.; Merchan Ramírez, Elisa; Muñoz Hernández, Victoria; Osuna Prieto, Francisco J.; Jurado Fasoli, Lucas; Xu, Huiwen; Ortiz Alvarez, Lourdes; Arias Téllez, María José; Méndez Gutiérrez, Andrea; Labayen, Idoia; Ortega, Francisco B.; Schönke, Milena; Rensen, Patrick C. N.; Aguilera, Concepción M.; Llamas Elvira, José M.; Gil, Ángel; Ruiz, Jonatan R. (Nature, 2022)
      Exercise modulates both brown adipose tissue (BAT) metabolism and white adipose tissue (WAT) browning in murine models. Whether this is true in humans, however, has remained unknown. An unblinded randomized controlled trial ...
    • Biomarkers for dementia in Latin American countries: gaps and opportunities 
      Parra, Mario A.; Orellana, Paulina; León Rodríguez, Tomás Ignacio; Cabello G., Victoria; Henríquez, Fernando; Gómez, Rodrigo; Avalos, Constanza; Damian, Andrés; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea María; Ibañez, Augustín; Zetterberg, Henrik; Tijms, Betty M.; Yokoyama, Jennifer S.; Piña Escudero, Stefanie D.; Cochran, J. Nicholas; Matallana, Diana L.; Acosta, Daisy; Allegri, Ricardo; Arias Suárez, Bianca P.; Barra, Bernardo; Behrens Pellegrino, María Isabel Ofelia; Brucki, Sonia M.D.; Busatto, Geraldo; Caramelli, Paulo; Castro Suarez, Sheila; Contreras, Valeria; Custodio, Nilton; Dansilio, Sergio; Cruz Puebla, Myriam de la; Cruz de Souza, Leonardo; Diaz, Mónica M.; Duque, Lissette; Farías Gontupil, Gonzalo Andrés; Ferreira, Sergio T.; Magrath Guimet, Nahuel; Kmaid, Ana; Lira, David; Lopera, Francisco; Mar Meza, Beatriz; Miotto, Eliane C.; Nitrini, Ricardo; Núñez, Alberto; O’Neill, Santiago; Ochoa, John; Pintado Caipa, Maritza; França Resende, Elisa de Paula; Risacher, Shannon; Rojas, Luz Angela; Sabaj, Valentina; Schilling, Lucas; Sellek, Allis F.; Sosa, Ana; Takada, Leonel T.; Teixeira, Antonio L.; Unaucho Pilalumbo, Martha; Durán Aniotz, Claudia (Wiley, 2022)
      Limited knowledge on dementia biomarkers in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries remains a serious barrier. Here, we reported a survey to explore the ongoing work, needs, interests, potential barriers, and opportunities ...
    • 30 s sit-to-stand power is positively associated with chest muscle thickness in COVID-19 survivors 
      Núñez Cortés, Rodrigo Ignacio; Cruz Montecinos, Carlos Vicente; Martinez Arnau, Francisco; Torres Castro, Rodrigo Hernán; Zamora Risco, Esteban; Pérez Alenda, Sofía; Andersen, Lars L.; Calatayud, Joaquín; Arana, Estalisnao (SAGE, 2022)
      Introduction: After hospitalization, early detection of musculoskeletal sequelae might help healthcare professionals to improve and individualize treatment, accelerating recovery after COVID-19. The objective was to ...
    • Detección de novedad y codificación predictiva en el sistema auditivo: Impacto clínico en disfunciones ... 
      Aedo Sánchez, Cristian Andrés (Sociedad Chilena de Otorrinolaringología, Medicina y Cirugía de Cabeza y Cuello, 2022)
      Una propiedad fundamental de los sistemas sensoriales es su capacidad para detectar estímulos novedosos en el entorno. El sistema nervioso posee neuronas que disminuyen su respuesta a los estímulos sonoros que se repiten ...
    • Formulación de un proyecto para aportar a mayor continuidad de la atención sanitaria de los usuarios de la ... 
      Aróstica Aróstica, Nicolás Ignacio (Universidad de Chile, 2023)
      El modelo de atención integral de salud basado en atención primaria presenta 3 principios irrenunciables: “centrado en las personas”, “integralidad de la atención” y “continuidad de la atención”. Sin embargo, su ...
    • Escrito sobre relación de causalidad en el caso de daño ambiental por emisiones del Complejo Industrial Ventanas 
      Ruiz Rudolph, Pablo Alejandro (2023)
      Hace algunos años fui contactado por el equipo de abogados demandantes de esta causa, los cuales me solicitaron ser testigo en ésta, dado mí rol como científico y académico en el área de salud y medio ambiente. Se me explicó ...
    • Utilidad clínica de PET/CT 18F-FDG ante pacientes con sospecha de Endocarditis Infecciosa 
      Reyes Cea, Antonieta (Universidad de Chile, 2023)
    • TNF-alpha affects signature cytokines of th1 and th17 t cell subsets through differential actions on TNFR1 ... 
      Pesce Reyes, Bárbara Paz; Ribeiro, Carolina Hager; Larrondo Lillo, Milton Leonel; Ramos, Verónica; Soto Sáez, Lilian Andrea; Catalán Martina, Diego Francisco; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (MDPI, 2022)
      Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)- is a pleiotropic cytokine implicated in the etiology of several autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). TNF- regulates diverse effector functions through the activation ...
    • The fly blood-brain barrier fights against nutritional stress 
      Contreras, Esteban G.; Sierralta Jara, Jimena Alejandra (SAGE, 2022)
      In the wild, animals face different challenges including multiple events of food scarcity. How they overcome these conditions is essential for survival. Thus, adaptation mechanisms evolved to allow the development and ...
    • The catalytic subunit of schizosaccharomyces pombe CK2 (Cka1) negatively regulates RNA polymerase II ... 
      Rojas, Diego A.; Urbina, Fabiola; Solari Illescas, Aldo Gerónimo; Maldonado Maldonado, Edio Luis (MDPI, 2022)
      Positive cofactor 4 (PC4) is a transcriptional coactivator that plays important roles in transcription and DNA replication. In mammals, PC4 is phosphorylated by CK2, and this event downregulates its RNA polymerase II ...
    • Sedentarismo y obesidad y su asociación a modificaciones de glicemia, insulina, proinsulina y HOMA en una ... 
      Fuentes Jara, Carolina (Universidad de Chile, 2020)
      En la actualidad, las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles son frecuentes y se asocian a mayor discapacidad y mortalidad. La diabetes mellitus es una de estas patologías, tiene una frecuencia creciente y es una de las ...