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    • Lagos Cabré, Raúl; Brenet, Marianne; Díaz, Jorge; Pérez, Ramón D.; Pérez, Leonardo A.; Herrera Molina, Rodrigo; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Leyton Campos, Lisette (MDPI AG, 2018)
      © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Under pro-inflammatory conditions, astrocytes become reactive and acquire a migratory phenotype. Our results show that hemichannels formed by connexin 43 (Cx43) ...
    • Ponnappa, Biddanda C.; Israel Jacard, Yedy (Frontiers in Bioscience, 2002)
      © 2002 Frontiers in Bioscience. All rights reserved.During proinflammatory reactions such as endotoxemia, ischemia-reperfusion and immune reactions, excessive amounts of cytokines and prostanoids are released resulting in ...
    • López Muñoz, Rodrigo; Molina Berríos, Alfredo Enrique; Campos Estrada, Carolina; Abarca-Sanhueza, Patricio; Urrutia-Llancaqueo, Luis; Peña-Espinoza, Miguel; Maya Arango, Juan (Frontiers Media S.A., 2018)
      © 2018 López-Muñoz, Molina-Berríos, Campos-Estrada, Abarca-Sanhueza, Urrutia-Llancaqueo, Peña-Espinoza and Maya. Pathogenic trypanosomatids (Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma brucei, and Leishmania spp.) are protozoan parasites ...
    • Cazanga, Victoria; Hernández, Alejandro; Morales, Bernardo; Pelissier Serrano, Teresa; Constandil, Luis (Quintessence Publishing Co. Inc., 2018)
      © Quintessenz. Aims: To evaluate in mice the antinociceptive effect of copper in spinal and trigeminal nociceptive pathways by using the intraplantar and orofacial formalin tests, respectively, and to examine whether this ...
    • Guzmán Noriega, Marco; Acevedo, Karol; Leiva, Fernando; Ortiz, Vasti; Hormazabal, Nicolas; Quezada, Camilo (Mosby Inc., 2018)
      © 2018 The Voice Foundation Objectives: The present study aimed to assess the aerodynamic characteristics of vocally healthy metal singers when producing growl voice or reinforced falsetto. Methods: Fifty-four participants ...
    • Galindo, J.; Contreras, M.; Maldonado, P.; Torrealba, F.; Lagos, N.; Valdés, J. L. (Elsevier B.V., 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. Background: Neosaxitoxin (NeoSTX) and related paralytics shellfish toxins has been successfully used as local anesthetic and muscle relaxants to treat a variety of ailments. The primary mechanism of ...
    • Aleman, Larissa; Guerrero, Julia (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Stress hyperglycemia is frequently diagnosed in septic patients in critical care units (ICU) and it is associated with greater illness severity and higher morbimortality ...
    • Araneda, Oscar F.; Contreras Briceño, Felipe; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Viscor, Ginés (Springer Verlag, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Purpose: The respiratory redox-state of swimmers can be affected by chronic exposures to chlorinated pools, and the effects of different exercises on it are ...
    • Cañas, Daniel; García-Herrera, Claudio M.; Herrera, Emilio A.; Celentano, Diego J.; Krause, Bernardo J. (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a perinatal condition associated with a low birth weight that results mainly from maternal and placental constrains. Newborns affected by this condition are more likely to develop ...
    • Montedonico, Marcia; Herrera-Neira, Francisca; Marconi, Andrés; Urquiza, Anahí; Palma-Behnke, Rodrigo (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Ltd The Energy Center has developed a co-construction methodology to address the challenges of technology transfer-based on distributed generation projects- in the context of energy transitions in isolated ...
    • Neumann, Hartmut P.; Young, William F.; Krauss, Tobias; Bayley, Jean Pierre; Schiavi, Francesca; Opocher, Giuseppe; Boedeker, Carsten C.; Tirosh, Amit; Castinetti, Frederic; Ruf, Juri; Beltsevich, Dmitry; Walz, Martin; Groeben, Harald Thomas; Von Dobschuetz, Ernst; Gim (BioScientifica Ltd., 2018)
      © 2018 Society for Endocrinology Published by Bioscientifica Ltd. Although the authors of the present review have contributed to genetic discoveries in the field of pheochromocytoma research, we can legitimately ask whether ...
    • Lebeaupin, Cynthia; Vallée, Deborah; Hazari, Younis; Hetz Flores, Claudio; Chevet, Eric; Bailly-Maitre, Béatrice (Elsevier B.V., 2018)
      © 2018 The global epidemic of obesity has been accompanied by a rising burden of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), with manifestations ranging from simple steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, potentially ...
    • Aliste Muñoz, Julián; Bravo, Daniela; Fernández, Diego; Layera, Sebastián; Finlayson, Roderick J.; Tran, De Q. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2018)
      © 2018 by American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Background and Objectives This randomized trial compared ultrasound (US)-guided interscalene block (ISB) and small-volume supraclavicular block (SCB) for ...
    • Cornejo, Javiera; Cabezón, Camila; San Martín Núñez, Betty; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette (International Association for Food Protection, 2018)
      © 2018 International Association for Food Protection. All rights reserved. Successful treatment of diseases that sicken food-producing animals requires the use of antimicrobials. However, these drugs could result in serious ...
    • Marcoleta, Andrés E.; Gutiérrez-Cortez, Sergio; Hurtado, Felipe; Argandoña, Yerko; Corsini, Gino; Monasterio Opazo, Octavio; Lagos Mónaco, Rosalba (Public Library of Science, 2018)
      © 2018 Marcoleta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
    • Tan, Kah Ni; Hood, Rebecca; Warren, Kirby; Pepperall, Debbie; Carrasco Pozo, Catalina; Manzanero, Silvia; Borges, Karin; Spratt, Neil J. (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. Triheptanoin, the medium-chain triglyceride of heptanoate, has been shown to be anticonvulsant and neuroprotective in several neurological disorders. In the gastrointestinal tract, triheptanoin is ...
    • Borghero, Francesca; Martínez, Vania; Zitko, Pedro; Vöhringer, Paul A.; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Rojas, Graciela (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: There is a paucity of validated instruments for screening depression in adolescent populations in Chile. Aim: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the ...
    • Bravo, Denisse; Hoare, Anilei; Soto, Cristopher; Valenzuela, Manuel A.; Quest, Andrew F. G. (Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited, 2018)
      © The Author(s) 2018. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori ) is present in roughly 50% of the human population worldwide and infection levels reach over 70% in developing countries. The infection has classically been associated ...
    • Mendoza Torres, Evelyn; Riquelme, Jaime A.; Vielma, Alejandra; Sagredo, Andrea Ramirez; Gabrielli, Luigi; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; Jalil Milad, Jorge; Rothermel, Beverly A.; Sánchez, Gina; Ocaranza, María Paz; Lavandero González, Sergio (Academic Press, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Ltd Angiotensin-(19), a peptide of the non-classical renin angiotensin system, has been shown to prevent and revert hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy. We hypothetized that systemic delivery of angiotensin-(1–9) ...
    • da Costa, Daniel; Guidotti, Francesca; Cabello, Nicolas; Trigo, Francisco; Contreras, Caterina; Vergara, Francisca; Miranda, Juan Pablo; Montenegro, Cristián; Muñoz, Pablo; Berger, Zoltán (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Helicobacter pylori (HP) is the most widespread chronic human infection worldwide and the most important pathogenic factor of gastric cancer. The calculated ...