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    • Calaf, Gloria M.; Ponce-Cusi, Richard; Aguayo González, Francisco; Muñoz, Juan P.; Bleak, Tammy C. (Spandidos, 2020)
      Evaluation of carcinogenic substances from the environment is a challenge for scientists. Recently, a novel approach based on 10 key characteristics of human carcinogens classified by the International Agency for Research ...
    • Fujimoto, M.; Lylyk, I.; Bleise, C.; Albina, P.; Chudyk, J.; Lylyk, P. (Amer Soc Neuroradiology, 2020)
      With a mean follow-up of approximately 15 months, the authors evaluated 41 cases of wide-neck aneurysms. Overall, 78.8% of the aneurysms had complete occlusion in the last follow-up, and 19.5% required retreatment with ...
    • Sambra Vásquez, Verónica; López Arana, Sandra; Cáceres Rodríguez, Paola; Abrigo, Karen; Collinao, Javiera; Espinoza, Alexandra; Valenzuela, Sabrina; Carvajal Gutiérrez, Bielka; Prado, Gabriel; Peralta, Rebeca; Gotteland, Martin (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      The prevalence of obesity among Chilean adults and children is one of the highest worldwide. To fight the constant increase of non-communicable diseases and the growing sales of sugar-sweetened beverages, the Chilean ...
    • Wortsman Cánovas, Ximena; Ferreira Wortsman, Camila; Corredoira Salum, Yamile (Wiley, 2020)
      Nevus sebaceous of Jadassohn (NSJ) is a cutaneous hamartoma commonly found in the scalp and face and more frequent in children. Clinically, it presents as a yellowish and hairless plaque. In later stages, the NSJ can develop ...
    • Herrera Carpintero, Paloma (Universidad de Chile, 2020)
      Chile's National Cybersecurity Policy indicates that in the matter of fundamental rights, a gender focus must be used to ensure the equality of all people in cyberspace. This article aims to analyze what should be understood ...
    • Mountford, Hayley S.; Villanueva Bianchini, Pía; Fernández Gallardo, María Angélica; Jara, Lilian; De Barbieri, Zulema; Carvajal Carmona, Luis G.; Cazier, Jean-Baptiste; Newbury, Dianne F. (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Studies examining genetic conditions common in Latin America are highly underrepresented in the scientific literature. Understanding of the population structure is limited, particularly Chile, in part due to the lack of ...
    • Ortiz, Macarena; Soto Alarcón, Sandra; Orellana Manríquez, Paula; Espinosa Escalona, Alejandra; Campos, Cristian; López Arana, Sandra; Rincón Cervera, Miguel Ángel; Illesca, Paola; Valenzuela Báez, Rodrigo; Videla Cabrera, Luis (Elsevier, 2020)
      Objective: Obesity-induced by high-fat diet (HFD) is associated with liver steatosis, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, which can be eluded by the co-administration of the lipid metabolism modulator docosahexaenoic ...
    • Díaz García, Alexis; Varela Lekanda, Diego (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Ion channels have recently been recognized as novel therapeutic targets in cancer research since they are overexpressed in different histological tissues, and their activity is linked to proliferation, tumor progression, ...
    • Sequeira Alvarado, Karina; Henríquez, S.; Kohen, P.; Fuentes, A.; Tapia Pizarro, Alejandro; Céspedes Pino, Pablo; Godoy, A.; Devoto Canessa, Luigi (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    • Espinosa, Alejandra; Ross, Andrés; Dovale-Rosabal, Gretel; Pino De la Fuente, Francisco Javier; Uribe Oporto, Ernesto; Sacristán, Camila; Ruiz Rojas, Paulina; Valenzuela, Rodrigo; Romero Palacios, Nalda; Aubourg, Santiago P.; Rodríguez Melis, Alicia (MDPI, 2020)
      Dietary intake of eicosapentaenoic/docosahexaenoic acid (EPA/DHA) reduces insulin resistance and hepatic manifestations through the regulation of metabolism in the liver. Obese mice present insulin resistance and lipid ...
