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    • Gamonal Aravena, Jorge; Bravo, Joel; Malheiros, Zilson; Stewart, Bernal; Morales Chvets, Alicia; Cavalla, Franco; Gómez, Mariel (Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontologica, 2020)
      A high level of general and oral health are invaluable assets, a factor not always considered a basic human right for their better life quality. The mouth is a critical point of contact with the external environment, which ...
    • Carvajal, Paola; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Reinero, Daniela; Malheiros, Zilson; Stewart, Bernal; Pannuti, Claudio Mendes; Romito, Giuseppe Alexandre (Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontologica, 2020)
      The epidemiological data on gingivitis and periodontitis in Latin America are scarce, as the majority of the Latin American studies have analyzed probing depth instead of clinical attachment loss. Reported data have shown ...
    • Peña Oyarzún, Daniel; Batista González, Ana; Kretschmar, Catalina; Burgos, Paulina; Lavandero González, Sergio; Morselli, Eugenia; Criollo Céspedes, Alfredo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Polycystin-2 (PC2) is a calcium channel that can be found in the endoplasmic reticulum, the plasmatic membrane, and the primary cilium. The structure of PC2 is characterized by a highly ordered C-terminal tail with an ...
    • Lopes Galante, M.; Lugo, D.; Castro G, Carmen Gloria; Ovalle, M.; Pischel, N.; Giraldes, A.; Carrer, F. (Oxford, 2020)
    • Hoare, Anilei; Wang, Hui; Meethil, Archana; Abusleme Ramos, Loreto; Hong, Bo-Young; Moutsopoulos, Niki M.; Marsh, Philip D.; Hajishengallis, George; Díaz, Patricia I. (Springernature, 2020)
      Recent studies describe in detail the shifts in composition of human-associated polymicrobial communities from health to disease. However, the specific processes that drive the colonization and overgrowth of pathogens ...
    • Rivas, Solange; Silva, Patricio; Reyes Rojas, Montserrat; Sepúlveda, Hugo; Solano, Luis; Acuña, Juan; Guerrero, Marisol; Varas Godoy, Manuel; Quest, Andrew F. G.; Montecino, Martín; Torres Gómez, Vicente (Nature, 2020)
      Tumor hypoxia and the hypoxia inducible factor-1, HIF-1, play critical roles in cancer progression and metastasis. We previously showed that hypoxia activates the endosomal GTPase Rab5, leading to tumor cell migration and ...
    • Núñez Acurio, Daniela; Bravo Rodríguez, Denisse; Aguayo, Francisco (MDPI, 2020)
      Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common type of oral cancer. Its development has been associated with diverse factors such as tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption. In addition, it has been suggested that ...
    • Dallaserra Albertini, Matías; Cuellar, Javier; Villanueva Maffei, Julio (Medwave Estudios, 2020)
      INTRODUCCIÓN La coronectomía se considera una alternativa a la extracción total en los casos donde las raíces de los terceros molares inferiores están en íntimo contacto con el nervio alveolar inferior. Existe incertidumbre ...
    • Melchiades, Jessica Lima; Cavalla, Ian Franco; Colavite, Priscila María; Soriani Azevedo, Michelle; Fonseca, Angélica Cristina; Favaro Trombone, Ana Paula; Menezes da Silva, Renato; De Faveri, Marcelo; Figueiredo, Magda Ferez; Garlet, Gustavo P. (Amer Assoc Immunologists, 2020)
    • Valladares Pérez, Salvador; Bustamante Correa, Diego; Cortez Fuentes, Carlos; Astorga Mori, Felipe; Sepúlveda Troncoso, Gerson; Fariña Sirandoni, Rodrigo (Sage, 2020)
      Study Design: A descriptive-observational study of a series case report of patients diagnosed with orbito-zygomatic complex (OZMC) fracture with lateral wall involvement, was conducted. All patients were assessed in the ...
    • Oetiker, N.; Muñoz Villagrán, C; Vásquez, C. C.; Bravo, D.; Pérez Donoso, J. M. (Wiley, 2020)
      Aim: Fluorescent semiconductor nanoparticles or quantum dots (QDs) have excellent properties as photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy. This is mainly a consequence of their nanometric size and the generation of ...
