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    • Measuring change in perceived well being of family caregivers: validation of the spanish version of the ... 
      Aravena, Jose M.; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Gitlin, Laura N. (Wiley, 2018)
      ObjectiveFew instruments evaluate family caregiver perceptions of challenges caring for persons with dementia and improvement or worsening in these areas. To address this measurement gap, we examine psychometric properties ...
    • Mechanism of Pyrogallol Red Oxidation Induced by Free Radicals and Reactive Oxidant Species. A Kinetic and ... 
      Atala, E.; Velásquez Cisternas, Gonzalo; Vergara, C.; Mardones, C.; Reyes, J.; Tapia, R. A.; Quina, F.; Mendes, M. A.; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Lissi, E.; Ureta Zañartu, M. S.; Aspée, A.; López Alarcón, C. (2013)
      Pyrogallol red (PGR) presents high reactivity toward reactive (radical and nonradical) species (RS). This property of PGR, together with its characteristic spectroscopic absorption in the visible region, has allowed ...
    • The mechanisms for regulating absorption of Fe bis-glycine chelate and Fe-ascorbate in Caco-2 cells are similar 
      Mazariegos, Dora Inés; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Ordóñez Pizarro, Fernando; Núñez González, Marco; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando (AMER INST NUTRITION, 2004-02)
      Inorganic iron (Fe) absorption from the diet is controlled mainly in the intestinal tract where apical Fe uptake is inversely related to the Fe content in the enterocyte. Iron bis-glycine chelate is an iron compound that ...
    • Mechanisms linking childhood weight status to metabolic risk in adolescence 
      Martínez, Suzanna M.; Blanco, Estela; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2020)
      Background Obesity is a risk factor for insulin resistance (IR) and metabolic disease. Objective To examine potential metabolic pathways linking childhood weight status to adolescent IR and metabolic risk. Methods Participants ...
    • Mediciones de adiposidad intraabdominal por ultrasonido y factores asociados con riesgo cardiovascular en ... 
      Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Espinoza, Aníbal; Rebollo, M. Jesús; Moraga, Francisco; Mericq, Verónica; Castillo Durán, Carlos (2010)
      Background: Cardiovascular risk factors are commonly present in obese children. Aim: To evaluate the association among radiological measurements of intra-abdominal adipose tissue, and cardiovascular risk factors, in ...
    • Mediciones de adiposidad intraabdominal por ultrasonido y factores asociados con riesgo cardiovascular en ... 
      Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Espinoza, Aníbal; Rebollo, M. Jesús; Moraga, Francisco; Mericq, Verónica; Castillo Durán, Carlos (2010)
      Background: Cardiovascular risk factors are commonly present in obese children. Aim: To evaluate the association among radiological measurements of intra-abdominal adipose tissue, and cardiovascular risk factors, in ...
    • Mejorar el manejo de la enfermedad celíaca. Un desafío urgente 
      Araya, Magdalena (2006)
      Anti endomysial and anti transglutaminase (EMA/TTG) antibodies measurements in large population groups, show that celiac disease is significantly more common than previously thought and 0.5-1% of the population suffer ...
    • Melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphism rs17782313: Association with obesity and eating in the absence of ... 
      Ho Urriola, Judith; Guzmán Guzmán, Iris P; Smalley, Susan V.; González, Andrea; Weisstaub Nuta, Sergio; Domínguez Vásquez, Patricia; Valladares, Macarena; Amador, Paola; Hodgson, María Isabel; Obregón, Ana M.; Santos, José Luis (Elsevier, 2014)
      Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the association between melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) rs17782313 alleles with obesity and eating behavior scores in Chilean children. Methods: A case–control study was ...
    • Melatonin administration impairs visuo-spatial performance and inhibits neocortical long-term potentiation in rats 
      Soto Moyano, Rubén; Burgos, Héctor; Flores, Francisco; Valladares Boasi, Luis; Sierralta, Walter; Fernández Hidalgo, Víctor; Pérez, Hernán; Hernández, Paula; Hernández, Alejandro (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2006-10)
      Melatonin has been shown to inhibit long-term potentiation (LTP) in hippocampal slices of rats. Since LTP may be one of the main mechanisms by which memory traces are encoded and stored in the central nervous system, it ...
    • Melatonin triggers metabolic and gene expression changes leading to improved quality traits of two sweet ... 
      Miranda, Simón; Vilches, Paulina; Suazo, Miriam; Pavez, Leonardo; García, Katherine; Méndez, Marco; González, Mauricio; Meisel, Lee; Defilippi, Bruno G.; Pozo, Talia del (Elsevier, 2020)
      Sweet cherry is a valuable non-climacteric fruit with elevated phytonutrients, whose fruit quality attributes are prone to rapid deterioration after harvest, especially peel damage and water loss of stem. Here the metabolic ...
    • Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Osteoporotic Patients Produce a Type I Collagen-Deficient Extracellular Matrix ... 
      Rodríguez, J. Pablo; Montecinos, Luis; Ríos, Susana; Reyes, Patricio; Martínez, Jorge (Wiley-Liss, 2000)
      Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), precursor cells resident in the bone marrow, have the capacity to differentiate into bone, cartilage, fat, and connective tissue. We have recently reported that MSCs from "healthy" donors ...
    • Metabolic and Cardiovascular Risk in Children with Severe Obesity: Association with Dietary and Physical ... 
      Burrows, Raquel; Cárdenas, T.; Correa Burrows, María Paulina (Karger, 2015)
    • Metabolic flexibility and insulin resistance 
      Galgani Fuentes, José; Moro, Cedric; Ravussin, Eric (AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-11)
      Metabolic flexibility is the capacity for the organism to adapt fuel oxidation to fuel availability. The inability to modify fuel oxidation in response to changes in nutrient availability has been implicated in the ...
    • Metabolic Interaction Between Folate, Vitamin B12, and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Pregnancy 
      Castaño Moreno, Erika; Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María; Casanello, Paola (Springer, 2023)
      Fetal growth and development are influenced by maternal nutrition and gestational weight gain. Adequate intake of nutrients such as folate, vitamin B12, and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is essential for healthy fetal and ...
    • Metabolic Syndrome and Mammographic Density in Premenopausal Chilean Women 
      Martínez Arroyo, Ángela; Moreno Macías, Hortensia; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa (Routledge, 2017)
      Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been previously associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Mammographic density (MD) is a marker of breast cancer risk. There is little evidence ...
    • Methylation status in healthy subjects with normal and high serum folate concentration 
      Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María; Guerrero Bosagna, Carlos; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Leiva Balich, Laura; Barrera Acevedo, María; Llanos Silva, Miguel; Alliende Rodríguez, María Angélica; Silva, Francisca; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (ELSEVIER, 2008-12)
      Objective: We assessed the impact of high serum folate concentration oil erythrocyte S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) concentrations, SAM/SAH ratio, CpG methylation levels across the promoter region ...
    • Methylmalonic acidaemia: Examination of genotype and biochemical data in 32 patients belonging to mut, cblA ... 
      Merinero, B.; Pérez, B.; Pérez Cerda, C.; Rincón, A.; Desviat, L. R.; Martínez, M. A.; Ruiz Sala, P; García, M. J.; Aldamiz Echevarría, L.; Campos, J.; Cornejo Espinoza, Verónica; Toro, M. del; Mahfoud, A.; Martínez Pardo, M.; Parini, R.; Pedrón, C.; Peña Quintana, L.; Pérez, M.; Pourfarzam, M.; Ugarte, M. (SPRINGER, 2008-02)
      Methylmalonic acidaemia (MMA) is a genetic disorder caused by defects in methylmalonyl-CoA mutase or in any of the different proteins involved in the synthesis of adenosylcobalamin. The aim of this work was to examine the ...
    • Método Delphi para buscar consenso sobre metodologías educativas en alimentación saludable para alumnos de ... 
      Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Lera Marques, Lydia; Fuentes García, Alejandra; Salinas Cubillos, Judith (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2016)
      Objective: To know nutrition, education and gastronomic expert opinion to get consensus about education methodologies in healthy food topics for third to fifth school-age children, their parents and teachers, with the ...
    • Microbial communities from arid environments on a global scale. A systematic review 
      Vásquez Dean, Javiera; Maza, Felipe; Morel, Isidora; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; González, Mauricio (Soc Biolgia Chile, 2020)
      Arid environments are defined by the lack of water availability, which is directly related to the mean annual precipitation (MAP), and high values of solar irradiation, which impacts the community composition of animals, ...
    • Microbial preparations (probiotics) for the prevention of Clostridium difficile infection in adults and ... 
      Johnston, Bradley C.; Lytvyn, Lyubov; Calvin, Ka-Fung Lo; Allen, Stephen; Wang, Duolao; Szajewska, Hania; Miller, Mark; Ehrhardt, Stephan; Sampalis, John; Duman, Deniz; Pozzoni, Pietro; Colli, Agostino; Lonnermark, Elisabet; Selinger, Christian; Wong, Samford; Plummer, Susan; Hickson, Mary; Pancheva, Ruzha; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Klarin, Bengt; Goldenberg, Joshua; Wang, Li; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Foster, Gary; Maw, Anna; Sadeghirad, Behnam; Thabane, Lehana; Mertz, Dominik (Cambridge University Press, 2018-07)
      OBJECTIVE. To determine whether probiotic prophylaxes reduce the odds of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in adults and children. DESIGN. Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized controlled ...