Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Cancer Intelligence, 2016)© 2017 the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. Chile has the world's highest rate of incidence as well as death from cancer of the gallbladder and biliary ducts. The problem is most acute in the southern provinces. ...
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(Bentham Science Publishers B.V., 2016)© 2016 Bentham Science Publishers. Recent evidence highlights that energy requirements of cancer cells vary greatly from normal cells and they exhibit different metabolic phenotypes with variable participation of both ...
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(Academic Press, 2017)© 2016 Elsevier LtdThe calcium-activated protein phosphatase, calcineurin, lies at the intersection of protein phosphorylation and calcium signaling cascades, where it provides an essential nodal point for coordination ...
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(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)© 2016 Yáñez, Izquierdo, Ruiz-Perez, Nataro, Girón, Vidal and Farfan. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) infections are still one of the most important etiologic pathogens of diarrhea in children worldwide. EAEC ...
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(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016)© 2016 Bustamante, Uengoer and Lachnit.Associative learning refers to our ability to learn about regularities in our environment. When a stimulus is repeatedly followed by a specific outcome, we learn to expect the outcome ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)© The Author(s) 2017. The HIV-1 gp41 Membrane Proximal External Region (MPER) is recognized by broadly neutralizing antibodies and represents a promising vaccine target. However, MPER immunogenicity and antibody activity ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)© 2016 The Authors Emissions from motor vehicles are considered to be one of the main sources of airborne particulate matter in Santiago. International researchers have shown that particulate matter contains metal oxides ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2017)© 2017 Colins 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 ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2017)© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a neuromuscular disease originated by mutations in the dystrophin gene. A promising therapeutic approach deals with functional substitution of dystrophin by utrophin, ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2017)© 2017 Vergara 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 ...
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(Academic Press, 2017)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Traditional methods for studying eating behaviors include quantitative methods such as 24-h dietary recalls or food frequency questionnaires. Recently, visual methods such as photo-elicitation (PE) have ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Metabolic syndrome is highly prevalent among adults in Chile and represents a health risk. Aim: To determine the relationship between metabolic syndrome ...
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(W.B. Saunders, 2017)© 2016 Elsevier Inc.Purpose Delirium has negative consequences such as increased mortality, hospital expenses and decreased cognitive and functional status. This research aims to determine the impact of occupational therapy ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario Estudios Bioética, 2016)This study shows the inapplicability of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) to all the cases of therapeutic abortion (TA). The causes of the maternal risk define cases that cannot be included in the DDE. When it is not the ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Increasing meal frequency is commonly used in the clinical practice as part of the nutritional treatment of patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2), ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2017)© 2016 Elsevier Inc. Objective To analyze characteristics of type II odontoid fracture (TII-OF), including clinical and radiographic factors, that influence surgical planning in 8 Latin American centers. Methods Retrospective ...
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(BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)© 2016 The Author(s).Background: Trypanosoma cruzi multiplies and differentiates in the digestive tract of triatomine insects. Xenodiagnosis (XD) is a parasitological tool in which the insect vectors acts as a biological ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Obesity has a high prevalence among children. On the other hand, acute respiratory infections especially of viral origin, are an important cause of morbidity and ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2016)The intracellular facultative bacteria Piscirickettsia salmonis is one of the most important pathogens of the Chilean aquaculture. However, there is a lack of information regarding the whole genomic transcriptional ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2017)Copyright © 2016 by American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Shoulder surgery can result in significant postoperative pain. Interscalene brachial plexus blocks (ISBs) constitute the current criterion ...
