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    • Flores Vergara, Raúl Alejandro; Olmedo Alegría, Ivonne Odette; Aránguiz, Pablo; Riquelme Meléndez, Jaime; Vivar Sánchez, Raúl Fabián; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully Rocío Evangelina (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Communication between cells is a foundational concept for understanding the physiology and pathology of biological systems. Paracrine/autocrine signaling, direct cell-to-cell interplay, and extracellular matrix interactions ...
    • Jara, María Fernanda; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara de Lourdes; Cuevas, Carla; Gálvez Espinoza, Patricia (Cambridge Univ., 2021)
      Research indicates that history and early life events and trajectories influence women’s dietary behaviors. Yet, the social context in which recent life changes occur requires greater understanding, particularly regarding ...
    • León, Tomás; Castro, Loreto; Mascayano, Franco; Lawlor, Brian; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea María (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The development of healthcare services for dementia is key to improving access to care and post-diagnostic support for people living with dementia. Memory Units have emerged as a new healthcare service composed of ...
    • Saldías O'hrens, Marcelo; Laukkanen, Anne Maria; Guzmán, Marco; Miranda González, Gonzalo; Stoney, Justin; Alku, Paavo; Sundberg, Johan (Elsevier, 2021)
      Twang-like vocal qualities have been related to a megaphone-like shape of the vocal tract (epilar-yngeal tube and pharyngeal narrowing, and a wider mouth opening), low-frequency spectral changes, and tighter and/or increased ...
    • Pérez González, Leonardo; Rashid, Aysha; Combs, J. Dale; Schneider, Pascal; Rodríguez, Andrés; Salaita, Khalid; Leyton Campos, Lisette (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Astrocyte reactivity is associated with poor repair capacity after injury to the brain, where chemical and physical changes occur in the damaged zone. Astrocyte surface proteins, such as integrins, are upregulated, and the ...
    • Orozco Aguilar, Josué; Simón, Felipe; Cabello Verrugio, Claudio (Hindawi, 2021)
      Bile acids (BA) are recognized by their role in nutrient absorption. However, there is growing evidence that BA also have endocrine and metabolic functions. Besides, the steroidal-derived structure gives BA a toxic potential ...
    • Ortiz López, Nicolás; Jerez Yáñez, Óscar; Cortés Chau, Felipe; Rodríguez Cabello, Jonathan (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Students belonging to sexual and gender diversity experience chronic stress due to stigmatization and discrimination. Aim: To identify the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and queer ...
    • Vega Tapia, Fabián Alejandro; Bustamante Parraguez, Mario Andrés; Valenzuela, Rodrigo A.; Urzúa Salinas, Cristhian Alejandro; Cuitiño Tride, Loreto Emilia del Carmen (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      miRNAs, one of the members of the noncoding RNA family, are regulators of gene expression in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Changes in miRNA pool expression have been associated with differentiation of CD4(+) T cells ...
    • Allende Valenzuela, Tamara; Wrann Reinike, Beatriz; Quezada Gaponov, Camilo Ernesto (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, España, 2021)
      Diagnosing Specific language Impairment (SLI) is usually done by speech therapists who resort exclusively to their own professional knowledge as clinician, with not much input from other fields. It has been shown that ...
    • Cortés, Valeria; Cruz, Amalia; Onetti, Sofía; Kinzel, Daniela; García, Javiera; Ortiz, Sylvia; López, Angélica; Cattan Ayala, Pedro Eduardo; Botto Mahan, Carezza Verónica; Solari Illescas, Aldo Gerónimo (Public Library Science, 2021)
      Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by the triatomine Mepraia spinolai in the southwest of South America. Here, we examined the T. cruzi-infection dynamics of field-caught M. spinolai after ...
    • Chávez Armleder, Sebastián; Poniachik Teller, Jaime Melchor; Urzúa Manchego, Álvaro Miguel; Roblero Cum, Juan Pablo; Cattaneo Buteler, Máximo José; Jiménez Patiño, Paula; Carreño Toro, Laura Elisa; Cornejo Rosas, Rodrigo Alfredo (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2021)
      Introduction: Acute liver failure (ALF) is a life-threatening condition that remains challenging for physicians despite several advances in supportive care. Etiologies vary worldwide, with herpes simplex virus (HSV) ...
