Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Even though the benefits of bariatric surgery are supported by scientific evidence, its indications and contraindications must be revised to avoid its indiscriminate ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Vildagliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitor (DPP4i). Its efficacy and safety of DPP4i in Chilean real life type 2 diabetic (T2D) patients is not ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved.Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem in the world. The clinical forms of TB in children are variable, pulmonary involvement occurs in two thirds of ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved. Background: Hydatidosis is mainly a slowly developing disease, so its appearance in children and adolescents means a relatively recent acquisition; its ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved.Penicillin production in Chile was a pioneering development; however there is not much information to learn about it. The Chilean Institute for Bacteriology ...
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(2014)During the post-transcriptional events of the HIV-2 replication cycle, the full-length unspliced genomic RNA (gRNA) is first used as an mRNA to synthesize Gag and Gag-Pol proteins and then packaged into progeny virions. ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015)We showed that exercise induces early and late myocardial preconditioning in dogs and that these effects are mediated through nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate reduced form (NADPH) oxidase activation. As the ...
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(Archivos Latinoamericanos Nutricion, 2015)Consuming fruits and vegetables is known to lower blood pressure. However, it is unclear how much should be consumed in order to achieve this effect. The aim of this study was to analyze the association between fruit and ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2015)In the placenta, 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11β-HSD2) limits fetal glucocorticoid exposure and its inhibition has been associated to low birth weight. Its expression, encoded by the HSD11B2 gene is regulated ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015)Objectives: To investigate the effects of intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering according to baseline BP levels and optimal achieved BP levels in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Methods: INTERACT2 ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014)The Meningitis-Retention Syndrome associates aseptic meningitis and neurogenic bladder, with a vesical dysfunction that outlasts meningitis widely. Urodynamic assessment shows a detrusor palsy with normal function of ...
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(Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 1, 2014)En este artículo se proponen e ilustran los conceptos de polo epistemológico I (cercano a los marcos teóricos del investigador) y polo epistemológico II (cercano a la perspectiva de los participantes de una realidad ...
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(Quintessence Publishing, 2015)Aims: To explore the possible relationship between protein kinase C gamma (PKCγ) and phosphorylated forms of extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1/2 (pERK1/2) in the rat medullary dorsal horn and the facial hypersensitivity ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014)Background: In Chile, 80 diseases were included in a health care system called Health Care Guarantees (GES) and clinical guidelines were elaborated for their management. Aim: To assess the scientific background of ...
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(Interciencia Association, 2015)Se estudió la relación entre conflicto y percepción de justicia organizacional y cómo ésta influye sobre los resultados del proceso de toma de decisiones. Para este efecto, se aplicó un cuestionario y se obtuvo 149 ...
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(Blackwell, 2015)It has been postulated that the accumulation of extracellular asynuclein (a-syn) might alter the neuronal membrane by formation of ‘pore-like structures’ that will lead to alterations in ionic homeostasis. However, this ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014)Background: Risk of malnutrition is elevated among oncologic patients, and this increases postoperative morbidity and mortality. Aim: To study the association between nutritional status and postoperative outcomes in a ...
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(Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Colombia, 2015)This article seeks to document the links between the Chilean Family Planning Program and organizations such as the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the UN ...
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Overlapping mouse subcongenic strains successfully separate two linked body fat QTL on distal MMU 2 (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Mouse chromosome 2 is linked to growth and body fat phenotypes in many mouse crosses. With the goal to identify the underlying genes regulating growth and body fat on mouse chromosome 2, we developed five ...
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(Future Medicine, 2015)Aim: To date, there is no human dendritic cell (DC) based therapy to prevent allograft rejection in transplanted patients. Here, we evaluate a potential protocol using a murine in vivo transplant model. Materials & ...
