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    • McCormack, Valerie; Burton, Anya; Santos Silva, Isabel dos; Hipwell, John; Dickens, Caroline; Salem, Dorria; Kama, Rasha; Hartman, Mikael; Lee, Charmaine Pei Ling; Chiah, Kee-Seng; Ozmen, Vahit; Aribal, Mustafa Erkin; Flugelman, Anath Arzee; Lajous, Martín; López Riduara, Ruy; Rice, Megan; Romieun, Isabelle; Ursin, Giske; Qureshi, Samera; Ma, Huiyan; Lee, Eunjung; van Gils, Carla; Wanders, Johanna; Vinayak, Sudhir; Ndumia, Rose; Allen, Steve; Vinnicombe, Sarah; Moss, Sue; Lee, Jong Won; Kim, Jisun; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Sirous, Reza; Sirous, Mehri; Peplonska, Beata; Bukowska, Agnieszka; Tamimi, Rulla; Bertrand, Kimberly; Nagata, Chisato; Kwong, Ava; Vachon, Celine; Scott, Christopher; Pérez Gómez, Beatriz; Pollan, Marina; Maskarinec, Gertraud; Giles, Graham; Hopper, John; Stone, Jennifer; Rajaram, Nadia; Teo, Soo Hwang; Mariapun, Shivaani; Yaffe, Martín; Schuez, Joachim; Chiarelli, Anna; Linton, Linda; Boyd, Norman (Elsevier, 2016)
      Mammographic density (MD) is a quantitative trait, measurable in all women, and is among the strongest markers of breast cancer risk. The population-based epidemiology of MD has revealed genetic, lifestyle and societal/e ...
    • Drukker, L; Staines-Urias, E; Villar, J; Barros, FC; Carvalho, M; Munim, S; McGready, R; Nosten, F; Berkley, JA; Norris, SA; Uauy, R; Kennedy, SH; Papageorghiou, AT (Mosby Inc.customerservice@mosby.com, 2020)
    • Bridi, Raquel; Montenegro, Gloria; Núñez Quijada, Gabriel; Giordano, Ady; Morán Romero, María Fernanda; Jara Pezoa, Isaac; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Atala, Elías; López Alarcón, Camilo (Institute of Food Technologists, 2015)
      Propolis has been proposed as a polyphenolic-rich natural product potentially able to be used for human consumption or even for medicinal proposes. To guarantee a minimum phenolic and flavonoid content and as consequence ...
    • Latorre, Mauricio; Low, Marcela; Gárate, Esteban; Reyes Jara, Angélica; Murray, Bárbara E.; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica; González, Mauricio (Royal Soc Chemistry, 2015)
      By integrating the microarray expression data and a global E. faecalis transcriptional network we identified a sub-network activated by zinc and copper. Our analyses indicated that the transcriptional response of the ...
    • Cediel, Gustavo; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Brito, Alex; López de Romaña, Daniel; Cori, Héctor; La Frano, Michael R. (SAGE, 2015)
      Background: In recent decades, the general socioeconomic situation in Latin America and the Caribbean countries has improved, and many vitamin A programs have been implemented in an attempt to reduce vitamin A deficiency ...
    • Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Santos, José Luis; Cifuentes, Mariana; Villarroel, Ana C.; Lera Marques, Lydia; Liberman Guendelman, Claudio; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Pérez Bravo, Francisco (NORTH AMER ASSOC STUDY OBESITY, 2004-02)
      Objective: To assess the association between the Ala54Thr genetic polymorphism of the fatty acid-binding protein 2 (FABP2) gene with insulin resistance and obesity. Research Methods and Procedures: According to a sampling ...
    • Solis, Camila J.; Hamilton, M. Kristina; Caruffo, Mario; García López, Juan P.; Navarrete Wallace, Paola; Guillemin, Karen; Feijoo, Carmen G. (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Intestinal inflammation is a condition shared by several intestinal chronic diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, with severely detrimental consequences in the long run. Current mammalian models have ...
    • Gainza, Oreste; Jorquera Ramírez, Carolina; Salinas Ramos, Alfredo; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Springer, 2018)
      The goal of the study was to characterize the intestinal tract bacterial microbiota composition of Penaeus vannamei in intensive commercial ponds in Ecuador, comparing two shrimp-farming phases: nursery and harvest. Bacterial ...
