Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • Haplotype-based gene–gene interaction of bone morphogenetic protein 4 and interferon regulatory factor 6 ... 
      Blanco, Rafael; Colombo, Alicia; Pardo, Rosa; Suazo, José (Blackwell Munksgaard, 2017)
      © 2017 Eur J Oral Sci Non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCL/P) is the most common craniofacial birth defect in humans, the etiology of which can be dependent on the interactions of multiple genes. We ...
    • From body image to emotional bodily experience in eating disorders 
      Gaete, María Isabel (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)
      © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2016.This paper is a critical analysis and overview of body image conceptualization and its scope and limits within the field of eating disorders (EDs) up to the present day. In addition, a ...
    • Prolonged Activation of the Htr2b Serotonin Receptor Impairs Glucose Stimulated Insulin Secretion and ... 
      Cataldo, Luis Rodrigo; Mizgier, María Luisa; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; Jaña, Fabián; Cárdenas, César; Llanos Vidal, Paola; Busso, Dolores; Olmos, Pablo; Galgani Fuentes, José; Santos, José Luis; Cortés, Víctor A. (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      © 2017 Cataldo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
    • Determinants of volumetric breast density in Chilean premenopausal women 
      Pereira, Ana; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Neira, Paulina; López Arana, Sandra; Malkov, Serghei; Shepherd, John (Springer New York LLC, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Purpose: High mammographic breast density (BD) is a strong risk factor of breast cancer; however, little is known in women under 40 years of age. Recently, dual-energy X-ray ...
    • Two-dimensional and three-dimensional ultrasound of artificial skin 
      Wortsman, Ximena; Navarrete, Nelson (American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2017)
      © 2016 by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. Wound healing may be a difficult problem, and variable types of artificial skin prototypes have been developed for supporting this process. Using ultrasound, we ...
    • Optimization of sample treatment for the identification of anthraquinone dyes by surface-enhanced Raman ... 
      Marcaida, Iker; Maguregui, Maite; Morillas, Héctor; García-Florentino, Cristina; Pintus, Valentina; Aguayo, Tomás; Campos Vallette, Marcelo; Madariaga, Juan Manuel (Springer Verlag, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The study and characterization of old artifacts such as pigments requires the use of techniques that need a small amount of sample to perform the analysis because of the high value ...
    • 27- hydroxycholesterol reverses estradiol induced inhibition of platelet aggregation in postmenopausal women ... 
      Rocha, Gladys; Sierralta, Walter; Valladares Boasi, Luis (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved. Background: The decline of estrogen levels increases cardiovascular risk in women. Platelets express estrogen receptors and 17β-estradiol- (E2) can produce a ...
    • High prevalence of Pneumocystis jirovecii dihydropteroate synthase gene mutations in patients with a first ... 
      Ponce, Carolina A.; Chabé, Magali; George, Claudio; Cárdenas, Alejandra; Durán, Luisa; Guerrero, Julia; Bustamante, Rebeca; Matos, Olga; Huang, Laurence; Miller, Robert F.; Vargas, Sergio L. (American Society for Microbiology, 2017)
      © 2017 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.Mutations in the dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) gene of Pneumocystis jirovecii are associated with the failure of sulfa prophylaxis. They can develop by selection ...
    • Longitudinal perception of the educational environment in two medical schools with traditional curricula ... 
      Díaz Véliz, Gabriela; Sergio Mora, G.; Escanero, Jesús F. (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved.Background: To establish an educational environment that ensures the quality of the teaching-learning process is a challenge for any educational institution. The ...
    • Administration of multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells restores liver regeneration and improves liver ... 
      Ezquer, Fernando; Bahamonde, Javiera; Huang, Ya Lin; Ezquer, Marcelo (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: The liver has the remarkable capacity to regenerate in order to compensate for lost or damaged hepatic tissue. However, pre-existing pathological abnormalities, such as hepatic steatosis ...
    • Sexuality behind bars in the female central penitentiary of Santiago, Chile: Unlocking the gendered binary 
      Castro Madariaga, Francisca Alejandra; Gómez Garcés, Belén Estefanía; Carrasco Parra, Alicia; Foster, Jennifer (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd We explore what it means to promote healthy sexuality for incarcerated women. We report upon the experiences of ten inmates in the Female Central Penitentiary of Santiago, Chile, regarding their ...
