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    • Varas, Macarena; Fariña, Alonso; Díaz Pascual, Francisco; Ortíz-Severín, Javiera; Marcoleta, Andrés E.; Allende Connelly, Miguel; Santiviago, Carlos A.; Chávez, Francisco P. (Elsevier B.V., 2017)
      © 2017The zebrafish model has been used to determine the role of vertebrate innate immunity during bacterial infections. Here, we compare the in vivo immune response induced by GFP-tagged Salmonella Typhimurium inoculated ...
    • Muñoz San Martín, Catalina; Apt Baruch, Werner; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés (Elsevier B.V., 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier B.V. The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a major public health problem in Latin America. This parasite has a complex population structure comprised by six or seven major ...
    • Del Canto, Felipe; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Pardo, Mirka; Torres, Alexia; Gutiérrez, Daniela; Cádiz, Leandro; Valdés, Raul; Mansilla, Aquiles; Martínez, Rodrigo; Hernández, Daniela; Caro, Benjamin; Levine, Myron M.; Rasko, David A.; Hill, Christopher M.; Pop, Mihai; Stine, O. Co (Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)
      © 2017 Del Canto, O'Ryan, Pardo, Torres, Gutiérrez, Cádiz, Valdés, Mansilla, Martínez, Hernández, Caro, Levine, Rasko, Hill, Pop, Stine and Vidal.Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is one of the most common causes of ...
    • Cabello, Gertrudis; Fariña, Emilio; Jeldres, Alejandro; Rimoldi, Stefano F.; Scherrer, Urs (Interciencia Association, 2017)
      It is thought that adaptive changes protect high-altitude populations against altitude-induced diseases, but information from well controlled studies is lacking. In a prospective, controlled study, we assessed the prevalence ...
    • Villanueva, Andrea A.; Falcón, Paulina; Espinoza, Natalie; Solano, R. Luis; Milla, Luis A.; Hernandez-SanMiguel, Esther; Torres, Vicente A.; Sanchez-Gomez, Pilar; Palma, Verónica (Impact Journals LLC, 2017)
      Neogenin-1 (NEO1) is a transmembrane receptor involved in axonal guidance, angiogenesis, neuronal cell migration and cell death, during both embryonic development and adult homeostasis. It has been described as a dependence ...
    • Prieto-Parra, Laura; Yohannessen, Karla; Brea, Cecilia; Vidal, Daniella; Ubilla, Carlos A.; Ruiz-Rudolph, Pablo (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier Ltd The objective of this study was to determine the association of respiratory symptoms and medication use and exposure to various air pollutants, PM2.5components, and source factors in a panel of asthmatic ...
    • Moya, Mario O.; Aguirre, Claudio; Mondaca, Carlos; Cea-Nettig, Ximena; Bustamante, Claudia (Interciencia Association, 2017)
      In recent years, social sciences and disciplines such as public health disclosed versions of Chilean aging as a neutral phenomenon, as a result of the modernization process of the State and health improvements in the ...
    • Leiva, Loreto; George, Myriam; Antivilo, Andrés; Squicciarini, Ana María; Simonsohn, Ariela; Vargas, Belén; Guzmán, Javier (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, 2015)
      Within the scope of the program "Habilidades para la Vida" (Skills for Life), we identified and evaluated children deemed as at-risk, who participated in the Program's preventive activities. We evaluated if they exhibited ...
    • Schmeda-Hirschmann, Guillermo; Gomez, Celeste Vega; Rojas de Arias, Antonieta; Burgos-Edwards, Alberto; Alfonso, Jorge; Rolon, Miriam; Brusquetti, Francisco; Netto, Flavia; Urra, Félix A.; Cárdenas, César (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Ethnopharmacological relevance Toads belonging to genus Rhinella are used in Paraguayan traditional medicine to treat cancer and skin infections. Aim of the study The objective of the study was ...
