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  • Arriagada, José I.; Benítez, Hugo A.; Toro, Frederick; Suazo, Manuel J.; Abarca, Paulette; Canto, Jhoann; Vilina, Yerko A.; Cruz Jofré, Franco Alfredo (MDPI, 2022)
    Simple Summary The following article studied the environment influence between island and mainland in an endemic marsupial from Chile the mouse-opossum Thylamys elegans (Waterhouse, 1839). Its important to understand that ...
  • Miranda Quintana, Ramón Alain; Heidar Zadeh, Farnaz; Fias, Stijn; Chapman, Allison E. A.; Liu, Shubin; Morell, Christophe; Gómez, Tatiana; Cárdenas Valencia, Carlos Alberto; Ayers, Paul W. (Frontiers Media, 2022)
    In the first paper of this series, the authors derived an expression for the interaction energy between two reagents in terms of the chemical reactivity indicators that can be derived from density functional perturbation ...
  • Jara Arancio, Paola Alejandra; Da Silva Carvalho, Carolina; Carmona Ortiz, Martín Rubén; Bustamante Araya, Ramiro Osciel; Schmidt Villela, Priscilla M.; Da Silva Andrade, Sónia C.; Peña Gómez, Francisco Tomás; González, Luis A.; Fleury, Marina (MDPI, 2022)
    Jubaea chilensis (Molina) Baill., also named Chilean palm, is an endemic species found in the coastal area of Mediterranean sclerophyllous forest in Chile. It has a highly restricted and fragmented distribution along the ...
  • Valdés Zorrilla, Amaranta; Díaz Rojas, Daniela; Jiménez Palma, Leslie Alejandra; Soto Andrade, Jorge (Elsevier, 2023)
    Context . Millions of learners worldwide experience mathematics nowadays as an inescapable tool of cognitive abuse and punitive selection. Most traditional teaching thwarts natural human cognitive resources. Problem . We ...
  • Yong, Melvin; Chen, Yahua; Oo, Guodong; Chang, Kai Chirng; Chu, Wilson H. W.; Teo, Jeanette; Venkatachalam, Indumathi; Thevasagayam, Natascha May; Rama Sridatta, Prakki S.; Koh, Vanessa; Marcoleta Caldera, Andrés Esteban; Chen, Hanrong; Nagarajan, Niranjan; Kalisvar, Marimuthu; Tek Ng, Oon; Gan, Yunn-Hwen (Centers Disease Control & Prevention, 2022)
    Dissemination of carbapenemase-encoding plasmids by horizontal gene transfer in multidrug-resistant bacteria is the major driver of rising carbapenem-resistance, but the conjugative mechanics and evolution of clinically ...
  • Puvogel Vittini, Sofía; Palma Alvarado, Verónica Alejandra; Sommer, Iris E. C. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2022)
    Purpose of review The vascular hypothesis of schizophrenia (SZ) postulates that brain endothelial dysfunction contributes to brain pathophysiology. This review discusses recent evidence for and against this hypothesis, ...
  • Torres Sánchez, Felipe Esteban; Kiwi Tichauer, Miguel Germán; Schuller, Ivan K. (Nature, 2022)
    Several highly effective Covid-19 vaccines are in emergency use, although more-infectious coronavirus strains, could delay the end of the pandemic even further. Because of this, it is highly desirable to develop fast ...
  • Zenteno Quinteros, Beatriz Antonia; Moya Fuentes, Pablo Sebastián (Frontiers Media, 2022)
    There is wide observational evidence that electron velocity distribution functions (eVDF) observed in the solar wind generally present enhanced tails and field-aligned skewness. These properties may induce the excitation ...
  • Vega, Andrea; Delgado, Ninoska; Handford, Michael Geoffrey (MDPI, 2022)
    Several metals belong to a group of non-biodegradable inorganic constituents that, at low concentrations, play fundamental roles as essential micronutrients for the growth and development of plants. However, in high ...
  • Vergara, Pablo; Pino, Gabriela; Vera, Jorge; Arancibia, Felipe; Sanhueza Toha, María Magdalena (Frontiers Media, 2022)
    Prolonged changes in neural activity trigger homeostatic synaptic plasticity (HSP) allowing neuronal networks to operate within functional ranges. Cell-wide or input-specific adaptations can be induced by pharmacological ...
  • Puvogel Vittini, Sofía; Blanchard Tapia, Kris Elliot; Casas Atala, Bárbara Sofía; Miller, Robyn L.; Garrido Jara, Delia Catalina; Arizabalos Campos, Sebastián Andrés; Rehen, Stevens K.; Sanhueza Toha, María Magdalena; Palma Alvarado, Verónica Alejandra (Frontiers Media, 2022)
    Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental disorder that arises from abnormal neurodevelopment, caused by genetic and environmental factors. SZ often involves distortions in reality perception and it is widely associated with ...
