Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2010)This article was developed after the authors heard young plastic surgeons of their unit ask what attribute makes people want to follow a leader. What people most seek to find in a leader has been constant over time 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 ...
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(2010)Severe sepsis and septic shock are conditions associated with high morbidity and mortality. The disproportionate release of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediators caused by the septic insult is the promoter of ...
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(Company of Biologists Ltd, 2010)Organ formation requires the precise assembly of progenitor cells into a functional multicellular structure. Mechanical forces probably participate in this process but how they influence organ morphogenesis is still unclear. ...
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(2010)BACKGROUND: Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is associated with alterations in infant behavior and development that may not be corrected with iron therapy. OBJECTIVE: To determine if a home-based intervention to foster child ...
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(2010)This article brings up Islam perspective towards life. Islam is not presented as an "illustrated" religion and vanguard of European "rational" history, nor, by defect, as an "assault" towards the contemporary liberal values ...
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(2010)To investigate whether Trypanosoma cruzi populations found in chagasic cardiopathic and non-cardiopathic patients are genetically differentiated, three molecular microsatellite markers were analysed. This analysis was also ...
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(2010)Objectives: To estimate the secular trend in age at menarche, comparing indigenous and nonindigenous women, and its relationship with socio-demographic, family and nutritional factors. Methods: A study (historical cohorts) ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2009)Adult stem cells are great promise to the future of regenerative therapy, and understanding of its embryonic origin permit the discrimination of stem cell sources. Embryonic stem cells derived from inner cell mass of ...
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(2010)We previously showed that exercise induces myocardial preconditioning in dogs and that early preconditioning is mediated through mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels. We decided to study if ...
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(2010)Background: Patients with primary aldosteronism experience greater left ventricular hypertrophy and a higher frequency of cardiovascular events than do essential hypertensive patients with comparable blood pressure levels. ...
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(1976)We reported the final results obtained in a group of 30 patients with gastric cancer confined to the mucosa or submucosa (early gastric cancer) and in 29 cases with cancer infiltration up to the muscularis propria (intermediate ...
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(1975)This report showed the survival figures for gastric cancer in Chile. For the whole group, a survival rate of 6.6% was obtained. This figure can be divided into 19% for the resected cases and 0% for the non-resected patients.In ...
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(Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 2010)Triatoma infestans is one of the main domestic vectors of Chagas disease. Reports of wild habitat occurrences have recently increased. In Chile, after a successful elimination campaign of T. infestans domestic infestation, ...
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(2010)The receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappaB ligand (RANKL) and interleukin-1beta are osteoclast activating factors which are abnormally expressed in bone marrow stromal cells and plasma cells of multiple myeloma patients. ...
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(2010)Purpose: To describe clinical data and to characterize mutations in the transforming growth factor beta-induced (TGFBI) gene in patients from three unrelated Chilean families with lattice corneal dystrophy type I (LCDI). ...
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(1983)The aim of the present work is to detect possible differences in the chromatin of plants replicated in the absence of protein synthesis.The kinetics of nuclease digestion in Allium cepa L., evaluated after making the cells ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2010)At present it is not clear if male fertility is affected by intermittent hypobaric hypoxia (IHH). This is an important issue since a large human population works over 3000 masl. This study analyzes testicular changes in ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2010)When assessing a patient with depression it is crucial not to miss a diagnosis of bipolar depression. In this review we suggest that it can be achieved, first, by consistently using standardised diagnostic criteria (e.g. ...
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(2010)Helicobacter pylori infects the human stomach and modifies signaling pathways that affect gastric epithelial cell proliferation and viability. Chronic exposure to this pathogen contributes to the onset of gastric atrophy, ...