    • Weissmann Marcuson, Karen Andrea; Barrios, Carlos; Lafage, Virginie; Lafage, Renaud; Costa, Marcelo A.; Álvarez, Diego; Huaiquilaf Salazar, Carlos Manuel; Ang, Bryan; Schulz, Ronald G. (SAGE, 2021)
      Study Design: Single-center retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. Objective: Our aim was to compare the correction capacity in 3 planes of the VCA technique versus the AD technique in neuromuscular ...
    • Jara, Daniela; Carvajal, Patricia; Castro Masso, Isabel Verónica; Barrera, María José; Aguilera, Sergio; González, Sergio; Molina, Claudio; Hermoso, Marcela Alejandra; González Burgos, María Antonieta (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease that mainly affects salivary glands (SG) and is characterized by overactivation of the type I interferon (IFN) pathway. Type I IFNs can decrease the levels of hsa-miR-145-5p, ...
    • Lecaros, C.; Dunstan Escudero, Jocelyn Mariel; Villena, F.; Ashcroft, D. M.; Parisi, R.; Griffiths, C. E. M.; Härtel, S.; Maul, J. T.; Cruz, C. de la (Wiley, 2021)
      Background. Psoriasis is a serious and chronic noncommunicable disease. However, the fundamental measure of disease occurrence, the incidence, has been scarcely reported globally. There are no previous studies of psoriasis ...
    • Bernal Ramírez, Judith; Díaz Vesga, Magda; Talamilla, Matías; Méndez, Andrea; Quiroga, Clara; Garza Cervantes, Javier; Lázaro-Alfaro, Anay; Jerjes Sánchez, Carlos; Henríquez Luna, Hilda del Carmen; García Rivas, Gerardo; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully Rocio Evangelina (2021)
      The right and left ventricles have traditionally been studied as individual entities. Furthermore, modifications found in diseased left ventricles are assumed to influence on right ventricle alterations, but the connection ...
    • Aguilera, Bernardo; Pérez Gómez, Javiera; DeGrazia, David (BMC, 2021)
      Background: The use of great apes (GA) in invasive biomedical research is one of the most debated topics in animal ethics. GA are, thus far, the only animal group that has frequently been banned from invasive research; ...
    • Cruz Montecinos, Carlos Vicente; Cerda Villablanca, Mauricio; Becerra Poblete, Pablo Andrés; Tapia Malebrán, Claudio Yerko; Núñez Cortés, Rodrigo Ignacio; Latorre García, Rodrigo; Freitas, Sandro; Cuesta Vargas, Antonio (BMC, 2021)
      Background The relevance of local twitch response (LTR) during dry needling technique (DNT) is controversial, and it is questioned whether LTR is necessary for successful outcomes. Furthermore, because the LTR during the ...
    • Halabi, Diego; Richter, Hans G.; Méndez, Natalia; Kahne, Thilo; Spichiger, Carlos; Salazar, Esteban; Torres, Fabiola; Vergara, Karina; Serón Ferre, María Josefa; Torres Farfán, Claudia (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Compelling evidence in rats support the idea that gestational chronodisruption induces major changes in maternal circadian rhythms and fetal development and that these changes impact adult life at many physiological levels. ...
    • Pérez Domínguez, Francisco Javier; Carrillo Beltrán, Diego Antonio; Blanco Santana, Rancés; Muñoz, Juan P.; León Cruz, Grettell; Corvalán, Alejandro H.; Urzúa Tobar, Ulises de la Cruz; Calaf, Gloria M.; Aguayo, Francisco (MDPI, 2021)
      Simple Summary Pirin is a protein which is detected at low levels in normal tissues. However, it is detected at high levels in multiple cancers, particularly in melanomas, cervical cancer or squamous cell lung carcinomas. ...
    • Troncoso Magñin, Mayarling Francisca; Pavez Giani, Mario Gustavo; Wilson Rodríguez, Carlos Antonio; Lagos Cerón, Daniel Alejandro; Durán Gárate, Javier Andre; Ramos, Sebastián; Barrientos Briones, Genaro Christian; Silva, Patricio; Llanos Vidal, Paola Andrea; Basualto Alarcón, Carla Edith; Westenbrink, B. Daan; Lavandero González, Sergio Alejandro; Estrada Hormazábal, Manuel Iván (BMC, 2021)
      Background Testosterone regulates nutrient and energy balance to maintain protein synthesis and metabolism in cardiomyocytes, but supraphysiological concentrations induce cardiac hypertrophy. Previously, we determined that ...