Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2017)Background: Ozone exposure could increase lung damage induced by airborne particulate matter. Particulate matter lung toxicity has been attributed to its metallic content. Aim: To evaluate the acute effect of ...
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(Nature, 2017)The Mw 8.8 megathrust earthquake that occurred on 27 February 2010 offshore the Maule region of central Chile triggered a destructive tsunami. Whether the earthquake rupture extended to the shallow part of the plate ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Currently, most liver units use the Child-Pugh (CP) or the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores to establish survival prognosis among patients ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Ocular trauma is a distressing condition feared by the general public. Aim: To evaluate the construct validity and internal consistency of an instrument ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: International evidence has shown the complex interaction between depression and chronic physical diseases. Depression in scenarios involving multiple ...
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(Springer Verlag, 2017)© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Abandoned tailing dumps (ATDs) offer an opportunity to identify the main physicochemical filters that determine colonization of vegetation in solid mine wastes. The current study ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Anomalies of the origin of coronary arteries are detected in 0.5-1.5% of all angiographies. Anomalous origin of the left main trunk is the most uncommon and its ...
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(Frontiers Media S. A, 2017)© 2017 Varas-Díaz, Brunetti, Rivera-Lillo and Maldonado.Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating event for individuals, who frequently develop motor and sensory impairment as well as autonomic dysfunction. Previous studies ...
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(Blackwell Munksgaard, 2017)© 2017 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd The control of neuronal protein homeostasis or cursive is tightly regulated both spatially and temporally, assuring accurate and integrated responses to ...
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(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2017)© 2017 The Authors, some rights reserved.Cellular stress induced by the accumulation of misfolded proteins at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a central feature of secretory cells and is observed in many tissues in various ...
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(Conselho Brasileiro De Oftalmologia, 2017)Purpose: The aim of this study was to introduce a reproducible algorithm for the surgical management of late-onset (>2 months) bleb complications after trabeculectomy with mitomycin C. Methods: We performed a retrospective ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2017)© 2017 Prados-Rosales et al.Currently there are a dozen or so of new vaccine candidates in clinical trials for prevention of tuberculosis (TB) and each formulation attempts to elicit protection by enhancement of cell-mediated ...
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(Hindawi Limited, 2017)© 2017 Catalina Carrasco-Pozo et al. Cholesterol plays an important role in inducing pancreatic β-cell dysfunction, leading to an impaired insulin secretory response to glucose. This study aimed to determine the protective ...
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(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-13 is conserved in many serovars of S. enterica, including S. Enteritidis, S. Typhimurium and S. Gallinarum. However, it is absent in typhoid serovars such as S. Typhi and ...
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(Impact Journals LLC, 2017)Clinical studies have suggested a survival benefit in ovarian cancer patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus taking metformin, however the mechanism by which diabetic concentrations of metformin could deliver this effect ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2016)© 2016 Elsevier B.V. As part of a multi-site research program on the eco-epidemiology and control of Chagas disease in northern Chile, we sought to identify the Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units (DTUs) infecting rural ...
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(American Society for Microbiology, 2017)Current treatments for chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy, a disease with high mortality rates and caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, are unsatisfactory. Myocardial inflammation, including endothelial activation, is ...
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(BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)© The Author(s) 2017. Direct tests of the random or non-random distribution of nucleotides on genomes have been devised to test the hypothesis of neutral, nearly-neutral or selective evolution. These tests are based on the ...
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(Bentham Science Publishers B.V., 2017)© 2017 Bentham Science Publishers. Background: Athanasios Koukopoulos provided a radical model for understanding depressive and manic conditions. Objective: To review, explain, and analyze Koukopoulos’ concept of the primacy ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)© The Author(s) 2017. Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders affecting several mammalian species, characterized by the accumulation of the misfolded form of the prion protein, which is followed by the induction ...
