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    • González, Luis F.; Bevilacqua Corredoira, Lorenzo Emilio; Naves Pichuante, Rodrigo Antonio (MDPI, 2021)
      Mitochondria are vital organelles in eukaryotic cells that control diverse physiological processes related to energy production, calcium homeostasis, the generation of reactive oxygen species, and cell death. Several studies ...
    • Coloma, Carmen Julia (2014)
      Narrative production in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) may be poor, and that deficit could impact their school performance. There is scarce information regarding the features of the narrative deficit in ...
    • Altuzarra, Rogelio; Valenzuela Bravo, María Teresa; Trucco Aray, Olivia; Inostroza, Jaime; Granata Sasson, Paulo; Fleiderman, José (2007)
      Background: S pneunaoniae is the main cause of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly,. group that concentrates 95% of deaths. Aim: To assess the prevalence of nasal carriage of S pneumoniae in institutionalized elderly ...
    • Cabrera Contreras, María Elena; Eizuru, Yoshito; Itoh, T.; Koriyama, Chihaya; Tashiro, Y.; Ding, Shan; Rey, Sergio; Akiba, Suminori; Corvalán, Alejandro (2007)
      Background: Nasal T/natural killer (NK)-cell lymphoma is an aggressive type of non-Hodking's lymphoma associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and striking geographical variations worldwide. Aim: To characterise nasal ...
    • López, Bernarda; Toro, Viviana; Schilling, Alejandro; Galdames, Iván Suazo (Universidad de la Frontera, 2012)
      The search of morphological patterns of nasal profile using traditional morphometrics has been the goal of several studies aiming to orient therapeutical planning and forensic techniques such as facial reconstruction. The ...
    • Giugliano, Carlos; Andrades Cvitanic, Patricio; Benítez Seguel, Susana Alejandra (2004)
      Nasal reconstruction has been analyzed extensively in adults but not in children. The purpose of this article is to review the authors' experience with the forehead flap for nasal reconstruction in 10 children under the ...
    • Cuadrado, Cristóbal; Crispi, Francisca; Libuy, Matías; Marchildon, Gregory; Cid, Camilo (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2019)
      In the path to universal health coverage, policymakers discuss different alternative health system's financing schemes. Classical typologies have been posited, including models such as National Health Service, Social Health ...
    • Domínguez Cancino, Karen A.; Palmieri, Patrick A.; Martínez Gutiérrez, María Soledad (SAGE, 2020)
      Introduction: Chilean policy makers reformed the national health policy for primary health care (PHC), shifting from the traditional biomedical model to the integral family and community health model with a biopsychosocial ...
    • Norero, Enrique; Funke, Ricardo; Garcia, Carlos; Fernandez, Jose Ignacio; Lanzarini, Enrique; Rodriguez, Jorge; Ceroni, Marco; Crovari, Fernando; Pinto, Gerardo; Musleh, Maher; Gonzalez, Paulina (S. Karger AG, 2018)
      © 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel.Introduction: The laparoscopic approach for the treatment of gastric cancer has many advantages. However, outside Asia there are few large case series. Aim: To evaluate postoperative morbidity, ...
    • Ioannidis, Alexander G.; Blanco Portillo, Javier; Sandoval, Karla; Hagelberg, Erika; Miquel-Poblete, Juan Francisco; Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor; Rodríguez Rodríguez, Juan Esteban; Auckland, Kathryn; Parks, Tom; Robson, Kathryn; Hill, Adrian V. S.; Ávila Arcos, María C.; Sockell, Alexandra; Homburger, Julian R; Wojcik, Genevieve L.; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Herrera, Luisa M.; Berríos, Soledad; Acuña, Mónica; Llop, Elena; Eng, Celeste; Huntsman, Scott; Burchard, Esteban G.; Gignoux, Christopher R.; Cifuentes, Lucía O.; Verdugo Salgado, Ricardo; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Mentzer, Alexander J.; Bustamante, Carlos D.; Moreno Estrada, Andrés (Nature, 2020)
      The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American populations has long intrigued researchers. Proponents have pointed to the existence of New World crops, such as the sweet potato and ...
