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    • Wu Hupat, Elba (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All Rights Reserved. In this article, the following topics about pediatric HIV infection and AIDS are summarized: a description of pathogenic and clinical aspects of HIV infection ...
    • Wu Hupat, Elba (2007)
      This paper describes the increasing trends and changing patterns of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children ocurring since 1982-83 when the first cases were reported worldwide and from 1987-89 when the ...
    • Mercado, Rubén; Torres, Patricio; Morales Muñoz, Víctor; Apt Baruch, Werner (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 2001)
      From 1997 to 1999, we identified seven human cases of infection by fourth stage larvae of Pseudoterranova decipiens in Chile. All identified larvae were coughed up by the patients. Subjects were 10-55 years old; five were ...
    • Weitzel, Thomas; Sugiyama, Hiromu; Yamasaki, Hiroshi; Ramirez, Cristian; Rosas, Reinaldo; Mercado, Rubén (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2015)
    • García, Carlos; Lagos, Marcelo; Truan, Dominique; Lattes, Karinna; Véjar, Omar; Chamorro, Beatriz; Iglesias, Verónica; Andrinolo, Darío; Lagos, Néstor (Society of Biology of Chile, 2005)
      This study reports the data recorded from four patients intoxicated with shellfish during the summer 2002, after consuming ribbed mussels (Aulacomya ater) with paralytic shellfish toxin contents of 8,066 +/- 61.37 microg/100 ...
    • Tyson, J. E.; Perez, A.; Zanartu, J. (1976)
      Several studies were designed to evaluate the effect of oral TRH on prolactin (PRL) secretion and mammary function in nursing women. Initially, efficacy was studied in nursing women following 5 mg TRH. PRL levels rose to ...
    • Valle Prieto, Araceli; Conget, Paulette A. (2010)
      The transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) proves to be useful to treat pathologies in which tissue damage is linked to oxidative stress (OS). The aim of our work was to evaluate whether primary human MSCs (hMSCs) ...
    • Carrillo Beltrán, Diego; Muñoz, Juan P.; Guerrero Vásquez, Nahir; Blanco, Rancés; León, Oscár; de Souza Lino, Vanesca; Tapia Pineda, Julio; Maldonado Maldonado, Edio; Dubois Camacho, Karen; Hermoso Ramello, Marcela; Coravlán, Alejandro H.; Calaf, Gloria M.; Boccardo, Enrique; Aguayo González, Francisco (MDPI, 2020)
      A subset of oral carcinomas is etiologically related to high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection, with HPV16 being the most frequent HR-HPV type found in these carcinomas. The oncogenic role of HR-HPV is strongly ...
    • Aguayo, Francisco; Khan, Noureen; Koriyama, Chihaya; González, Carolina; Ampuero Llanos, Sandra; Padilla, Oslando; Solís, Luisa; Eizuru, Yoshito; Corvalán, Alejandro; Akiba, Suminori (2011)
      Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV) have been found in breast carcinomas (BCs) around the world. In this study, fifty-five BCs from Chile were analyzed for HPV and EBV presence. In addition, ...
    • Oliva Guerrero, Carolina; Carrillo Beltrán, Diego; Boettiger Bonnefoy, Paul; Gallegos Méndez, Iván; Aguayo González, Francisco (MDPI, 2022)
      High-risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) are the causal agents of an important subset of oropharyngeal cancers that has increased considerably in incidence in recent years. In this study, we evaluated the presence of HPV ...
    • Prado Buzeta, Rodrigo (2010-10-18)
      Knowledge about the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in invasive cervical cancer is crucial to guide the introduction of prophylactic vaccines. We aimed to provide novel and comprehensive data about the ...
    • López M., Jaime; Ili, Carmen G.; Brebi, Priscilla; García M., Patricia; Capurro V., Italo; Guzmán G., Pablo; Suárez P., Eugenio; Ojeda F., José Manuel; Roa S., Juan Carlos (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2010)
      Background: The relationship between human papillomavirus (HPV) and uterine cervical cancer (UCC) is widely known and accepted. Aim: To determine the frequency of genotypes of HPV in cervical preneoplastic lesions in a ...
    • Blanco, Rances; Carrillo Beltrán, Diego Antonio; Muñoz, Juan P.; Corvalán, Alejandro H.; Calaf, Gloria M.; Aguayo, Francisco (MDPI, 2021)
      Simple Summary Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent tumor in women worldwide. A minority of BC patients have a family history of the disease, suggesting the importance of environmental and lifestyle factors. Human ...
    • Limia, Celia M.; Soto, Yudira; García, Yanara; Blanco, Orestes; Kourí, Vivian; López, María V.; Toledo, María E.; Pérez, Lissette; Baños, Yoanna; Caturla, Yaniris; Aguayo González, Francisco (BioMed Central, 2017)
      Background:An association between HPV infection and progression to anal squamous intraepithelial lesions (ASIL)has been established, specifically in high-risk populations such as HIV-infected men. In this population, anal ...
    • Reyes Rojas, Montserrat; Rojas Alcayaga, Gonzalo; Pennacchiotti Vidal, Gina; Carrillo, Diego; Muñoz, Juan P.; Peña, Nelson; Montes, Rodrigo; Lobos Jaimes-Freyre, Nelson; Aguayo, Francisco (Elsevier, 2015)
      Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the causal agent of cervical, anogenital and a subset of oropharyngeal carcinomas. In addition, the role of HPV in oral carcinogenesis has been suggested, although the findings are inconclusive. ...
    • Torrente Avendaño, Mariela; Rodrigo, Juan P.; Haigentz, Missak; Dikkers, Frederik G.; Rinaldo, Alessandra; Takes, Robert P.; Olofsson, Jan; Ferlito, Alfio (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2011-04)
      Although the association and clinical significance of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections with a subset of head and neck cancers, particularly for oropharyngeal carcinoma, has recently been well documented, the involvement ...
    • Abarca Villaseca, Katia; Valenzuela Bravo, María Teresa; Vergara F., Rodrigo; Luchsinger Farías, Vivian; Muñoz M., Alma; Jiménez de la Jara, Jorge; Ripoll M., Erna; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel (2008)
      The article briefly reviews the epidemiology of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and associated diseases in the world and in Chile and the scientific information of the licensed HPV vaccines: Gardasil® and Cervarix®. ...
    • Maldonado, Edio; Cabrejos, María Eugenia; Banks, Lawrence; Allende, Jorge E. (2002)
      Previous studies have shown that the HPV-1 6 E7 protein interacts with TBP. This interaction was found to take place through residues in the carboxy terminal half of E7, mutation of which resulted in weaker transforming ...
    • Aguayo, Francisco; Anwar, Muhammad; Koriyama, Chihaya; Castillo, Andres; Sun, Quanfu; Morewaya, Jacob; Eizuru, Yoshito; Akiba, Suminori (2010)
      Background. Although human papillomavirus (HPV) genome has been detected in lung cancer, its prevalence is highly variable around the world. Higher frequencies have been reported in far-east Asian countries, when compared ...
    • Simon, Felipe; Tapia, Pablo; Armisen Yáñez, Ricardo; Echeverría, César; Gatica, Sebastián; Vallejos, Alejandro; Pacheco Durán, Alejandro; Sanhueza Villanueva, María Eugenia; Alvo Abodovsky, Miriam; Segovia, Erico; Torres, Rubén (Frontiers Media, 2017)
      Chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy is equally efficient as hemodialysis while providing greater patient comfort and mobility. Therefore, PD is the treatment of choice for several types of renal patients. During PD, ...