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    • Miralles Lozano, Rodolfo; Gallardo, Francisca; Baeza Paredes, Mauricio; Valenzuela, Saúl; Ravera, María José; Ormeño Ortiz, Guillermo; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel (2007)
      The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of canine guidance and group function on supra- and infrahyoid EMG activity in the lateral decubitus position at different jaw posture tasks. The sample included 40 ...
    • Valenzuela, S.; Baeza Paredes, Mauricio; Miralles, R.; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Zúñiga, C.; Santander, H. (E H ANGLE EDUCATION RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 2006-07)
      The objective of this study was to determine the effects of canine guidance and group function on supra- and infrahyoid electromyographic (EMG) activity. The sample included 40 healthy subjects, 20 with bilateral canine ...
    • Avalos, Beatrice; Téllez, Francisco; Navarro, Silvia (2010)
      The article reviews some of the problems faced by teacher education in general and in Chile specifically, and on this basis, presents the results of a study focused on the effects of six teacher education programmes on ...
    • Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Chaparro, Alejandra; Graumann, Rebecca; Puente, Javier; Valenzuela, Maria Antonieta; Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio (2004)
      Background: Receptor activator of nuclear factor κB ligand (RANK-L) is a cytokine involved in the regulation of osteoclastogenesis in bone remodeling and inflammatory osteolysis. One of the major causes of tooth loss in ...
    • Dutzan Muñoz, Nicolás; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Hernández Ríos, Emma; Dezerega Piwonka, Andrea; Rivera Escobar, Oriana; Silva Steffens, Nora; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Puente Piccardo, Javier; Pozo, Patricia; Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio (2009-02)
      Background: Periodontitis is an infection with an episodic pattern of tissue-support destruction. During the generation of a primary CD4+ T helper 1 (Th1) response, interferon-gamma (IFN-g) acts as a positive regulator ...
    • Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio; Acevedo, A.; Bascones, A.; Jorge, O.; Silva, A. (American Academy of Periodontology, 2000-10)
      Background: Various cytokines have been identified at sites of chronic inflammation such as periodontitis. Cytokines are synthesized in response to bacteria and their products, inducing and maintaining an inflammatory ...
    • Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Dutzan Muñoz, Nicolás; Chaparro, Alejandra; Puente Piccardo, Javier; Valenzuela, María Antonieta; Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio (BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD, 2005-04)
      Background and Aims: Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is a T-cell-derived cytokine that may play an important role in the initiation or maintenance of the pro-inflammatory response and has recently been found to stimulate osteoclastic ...
    • Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio; Acevedo, A.; Bascones, A.; Jorge, O.; Silva, A. (American Academy of Periodontology, 2000)
      Background: Various cytokines have been identified at sites of chronic inflammation such as periodontitis. Cytokines are synthesized in response to bacteria and their products, inducing and maintaining an inflammatory ...
    • Dutzan Muñoz, Nicolás; Rivas, Catalina; García Sesnich, Jocelyn; Henríquez, Leslie; Rivera Escobar, Oriana; Dezerega Piwonka, Andrea; Hernández Ríos, Emma; Silva Steffens, Nora; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Puente Piccardo, Javier; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio (American Academy of Periodontology, 2011-10)
      BACKGROUND: A growing body of evidence suggested that interleukin (IL)-21 enhances the effector phase during T-cell responses. The aim of our study is to determine the levels of IL-21 in periodontal sites from patients ...
    • Ahumada, Luis; Sisto, Vicente; López, Verónica; Valenzuela, Juan (2011)
      La gestión de los centros educativos es uno de los elementos relevantes a la hora de explicar la mejora en la calidad y la equidad en la educación. En Chile se ha puesto atención a una serie de variables tales como ...
    • Sebastián, Valentina P.; Moreno Tapia, Daniela; Melo González, Felipe; Hernández Cáceres, María Paz; Salazar, Geraldyne A.; Pardo Roa, Catalina; Farías, Mónica A.; Vallejos, Omar P.; Schultz, Bárbara M.; Morselli, Eugenia; Álvarez Lobos, Manuel M.; González, Pablo A.; Kalergis, Alexis M.; Bueno, Susan M. (MDPI, 2022)
      An important virulence trait of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) is the ability to avoid the host immune response, generating systemic and persistent infections. Host cells play a crucial role in ...
    • Espinoza, Carolina; Feliú, Daniel; Aguilar, Claudio; Espinoza González, Rodrigo; Lund Plantat, Fernando; Salinas, Vicente; Mujica Fernández, Nicolás (MDPI AG, 2018)
      The relative dislocation density of aluminum and copper samples is quantitatively measured using linear Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS). For each metallic group, four samples were prepared with different ...
    • Nicolet, Carlos; Muoz, Daniela; Marino, Antonio; Werner, Andrea; Argandoña, Juan (2012)
      Purpose The aim of this study was to compare the presurgical and postsurgical electromyographic (EMG) activities of the lips in patients with skeletal Class III treated with combined orthognathic surgery and contrast these ...
    • Villanueva Maffei, Julio; Martínez, B.; Pantoja Parada, Pedro (Masson, 1998)
      Lipomas are benign neoplasms affecting many organs of the body with adipose tissue. As a bone central lesion they represent less than 1% of all lipomas. In the literature lipomas are reported in different bones : calcaneum, ...
    • Veloso Matta, Pablo Gianfranco; Fernández Moraga, Alejandra Cristi; Astorga, Jessica; González Quintanilla, Luis David; Castro, Alfredo; Escobar Álvarez, Alejandro Felipe; Hoare Teuche, Anilei Paz; Hernández Ríos, Emma Marcela (MDPI, 2022)
      Apical Lesions of Endodontic Origin (ALEO) are initiated by polymicrobial endodontic canal infection. Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) and Porphyromonas endodontalis (Pe) lipopolysaccharides (LPS) can induce a pro-inflammatory ...
    • Leiva Salcedo, Elías; Coddou, Claudio; Rodríguez, Felipe; Penna, Antonello; López, Ximena; Neira, Tanya; Fernández, Ricardo; Imarai, Mónica; Rios, Miguel; Escobar, Jorge; Montoya, Margarita; Huidobro Toro, Juan; Escobar, Alejandro; Acuña Castillo, Claudio (2011)
      The purinergic P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) plays an important role during the immune response, participating in several events such as cytokine release, apoptosis, and necrosis. The bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) ...
    • Vandvik, Per; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Guyatt, Gordon H. (BIOMED CENTRAL, 2016)
      In a recent research article in BMC Medicine, Crequit and colleagues demonstrate how published systematic reviews in lung cancer provide a fragmented, out-of-date picture of the evidence for all treatments. The results and ...
    • Naenni, Nadja; Lim, Hyun-Chang; Strauss Avendaño, Franz; Jung, Ronald; Haemmerle, Christoph; Thoma, Daniel S. (Korean Acad Periodontology, 2020)
      Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the local tissue reactions associated with 3 different poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) prototype membranes and to compare them to the reactions associated with ...
    • Wallach, M; Cuellar, J; Verdugo-Paiva, F; Alarcon, A (NLM (Medline), 2020)
    • Moncada, Gustavo; Fernández Godoy, Eduardo; Mena, Katherine; Vildósola Grez, Patricio; Estay, Juan; Oliveira, Osmir; Martin, Javier; Mjör, Ivar; Gordan, Valeria (Quintessence Publishing Co., Ltd, 2016)
      Purpose: This prospective, blinded clinical trial assessed the performance of amalgam restorations that were refurbished, replaced, or not treated. Materials and methods: Twenty-three patients were included, ages 18-80 ...