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    • Reyes, Sussanne; Peirano Campos, Patricio; Luna, Beatriz; Lozoff, Betsy; Algarín Crespo, Cecilia Rosa (Nature Publishing, 2015)
      BACKGROUND: Reward system and inhibitory control are brain functions that exert an influence on eating behavior regulation. We studied the differences in inhibitory control and sensitivity to reward and loss avoidance ...
    • Durán Agüero, Samuel; Torres García, Jairo; Sanhueza Catalán, Julio (SENPE, 2015)
      Las enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECV), y en especial la obstrucción de las arterias coronarias, suponen el principal gasto en salud de la mayor parte de los países. Sin embargo, Francia, según la OMS, presenta la ...
    • Latorre, Mauricio; Low, Marcela; Gárate, Esteban; Reyes Jara, Angélica; Murray, Bárbara E.; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica; González, Mauricio (Royal Soc Chemistry, 2015)
      By integrating the microarray expression data and a global E. faecalis transcriptional network we identified a sub-network activated by zinc and copper. Our analyses indicated that the transcriptional response of the ...
    • Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Blanco, Estela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Gahagan, Sheila (Hindawi Publishing, 2015)
      Objective. To determine the optimal cutoff of the homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) for diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents and examine whether insulin resistance (IR), determined ...
    • Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Zacarías Hasbún, Isabel; González González, Carmen Gloria; Fonseca Morán, Lilian; Mediano Stoltze, Fernanda; Pinheiro Fernandes, Anna Christina; Rodríguez Osiac, Lorena (Aula Medica Ediciones, 2015)
      Introducción: las Guías Alimentarias Basadas en Alimentos (GABA) generalmente van acompañadas de una imagen para su difusión e implementación. Objetivo: diseñar y validar una imagen que represente la variedad y ...
    • Papić, Ljubomir; García, Katherine; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Univ. Católica de Valparaíso, 2015)
      El desarrollo de la acuicultura sustentable es acorde con la demanda creciente de nuevas metodologías que aseguren la salud de las diversas especies acuícolas. Dentro de ellas, el uso de terapias revolucionarias basadas ...
    • Kanter, Rebecca; Walls, Helen L.; Tak, Mehroosh; Roberts, Francis; Waage, Jeff (Springer, 2015)
      Agriculture and food systems are important determinants of nutrition and consequent public health. However, an understanding of the links among agriculture, food systems, nutrition, public health and the associated policy ...
    • Cadenas Sánchez, Cristina; Artero, Enrique G.; Concha, Fernando; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      The purpose of this study was to describe anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of low-income Chilean preschool children and to examine whether weight status influences children's performance on fitness tests. ...
    • Durán Agüero, Samuel; Torres García, Jairo; Sanhueza Catalán, Julio (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      El consumo de aceites vegetales se ha incrementado en las últimas décadas en nuestra sociedad y son parte importante de la dieta en todo el mundo. Sudamérica es un gran productor de diferentes aceites vegetales. La ...
    • Correa Burrows, Paulina; Burrows, Raquel; Orellana Zapata, Yasna; Ivanovic Marincovich, Daniza (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
      Objective: We examined the association between unhealthy snacking at school and academic outcomes in students from the Santiago Metropolitan Region (Chile). Design: Cross-sectional population-based study. Setting: ...
    • Araya, Magdalena; Oyarzún, Amaya; Lucero Álvarez, Yalda; Espinosa, Nelly; Pérez Bravo, Francisco (MDPI AG, 2015)
      HLA-linked genes are relevant to celiac disease (CD); the potential genetic differences present worldwide are not fully understood. Previous results suggest that the distribution of HLA-DQ2/DQ7/DQ8 in Chile may differ from ...
    • Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; Hödar Quiroga, Christian; Travisany, Dante; Zúñiga, Alejandro; Domínguez, Calixto; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Piscirickettsiosis or Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia (SRS) is a bacterial disease that has a major economic impact on the Chilean salmon farming industry. Despite the fact that Piscirickettsia salmonis has ...
    • Navarro, Elizabeth; Araya, Magdalena (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)
      Remission of gastrointestinal and general symptoms after gluten withdrawal has been described in some non-celiac individuals for nearly 30 years. Only recently, efforts have been made to define this entity, now referred ...
    • Cruchet Muñoz, Sylvia; Furnes, Raquel; Maruy, Aldo; Hebel, Eduardo; Palacios, Jorge; Medina, Fernando; Ramírez, Nelson; Orsi, Marina; Rondon, Lysette; Sdepanian, Vera; Xochihua, Luis; Ybarra, Manuel; Zablah, Roberto Arturo (ADIS Int., 2015)
      Objective The stability and composition of intestinal flora plays a vital role in human wellbeing throughout life from as early as birth. Over the past 50 years, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the effect ...
    • Miranda, Claudio D.; Rojas, Rodrigo; Geisse, Julieta; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; González Rocha, Gerardo (Elsevier, 2015)
      The main aim of the study was to evaluate the role of scallop hatcheries as source of the floR and cmIA genes. A number of 133 and 121 florfenicol-resistant strains were isolated from scallop larval cultures prior to their ...
    • Hawkes, Corinna; Smith, Trenton G.; Jewell, Jo; Wardle, Jane; Hammond, Ross A.; Friel, Sharon; Thow, Anne Marie; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Elsevier, 2015)
      Prevention of obesity requires policies that work. In this Series paper, we propose a new way to understand how food policies could be made to work more effectively for obesity prevention. Our approach draws on evidence ...
    • Bridi, Raquel; Montenegro, Gloria; Núñez Quijada, Gabriel; Giordano, Ady; Morán Romero, María Fernanda; Jara Pezoa, Isaac; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Atala, Elías; López Alarcón, Camilo (Institute of Food Technologists, 2015)
      Propolis has been proposed as a polyphenolic-rich natural product potentially able to be used for human consumption or even for medicinal proposes. To guarantee a minimum phenolic and flavonoid content and as consequence ...
    • Rodríguez, Juan Manuel; Leiva Balich, Laura; Concha, M. J.; Mizón, C.; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Jiménez Jaime, Teresa; Henríquez, Sandra; Uribarri, Jaime; Maza Cave, María Pía de la (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      Dietary intake of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) increases circulating and tissue levels of these substances, contributing to a state of increased oxidative stress and inflammation. A low dietary AGE intervention ...
    • Jiménez Jaime, Teresa; Leiva Balich, Laura; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Henríquez Parada, Sandra; Rodríguez Silva, Juan; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      Energy expenditure (EE) may decrease in subjects on hypocaloric diets, in amounts that exceed body mass loss, favoring weight regain. Objective: to verify if a short-term caloric restriction lowers Resting Energy ...
    • Lukowski, Angela F.; Liu, Xicheng; Peirano Campos, Patricio; Odio, Mauricio; Bauer, Patricia J. (American Psychological Association, 2015)
      The emergence of consolidated nighttime sleep and the formation and maintenance of parent-infant relationships are 2 primary developmental achievements of the infancy period. Despite the development of a transactional model ...