Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • The difference between first and second harmonic amplitudes correlates between glottal airflow and neck-surface ... 
      Mehta, Daryush D.; Espinoza, Víctor M.; Van Stan, Jarrad H.; Zañartu, Matías; Hillman, Robert E. (Acoustical Society of America, 2019)
      Miniature high-bandwidth accelerometers on the anterior neck surface are used in laboratory and ambulatory settings to obtain vocal function measures. This study compared the widely applied L1-L2 measure (historically, ...
    • Nutritional treatment in pressure and venous ulcers Tratamiento nutricional en úlceras por presión y úlceras ... 
      Kreindl, Christine; Basfi-Fer, Karen; Cancino Rojas, Pamela; Carrasco, Gabriela (Sociedad Chilena de Nutricion Bromatologia y Toxilogica, 2019)
      Pressure and venous ulcers are common in adults and the elderly. In Chile, 70% of chronic wounds correspond to venous ulcers and the prevalence of pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients is 28%. The aim of this review was ...
    • Evolutionary potential of thermal preference and heat tolerance in Drosophila subobscura 
      Castañeda, Luis E.; Romero-Soriano, Valèria; Mesas, Andrés; Roff, Derek A.; Santos, Mauro (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
      Evolutionary change of thermal traits (i.e., heat tolerance and behavioural thermoregulation) is one of the most important mechanisms exhibited by organisms to respond to global warming. However, the evolutionary potential ...
    • Aromatic Bromination Abolishes the Psychomotor Features and Pro-social Responses of MDMA (“Ecstasy”) in ... 
      Sáez Briones, Patricio; Castro Castillo, Vicente; Díaz Véliz, Gabriela; Valladares Boasi, Luis; Barra, Rafael; Hernández, Alejandro; Cassels Niven, Bruce (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      The entactogen MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine, “Ecstasy”) exerts its psychotropic effects acting primarily as a substrate of the serotonin transporter (SERT) to induce a non-exocytotic release of serotonin. ...
    • Domestic and care work in dual-earner couples: Comparative analysis of Spain, Argentina and Chile El trabajo ... 
      Amorós, Màrius Domínguez; Muñiz, Leticia; Donoso, Gabriela Rubilar (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2019)
      This article analyses the unpaid household work gender gap in Spain, Argentina and Chile. Specifically, this study explores the distribution of domestic and care work among household members and examines in depth the ...
    • Cylindrical micelles by the self-assembly of crystalline-b-coil polyphosphazene-b-P2VP block copolymers. ... 
      Cortes, Maria de los Angeles; Campa, Raquel de la; Valenzuela, Maria Luisa; Díaz, Carlos; Carriedo, Gabino A.; Soto, Alejandro Presa (MDPI AG, 2019)
      During the last number of years a variety of crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) processes based on semicrystalline block copolymers have been developed to prepare a number of different nanomorphologies in solution ...
    • Angiotensin II-regulated autophagy is required for vascular smooth muscle cell hypertrophy 
      Mondaca Ruff, David; Riquelme, Jaime A.; Quiroga, Clara; Norambuena Soto, Ignacio; Sanhueza Olivares, Fernanda; Villar-Fincheira, Paulina; Hernández-Díaz, Tomás; Cancino Arenas, Nicole; San Martin, Alejandra; García Nannig, Lorena; Lavandero González, Sergio; Chiong Lay, Mario (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      Copyright © 2019 Mondaca-Ruff, Riquelme, Quiroga, Norambuena-Soto, Sanhueza-Olivares, Villar-Fincheira, Hernández-Díaz, Cancino-Arenas, San Martin, García, Lavandero and Chiong.Hypertension is a disease associated to ...
    • CD4+Foxp3+T regulatory cells promote transplantation tolerance by modulating effector CD4+ T cells in a ... 
      Campos-Mora, Mauricio; Contreras-Kallens, Pamina; Gálvez-Jirón, Felipe; Rojas, Masyelly; Rojas, Carolina; Refisch, Aarón; Cerda, Oscar; Pino-Lagos, Karina (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      Copyright © 2019 Campos-Mora, Contreras-Kallens, Gálvez-Jirón, Rojas, Rojas, Refisch, Cerda and Pino-Lagos.Several mechanisms of immune suppression have been attributed to Foxp3+ T regulatory cells (Treg) including modulation ...
    • Implementing the protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial for the recovery-oriented intervention to ... 
      Mascayano, Franco; Alvarado, Ruben; Andrews, Howard F.; Jorquera, Maria Jose; Lovisi, Giovanni Marcos; Souza, Flavia Mitkiewicz de; Pratt, Charissa; Rojas, Graciela; Restrepo-Toro, Maria E.; Fader, Kim; Gorroochurn, Prakash; Galea, Sandro; Dahl, Catarina Magalhães; Ci (NLM (Medline), 2019)
      Several Latin American countries have made remarkable strides towards offering community mental health care for people with psychoses. Nonetheless, mental health clinics generally have a very limited outreach in the ...
    • Optimization of florfenicol dose against Piscirickettsia salmonis in Salmo salar through PK/PD studies 
      San Martín Núñez, Betty; Fresno, Marcela; Cornejo, Javiera; Godoy, Marcos; Ibarra, Rolando; Vidal, Roberto; Araneda, Marcelo; Anadón, Arturo; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette (Public Library of Science, 2019)
      Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia (SRS) is the disease of greatest economic importance in the Chilean salmon farming industry, causing high mortality in fish during the final stage of their productive cycle at sea. Since ...
