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    • Olguín, Thiare; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Barrera, Gladys; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and MetabolismProblem Up to 35% of hospitalized patients may experience functional decline during or after hospitalization. Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) and handgrip ...
    • Castaño, Erika; Caviedes, Lorena; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Llanos Silva, Miguel; Iñíguez Vila, Germán; Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      Folate deficiency during pregnancy has been related to low birth weight, preterm (PT) birth and other health risks in the offspring; however, it is unknown whether prematurity is related to low folate transport through ...
    • Bravo Vásquez, Nicolás; Karlsson, Erik A.; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Meliopoulos, Victoria; Kaplan, Bryan; Marvin, Shauna; Cortez, Valerie; Freiden, Pamela; Beck, Melinda A.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Schultz-Cherry, Stacey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017)
      © 2017, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved. Phylogenetic analysis of the influenza hemagglutinin gene (HA) has suggested that commercial pigs in Chile harbor unique human seasonal H1-like ...
    • Alcaino, Constanza; Musgaard, Maria; Minguez, Teresa; Mazzaferro, Simone; Faundez, Manuel; Iturriaga-Vásquez, Patricio; Biggin, Philip C.; Bermudez, Isabel (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc., 2017)
      © 2017 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.Allosteric modulators of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels are thought to act on elements of the pathways that couple agonist binding to channel ...
    • González Wevar, Claudio; Nakano, Tomoyuki; Palma, Alvaro; Poulin, Elie (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      © 2017 Liu 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 original ...
    • Aravena, Octavio; Ferrier, Ashley; Menon, Madhvi; Mauri, Claudia; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Soto, Lilian; Catalán Martina, Diego (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by excessive production of extracellular matrix by fibroblasts on skin and internal organs. Although Th2 cells have ...
    • Olivares, Luis Villanueva (Cancer Intelligence, 2016)
      © 2017 the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. Chile has the world's highest rate of incidence as well as death from cancer of the gallbladder and biliary ducts. The problem is most acute in the southern provinces. ...
    • Molinos-Albert, Luis M.; Bilbao, Eneritz; Agulló, Luis; Marfil, Silvia; García, Elisabet; Concepción, Maria Luisa Rodríguez De La; Izquierdo-Useros, Nuria; Vilaplana, Cristina; Nieto-Garai, Jon A.; Contreras, F. Xabier; Floor, Martin; Cardona, Pere J.; Martinez-Picad (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
      © The Author(s) 2017. The HIV-1 gp41 Membrane Proximal External Region (MPER) is recognized by broadly neutralizing antibodies and represents a promising vaccine target. However, MPER immunogenicity and antibody activity ...
    • Muñoz, David; Aguilar, Bertha; Fuentealba, Raúl; Préndez, Margarita (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 The Authors Emissions from motor vehicles are considered to be one of the main sources of airborne particulate matter in Santiago. International researchers have shown that particulate matter contains metal oxides ...
    • Bustamante, Javier; Uengoer, Metin; Lachnit, Harald (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016)
      © 2016 Bustamante, Uengoer and Lachnit.Associative learning refers to our ability to learn about regularities in our environment. When a stimulus is repeatedly followed by a specific outcome, we learn to expect the outcome ...
    • Parra, Valentina; Rothermel, Beverly A. (Academic Press, 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier LtdThe calcium-activated protein phosphatase, calcineurin, lies at the intersection of protein phosphorylation and calcium signaling cascades, where it provides an essential nodal point for coordination ...
    • Urra, Felix; Weiss López, Boris; Araya Maturana, Ramiro (Bentham Science Publishers B.V., 2016)
      © 2016 Bentham Science Publishers. Recent evidence highlights that energy requirements of cancer cells vary greatly from normal cells and they exhibit different metabolic phenotypes with variable participation of both ...
    • Yáñez, Dominique; Izquierdo, Mariana; Ruiz Pérez, Fernando; Nataro, James P.; Girón, Jorge A.; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto; Farfan, Mauricio J. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)
      © 2016 Yáñez, Izquierdo, Ruiz-Perez, Nataro, Girón, Vidal and Farfan. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) infections are still one of the most important etiologic pathogens of diarrhea in children worldwide. EAEC ...
    • Juretić, Nevenka; Díaz, Josefina; Romero, Felipe; González, Gustavo; Jaimovich Pérez, Enrique; Riveros, Nora (Elsevier B.V., 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier B.V. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a neuromuscular disease originated by mutations in the dystrophin gene. A promising therapeutic approach deals with functional substitution of dystrophin by utrophin, ...
    • Colins Rodríguez, Andrea Justina; Gerdtzen Hakim, Ziomara; Núñez González, Marco; Salgado, J. Cristian (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      © 2017 Colins 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 original ...
    • Vergara, Andrea; Lau, Yi Sheng; Mendoza-Garcia, Ricardo Franco; Zagal, Juan Cristóbal (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      © 2017 Vergara 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 ...
    • Patricia, Galvez E.; Vizcarra, Marcela; Palomino, Ana María; Valencia, Alejandra; Iglesias, Lorena; Schwingel, Andiara (Academic Press, 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Traditional methods for studying eating behaviors include quantitative methods such as 24-h dietary recalls or food frequency questionnaires. Recently, visual methods such as photo-elicitation (PE) have ...
    • Valenzuela Yuraidini, Carlos (Universidad de Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario Estudios Bioética, 2016)
      This study shows the inapplicability of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) to all the cases of therapeutic abortion (TA). The causes of the maternal risk define cases that cannot be included in the DDE. When it is not the ...
    • Bustos, Patricia; Rosas, Bernardita; Román, Pablo E.; Villagrán, Juan; Amigo, Hugo (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Metabolic syndrome is highly prevalent among adults in Chile and represents a health risk. Aim: To determine the relationship between metabolic syndrome ...
    • Álvarez, Evelyn A.; Garrido, Maricel A.; Tobar, Eduardo A.; Prieto, Stephanie A.; Vergara, Sebastian O.; Briceño, Constanza D.; González, Francisco J. (W.B. Saunders, 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier Inc.Purpose Delirium has negative consequences such as increased mortality, hospital expenses and decreased cognitive and functional status. This research aims to determine the impact of occupational therapy ...