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    • 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 ...
    • Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Ilabaca, Carolina; Ruiz, Mauricio; Jara Campos, Carla (Frontiers media SA, 2018)
      The presence and load of species of LAB at the end of the malolactic fermentation (MLF) were investigated in 16 wineries from the different Chilean valleys (Limari, Casablanca, Maipo, Rapel, and Maule Valleys) during 2012 ...
    • Corvalán Aguilar, Camila (Royal Statistical Society, 2014)
      There is broad recognition that early life growth trajectories can contribute to the study of the onset and development of several health outcomes.We review the random-effects specifications of two models that have been ...
    • Ríos Castillo, Israel; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Brito, Álex; López de Romaña, Daniel; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando (Elsevier, 2014)
      Objectives: Calcium (Ca) and iron (Fe) are essential minerals for normal growth and development. Although previous studies have shown that Ca inhibits acute Fe absorption, there is no evidence of the possible long- or ...
    • Aguirre, Carolina; Castillo, Valeska; Llanos Silva, Miguel (Hindawi Ltda., 2017)
      We have previously shown that administration of the endocannabinoid anandamide (AEA) during lactation leads to overweight, increased body fat accumulation, and insulin resistance in adult mice. This study was designed to ...
    • Ansede Bermejo, Juan; Gavilán, Ronnie G.; Triñanes, Joaquín; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime (Blackwell, 2010)
      The dynamics of dissemination of the environmental human pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus are uncertain. The O3:K6 clone was restricted to Asia until its detection along the Peruvian coasts and in northern Chile in 1997 ...
    • Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Lera Marques, Lydia; Angel Badillo, Bárbara Karen; Sánchez, H.; Márquez Jara, Carlos; Arroyo Albala, Patricia (Springer, 2017)
    • González Escalona, Narjol; Gavilán, Ronnie G.; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly; Zamudio, María L.; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime (Centers Disease Control, 2016)
      In 2009, an outbreak of Vibrio parahaemolyticus occurred in Piura, Cajamarca, Lambayeque, and Lima, Peru. Whole-genome sequencing of clinical and environmental samples from the outbreak revealed a new V. parahaemolyticus ...
    • Cáceres, Mónica; Guerrero, Javier; Martínez, Jorge (ELSEVIER INC, 2005-09-10)
      Rho GTPases are overexpressed in human tumors and are involved in a variety of cellular processes such as organization of the actin cytoskeleton, cell-cell contact and malignant transformation. EGFR activation plays a key ...
    • Fuentes Lemus, E.; Dorta, E.; Escobar, E.; Aspee, Alexis; Pino, E.; Abasq, M. L.; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Silva, E.; Lissi, E.; Davies, M. J.; López Alarcón, Camilo (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016)
      The oxidation of tryptophan (Trp) residues, mediated by peroxyl radicals (ROO.), follows a complex mechanism involving free radical intermediates, and short chain reactions. The reactivity of Trp towards ROO. should be ...
    • Bascuñán Gamboa, Karla; Rodríguez Silva, Juan Manuel; Osben Rojas, Carla; Fernández, Alan; Sepúlveda Gúzman, Carlos; Araya Quezada, María Magdalena (MDPI, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has been present for many months, influencing diets such as the gluten-free diet (GFD), which implies daily challenges even in non-pandemic conditions. Persons following the GFD were invited to answer ...
    • Pérez, H.; Ruiz, S.; Núñez, Héctor; White Ortiz, Allan; Gotteland, Martín; Hernández, A. (BLACKWELL, 2006-08)
      Rats submitted to fetal growth retardation by in utero malnutrition develop hypertension when adult, showing increased hypothalamic mRNA expression for corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and increased central noradrenergic ...
    • Jorquera Ramírez, Carolina; Rojas, Rodrigo; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Springer, 2020)
      Seriola lalandiis an economically important species that is globally distributed in temperate and subtropical marine waters. Aquaculture production of this species has had problems associated with intensive fish farming, ...