Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2017)© 2018, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved. Background: Antibiotics (ATB) are drugs widely used in hospitalized newborns. The indiscriminate use of ATBs promote the rise of resistant bacteria to the most ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. In Chile, more than 180 thousand people (1% of the population) have some form of dementia. The figure should increase to approximately 600,000 (3% of Chileans) by ...
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Tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis with distal tibial allograft for massive bone deficits in the ankle (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)© 2018 European Foot and Ankle Society. Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the outcomes of distal tibial structural allograft to obtain a stable TTC fusion. Methods: Retrospectively, ten patients were ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. The clinical presentation of ulcerative colitis at the moment of diagnosis is variable, and its clinical course is difficult to predict. It can range from a quiescent ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Tako-tsubo Syndrome (TTS) is characterized by transient regional systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle (LV), mimicking myocardial infarction. It ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Management of gastrointestinal bleeding caused by fundal varices is particularly difficult to manage. The options are: transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2018)© 2017 by The North American Menopause Society. Objective: This study evaluated whether low bone density, a condition related to aging, is associated with low muscle mass, a surrogate for sarcopenia, and whether it could ...
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(Frontiers Media S.A., 2018)© 2018 Plaza, Molina, Fuentes and Estévez. It has recently been reported that the differential outcomes procedure (DOP) might be one of the therapeutical techniques focused at promoting autonomy in the elderly to deal with ...
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(Cell Press, 2018)Histone lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) and demethylases (KDMs) underpin gene regulation. Here we demonstrate that variants causing haploinsufficiency of KMTs and KDMs are frequently encountered in individuals with ...
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(Sociedad de Neurologia Psiquiatria y Neurocirugia, 2017)Introduction: Depression is the health conditions that generate a higher disease burden, where the older adults show a great impact related to this disease. The article describes the impact of depressive symptoms in the ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)© 2018 The Author(s). Local translation of membrane proteins in neuronal subcellular domains like soma, dendrites and axon termini is well-documented. In this study, we isolated the electrical signaling unit of an axon by ...
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(Interciencia Association, 2018)Peumus boldus (boldo) is an endemic tree species of Chile that grows in a mediterranean climate, characterized by a summer with low water availability in the soil, high solar radiation and high temperatures. In these ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)© 2017 The Author(s).Vaccination is considered crucial for disease prevention and fish health in the global salmon farming industry. Nevertheless, some aspects, such as the efficacy of vaccines, can be largely circumvented ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2018)© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Almost twenty years ago, the first paper about the SART process was published, and eleven years ago the first SART plant was commissioned and operated at Telfer mine, in Australia. Up to this moment, ...
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(Academic Press Inc., 2018)© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, leading to the progressive decline of motor control due to the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars ...
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(Humana Press Inc., 2018)© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Glucagon dysregulation is an essential component in the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes. Studies in vitro and in animal models have shown that zinc ...
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(Springer International Publishing, 2018)© 2018, Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE). Aim: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the progressive destruction of β cells, mediated by the interaction between T cells and several ...
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(Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2017)Part of the analysis on migration in Chile focuses on immigrant subjects and their level of inclusion in different social spheres. Therefore we turn our eyes towards psychosocial intervention: from a feminist perspective, ...
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(Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)© 2017 Jorratt, Delano, Delgado, Dagnino-Subiabre and Terreros. The auditory efferent system is a neural network that originates in the auditory cortex and projects to the cochlear receptor through olivocochlear (OC) ...
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A DNA segment encoding the anticodon stem/loop of tRNA determines the specific recombination of ... (Taylor and Francis, 2018)Horizontal gene transfer is crucial for the adaptation of microorganisms to environmental cues. The acidophilic, bioleaching bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans encodes an integrative-conjugative genetic element ...
