Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos: Recent submissions

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    • Tomato cultivars with variable tolerances to water deficit differentially modulate the composition and ... 
      Gaete, Alexis; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo Enrique; Hodar Quiroga, Christian Eduardo; Maldonado, Jonathan; Pavez, Leonardo; Zamorano, Denisse; Pastenes Villarreal, Claudio; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro; Franck Berger, Nicolas; Mandakovic Seyler, Dinka Slavje (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Since drought is the leading environmental factor limiting crop productivity, and plants have a significant impact in defining the assembly of plant-specific microbial communities associated with roots, we aimed to ...
    • The burden of excessive saturated fatty acid intake attributed to ultra-processed food consumption: a study ... 
      Martínez Steele, Eurídice; Batis, Carolina; Cediel Giraldo, Gustavo Andrés; Da Costa Louzada, María Laura; Khandpur, Neha; Machado, Priscila; Moubarac, Jean-Claude; Rauber, Fernanda; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela Adriana; Bertazzi Levy, Renata; Monteiro, Carlos A. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2021)
      Cross-sectional nutritional survey data collected in eight countries were used to estimate saturated fatty acid intakes. Our objective was to estimate the proportion of excessive saturated fatty acid intakes (>10 % of ...
    • Canopy spraying of abscisic acid to improve fruit quality of different sweet cherry cultivars 
      Time, Alson; Ponce, Claudio; Kuhn, Nathalie; Arellano, Macarena; Sagredo, Boris; Donoso, José Manuel; Meisel, Lee Ann (MDPI, 2021)
      Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a major role in promoting ripening in sweet cherry, a non-climacteric fruit. Exogenous application of ABA has been performed to study fruit ripening and cracking, but this growth regulator is not ...
    • Profiling the virulence and antibiotic resistance genes of Cronobacter sakazakii strains Isolated From ... 
      Parra Flores, Julio; Holý, Ondrej; Riffo, Francisca; Lepuschitz, Sarah; Maury-Sintjago, Eduard; Rodríguez Fernández, Alejandra; Cruz Córdova, Ariadnna; Xicohtencatl Cortés, Juan; Mancilla Rojano, Jetsi; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo; Ruppitsch, Werner; Forsythe, Stephen (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Cronobacter sakazakii is an enteropathogen that causes neonatal meningitis, septicemia, and necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants and newborns with a mortality rate of 15 to 80%. Powdered and dairy formulas (P-DF) ...
    • Impaired eIF5A function causes a Mendelian disorder that is partially rescued in model systems by spermidine 
      Faúndes Gómez, Víctor Manuel; Jennings, Martin D.; Crilly, Siobhan; Legraie, Sarah; Withers, Sarah E.; Cuvertino, Sara; Davies, Sally J.; Douglas L., Andrew G.; Fry, Andrew E.; Harrison, Victoria; Amiel, Jeanne; Lehalle, Daphné; Newman, William G.; Newkirk, Patricia; Ranells, Judith; Splitt, Miranda; Cross, Laura A.; Saunders, Carol J.; Sullivan, Bonnie R.; Granadillo, Jorge L.; Gordon, Christopher T.; Kasher, Paul R.; Pavitt, Graham D.; Banka, Siddharth (Nature, 2021)
      The structure of proline prevents it from adopting an optimal position for rapid protein synthesis. Poly-proline-tract (PPT) associated ribosomal stalling is resolved by highly conserved eIF5A, the only protein to contain ...
    • Exposure to obesogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals and obesity among youth of Latino or Hispanic origin ... 
      Perng, Wei; Cantoral, Alejandra; Soria Contreras, Diana C.; Betanzos Robledo, Larissa; Kordas, Katarzyna; Liu, Yun; Mora, Ana M.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana Inés; Cardoso, Marly Augusto; Chavarro, Jorge E.; Breton, Carrie V.; Meeker, John D.; Harley, Kim G.; Eskenazi, Brenda; Peterson, Karen E.; Téllez Rojo, Martha María (Wiley, 2021)
      Following a 2019 workshop led by the Center for Global Health Studies at the Fogarty International Center on the topic of childhood obesity prevention and research synergies transpiring from cross-border collaborations, ...
    • Implementation of childhood obesity prevention and control policies in the United States and Latin America: ... 
      Pérez Escamilla, Rafael; Vilar Compte, Mireya; Rhodes, Elizabeth; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Sturke, Rachel; Vorkoper, Susan (Wiley, 2021)
      Progress has been made in the development and widespread implementation of effective interventions to address childhood obesity, yet important challenges remain. To understand how the United States and Latin American ...
    • Genetic variants in the SLC16A11 gene are associated with increased BMI and insulin levels in nondiabetic ... 
      Mardones, Lorena; Petermann Rocha, Fanny Emily; Martínez Sanguinetti, María Adela; Leiva, Ana María; Troncoso Pantoja, Claudia Andrea; Martorell, Miquel; Lasserre, Nicole; Ulloa, Natalia; Pérez Bravo, Francisco Antonio; Celis Morales, Carlos; Villagrán, Marcelo (SBEM-Soc Brasil Endocrinologia & Metabologia, 2021)
      Objective: To study the association of SLC16A11 gene variants with obesity and metabolic markers in nondiabetic Chilean adults. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study included 263 nondiabetic adults. The ...
    • GalaxyTrakr: a distributed analysis tool for public health whole genome sequence data accessible to ... 
      Gangiredla, Jayanthi; Rand, Hugh; Benisatto, Daniel; Payne, Justin; Strittmatter, Charles; Sanders, Jimmy; Wolfgang, William J.; Libuit, Kevin; Herrick, James B.; Prarat, Melanie; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Farrell, Thomas; Strain, Errol (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Processing and analyzing whole genome sequencing (WGS) is computationally intense: a single Illumina MiSeq WGS run produces ~ 1 million 250-base-pair reads for each of 24 samples. This poses significant obstacles ...