  • Villalobos Leiva, Amado; Ordenes Clavería, Rodrigo; Cruz Jofré, Franco Alfredo; Escobar Suárez, Scott; Lobos, Isabel; Benítez, Hugo A. (Pensoft Publisher, 2022)
    Itylos titicaca (Weyner 1890) has been reported to have a narrow distribution range associated with Andean wetlands called "bofedales" in Peru, Bolivia, northeast Chile and northwest Argentina. In Chile its distribution ...
  • Goncalves Amador, Estefany Javiela; Herrera, Ileana; Alexander, Jake; Duarte, Milen; Cavieres, Lohengrin A.; Morales Salinas, Luis José Alejandro; Bustamante Araya, Ramiro Osciel (MDPI, 2022)
    Alien plant species are colonizing high-elevation areas along roadsides. In this study, we evaluated whether the distributions of alien plants in the central Chilean mountains have reached climatic equilibrium (i.e., upper ...
  • Martínez, Juan Pablo; Fuentes, Raúl; Farías, Karen; Loyola, Nelson; Freixas, Alejandra; Stange Klein, Claudia Renate Andrea; Sagredo, Boris; Quinet, Muriel; Lutts, Stanley (MDPI, 2022)
    The Old Limachino Tomato is a valuable fruit with exceptional nutritional values and organoleptic sensory properties. However, it suffers from a short shelf-life, compromising post-harvest behavior. As an attempt to improve ...
  • Rozzi, Ricardo; Quilodrán, Claudio S.; Botero Delgadillo, Esteban; Napolitano, Constanza; Torres Mura, Juan C.; Barroso, Omar; Crego, Ramiro D.; Bravo, Camila; Ippi, Silvina; Quirici, Verónica; Mackenzie, Roy; Suazo, Cristián G.; Rivero de Aguilar, Juan; Goffinet, Bernard; Kempenaers, Bart; Poulin, Elie Albert; Vásquez Salfate, Rodrigo Alfonso (Nature, 2022)
    We describe a new taxon of terrestrial bird of the genus Aphrastura (rayaditos) inhabiting the Diego Ramirez Archipelago, the southernmost point of the American continent. This archipelago is geographically isolated and ...
  • Molina Pelayo, Claudia Macarena; Olguín Aguilera, Patricio Alejandro; Mlodzik, Marek; Glavic Maurer, Álvaro Alberto (Life Science Alliance, 2022)
    Actin filament polymerization can be branched or linear, which depends on the associated regulatory proteins. Competition for actin monomers occurs between proteins that induce branched or linear actin polymerization. ...
  • Olavarría Gamez, Karel; Pijman, Yared O.; Cabrera Paucar, Ricardo Mauricio; Van Loosdrecht, Mark; Wahl, S. Aljoscha (Scientific Reports, 2022)
    The coupling of PHB generation with NADH reoxidation is required to generate PHB as a fermentation product. A fundamental trait to accomplish this feature is to express a functional NADH-preferring acetoacetyl-CoA reductase, ...
  • Acosta Tripailao, Belén; Max-Moerbeck Astudillo, Walter Kennerth; Pastén Guzmán, Denisse Elizabeth del Carmen; Moya Fuentes, Pablo Sebastián (MDPI, 2022)
    We focus on characterizing the high-energy emission mechanisms of blazars by analyzing the variability in the radio band of the light curves of more than a thousand sources. We are interested in assigning complexity ...
  • Cárcamo Tejer, Violeta Paz; Vila Pinto, Irma del Carmen; Llanquín Rosas, Francisco Gabriel; Sáez Arteaga, Alberto Felipe; Guerrero Jiménez, Claudia Jimena (PeerJ, 2021)
    From the early Miocene, the uplift of the Andes Mountains, intense volcanic activity and the occurrence of successive periods of dryness and humidity would have differentially influenced the modification of Altiplano ...
  • Blanco Esperguez, Kevin; Tuñón, Iñaki; Kästner, Johannes; Mendizábal Emaldía, Fernando Javier; Miranda Rojas, Sebastián (MDPI, 2022)
    MLL3, also known as KMT2C, is a lysine mono-methyltransferase in charge of the writing of an epigenetic mark on lysine 4 from histone 3. The catalytic site of MLL3 is composed of four tyrosines, namely, Y44, Y69, Y128, and ...

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