    • Salvatierra-Martínez, Ricardo; Sepúlveda-Chavera, Germán; Huanca-Mamani, Wilson; Rodríguez-Molina, Manuel (Interciencia Association, 2015)
      © 2015, Interciencia Association. All rights reserved. Commercial strains of Trichoderma show erratic results on soil diseases in northern Chile. Tolerance and antagonistic capacity were assessed in 10 isolates of native ...
    • Salas, Cristian O.; Faúndez, Mario; Morello Casté, Antonio; Maya Arango, Juan; Tapia, Ricardo A. (2011)
      Chagas disease is one of the most important endemic diseases in Latin America, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. The drugs used for the treatment of this disease, nifurtimox and benznidazole, are toxic and present severe side ...
    • Verdaguer, Juan; Zanolli, Mario; Sepúlveda, Gonzalo; García de los Ríos, Manuel; Domínguez, Angélica (2009)
      Background: Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most common causes of blindness among adults. Aim: To report the natural history of diabetic retinopathy among Chilean patients with type 1 diabetes followed for a mean of 18 ...
    • Castinetti, Frederic; Waguespack, Steven G.; Machens, Andreas; Uchino, Shinya; Hasse-Lazar, Kornelia; Sanso, Gabriella; Else, Tobias; Dvorakova, Sarka; Qi, Xiao Ping; Elisei, Rossella; Maia, Ana Luisa; Glod, John; Lourenço, Delmar Muniz; Valdes, Nuria; Mathiesen, Jes (Lancet Publishing Group, 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier LtdBackground: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B is a rare syndrome caused mainly by Met918Thr germline RET mutation, and characterised by medullary thyroid carcinoma, phaeochromocytoma, and extra-endocrine ...
    • Maturana, Patricio; Puente, Javier; Miranda, Dante; Sepulveda, Cecilia; Wolf, Marion E.; Mosnaim, Aron D. (1991)
      Natural killer cell activity (NKCA) was studied in a group of patients (n = 11) with septic shock. When compared with controls (n = 10), these individuals showed a statistically significant reduction in NKCA at each of the ...
    • Puente, Javier; Miranda, Dante; Blanco, Luz; Wolf, Marion E.; Mosnaim, Aron D. (1998)
      The increase in human natural killer cell activity (NKCA) in samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) elicited by their incubation with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), appears to result from an indirect ...
    • Parra,; Pinochet, Pinochet, Carmen Carmen; Vargas Consuegra, Leandro Vargas; Sepúlveda Sepúlveda, Ximena Andrea; Miranda, Daniela; Puente, Javier (1994)
      Natural killer cytolytic activity, the basis of cancer immunotherapy that uses cytolytic cells, may be impaired in cancer. The aim of this work was to study in vitro the natural killer cytolytic activity and its response ...
    • Fuentes, Aler D.; Martin, Conchita; Bull Simpfendorfer, Ricardo; Santander, Hugo; Gutiérrez, Mario F.; Miralles Lozano, Rodolfo Isaac (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      Objectives: There is scarce knowledge regarding the influence of a natural mediotrusive contact on mandibular and cervical muscular activity. The purpose of this study was to analyze the EMG activity of the anterior ...
    • Jiménez, V.; Paredes, R.; Sosa, M. A.; Galanti Garrone, Norbel (WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2008-10-15)
      Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasitic protozoan, is the agent of Chagas' disease or American trypanosomiasis, an endemic pathology in Latin America, affecting up to 18 million people, with high public health costs. Programmed ...
    • Barrera, Patricia A.; Jimenez-Ortiz, Verónica; Tonn, Carlos; Giordano, Oscar; Galanti Garrone, Norbel; Sosa, Miguel A. (2008)
      In this paper, the effects of 3 natural sesquiterpene lactones, i.e., helenalin (Hln), mexicanin (Mxc), and dehydroleucodine (DhL), were evaluated using cultured Leishmania mexicana promastigotes. It was observed that the ...