    • El 40% de los casos de demencia podrían ser prevenidos si se modifican factores de riesgo a través del curso ... 
      Celis Morales, Carlos; Leiva Ordóñez, Ana María; Nazar, Gabriela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia Hortensia; Troncoso, Claudia; Cigarroa Cuevas, Igor (Soc Medica Santiago, 2021)
    • Resolving early obesity leads to a cardiometabolic profile within normal ranges at 23 years old in a ... 
      Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Rogan Castillo, Jose Antonio; Blanco, Estela; East, Patricia; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows Argote, Raquel del Carmen (Nature Research, 2021)
      Obesity is the most important predisposing factor for cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes. We explored the relationship between the age at onset of obesity and selected cardiometabolic parameters in young adults. ...
    • Children's perceptions about environmental sustainability, food, and nutrition in chile: a qualitative study 
      Fretes, Gabriela; Sepúlveda, Amapola; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Cash, Sean B. (MDPI, 2021)
      Food is inextricably linked to human health and environmental sustainability; however, very little is known about children's perceptions of the concept of sustainability in the context of food choices. We aimed to explore ...
    • RNAseq reveals different transcriptomic responses to GA3 in early and midseason varieties before ripening ... 
      Kuhn, Nathalie; Maldonado, Jonathan; Ponce Ibáñez, Claudio Miguel; Arellano Sepúlveda, Macarena Patricia; Time, Alson; Multari, Salvatore; Martens, Stefan; Carrera, Esther; Donoso, José Manuel; Sagredo, Boris; Meisel, Lee Ann (Nature, 2021)
      Gibberellin (GA) negatively affects color evolution and other ripening-related processes in non-climacteric fruits. The bioactive GA, gibberellic acid (GA(3)), is commonly applied at the light green-to-straw yellow transition ...
    • Ultra-processed food consumption among chilean preschoolers is associated with diets promoting non-communicable ... 
      Araya, C.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Cediel, G.; Taillie, L. S.; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela Adriana (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Introduction: In adults, intake of ultra-processed foods (UPF) has been linked with poor diets and adverse health outcomes. In young children, evidence is scarcer but suggests a higher dietary share of UPF. Objective: ...
    • Detection of quantitative trait loci controlling the content of phenolic compounds in an asian plum (Prunus ... 
      Valderrama Soto, Diego Ignacio; Salazar, Juan; Sepúlveda González, Ailynne; Silva Andrade, Claudia; Gardana, Claudio; Morales Sáez, Héctor; Battistoni Hernández, Benjamín Adolfo Abraham; Jiménez Muñoz, Pablo Salvador; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro; Peña Neira, Álvaro Iván; Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo Arturo; Pacheco Cruz, Igor Alejandro (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Consumption of fresh fruit is known to protect against non-communicable diseases due to the fruit's content in compounds with an antioxidant capacity, among them is polyphenols. Asian plums (Prunus salicina L.) accumulate ...
    • Molecular basis of various forms of maple syrup urine disease in chilean patients 
      Campanholi, Diana Ruffato Resende; Margutti, Ana Vitoria Barban; Silva, Wilson A.; Garcia, Daniel F.; Molfetta, Greice A.; Marques, Adriana A.; Schwartz, Ida Vanessa Döederlein; Cornejo Espinoza, Verónica del Carmen; Hamilton Viollier, Valerie; Castro Chávez, Gabriela; Sperb Ludwig, Fernanda; Borges, Ester S.; Camelo, José S (Wiley, 2021)
      Background Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an autosomal recessive inherited metabolic disorder caused by the deficient activity of the branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase (BCKD) enzymatic complex. BCKD is a ...
    • Novel loci and mapuche genetic ancestry are associated with pubertal growth traits in chilean boys 
      Vicuña, Lucas; Norambuena, Tomás; Miranda, José Patricio; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana Inés; Mericq Guila, María Verónica; Ongaro, Linda; Montinaro, Francesco; Santos, José L.; Eyheramendy, Susana (Springer, 2021)
      Puberty is a complex developmental process that varies considerably among individuals and populations. Genetic factors explain a large proportion of the variability of several pubertal traits. Recent genome-wide association ...
    • TV advertising and dietary intake in adolescents: a pre- and post- study of Chile’s food marketing policy 
      Jensen, Melissa L.; Dillman Carpentier, Francesca R.; Adair, Linda; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Popkin, Barry M.; Smith Taillie, Lindsey (BMC, 2021)
      Background: The first phase of a comprehensive marketing policy was implemented in Chile in 2016. The policy restricted child-directed marketing of foods and beverages considered high in energy, total sugars, sodium ...
    • Extensive phylogenetic analysis of piscine orthoreovirus genomic sequences shows the robustness of subgenotype ... 
      Godoy, Marcos; Medina, Daniel A.; Suárez, Rudy; Valenzuela, Sandro; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime Moisés; Kibenge, Molly; Wang, Yingwei; Kibenge, Frederick (MDPI, 2021)
      Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) belongs to the family Reoviridae and has been described mainly in association with salmonid infections. The genome of PRV consists of about 23,600 bp, with 10 segments of double-stranded RNA, ...
    • Expanded newborn screening and genomic sequencing in Latin America and the resulting social justice and ... 
      Cabello Andrade, Juan Francisco; Novoa, Fernando; Huff, Hanalise V.; Colombo Campbell, Marta Paulina (MDPI, 2021)
      Newborn screening (NBS) has widely been utilized in developed countries as a costeffective public health strategy that reduces morbidity and mortality. Developing countries, however, are new to the NBS scene and have ...