    • LaSpada, Natalia; Delker, Erin; East, Patricia; Blanco, Estela; Delva, Jorge; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Lozofff, Betzy; Gahagan, Sheila (Elsevier, 2020)
      Introduction: This study examined changes in substance use from adolescence to young adulthood as related to adolescents' risk taking, sensation seeking, antisocial activities, and personality traits. Methods:Chilean ...
    • Cano Schuffeneger, Francisco; Gajardo, M.; Freundlich, M. (Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, 2020)
      El sistema renina angiotensina aldosterona (SRAA) es el principal regulador del volumen plasmático, manteniendo la homeostasis cardiovascular e hidrosalina. En la vía clásica, la enzima convertidora de angiotensina (ECA) ...
    • Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Cherla, Avi; Vivaldi Véjar, Ennio; Mossialos, Elías (Elsevier, 2020)
    • Carrasco, Albert; Recabarren, Mónica P.; Rojas García, Pedro P.; Gutiérrez, Mario; Morales, Karina; Sir Petermann, Teresa; Recabarren, Sergio E. (Nature, 2020)
      Hyperandrogenemia and metabolic disturbances during postnatal life are strongly linked both to polycystic ovary syndrome and other conditions that arise from prenatal exposure to androgen excess. In an animal model of this ...
    • Rojo Aravena, Gemma Beatriz; Pelissier Serrano, Teresa; Sandoval Rodríguez, Alejandra; Bacigalupo, Antonella; García, Vanessa; Pinto Sierralta, Raquel; Ortiz, Sylvia; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Chagas disease is a public health problem in America. Its parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, presents different discrete typing units (DTUs), colonizes organs of mammalian hosts in chronic infections, and presents tropism for ...
    • Paula, Cristiane Silvestre; Cukier, Sebastián; Cunha, Graccielle Rodrigues; Irarrázaval Domínguez, Matías; Montiel Nava, Cecilia; García, Ricardo; Rosoli, Analía; Valdez, Daniel; Bordini, Daniela; Shih, Andy; Garrido, Gabriela; Rattazzi, Alexia (SAGE, 2020)
      Lack of access to services and support is an important issue for people with autism, but in low- and middle-income countries there is a lack of data on this problem. The aims of this study were to describe the challenges ...
    • Urrutia, Arles; Garcia-Angulo, Victor A.; Cortés Fuentes, Andrés; Caneo, Mauricio; Legüe, Marcela; Urquiza, Sebastián; Delgado, Scarlett E.; Ugalde, Juan; Burdisso, Paula; Calixto, Andrea (Public Library Science, 2020)
      Caenorhabditis elegans and its cognate bacterial diet comprise a reliable, widespread model to study diet and microbiota effects on host physiology. Nonetheless, how diet influences the rate at which neurons die remains ...
    • González Martínez, Farith; Sánchez Rodas, Daniel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson; Sandoval, Christopher A.; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis; Johnson Restrepo, Boris (MDPI, 2020)
      The urinary arsenic metabolites may vary among individuals and the genetic factors have been reported to explain part of the variation. We assessed the influence of polymorphic variants of Arsenic-3-methyl-transferase and ...
    • Lafourcade, Carlos Andrés; Fernández, Anllely; Ramírez, Juan Pablo; Corvalán, Katherine; Carrasco, Miguel Ángel; Iturriaga, Andrés; Bátiz, Luis Federico; Luarte, Alejandro; Wyneken, Úrsula (MDPI, 2020)
      Stress is a widespread problem in today's societies, having important consequences on brain function. Among the plethora of mechanisms involved in the stress response at the molecular level, the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) ...
    • Sepúlveda Jara, Rafael; Oyarce Pisani, Ana María (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
      Assuming that coloniality and its expression in hegemonic medicine and conventional psychiatry are present in most Latin American countries, this article explores unknown dimensions of decolonisation: the subjective, but ...