Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2010)Cost analysis is a central part of economic appraisal in healthcare and a constant worrying for planners and assessment teams, despite its complexity and the difficulty of making estimates. Most important economic terms ...
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(2010)Background: The link between reproductive life history and incidence of ovarian tumors is well known. Periods of reduced ovulations may confer protection against ovarian cancer. Using phenotypic data available for mouse, ...
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(2010)Prion-related disorders (PrDs) are fatal neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive neuronal impairment as well as the accumulation of an abnormally folded and protease resistant form of the cellular prion ...
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Heterospecific Vocal Interactions in a Frog from the Southern Temperate Forest, Batrachyla taeniata (2011)Animals using sound communication employ different strategies to overcome interferences from biotic and abiotic sources. However, interactions among acoustically active species have been studied to a very limited extent. ...
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(2011)Autophagy is a physiological degradative process key to cell survival during nutrient deprivation, cell differentiation and development. It plays a major role in the turnover of damaged macromolecules and organelles, and ...
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(2010)Background: Old age is a negative prognostic factor among patients subjected to surgical procedures. Aim: To assess the clinical profile and hospital stay costs among patients aged 80 years or more in a surgical department. ...
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(2010)Background. Although human papillomavirus (HPV) genome has been detected in lung cancer, its prevalence is highly variable around the world. Higher frequencies have been reported in far-east Asian countries, when compared ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2010)This article is a revision of the genesis and use of the health synthetic indicators QALYs and DALYs. The chronology of their appearance is shown and similarities and differences between them stated. DALYs (Disability-Adjusted ...
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(2010)Rationale Reasons given for the routine use of placebos in Phase III clinical research are not convincing. Ethically inadequate strategies such as using placebos and recruiting the mentally incompetent for non-therapeutic ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2010)Chagas' disease is produced by the haemophlagelated protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by haematophages insects such as Triatoma infestans (vinchuca). Due to vector control, congenital transmission gains importance ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2010)A chronic toxicity bioassay was conducted with the microcrustacean Artemia salina as the testing organism for the toxic organophosphate diazinon in order to determine if the species is an appropriate indicator of pollution ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2010)Angiogenesis is a complex multi-step process of neovascularization arising from preexisting blood vessels whose generation is regulated by pro- and anti-angiogenic factors. Both Trypanosoma cruzi calreticulin (TcCRT) and ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2010)Oxidative stress is an imbalance between pro-oxidants and antioxidants in favor of the pro-oxidants, leading to different responses depending on the level of pro-oxidants achieved and the duration of exposure. In this ...
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(2010)Objective: To study the effect of peritoneal fluid from women with (PF-E) and without (PF-C) endometriosis on P450Arom expression in endometrial cells. Design: Experimental study. Setting: University research ...
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(2007)This article is an account of the «Heidelberg School» of German anthropological medicine that culminated in the work of Viktor von Weizsäcker. It describes the main stages of its development, its relationships with U.S. ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2010)Understanding the spatial organization of the chromosomes in meiotic nuclei is crucial to our knowledge of the genome's functional regulation, stability and evolution. This study examined the nuclear architecture of Mus ...
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(2010)Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide infectious disease, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Koch bacilli), that has re-emerged since the decade of the 80's in relation to the pandemic of HIV infection. Chile has one of the ...
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(2010)Constipation is a complex disorder which affects an important part of the population and results in an increase of gastrointestinal symptoms and in lower stool frequency. The addition of soluble fibers (prebiotics) and ...
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(2010)Background: Hyperglycemia at admission has been associated to an adverse prognosis in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI). However, its impact over the results of reperfusion therapies ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2010)Endoglin is a coreceptor for transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) that acts as a suppressor of malignancy during mouse skin carcinogenesis. Because in this model system H-Ras activation drives tumor initiation and progression, ...