    • Berríos Cárcamo, Pablo; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Herrera-Marschitz Muller, Mario; Vasiliou, Vasilis; Zapata Torres, Gerald; Rivera Meza, Mario (Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)
      © 2017 Berríos-Cárcamo, Quintanilla, Herrera-Marschitz, Vasiliou, Zapata-Torres and Rivera-Meza. Background: Several studies have shown that the ethanol-derived metabolite salsolinol (SAL) can activate the mesolimbic system, ...
    • Villalobos, Claudio; Maldonado Arbogast, Pedro; Valdés, José L. (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      © 2017 Villalobos 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 ...
    • Le Bert, A. Z.; Soto, D.; Vial, V.; Bentjerodt, R.; Wortsman, Ximena (Asociation Argentina de Dermatologia, 2015)
      Subungual keratoacanthoma is a rare and uncommon variant of keratoacanthoma. It shows a locally aggressive behavior, and spontaneous regression is infrequently. The tumour usually occurs on the fifth decade of male caucasian ...
    • Olavarría, Verónica V.; Arima, Hisatomi; Anderson, Craig S.; Brunser, Alejandro; Muñoz Venturelli, Paula; Billot, Laurent; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel (SAGE Publications Inc., 2017)
      © 2016, © 2016 World Stroke Organization. Background: The HEADPOST Pilot is a proof-of-concept, open, prospective, multicenter, international, cluster randomized, phase IIb controlled trial, with masked outcome assessment. ...
    • Urzúa Salinas, Cristhian; Lantigua, Yrbani; Abuauad, Sergio; Liberman, Paulina; Berger, Osvaldo; Sabat Opazo, Pablo; Velásquez, Víctor; Castiglione, Enzo; Calonge, Margarita (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.Purpose: To characterize the clinical features in patients with presumed ocular tuberculosis (TB) and determine prognostic factors of visual outcomes and complications in this disease. ...
    • Crisosto King, Nicolás; Flores, Cristián; Maliqueo Yevilao, Manuel; Echiburú López, Bárbara; Vásquez, Jaime; Maluenda, Fernando; Sir Petermann, Teresa (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Context Hyperandrogenic states and obesity in women are associated with insulin-resistance. Androgens reduce glucose uptake in adipose cells and increase TNFα production in peripheral monocytes. ...
    • Miranda, H. F.; Sierralta, F.; Jorquera, V.; Poblete, P.; Prieto, J. C.; Noriega, V. (Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer International Publishing. Objective: Diabetic neuropathy (DN) is the most common complication of diabetes and pain is one of the main symptoms of diabetic neuropathy, however, currently available drugs are ...
    • Israel Jacard, Yedy; Ezquer, Fernando; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Morales, Paola; Ezquer, Marcelo; Herrera-Marschitz Muller, Mario (2017)
      © The Author 2016. Medical Council on Alcohol and Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Study describes the blockade of relapse-like alcohol drinking by mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). High alcohol-intake bred rats ...
    • Vergara, Gonzalo Andrade (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, 2015)
      In Chile, the treatment of depression in public health care is guaranteed by law. Nevertheless, the real performance of treatments as actually provided to patients and the way in which health care teams in charge of their ...
    • Sanz-de la Garza, Maria; Giraldeau, Geneviève; Marin, Josefa; Grazioli, Gonzalo; Esteve, Montserrat; Gabrielli, Luigi; Brambila, Carlos; Sanchis, Laura; Bijnens, Bart; Sitges, Marta (Springer Verlag, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Background: Characteristic right ventricle (RV) remodelling is related to endurance exercise in male athletes (MAs), but data in female athletes (FAs) are scarce. Our aim was to ...
    • Vega-Zuniga, T.; Medina, F. S.; Marín G., María Paz; Letelier, J. C.; Palacios, A. G.; Nemec, P.; Schleich, C. E.; Mpodozis Marín, Jorge (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). To what extent can the mammalian visual system be shaped by visual behavior? Here we analyze the shape of the visual fields, the densities and distribution of cells in the retinal ganglion-cell layer ...