Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Confusion in observational epidemiological studies distorts the relationship between exposure and event. “Step by step” regression models, diverts the ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)© 2018 American Academy of Periodontology. Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects around 7% to 10% of all pregnancies. Early detection of predisposition to GDM is the first step in developing efficacious ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background. Host genetic predispositions may be important determinants of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The association between ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)We report a 21 years old woman, without offspring, with diabetes mellitus diagnosed at 17 years of age, without ketosis or weight loss. Her body mass index was 18 kg/m2. Her C peptide was normal (2.3 ng/ml) and diabetes ...
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(American Physiological Society, 2018)© 2018 American Physiological Society. All rights reserved. The interoceptive insular cortex is known to be involved in the perception of bodily states and emotions. Increasing evidence points to an additional role for the ...
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(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2018)© 2018 Elsevier B.V.Background: Serum uric acid (SUA) is a heritable trait associated with cardiovascular risk factors and coronary artery disease (CAD). Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several genes ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)© 2018 British Society for Neuroendocrinology Effective coordination of the biological stress response is integral for the behavioural well-being of an organism. Stress reactivity is coordinated by an interplay of the ...
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(MDPI AG, 2018)© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Marine-derived omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) are inversely associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in renal transplant recipients ...
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(BioMed Central Ltd., 2018)© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Estrogen receptor-α (ER-α) is a transcriptional regulator, which mediates estrogen-dependent breast development, as well as breast tumorigenesis. The influence of epigenetic regulation of ...
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(NLM (Medline), 2018)RESULTS: We characterized A to G(I) mRNA editing in 81 breast cell lines, showing increased editing at 3'UTR and exonic regions in breast cancer cells compared to immortalized non-malignant cell lines. In addition, tumors ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)© 2018, The Author(s). The genetic link between magmas and ore deposit formation is well documented by studies of fossil hydrothermal systems associated with magmatic intrusions at depth. However, the role of explosive ...
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(International Institute of Anticancer Research, 2018)© 2018 International Institute of Anticancer Research. All rights reserved. Background/Aim: Inflammation is a key process in gastric carcinogenesis. Cytokines are mediators of inflammation and are involved in metastasis ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2018)In the last eleven months, we have diagnosed 9 cases of Histoplasmosis in our country. All patients affected were from endemic areas of South-America. Here, we wish to inform and prevent to all clinical laboratories ...
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(Mosby Inc., 2018)© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Rotavirus G8P[8] infection has been common in Africa, but rare in the Americas. Among 23 rotavirus episodes observed during 18 months of surveillance of 100 families in Chile, 11 (48%) were identified ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)© 2018, The Author(s).Highly malignant triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells rely mostly on glycolysis to maintain cellular homeostasis; however, mitochondria are still required for migration and metastasis. Taking ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2018)© 2018 American Society for Nutrition. Background: Even before the onset of age-related diseases, obesity might be a contributing factor to the cumulative burden of oxidative stress and chronic inflammation throughout the ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2018)© 2018 This paper illustrates the cases of two patients with an acute onset of right brachial neuropathic pain, flaccid paralysis and contralateral thermal and thermal pain hypoesthesia, without posterior column impairment ...
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(Lancet Publishing Group, 2018)© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Along with the rising global burden of disability attributed to stroke, costs of stroke care are rising, providing the impetus to direct our research focus towards effective measures of stroke prevention. ...
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Biomarker responses of the freshwater clam Corbicula fluminea in acid mine drainage polluted systems (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The environmental quality of an acid mine drainage polluted river (Odiel River) in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain) was assessed by combining analyses of biomarkers (DNA strand breaks, LPO, EROD, GST, ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2019)© 2018 Study objective: This systematic review aimed to summarize the evidence derived from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing dural puncture epidural analgesia (DPEA) and conventional lumbar epidural analgesia ...
