Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2010)The existence of multiple kinds of estrogen receptors (ERs), involved in independent groups of responses, allows their dissociation and opens the possibility to selectively induce beneficial responses but not those considered ...
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(2010)Background: Heart failure (HF) is characterized, among other features, by the development of alterations in myocardial energy metabolism, involving a decrease in glucose utilization and increased free fatty acid uptake by ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2010)Analysis for the homogeneity of the distribution of the second base of dinucleotides in relation to the first, whose bases are separated by 0, 1, 2, 21 nucleotide sites, was performed with the VIH-1 genome (cDNA), the ...
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(2010)This research reports some views and attitudes held by the eighth-graders of elementary education in three regions of Chile. These views and attitudes are related to the State, Democracy and the Civil Society. The results ...
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(2010)Objective: Present a methodology for evaluating cost-effectiveness in primary health care centers (PHCs) in Chile based on the family health care model promoted in Chile and evaluate the results of the first two years of ...
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(2011)The 24-h distribution of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is known to be deeply reshaped among albino rats with neurotoxic lesions in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) or among rodent models of human narcolepsy-cataplexy, with ...
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(2011)Study design:Retrospective cohort study.Objective:To describe the characteristics of patients with work-related traumatic spinal cord injuries (TSCI) in Chile.Setting:Hospital del Trabajador in Santiago, Santiago, ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2011)Background: The NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is used to assess acute ischemic stroke severity and outcome. High NIHSS scores are usually associated with arterial occlusion but it is unknown what the effect of time to clinical ...
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(2010)Background: Physical activity (PA) has a protective role in cardiovascular diseases. Aim: To quantify PA in young adults and to correlate it with cardiovascular risk factors. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study ...
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(2010)In prostatic carcinoma, the glandular architecture is replaced by cancer cells producing barriers to water motion, anomaly that can be studied through diffusion-enhanced MRI technique. To assess the contribution of these ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2010)Background: The relationship between human papillomavirus (HPV) and uterine cervical cancer (UCC) is widely known and accepted. Aim: To determine the frequency of genotypes of HPV in cervical preneoplastic lesions in a ...
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Aberrant localization of ezrin correlates with salivary acini disorganization in Sjogren's Syndrome. (2010)To analyse whether the alterations in the structure and organization of microvilli in salivary acinar cells from SS patients are linked to changes in the expression and/or cellular localization of ezrin. Salivary gland ...
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(2010)Here we present compelling evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes infecting 77 human cases of Chagas disease in Santander Department of Colombia. The patients were clinically studied and classified according to the presence ...
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(Hamilton Hardy Publishing Inc., 2011)Health professionals trained in occupational health are essential to reduce the burden of occupational accidents and diseases. However, training resources are limited globally. We aimed to promote occupational health and ...
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(2010)Background: There is a worldwide tendency towards a reduction in the rates of deaths due to cirrhosis. In Chile, a decrease in the number of hospital admissions due to this disease has been recorded. Aim: To assess general ...
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(2011)Chagas disease is one of the most important endemic diseases in Latin America, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. The drugs used for the treatment of this disease, nifurtimox and benznidazole, are toxic and present severe side ...
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(2010)The global prevalence of celiac disease is of one person per 250 inhabitants. The disease is induced by gluten, a peptide contained in wheat, rye and barley that during small intestinal digestion generates smaller peptides. ...
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(2010)Precisely synchronized neuronal activity has been commonly observed in the mammalian visual pathway. Spike timing correlations in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) often take the form of phase synchronized oscillations ...
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Converging pathways in the occurrence of endoplasmic reticulum (er) stress in Huntington's disease (2011)A variety of neurological diseases including Huntington's disease (HD), Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease share common neuropathology, primarily featuring the presence of abnormal protein inclusions containing ...
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Sexual intercourse among adolescents in Santiago, Chile: A study of individual and parenting factors (Pan American Health Organization, 2010)Objective. To examine a range of individual, parenting, and family factors associated with sexual intercourse among a community sample of youth and their families in Santiago, Chile. Methods. Data were taken from the ...
