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    • Sales, Francisco; Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Freitas de Melo, Aline; Ungerfeld, Rodolfo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Undernourishment is a frequent condition in sheep pregnancies under extensive systems, since most of the pregnancies occur when the prairie has the lowest forage allowance. Underfed sheep pregnancies are associated with ...
    • Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Sales Zlatar, Francisco Andrés; Peralta Troncoso, Óscar Alejandro; Reyes Solovera, Mónica Isabel de los; Campos, Alfonso; González, Javier; Peralta, Wolfgang; Cabezón, Camila; González Bulnes, Antonio (MDPI, 2021)
      The effects of a combined supplementation with herbal antioxidants during pregnancy on reproductive traits and piglet performance (number of live, dead, and mummified newborns and litter weight at birth and individual ...
    • Pérez Melendez, Patricio; Maino Menéndez, Mario; Morales Silva, María Sol; Tomic Stefanin, Gerda; Aguilera Hidalgo, Francisco Javier; Egaña Moreno, Juan Ignacio (2012)
      Twenty-eight Merino Precoce suckling lambs raised under confinement in the Mediterranean semi-humid dryland of Central Chile were studied to evaluate meat quality and major carcass characteristics. Animals were grouped by ...
    • Pérez Melendez, Patricio; Maino Menéndez, Mario; Morales Silva, María Sol; Tomic, Gerda; Aguilera Hidalgo, Francisco; Egaña Moreno, Juan Ignacio (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Agronomia e Ingenieria Forestal, 2012)
      Twenty-eight Merino Precoce suckling lambs raised under confinement in the Mediterranean semi-humid dryland of Central Chile were studied to evaluate meat quality and major carcass characteristics. Animals were grouped by ...
    • Tapia, Valentina; Galdames, Pablo; Ramírez Toloza, Galia (Universidad de Chile, 2012)
      Trypanosomacruzi es el agente causal de la enfermedad de Chagas, la infección parasitaria más importante deLatinoamérica. Se considera una enfermedad crónica, que causa discapacidad, para la cual no existe tratamientoefectivo. ...
    • Tischendorf, Lutz; Grez Villarroel, Audrey; Zaviezo, Tania; Fahrig, Lenore (RESILIENCE ALLIANCE, 2005-06)
      We conducted a factorial simulation experiment to analyze the relative importance of movement pattern, boundary-crossing probability, and mortality in habitat and matrix on population density, and its dependency on habitat ...
    • Iturriaga, Maria P.; Paredes, Rodolfo; Arias Fernández, José; Torres Mendoza, Cristian (Spandidos Publications Ltd., 2017)
      Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 expression is positively correlated with malignant features in canine mammary carcinomas. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) inhibit COX activity and may therefore possess anticancer ...
    • Galleguillos Caamaño, Marco Antonio; Carrillo, Raúl; Flores, Gladys; Adarmes Ahumada, Héctor (Universidad de Chile, 2013)
      Las metaloproteinasas (MMPs) son una familia de enzimas proteolíticas capaces de procesar o degradar proteínas de la matriz extracelular. Las MMPs tienen un prodominio, prodominio catalítico, una región bisagra y un dominio ...
    • Borie Polanco, Consuelo; Galarce Gálvez, Nicolás (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)
    • Grez Villarroel, Audrey; Torres, Constanza; Zaviezo, Tania; Lavandero, Blas; Ramírez, Marcelo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, 2010)
      Permanent and permeable edges, where natural enemies can feed, overwinter or easily cross over, should enhance the early arrival of these predators to crops. We evaluated the abundance and species richness of coccinellids ...
    • Morales Silva, María Sol; Palmquist, Donald; Weiss, W. P. (American Dairy Science Association, 2000)
      We studied effects of breed, dietary fat source, and dietary copper intake as factors known to influence unsaturation of milk fat and its potential for development of spontaneous oxidized flavor in milk. Twelve Holstein ...
    • Reyes Solovera, Mónica de los; Palomino Mackenney, Jaime; Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Hidalgo, M.; Saffie, P. (Elsevier, 2011)
      The objective was to evaluate mitochondrial distribution, and its relationship to meiotic development, in canine oocytes during in vitro maturation (IVM) at 48, 72, and 96 h, compared to those that were non-matured or in ...
    • Hernández, Jaime; Núñez, Ignacia; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to mammal hosts by triatomine insect vectors. The goal of this study was to model the spatial distribution of triatomine species ...
    • Retamal Merino, Patricio; Castillo Ruiz, Mario; Villagra, Nicolás; Morgado, Juan; Mora, Guido C. (2010-02)
      A bioinformatics comparison of Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 3 sequences from S. Typhi and S. Typhimurium serovars showed that ten genes are highly conserved. However three of them are pseudogenes in S. Typhi. Our aim ...
    • Céspedes, Pablo; Cruz, Pamela; Navarro Venegas, Carlos (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2010)
      Canine distemper virus (CDV) infection is the main infectious cause of mortality in canines and exotic animals worldwide, and also threatens several endangered species such as the giant panda and big felids. The CDV blocks ...
    • Véliz Ahumada, Alexis; Vidal, Sonia; Siel Siel, Daniela Rocío; Guzmán, Miguel; Hardman, Timothy Edwin; Farías, Valentina; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette Nicole; Sáenz Iturriaga, Leonardo Enrique (MDPI, 2021)
      Simple Summary Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a relevant pathogen, mainly affecting unvaccinated puppies, causing severe and fatal disease. CPV is classified into three variants (CPV-2a, CPV-2b and CPV-2c), which are widely ...
    • Dettleff, Phillip; Rodríguez, Javiera; Patiño García, Daniel; Orellana, Renán; Castro, Rodrigo; Escobar Aguirre, Sebastián; Moreno, Ricardo Daniel; Palomino, Jaime (MDPI, 2022)
      The buoyancy of eggs and embryos is associated with successful development in pelagic fish. Buoyancy is the result of oocyte hydration, which depends on the osmotic force exerted by free amino acids (FAA) generated by yolk ...
    • Guzmán, Miguel; Cádiz, Leandro; Guerrero Moncayo, Alejandra; Cáceres, Francisca; Vidal, Sonia; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette Nicole; Sáenz Iturriaga, Leonardo Enrique; Hidalgo Olate, Héctor Aníbal (Springer, 2022)
      Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD) is a well-described disease in young chickens. It is caused by the Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV), which has a bi-segmented, double-strand RNA genome. The absence of a lipidic ...
    • Pizarro Lucero, José; Celedón Venegas, María Orfelia; Aguilera, Marcela; Calisto, Alejandra de (ELSEVIER, 2006-06-15)
      Thirty-three pestiviruses isolated from bovines on different farms in Chile were characterized at the molecular level. The 5'-untranslated region (5'UTR) of the isolates was amplified by reverse transcription-polymerase ...
    • Pérez Venegas, Diego J.; Toro Valdivieso, Constanza; Ayala, Félix; Brito, Beatriz; Iturra, Lunna; Arriagada, Maite; Seguel, Mauricio; Barrios, Carmen; Sepúlveda, Maritza; Oliva, Doris; Cárdenas Alayza, Susana; Urbina, Mauricio A.; Jorquera, Alberto; Castro Nallar, Eduardo; Galbán Malagón, Cristóbal (Elsevier, 2020)
      Repeated reports of microplastic pollution in the marine pinniped diet have emerged in the last years. However, only few studies address the drivers of microplastics presence and the potential implications for monitoring ...