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    • Tobar, Nicolás; Guerrero, Javier; Smith, Patricio C.; Martínez, Jorge (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2010-09-28)
      BACKGROUND: The influence of the stromal microenvironment on the progression of epithelial cancers has been demonstrated. Unravelling the mechanisms by which stromal cells affect epithelial behaviour will contribute in ...
    • Fuenzalida, Karen; Leal Witt, María Jesús; Guerrero, Patricio; Hamilton Viollier, Valerie; Salazar, María Florencia; Peñaloza, Felipe; Arias Pefaur, Carolina; Cornejo Espinoza, Veronica del Carmen (MDPI, 2021)
      Treatment and follow-up in Hereditary Tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1) patients require comprehensive clinical and dietary management, which involves drug therapy with NTBC and the laboratory monitoring of parameters, including ...
    • Vasco, Diego A.; Salinas, Carlos; Moraga, Nelson; Lemus Mondaca, Roberto (Edizioni ETS, 2018)
      Numerical prediction of heat transfer by natural convection of a Herschel-Bulkley non-Newtonian fluid inside a square cavity has been computationally analyzed. Unsteady 2D fluid mechanics and heat transfer were described ...
    • Ortiz Severín, Javiera Rocío; Stuardo, Camila J.; Jiménez, Natalia E.; Palma Viganego, Ricardo; Cortés, María P.; Maldonado, Jonathan; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro Eduardo; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana Verónica (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Extensive use of antibiotics has been the primary treatment for the Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia, a salmonid disease caused by the bacterium Piscirickettsia salmonis. Occurrence of antibiotic resistance has been ...
    • Valenzuela, Rodrigo; Das, Undurti N.; Videla Cabrera, Luis; Llorente, Carolina G. (Hindawi, 2018)
    • Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela (2009)
    • Dangour, Alan D.; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2006-08)
      Although progress has been made towards international goals for the eradication of hunger and malnutrition, considerable work is still required to achieve them and to respond to emerging public health nutrition challenges. ...
    • Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Dangour, Alan D. (INT LIFE SCIENCES INST NORTH AMERICA, 2006-05)
      The essential fatty acids (EFAs), particularly the n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPs), are important for brain development during both the fetal and postnatal period. They are also increasingly seen to be ...
    • Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Jones-Smith, J.; Lutter, C. K.; Miranda, J. J.; Pedraza, L. S.; Popkin, B. M.; Ramírez Zea, M.; Salvo, D.; Stein, A. D. (Wiley, 2017)
      The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rapidly increasing among Latin American children, posing challenges for current healthcare systems and increasing the risk for a wide range of diseases. To understand the factors ...
    • Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2008-04)
      Objective: To analyse the nutritional status component of the nutrition transition in Chile in relation to the evolution of obesity rates in all age groups until 2005, comparing these with the goals established by the ...
    • Arazo Rusindo, Migdalia Caridad; Zúñiga, Rommy N.; Cortés Segovia, Pablo; Benavides Valenzuela, Sergio; Pérez Bravo, Francisco Antonio; Castillo Valenzuela, Óscar; Mariotti Celis, María Salome (MDPI, 2022)
      The increase in the Chilean elderly population has promoted public policies to favor an adequate nutrition in later life. This study evaluated the nutritional status, micronutrients intake and serum micronutrients levels ...
    • Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Lera Marques, Lydia; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Morón, C. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2004-09)
      Objective: To assess the nutritional status, food consumption and physical activity (PA) habits of Chilean school children, as a baseline for developing an educational intervention. Design: Cross-sectional study. Subjects: ...
    • Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
    • Steinmaus, Craig; Castriota, Felicia; Ferreccio, Catterina; Smith, Allan H.; Yuan, Yan; Liaw, Jane; Acevedo, Johanna; Pérez, Liliana; Meza, Rodrigo; Calcagno, Sergio; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Smith, Martyn T. (Elsevier, 2015)
      Background: Elevated body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. Inflammation or oxidative stress induced by high BMI may explain some of these effects. Millions ...
    • Burrows Argote, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Rogan Castillo, José; Kim, Elissa; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2020)
      Aim: We investigated the relation of time of onset and length of obesity with biomarkers of beta-cell function in early adulthood in an infancy cohort. Material and methods: In 1039 23-year-olds, body-mass index (BMI) ...
    • Mesa Valencia, Diana Carolina; Mericq, Verónica; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      Purpose: Recent reports show that girls with higher body mass index (BMI) have an earlier puberty onset (thelarche). It has been suggested that earlier puberty is a consequence of higher levels of estrogen due to increased ...
    • Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Quintanilla, Cristina; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Cifuentes, Mariana; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2015)
      Background: Obesity is associated with a mild chronic inflammatory response, which has been suggested to be pivotal in the development of cardiometabolic alterations of obesity. However, little is known about the involvement ...
    • Cheng, J.; East, P.; Blanco, E.; Sim, E. Kang; Castillo, M.; Lozoff, B.; Gahagan, S. (Jonh Wiley, 2016)
      BackgroundPoor motor skills have been consistently linked with a higher body weight in childhood, but the causal direction of this association is not fully understood. This study investigated the temporal ordering between ...
    • Cifuentes, Mariana; Fuentes, Cecilia; Mattar, Pamela; Tobar, Nicolas; Hugo, Eric; Ben-Jonathan, Nira; Rojas Baechler, Cecilia; Martínez, Jorge (2010)
      Obesity-associated health complications are thought to be in part due to the low-grade proinflammatory state that characterizes this disease. The calcium sensing receptor (CaSR), which is expressed in human adipose cells, ...
    • Fisberg, Mauro; Maximino, Priscila; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Kovalskys, Irina (Soc Brasil Pediatria, 2016)
      Objectives: To evaluate environmental obesogenic-related factors, such as physical activity in neighborhoods and schools, nutritional behavior, and intervention programs. Sources: Critical analysis of literature with ...