    • N-Acetylcysteine, a glutathione precursor, reverts vascular dysfunction and endothelial epigenetic programming ... 
      Herrera, Emilio A.; Cifuentes Zúñiga, Francisca; Figueroa, Esteban; Villanueva, Cristian; Hernández, Cherie; Alegría, René; Arroyo Jousse, Viviana; Peñaloza, Estefania; Farías, Marcelo; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Casanello, Paola; Krause, Bernardo J. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 The Authors. The Journal of Physiology © 2016 The Physiological SocietyKey points: Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is associated with vascular dysfunction, oxidative stress and signs of endothelial epigenetic ...
    • A simple mathematical model for wound closure evaluation 
      Vidal, Alejandra; Mendieta Zerón, Hugo; Giacaman, Israel; Camarillo Romero, María del Socorro; Parra López, Sandra; Meza Trillo, Laura E.; Pérez Pérez, David A.; Concha, Miguel; Torres Gallegos, César; Orellana, Sandra L.; Oyarzún Ampuero, Felipe; Moreno Villoslada, Ignacio (Elsevier, 2015)
      The incidence of ulcers associated to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases every year. We introduce and explore a new mathematical algorithm to evaluate wound-healing in foot ulcers associated to T2DM. Fifteen patients ...
    • Folate transporters in placentas from preterm newborns and their relation to cord blood folate and Vitamin ... 
      Castaño, Erika; Caviedes, Lorena; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Llanos Silva, Miguel; Iñíguez Vila, Germán; Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      Folate deficiency during pregnancy has been related to low birth weight, preterm (PT) birth and other health risks in the offspring; however, it is unknown whether prematurity is related to low folate transport through ...
    • Role of the cys loop and transmembrane domain in the allosteric modulation of α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine ... 
      Alcaino, Constanza; Musgaard, Maria; Minguez, Teresa; Mazzaferro, Simone; Faundez, Manuel; Iturriaga-Vásquez, Patricio; Biggin, Philip C.; Bermudez, Isabel (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc., 2017)
      © 2017 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.Allosteric modulators of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels are thought to act on elements of the pathways that couple agonist binding to channel ...
    • Biogeography in cellana (patellogastropoda, nacellidae) with special emphasis on the relationships of ... 
      González Wevar, Claudio; Nakano, Tomoyuki; Palma, Alvaro; Poulin, Elie (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      © 2017 Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ...
    • TIM-1 defines a human regulatory B cell population that is altered in frequency and function in systemic ... 
      Aravena, Octavio; Ferrier, Ashley; Menon, Madhvi; Mauri, Claudia; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Soto, Lilian; Catalán Martina, Diego (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by excessive production of extracellular matrix by fibroblasts on skin and internal organs. Although Th2 cells have ...
    • Admission handgrip strength predicts functional decline in hospitalized patients 
      Olguín, Thiare; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Barrera, Gladys; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and MetabolismProblem Up to 35% of hospitalized patients may experience functional decline during or after hospitalization. Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) and handgrip ...
    • Prevalence of Salmonella enterica and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in zoo animals from Chile 
      Marchant, Paulina; Hidalgo-Hermoso, Ezequiel; Espinoza, Karen; Peñailillo Retamal, Patricio Alejandro (Korean Society of Veterinary Science, 2016)
      © 2016 The Korean Society of Veterinary Science. All Rights Reserved. Salmonella (S.) enterica and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are foodborne pathogens. Here, we report the prevalence of S. enterica and ...
    • Swine influenza virus (H1N2) characterization and transmission in ferrets, Chile 
      Bravo Vásquez, Nicolás; Karlsson, Erik A.; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Meliopoulos, Victoria; Kaplan, Bryan; Marvin, Shauna; Cortez, Valerie; Freiden, Pamela; Beck, Melinda A.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Schultz-Cherry, Stacey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017)
      © 2017, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved. Phylogenetic analysis of the influenza hemagglutinin gene (HA) has suggested that commercial pigs in Chile harbor unique human seasonal H1-like ...