    • Malaquias, Pamela; Gutiérrez Reyes, Mario; Sutil, Elisama; Matos, Thalita de Paris; Hanzen, Taise Alessandra; Reis, Alessandra; Perdigao, Jorge; Loguercio, Alessandro Dourado (Univ. Sao Paulo, 2020)
      Dual-cured buildup composites and simplified light-cured adhesive systems are mixed with a chemical activator to prevent the incompatibility between them. Objective: To evaluate microshear bond strength (mu SBS) and ...
    • Díaz Zúñiga, Jaime; More, Jamileth Y.; Melgar Rodríguez, Samanta; Jiménez Unión, Matías; Villalobos Orchard, Francisca; Muñoz Manríquez, Constanza; Monasterio, Gustavo; Valdés Guerrero, José; Vernal, Rolando; Paula-Lima, Andrea (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Periodontal disease is a disease of tooth-supporting tissues. It is a chronic disease with inflammatory nature and infectious etiology produced by a dysbiotic subgingival microbiota that colonizes the gingivodental sulcus. ...
    • Lipari Valdés, María Alejandra; Pimentel Patroni, Gisela; Gamboa Caicha, Natalia; Bayas, Isidora; Guerrero, Nicole; Miralles Lozano, Rodolfo (Journal Pedodontics, 2020)
      Objective: This cross-sectional study evaluates the electromyographic (EMG) activity of lips and anterior temporalis muscles of children with competent or incompetent lips. Study design: Forty children were classified ...
    • Hernández, Marcela; Baeza Paredes, Mauricio; Contreras Balbontín, Johanna; Sorsa, Timo; Tervahartiala, Taina; Valdés Salgado, Macarena; Chaparro, Alejandra; Hernández Ríos, Patricia (MDPI, 2020)
      Biomarkers represent promising aids in periodontitis, host-mediate diseases of the tooth-supporting tissues. We assessed the diagnostic potential of matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8), tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase-5 ...
    • Jiménez Silva, Antonio; Carnevali Arellano, Romano; Vivanco Coke, Sheilah; Tobar Reyes, Julio; Araya Díaz, Pamela; Palomino Montenegro, Hernán (Wiley, 2020)
      Objective: To evaluate the validity of craniofacial growth predictors in class II and III malocclusion. Material and methods: An electronic search was conducted until August 2020 in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, ...
    • Kramer Strenger, Susanne Marie; Lucas, James; Gamboa Arellano, Francisca; Penarrocha, Diago, Miguel; Penarrocha Oltra, David; Guzmán Letelier, Marcelo; Paul, Sanchit; Molina, Gustavo; Sepúlveda Vega, Lorena; Araya Cabello, Ignacio; Soto Galaz, Rubén; Arriagada Vargas, Carolina; Lucky, Anne W.; Mellerio, Jemima E.; Cornwall, Roger; Alsayer, Fatimah; Schilke, Reinhard; Antal, Mark Adam; Castrillón, Fernanda; Paredes, Camila; Serrano, María Concepción; Clark, Victoria (Wiley, 2020)
      Background: Inherited epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a genetic disorder characterized by skin fragility and unique oral features. Aims: To provide (a) a complete review of the oral manifestations in those living with ...
    • Díaz Garrido, Natalia; Lozano Moraga, Carla; Kreth, Jens; Giacaman, Rodrigo A. (Amer Soc Microbiology, 2020)
      Imbalances within the dental biofilm trigger dental caries, currently considered a dysbiosis and the most prevalent noncommunicable disease. There is still a gap in knowledge about the dynamics of enamel colonization by ...
    • Álvarez, Carla; Suliman, Salwa; Almarhoumi, Rawan; Vega, María Elena; Rojas, Carolina; Monasterio, Gustavo; Galindo, Mario; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Kantarci, Alpdogan (Nature, 2020)
      The alveolar bone resorption is a distinctive feature of periodontitis progression and determinant for tooth loss. Regulatory T lymphocytes (Tregs) display immuno-suppressive mechanisms and tissue repairing functions, which ...
    • Chuhuaicura, Priscila; Lezcano, María Florencia; Días, Fernando José; Fuentes, Aler Daniel; Arias, Alain; Fuentes, Ramón (Wiley, 2020)
      Background The envelope of motion is a diagrammatic representation of the mandibular border movements. Classically, those movements are carried out eccentrically; starting from the position of maximal intercuspation, the ...