Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2010)The origin of Bacteriology in Chile is intimately bound to the life of the physicians Vicente Izquierdo Sanfuentes and Francisco Puelma Tupper. Both were awarded in 1874 with a government fellowship to study in the most ...
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(2010)Background: Chronic Hashimoto Thyroiditis (CHT) is the main cause of hypothyroidism. Aim: To report a series of patients with CHT. Material and Methods: Retrospective analysis of a series of 27 men aged 38 ± 14 years and ...
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(2010)Stress can be understood as a threat to psychological or physiological integrity of the individual. Stress has previously shown to alter morphology and function of diverse structures of the Central Nervous System related ...
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(2010)Necrosis is associated with an increase in plasma membrane permeability, cell swelling, and loss of membrane integrity with subsequent release of cytoplasmic constituents. Severe redox imbalance by overproduction of reactive ...
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(2010)Background: Mortality for colon cancer duplicated in the last 15 years in Chile. Aim: To analyze immediate and late results of surgical treatment of colon cancer. Material and Methods: Retrospective analysis of 439 patients ...
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(2010)This article focuses on understanding teaching activities, especially in the field of health science, as a set of tasks and actions that teachers undertake when transforming scientific knowledge into curriculum contents ...
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(2010)Massive pulmonary thromboembolism has a high mortality. Early thrombolysis is the treatment of choice. We report a 79-year-old man admitted in shock. A chest angio-CAT scan showed a massive pulmonary thromboembolism. A ...
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(2010)We have examined the effect of two small interference RNA against Jnk-1 and Jnk-2 in the breast cancer cell line MCF-7. The expression of the JNK-1 and JNK-2 is frequently elevated in breast cancer and is a frequent genetic ...
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(2011)Trans isomers, contained in partially hydrogenated oils, which are used in the food industry,have been questioned and nowadays trends are heading towards reducing their consumption. The food industry is facing a dilemma, ...
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(2010)This work describes the development of an urban vehicle emissions inventory for South America, based on the analysis and aggregation of available inventories for major cities, with emphasis on its application in regional ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2010)Objective: To describe genetic evaluation and response to surgery and letrozole therapy of a 46,XX/SRY-negative true hermaphrodite. Design: Case report. Setting: University Medical Center. Patient(s): Nineteen-year-old ...
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(2010)Objective: To evaluate the role of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. Design: A literature search was conducted in PubMed to identify all relevant citations. Result(s): Our findings highlight ...
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(2011)Altered expression of some members of the TRP ion channel superfamily has been associated with the development of pathologies like cancer. In particular, TRPM4 levels are reportedly elevated in diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin ...
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(2010)Background: In Latin America, 18 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas' disease, with the greatest economic burden. Vertebrate calreticulins (CRT) are multifunctional, intra- and extracellular ...
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(2010)Diagnosis of pilomatrixomas may be difficult because they can mimic other clinical conditions. Color Doppler ultrasound had been proven useful in the study of localized lesions of the skin and can both define lesion ...
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(Nature, 2010)BACKGROUND: Lung squamous cell carcinomas (SqCCs) occur at higher rates following arsenic exposure. Somatic DNA copy-number alterations (CNAs) are understood to be critical drivers in several tumour types. We have assembled ...
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(2010)Tetanic electrical stimulation induces two separate calcium signals in rat skeletal myotubes, a fast one, dependent on Cav 1.1 or dihydropyridine receptors (DHPRs) and ryanodine receptors and related to contraction, and a ...
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(2010)We have identified phenazine 5,10-dioxides as prodrugs for antitumour therapy that undergo hypoxic-selective bioreduction to form cytotoxic species. Here, we investigated some structural modifications in order to find new ...
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Cytoplasmic and nuclear STAT3 in GH-stimulated fibroblasts of children with idiopathic short stature (2010)Background: STAT5, which plays an important role in GH signal transduction, has been studied extensively in children with growth retardation, but there is scarce information regarding STAT3. Aim: We determined total and ...
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(2010)Depressive disorder involves emotional, cognitive, autonomic and endocrine alterations and also evidences support the role of stress in the development of this disorder. Because the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is ...
