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    • Cea, G.; Martinez, D.; Salinas, R.; Vidal, C.; Hoffmeister, L.; Stuardo, A. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Objective: To provide an estimated prevalence and describe the clinical features of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Chile. Method: We carried out (i) a prevalence ...
    • Baez-Villanueva, Oscar Manuel; Zambrano-Bigiarini, Mauricio; Ribbe, Lars; Nauditt, Alexandra; Giraldo-Osorio, Juan Diego; Thinh, Nguyen Xuan (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. In developing countries, an accurate representation of the spatio-temporal variability of rainfall is currently severely limited, therefore, satellite-based rainfall estimates (SREs) are promising ...
    • Pescio, Sergio; Macho Fisher, Pilar; Penna Varela, Mario; Domenech Lira, Raúl (Oxford University Press, 1983)
      Summary: We studied the effects of ethanol on total coronary resistance and on the resistance across the left ventricular wall in the isolated empty beating heart of the dog. The coronaries were perfused with homologous ...
    • Andaur, Rodrigo; Tapia, Julio C.; Moreno, José; Soto, Leopoldo; Armisen, Ricardo; Marcelain Cubillos, Katherine (Impact Journals LLC, 2018)
      © Andaur et al. Enhanced radiosensitivity at low doses of ionizing radiation (IR) (0.2 to 0.6 Gy) has been reported in several cell lines. This phenomenon, known as low doses hyperradiosensitivity (LDHRS), appears as an ...
    • García Díaz, Diego; Camacho-Guillén, Patricia; Codner Dujovne, Ethel; Pérez Bravo, Francisco (Springer International Publishing, 2018)
      © 2018 Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE) Aim: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the progressive destruction of β cells, mediated by the interaction between T cells and several ...
    • Walker, Ruth H.; Gatto, Emilia M.; Bustamante, M. Leonor; Bernal-Pacheco, Oscar; Cardoso, Francisco; Castilhos, Raphael M.; Chana-Cuevas, Pedro; Cornejo-Olivas, Mario; Estrada-Bellmann, Ingrid; Jardim, Laura B.; López-Castellanos, Ricardo; López-Contreras, Ricardo (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018Diseases with a choreic phenotype can be due to a variety of genetic etiologies. As testing for Huntington's disease (HD) becomes more available in previously resource-limited regions, it is becoming apparent that ...
    • Domenech Lira, Raúl; Macho Fisher, Pilar; Barros, Felipe (Oxford University Press, 1990)
      Study objective - The aim was to test the hypothesis of a vascular waterfall in the epicardial veins due to compression by the left ventricular (LV) pressure. If this were so, the epicardial venous pressure should be a ...
    • Carpentier,; Narvarte,; Sanhueza, (Oxford University Press, 1977)
      Summary: The mechanism of the transient enhancement of the amplitude of the action potential (AAP) induced by harmaline (HME) was studied in rat atria. The results show that HME increases AAP through an enhancement of the ...
    • Nardocci, Gino; Carrasco, Margarita E.; Acevedo, Elvis; Hodar, Christian; Meneses, Claudio; Montecino, Martín (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2018)
      © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a heterogeneous class of transcripts, longer than 200 nucleotides, 5′-capped, polyadenylated, and poorly conserved among mammalian species. Several studies ...
    • Arriaza, B.; Ogalde, J. P.; Campos M., Mónica; Paipa, C.; Leyton, P.; Lara, N. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 University of Oxford We report on the analysis of a red pigment found in a lavish Inca burial from Cerro Esmeralda, Chile, associated with the human sacrifice of two young girls. The outcome shows that the red pigment ...
    • Piñero, Federico; Costa, Paulo; Boteon, Yuri Longatto; Duque, Sergio Hoyos; Marciano, Sebastian; Anders, Margarita; Varón, Adriana; Zerega, Alina; Poniachik Teller, Jaime; Soza, Alejandro; Padilla Machaca, Martín; Menéndez, Josemaría; Zapata, Rodrigo; Vilatoba, Mario; Muñoz Muñoz, E. C. (Elsevier Masson SAS, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Masson SASBackground and aim: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasing cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and liver transplantation (LT). Our study focused on changing trends of liver ...
    • González-Burboa, Alexis; Miranda-Valdebenito, Nazaryh; Vera-Calzaretta, Aldo; Arteaga Herrera, Oscar (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2017)
      © 2017, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved. In the field of childhood care, Chile has a long history of interventions which have pointed to reduce infant mortality, most of them with a strong biomedical ...
    • Amigo, Hugo; Vásquez, Alejandra; Bustos, Patricia (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
      Copyright © The Authors 2018. Objective To verify the association between changes in socio-economic level (SEL) and nutritional status of Chilean adults over a 10-year period.Design Concurrent cohort study.Setting/Subjects ...
    • Montero Miranda, Claudia; Ibacache, Paulina; Opazo, Edgardo; Vásquez Rojas, Juan Rodrigo; Cano, Marcelo (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: The evaluation of cardiorespiratory fitness (RCC) using maximal or peak oxygen consumption (VO2), requires a high level of effort in obese patients. We ...
    • Chennamadhavuni, Divya; Saavedra-Avila, Noemi Alejandra; Carreño, Leandro J.; Guberman-Pfeffer, Matthew J.; Arora, Pooja; Yongqing, Tang; Koay, Hui Fern; Godfrey, Dale I.; Keshipeddy, Santosh; Richardson, Stewart K.; Sundararaj, Srinivasan; Lo, Jae Ho; Wen, Xiangshu; (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Ltd Glycosylceramides that activate CD1d-restricted invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells have potential therapeutic applications for augmenting immune responses against cancer and infections. Previous ...
    • Jiménez, Daniel; Matamala, José Manuel; Chiti, Alessandra; Vergara, Carmen; Tissera, Claudia; Melo, Rómulo; Cartier Rovirosa, Luis (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Patients with Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have a five years survival of less than 5%, but the response to chemotherapy with alkylating agents can vary ...
    • Hameau, Rene; Gabrielli, Luigi; Garrido, Marcelo; Guzmán, Ana María; Retamal, Ignacio; Vacarezza, María José; Greig, Douglas; Ocqueteau, Mauricio; Sánchez, César; Pizarro, Marcela; Corvalán, Alejandro; Lavandero González, Sergio; Castro, Pablo F.; Martínez, Gonzalo (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Recently, we have witnessed major improvements in cancer treatment. Early diagnosis and development of new therapies have reduced cancer-related mortality. However, ...
    • Martínez, Matías; Herrada, Luis; Torres Muñoz, Ana Camila; Chávez,; Jirón Aliste, Marcela (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)
      © 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: There is a worrisome increase in opioid prescription worldwide. Their use and overuse may cause adverse outcomes. Aim: To determine incidence and ...
    • Muñoz Muñoz, Estefanía del Carmen; Krause, Bernardo J.; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Casanello, Paola (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2018)
      © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Maternal obesity is associated with large-for-gestational-age (LGA) neonates and programming of obesity-related cardiovascular disease in the offspring, however, the mechanisms that lead to ...
    • Rodríguez, F.; Vallejos, C.; Ponce, D.; Unanue, N.; Hernández, M. I.; Célis, S.; Arcos, K.; Belmar, F.; López, M. T.; Cassorla Goluboff, Fernando (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 American Society of Andrology and European Academy of AndrologyCryptorchidism is one of the most common congenital disorders in boys, and several genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors have been proposed as ...