    • Video feedback intervention to enhance parental reflective functioning in primary caregivers of inpatient ... 
      Leyton, Fanny; Olhaberry, Marcia; Alvarado, Rubén; Rojas, Graciela; Dueñas, Luis Alberto; Downing, George; Steele, Howard (BioMed Central Ltd., 2019)
      Background: Children requiring hospitalization for psychiatric care have serious disorders, high use of psychotropic medication, and frequent readmissions. The development and implementation of therapies focused on ...
    • Engineering CHO cells galactose metabolism to reduce lactate synthesis 
      Jiménez, N.; Martínez, V. S.; Gerdtzen, Z. P. (Springer Netherlands, 2019)
      Objective: Over-express galactokinase (Galk1) in tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) producing CHO cells as a potential strategy to improve cell growth and product synthesis. Results: tPA producing CHO cells were transfected ...
    • Critical-poetic considerations to think about systemic-relational clinic: A methodological proposal for ... 
      Arrau, Carolina Besoain; Vial, Pilar Cuevas; Aguirre, Clementina Araya; Kobilic, Soledad Angulo; Martínez, Rodrigo Morales (Universidad CES, 2019)
      The relational systemic psychotherapy has problematized in recent decades its representational assumptions, moving towards new conceptualizations of psychotherapeutic experience. This article presents the work of a clinical ...
    • Magmatic platinum nanoparticles in metasomatic silicate glasses and sulfides from Patagonian mantle xenoliths 
      González-Jiménez, José María; Roqué-Rosell, Josep; Jiménez-Franco, Abigail; Tassara, Santiago; Nieto, Fernando; Gervilla, Fernando; Baurier, Sandra; Proenza, Joaquín A.; Saunders, Edward; Deditius, Artur P.; Schilling, Manuel E.; Corgne, Alexandre (Springer Verlag, 2019)
      Platinum-rich nanonuggets (s.l., nanoparticles) are commonly produced in experiments attempting to quantify the solubility or partitioning of noble metals in silicate and sulfide melts. However, it has been thought that ...
    • Parkinson's disease and long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution: A matched case-control study in the ... 
      Toro, Rosario; Downward, George S.; van der Mark, Marianne; Brouwer, Maartje; Huss, Anke; Peters, Susan; Hoek, Gerard; Nijssen, Peter; Mulleners, Wim M.; Sas, Antonetta; van Laar, Teus; Kromhout, Hans; Vermeulen, Roel (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      Background: There is some evidence to suggest an association between ambient air pollution and development of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the small number of studies published to date has reported inconsistent ...
    • Dry eye is matched by increased intrasubject variability in tear osmolarity as confirmed by machine learning ... 
      Cartes, C.; López, D.; Salinas, D.; Segovia, C.; Ahumada, C.; Pérez, N.; Valenzuela F., Manuel A.; Lanza, N.; López Solís, R. O.; Perez, V. L.; Zegers, P.; Fuentes, A.; Alarcón, C.; Traipe, L. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      Objective: Because of high variability, tear film osmolarity measures have been questioned in dry eye assessment. Understanding the origin of such variability would aid data interpretation. This study aims to evaluate ...
    • Primary infection by Pneumocystis induces Notch-independent Clara cell mucin production in rat distal airways 
      Méndez, Andrea; Rojas, Diego A.; Ponce, Carolina A.; Bustamante, Rebeca; Beltrán, Caroll J.; Toledo, Jorge; García-Angulo, Victor A.; Henriquez, Mauricio; Vargas, Sergio L. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
      Clara cells are the main airway secretory cells able to regenerate epithelium in the distal airways through transdifferentiating into goblet cells, a process under negative regulation of the Notch pathway. Pneumocystis is ...
    • The most recurrent monogenic disorders that overlap with the phenotype of Rett syndrome 
      Vidal, S.; Brandi, N.; Pacheco, P.; Maynou, J.; Fernandez, G.; Xiol, C.; Pascual-Alonso, A.; Pineda, M.; O'Callaghan C., Maria del Mar; Garcia-Cazorla, Àngels; Serrano Munuera, Maria; García, Silvia Cuso; Troncoso, Monica; Fariña, Guillermo; García Peñas, Ju (W.B. Saunders Ltd, 2019)
      Rett syndrome (RTT) is an early-onset neurodevelopmental disorder that is caused by mutations in the MECP2 gene; however, defects in other genes (CDKL5 and FOXG1) can lead to presentations that resemble classic RTT, although ...
    • Adaptive physiological and morphological adjustments mediated by intestinal stem cells in response to food ... 
      Peña Villalobos, Isaac; Casanova Maldonado, Ignacio J.; Lois, Pablo; Sabat Kirkwood, Alejandro Pablo; Palma, Verónica (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      Copyright © 2019 Peña-Villalobos, Casanova-Maldonado, Lois, Sabat and Palma.Several studies have evaluated plastic changes in the morphology of the digestive tract in rodents subjected to caloric restriction or restricted ...
    • The subjective experience of psychotherapists during moments of rupture in psychotherapy with adolescents 
      Morán, Javier; Diáz, M. Francisca; Martínez, Claudio; Varas, Carlos; Sepúlveda, Roxana Parra (PAGEPress Publications, 2019)
      The study of the ruptures of the therapeutic alliance has impacted research in psychotherapy by highlighting the relational nature of this phenomenon. Despite ruptures are frequent and relevant during adolescent psychotherapy, ...