    • Bauer, Michael; Dietrich, Christof; Nowak, Katharina; Sierralta, Walter; Papenbrock, Jutta (AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS, 2004-06)
      Sulfurtransferases (Str) comprise a group of enzymes widely distributed in archaea, eubacteria, and eukaryota which catalyze the transfer of a sulfur atom from suitable sulfur donors to nucleophilic sulfur acceptors. In ...
    • Arpone, Marta; Baker, Emma K.; Bretherton, Lesley; Bui, Minh; Li, Xin; Whitaker, Simon; Dissanayake, Cheryl; Cohen, Jonathan; Hickerton, Chriselle; Rogers, Carolyn; Field, Mike; Elliott, Justine; Aliaga, Solange M.; Ling, Ling; Francis, David; Hearps, Stephen J. C.; Hunter, Matthew F.; Amor, David J.; Godler, David E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
      Increased intragenic DNA methylation of the Fragile X Related Epigenetic Element 2 (FREE2) in blood has been correlated with lower intellectual functioning in females with fragile X syndrome (FXS). This study explored these ...
    • Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Berseth, Carol Lynn (Elsevier, 2013)
    • López de Romaña, Daniel; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Brito, Alex (SAGE Publications Inc., 2015)
      This Food and Nutrition Bulletin supplement summarizes updated prevalence data on micronutrient deficiencies in Latin America and the Caribbean ( LAC). In order to provide an updated view of micronutrient status in LAC, ...
    • Tenorio, Beatriz; Jimenez, Teresa; Barrera Acevedo, María Gladys; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Troncoso Cotal, Rodrigo; Farías, María Belén; Rodríguez, Juan Manuel; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (Aula medica ediciones, 2017)
      Purpose: To determine if irisin plasma levels are associated with regular physical activity, body composition and metabolic parameters in women subjected to calorie restriction. Subjects and methods: We studied 42 women ...
    • Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Maciero, Eugenia; Krasnoff, Gustavo; Cocaro, Nicolás; Gaitán, Diego (Mdpi ag, Postfach, 2015)
      Background: Fortification of milk formulas with iron is a strategy widely used, but the absorption of non-heme iron is low. The purpose of this study was to measure the bioavailability of two iron fortified milk formulas ...
    • Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Hertrampf, Eva; Fuenmayor, Guillermo; Estévez, Edmundo (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2007-04)
      Objective: We measured iron bioavailability of meals based on wheat flour consumed by a vulnerable population in Latin America. Methods: Bioavailability of iron (ferrous sulfate) from fortified noodles, noodle soup, noodle ...
    • Lozoff, Betsy; Kaciroti, Niko; Walter, Tomas (AMER SOC CLINICAL NUTRITION, 2006-12)
      Background: Infants aged 6-24 mo are at high risk of iron deficiency. Numerous studies worldwide have sought to identify predictors of iron deficiency in this age group. Objective: The objectives of the study were to apply ...
    • Urrutia Vargas, Pamela Joselyn; Bórquez, Daniel; Núñez González, Marco (Springer, 2022)
      Iron plays essential roles in the early development of cognitive processes and in the maintenance of neuronal functions in the mature brain; therefore, neurons have expeditious mechanisms to ensure a readily available iron ...
    • Brito, Alex; Hertrampf, Eva; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel (The United Nations University, 2013)
      Background. The Chilean Ministry of Health has combated iron deficiency through the delivery of fortified milk by the National Complementary Feeding Program (NCFP). Objective. To assess iron status and associations between ...
    • Lozoff, Betsy; Castillo, Marcela; Clark, Katy M.; Smith, Julia B.; Sturza, Julie (ASN, 2014)
      Most studies of behavioral/developmental effects of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) or iron supplementation in infancy have found social-emotional differences. Differences could relate to behavioral inhibition or lack of ...
    • Ordóñez Pizarro, Fernando; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Pablo Valdivia, Saturnino de; Araya, Magdalena; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (ELSEVIER, 2004-02)
      OBJECTIVES: We determined the iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and copper (Cu) contents of common Chilean foods and assessed the intakes of these elements in a population living in Santiago, Chile. METHODS: We selected foods most ...