Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2010)Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder that occurs during a specific period of women's lifetime: Puerperium. The prevalence of PPD ranges from 8% to 30%, and a three-fold increase is seen in emerging ...
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(2010)Health research oriented to solve the most relevant sanitary problems in Chile must be encouraged. In 2001, the National Health Research Fund (FONIS) was created by the National Research Council of the Ministry of Health ...
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(2010)Endocannabinoids are the endogenous ligands for the cannabinoid receptors type 1 and 2. These membrane receptors are responsible for the psychotropic effects of Cannabis Sativa, when bound to its active component known ...
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(2010)Objectives: To investigate the association between the presence of a genetic island inserted within the sapABCDF operon of Salmonella Typhi and the susceptibility to antimicrobial peptides. Methods: Genetics and bioinformatics ...
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(Sociedad de Cirujanos de Chile, 2010)Introduction: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) and Laparoendoscopic Single Site Surgery (LESS) are emerging technologies, which allows to performed surgical procedures avoiding any surgical scars. ...
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(2010)Introduction: Assessment of body composition is paramount in early assessment of nutritional status impairments due to excess or deficit. There are, however, few field reliable methods for this objective for patients with ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2009)The corporal structure of the university student of Physical education is of vital importance because it will be excellent in it's profits in the subjects that imply physical effort. Consistent with this, is desirable to ...
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(Sociedad de Cirujanos de Chile, 2010)Introduction: Capnothorax is a rare complication of urologic laparoscopy. However with the increasing use of this technique in a variety of urological procedures, this rare complication is a potential risk. Material and ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2010)We studied the respiratory surface density and the thickness of the air-blood barrier in the Picui Ground Dove (Columbina picui), and compared it with Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata) and Blacked-winged Ground Dove (Metropelia ...
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(2010)BACKGROUND: Infusion of diverse types of bone marrow cells, as a source of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), into the ischemic myocardium is emerging as a promising therapy for coronary ischemia, probably mediated by ...
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P450-aromatase activity and expression in human testicular tissues with severe spermatogenic failure (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010)There is evidence that impaired spermatogenesis is associated with an imbalance in the oestradiol/testosterone ratio and with Leydig cell (LC) dysfunction. In testis, P450-aromatase, encoded by CYP19, is responsible for ...
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(2010)Background: The Camarones River Valley, located in the extreme north of Chile, is characterized by high environmental arsenic levels and an arid desert. It has been inhabited by humans for the past 7,000 years. Evidence ...
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(2010)Studies show that environmental modifications can produce profound alterations in the normal development of the visual cortex and its connectivity. For the other hand it is possible that in natural conditions, animal species ...
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(2010)Considerable research has examined the contrasting predictions of configural and elemental associative accounts of learning. One of the simplest methods to distinguish between these approaches is the summation test, in ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2010)Depression is one of the main psychiatric co-morbidities in HIV infection, presenting with a significantly higher prevalence than in the general population (around 35%). Its presence has been associated with poor quality ...
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(2010)Background: ST2 has been proposed to be a regulator of inflammation and Th1/Th2 balance. ST2L is the IL-33 membrane receptor and belongs to the IL-1R family. The soluble variant, ST2s, is identical to the extracellular ...
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(2010)Calpains contribute to reperfusion-induced myocardial cell death. However, it remains controversial whether its activation occurs during ischemia or reperfusion. We investigated the regulation and time-course of calpain ...
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(2010)Despite the importance of adipocyte formation for adipose tissue physiology, current knowledge about the mechanisms that regulate the recruitment of progenitor cells to undergo adipogenic differentiation is limited. A role ...
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(2010)Background: Policystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a very common endocrine disease in women of reproductive age, of uncertain etiology and heterogeneous clinical presentation. The introduction of the Rotterdams Consensus ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2009)The objective of this study was to evaluate weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and oxygen consumption (VO2 max) in a sample of 73 students of 10 to 12 years from Putre to 3500 meters of altitude (n = 31) and San Miguel ...
